Harry's Curiosity, Etc.

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 13984

Catlady wrote:
 
> Milz wrote:
> > If I were told that my parents were magical and that I, as an infant,
> > took down the world's greatest villain, I would be very curious about
> >  it all.
> 
> I think the Dursleys managed to beat the impulse to ask questions out of
> him.

Though it's surprising, when you come to think about it, how
little =else= the Dursleys managed to beat out of Harry,
considering how they treated him.  In Book I he's somewhat
withdrawn, and suspicious of adults/authority, but his self-image
is better than you'd expect and he's certainly never bought into
the notion that he =deserves= the treatment he's gotten.  =Not=
the effects we're normally led to expect from child abuse these
days.

So . . . was Lily's love protecting him from evils other than
Voldemort's?  Did he (being magical), somehow "know" throughout
his childhood that someone did indeed love him, though none of
the living, breathing people around him ever showed it?


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>