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pauraque_bkProductive today. I steam-cleaned my carpet, wrote 1000 words of James/Sirius smut, and gave my snake a bath. I'm proud of me. (Speaking of the snake, I did take her to the vet, and she's fine now. Phew.)
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_hannelore and I were just talking about OotP (which I still haven't re-read yet), and I mentioned that Grawp always struck me as not possessing a human level of intelligence. I found that sort of disturbing, actually, since it puts Hagrid's father in the position of taking advantage of a lower being.
_hannelore rightly pointed out that the giants must have a sophisticated enough communication system to discuss wartime alliances... And that puzzled me, because when Hagrid brings Grawp back, they don't converse in Giantish or anything of that nature, do they? It's presented as though Grawp has no language. When Hagrid and Maxime approached them, what did they say? The way Grawp is dealt with is completely different from what we're shown of intelligent non-humans like centaurs and house elves.
Is there really a contradiction here, or am I missing something? Are the giants fully sentient, or not?
On another note,
_hannelore and I were just talking about OotP (which I still haven't re-read yet), and I mentioned that Grawp always struck me as not possessing a human level of intelligence. I found that sort of disturbing, actually, since it puts Hagrid's father in the position of taking advantage of a lower being._hannelore rightly pointed out that the giants must have a sophisticated enough communication system to discuss wartime alliances... And that puzzled me, because when Hagrid brings Grawp back, they don't converse in Giantish or anything of that nature, do they? It's presented as though Grawp has no language. When Hagrid and Maxime approached them, what did they say? The way Grawp is dealt with is completely different from what we're shown of intelligent non-humans like centaurs and house elves.Is there really a contradiction here, or am I missing something? Are the giants fully sentient, or not?
