Wands and Other Stuff...

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 74613

"Steve" wrote:

> Well, I certainly have wondered what happened to their wands, but 
> more so, what happened to all of their other stuff? Where is their
> furniture, their clothes, their personal possessions, their 
> keepsakes, their mementos, picture albums, jewlery, their wedding 
> rings, etc...
> 
> As long as we are on the subject, where are their graves?
> 
> What happened to their house, was it just damaged, or was it truly
> reduced to useless rubble? Could it be rebuilt? Was it rebuilt? Was 
> it really their house or was it a rental?  If it was their house, 
> does that mean it's now Harry's house? ...mansion? ...manor? ...land
> estate? ...traditional Potter family home or residence of a young
> married couple? Is there a traditional Potter family 
> home? ...mansion? ...manor? ...land estate?

Yes yes yes !!! This is one MAJOR thing that's always bothered me in 
the books : how come Harry doesn't try to know more about his 
parents ? He never seems to care. He sees all those people in the 
Mirror or in the picture book, but he doesn't care about finding out 
who they are, what their names were, what job they had (we still 
don't know for sure that James and Lily were Aurors !), etc...

> These could be the kinds of things that a young boy never thinks of,
> but Harry's not such a young boy anymore, and I have to believe at
> some point he is going to want the answers to these questions? 

Yes, but only, I'm afraid, when it will be important for the plot :-(

> Part of the problem is he's never had access to any one knowledgable
> person long enough to establish a relationship that would lead to 
> this conversation. Give that Sirius is gone, the only available 
> persons I can think of are Lupin and/or Dumbledore. Of the two, I 
> would suspect that Lupin knew more intimate details of Harry's 
> parents lives, but Dumbledore on the other hand could have more 
> intimated details of their deaths and the aftermath.

Hagrid obviously knew enough about their friends to go and collect 
pictures. He also knew where they lived, at the time they were 
killed. He knew them in school.
Then you have Remus as you mentioned. Harry did discover that he was 
a friend of his parents, but he doesn't try to learn more than that.
And in fact, even with Sirius, he almost never mentions his parents. 
We never see him sitting accross from Sirius and asking him "Tell me 
about my parents". I'm sure Molly would have let them off housework 
if they had wanted to talk about Harry's parents. And even when 
Sirius mentions his grandparents, Harry doesn't pick up the clue and 
ask more about them.

No, the fact, as incredible as it may sound, is that Harry doesn't 
care about learning more about his parents... Or rather, there's 
something about his parents that is so vitally important for the plot 
that JKR must resort to not speaking of well *at all*. But *what* 
could be so important !?!?

Del