History Characters / HarryPotterHogwartsTeachers

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agrees was a mistake.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agrees was a mistake.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agrees was a mistake.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight". The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agrees was a mistake.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight". The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight". The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her poor teaching skills and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Dinvitation is an ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight". The real problem isn't her teaching ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all.

* UncertifiedExpert: For the first part of the series. He's teaching even though he was expelled and never actually graduated. Once it's revealed that he was framed, he (officially) gets his wand restored, and the diploma he should have had.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's treated with a degree of professional courtesy by teachers but is otherwise not well regarded by most of the Hogwarts staff. Hagrid goes as far as calling him a "stinking Squib" right in front of Harry and Hermione, and [=McGonagall=] gets exasperated with his overeager behavior multiple times, finally losing her patience and calling him a blithering idiot in ''Deathly Hallows''. This seems however to be averted with Professor Sprout and Professor Snape. While Sprout is known to be nice to everyone, even Harry notices in ''Philosopher's Stone'' that Filch is on friendly terms with Snape.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. The books went into detail of Remus' insecurity of being a werewolf, shame of not standing up to his friends for their bullying, and initially refusing to be in relationship with Tonks. The film adaptations does show he faces discrimination but didn't deal with any of the personal hardships of his book counterpart.

* HiddenDepths: When the portrait of the fat lady gets slashed up, Dumbledore giver her to Filch to repair. The next time we see her, there's not so much as a mention about being able to see where she was patched up, implying that he was able to perfectly restore her even without magic.

* NiceGuy: Skewed priorities and slight BerserkButton tendencies aside (even those tend to be fairly harmless), Hagrid is one of the friendliest, most well meaning and honest characters in the whole series.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: While Hagrid is a lovable chap, don't anger him. If you insult Dumbledore or attacking his friends, he will force you to repent.
** When Vernon Dursley insults Dumbledore, Hagrid loses it and aims a curse at Dudley, intending to turn him into a pig. It probably doesn't help that Hagrid is described as looking like he could "explode"; remember... Hagrid is ''HALF-GIANT''. Now imagine Hagrid as truly angry. Scary thought, eh?
** In the fourth book, when Karkaroff, mistakingly believing that Dumbledore arranged an attack on Viktor Krum, [[SpitefulSpit spits at Dumbledore's feet]], Hagrid promptly flies into a rage, [[NeckLift pins Karkaroff to a tree by the neck]], and [[OrderedApology demands that he apologize]]. It takes ''Dumbledore'' telling him to put Karkaroff down for Hagrid to obey, even though Fudge ordered it too.

** When Vernon Dursley insults Dumbledore, Hagrid loses it and aims a curse at Dudley, intending to turn him into a pig. It probably doesn't help that Hagrid is described as looking like he could "explode"; remember... Hagrid is HALF-GIANT. Now imagine Hagrid as truly angry. Scary thought, eh?
** In the fourth book, when Karkaroff, mistakingly believing that Dumbledore arranged an attack on Viktor Krum, [[SpitefulSpit spits at Dumbledore's feet]], Hagrid promptly flies into a rage, [[NeckLift pins Karkaroff to a tree by the neck]], and [[OrderedApology demands that he apologize]].

* ParasolOfPain: His wand, which was snapped when he was expelled, is actually in one piece and hidden in his now magical umbrella.

* FrameUp: In Book 2, it's revealed that he was expelled, with his wand and magical education permanently prevented from developing, because Tom Riddle framed him for attacks which he had committed. Riddle exploited the fact that he cut a dashing VillainWithGoodPublicity figure while Hagrid was a half-giant weirdo who got into trouble.

* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Try as she might to avoid it, every time Lee Jordan did Quidditch commentary, she'd hopelessly try to correct his rambling, only to eventually fall into his pace and begin playing the StraightMan to him in something resembling an unintentional comedy routine. This is averted in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when Malfoy jumps onto Harry's broom; [=McGonagall=] flips! She can be seen shaking her fist at Malfoy with her hat now lopsided. When Jordan graduates and the commentating position goes to Luna Lovegood, she falls back into the habit; this time trying to keep Luna on topic while she trails off on her signature CloudCuckoolander rants.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: And there is a ''lot'' of asskicking.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Before the final battle in TheMovie, she finally says Voldemort's name, telling Flitwick "You may as well use it, he's going to try to kill you either way."

* MeaningfulName: Both of her names have mathematical connotations and she teaches Arithmancy, a kind of number magic. "Septima", of course, comes from the Latin for "seven", while vector algebra is a rather high-level form of mathematics that will generally never be encountered by those who don't choose to study mathematics in university.

** She even shows shades of this towards ''Malfoy'' when she tells off [[spoiler:fake]] Moody for turning him into a ferret as a punishment.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[Videogame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]] implies he's not quite all there, and that's after you discount the artifical limbs. He's just a little too blaise about the possibility of serious injuries in his class, treats a chimera on the loose as something akin to a runaway cat, and takes an overall approach to dangerous creatures which makes you wonder how he has ''any'' limbs left. In terms of teacher competence, going from Kettleburn to Hagrid was pretty much a lateral move.

* ArtificialLimbs: His character design in [[HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]] has them. Notably, the leg displayes minimal jointing while the arm ends in a fairly basic clamp. He's also shown with a bandage constantly covering one eye socket, and the dip in the cloth implies there's nothing behind it. If there's more sophisticated magical replacements available, he's not using them.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]] implies he's not quite all there, and that's after you discount the artifical limbs. He's just a little too blaise about the possibility of serious injuries in his class, treats a chimera on the loose as something akin to a runaway cat, and takes an overall approach to dangerous creatures which makes you wonder how he has ''any'' limbs left. In terms of teacher competence, going from Kettleburn to Hagrid was pretty much a lateral move.