[HPforGrownups] Re: Do all wizards go to school?

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 37438


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From: "marinafrants" <rusalka at ix.netcom.com>
> I can easily believe that Harry may never have seen Stan.  But
I have
> trouble believing that Stan wouldn't have noticed Harry, who
is, after
> all, a major celebrity and a Quidditch star.  Yet he didn't
recognize
> Harry when Harry got on the bus.

Well, perhaps Harry didn't match up with Stan's internal image of
what THE BOY WHO LIVED looked like.  True, Harry is famous, but
we really don't have much indication that there are many accurate
wizardly photos of him out there... in fact, the one that Colin
took (the one with Lockhart) has Harry trying to escape the
picture!  So, considering the situation Harry is in, and the fact
that in his muggle clothes he doesn't necessarily look like a
wizard, I could see Stan not realizing his identity.  And Harry
WAS trying to avoid being seen for who he really was.

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).