Why doesn't Harry ever ask questions?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 33929

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "christi0469" <christi0469 at h...> wrote:

> 
>  Harry has been programmed by the Dursleys for 10 years. No matter 
> how comfortable he is at school, it's going to take him quite 
awhile 
> to overcome this version of "children should be seen and not 
heard". 
> In his case it's "Harry should be neither seen nor heard". 

 "DON"T ASK QUESTIONS-
> that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursley's". We do 
> see him start to get past this training in PoA and GoF. He is 
slowly 
> starting to ask question and seek advice. 
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Leaving aside JKR's wish to keep things secret, Harry's apparent lack 
of curiosity about his parents combined with his reluctance to 
confide in adults could very well be the end result of his years with 
the unsupportive Dursleys.  The fact that he worried about his scar 
hurting at the beginning of GoF and knew he wanted to tell someone, 
but had a problem figuring out who might be the right person, speaks 
volumes about his lack of adult support.  He has to go through a 
mental checklist of the people in his life who might be of help to 
him and it takes him a while to figure out that, yes, he can write to 
Sirius.  

I can understand that JKR doesn't want to reveal too much too soon in 
order to add to the suspense of the series.  However, as Harry gets 
older and has to deal with more adult situations, as he had to do in 
GoF, it will seem increasingly unlikely to me that he won't ask 
questions, at least of Dumbledore and Sirius, about his parents and 
Voldemort.  If not out of idle curiosity, then out of a growing anger 
that these things keep happening to him and no one will tell him why.

I'll predict that in the next book Harry has trouble coming to terms 
with what happened to Cedric Diggory.  As a result of that he will 
either start demanding answers, or the people who have knowledge will 
start doling it out to him.

Marianne