Halloween and Harry

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Hilaire" <lysles3@> wrote:
> >
> > 
Why isn't Harry depressed at 
> Halloween?
> > Most people I know who have lost loved ones often experience some
> > mourning around the death date.  Now I know he was a baby when he 
lost
> > them, but I was still surprised that this issue wasn't covered.  I
> > especially thought I'd see it in Sorcerer's Stone.  Any 
enlightening
> > thoughts about this?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Tonks:
> Like Lee said Harry was too young to remember his parents. I 
suspect 
> that he might feel the loss on his birthday and at other times when 
he 
> sees how other children are treated by parents that love them. But 
it 
> would not be a memory of his parents, just feeling that he is 
missing 
> something that others have.

And given how the Dursleys limited the amount of information 
concerning his parents, Harry might not even have known the exact 
dates of his parents death before coming to Hogwarts.

   - CMC