Harry’s Curious Lack of Curiousity

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15848

Yes, my little brain is just full of thoughts today.  I hope this has 
not been mentioned -- I have been skipping a lot of posts lately -- 
but I have been thinking about the whole question of why Harry does 
not seem to be very interested in learning about his past.

Maybe it is because, in the wizarding world, there are many more (and 
more intense) reminders of the dead than there are in the muggle 
world.  Harry has "met" his parents in the Mirror of Erised, in the 
moving pictures in the album Hagrid gave him, and the shadow versions 
that come out of the wand in GoF, and seen James (sort of) in 
Patronus form.  The wizarding world also has ghosts as well as 
thinking, talking, interactive shadows such as the one of himself 
that Tom Riddle put in his diary.  Maybe Harry feels, after the whole 
Mirror of Erised incident, that he needs to avoid any reminders of 
his parents so as to be able to lead his own life.  Maybe he worries 
that if he starts reading all the books that mention what happened on 
Halloween 1981 in Godric's Hollow that he will become obsessed like 
he did with the Mirror of Erised.

Isn't there a scene in PoA where Harry tells himself that if he wants 
to win the next Quidditch match he has to get it together and stop 
brooding about his parent's death?


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  "How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry.
  "Them!" said Stan contemptuously.  "Don't listen properly, do 
they?  Don't look properly either.  Never notice nuffink, they don'."

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