[HPforGrownups] Baby Harry?

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 3591

I'm agreeing with Amanda here - my son will be 2 days shy of 15 months on
Halloween this year - and he is still, in many ways, a baby. Clinically,
they're toddlers when they start to walk, but that stage generally lasts until
they are 3 or so.
However, my Harry does walk a lot, climb a lot, and talk a little, and eat most
everything a grownup eats - and if he was a wizard baby & his daddy had been a
seeker, he'd probably have started to learn how to play catch with special Baby
Snitches made exclusively for playing with toddlers.
What I don't like, in Chapter 1, is the statement that Harry would be famous
for something that happened before he could walk or talk. If he's really not
walking at 15 months, that's generally a sign that his development is a little
slow, which doesn't fit at all with comments later in book 1 & sebsequently
that he's very very well corrdinated, a fast runner, and obviously a great
flyer. Especially because we've been led to believe that Dudley is between 2
and 3 months older than Harry & that would mean that his development was pretty
fine - to be 17-18 months old & dragging his mum up the street screaming for
sweets is a pretty big accomplishment for a toddler of that age.
Then again, that comment was made by someone (it was either mcgonnegal or
dubmledore - don't remember who) who we have been led to believe doesn't have
children, and thus doesn't know the exact developmental milestones of a 15
month old. And I still call my Harry a baby - toddler just seems so formal when
you're trying to get the little guy to NAP!

Amanda - email me off the list - what day was your baby born?

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> summers.65 at osu.edu wrote:
>
> > So on Halloween when Voldemort bites the dust, is that 1980 or 1981?  I
> > think it's 1981.  So Harry would have been fifteen months old exactly.
> >
> > That's hardly a baby.  A fifteen month old is walking, and talking some,
> > and making a general nuisance of himself.  It's getting on into
> > toddlerhood.
>
> But still very much a baby. Just barely starting to talk, saying ma-ma and
> pzzz and dn ("please" and "down"), maybe walking for a long time now but
> maybe not, definitely still diapers, not even really sticking hands through
> T-shirt arms yet, puttiing awful things in mouth, etc. My youngest is just
> precisely fifteen months old, and is definitely still a baby. He'll be a
> toddler, doing toddler things, in another four to six months.
>
> --Amanda
>
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