Harry's Grandparents

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 68693


Dan:

On a serious note, yes, I do think they are related... I was just 
feeling slightly giddy having finished OoP at last (I tried to pace 
myself, but ended up reading the last 250 pages in one go).
 
Veronica :
 
Actually, JKR said in one of her interviews something to the effect 
of "No, that would be very Star Wars, now wouldn't it?" in reply to 
the question of whether V and Harry are related somehow.  So I have 
a hard time believing she'll change her mind.

Me :

Quite true, but still, she's kept Harry's family secret right from 
the beginning, even when it doesn't make sense. Right from the first 
book, it hit me badly : Harry NEVER goes to anyone to ask about his 
mom and dad (DD, Hagrid, McGonagall, anyone could have told him LOADS 
about his parents). Then when Hagrid offers him the photo album, I 
thought "Finally, we're going to learn more about his family", but 
NO ! Aren't there any comments under the pics (which would have been 
useful in PoA, since he would have read Sirius's name in that album 
way before reading it in the Daily Prophet) ? When Hagrid says he 
contacted people to give him those pics, WHY ON EARTH didn't Harry 
ask him the names of those people, so he could write to them ??? 
Harry spends nights gazing into the darn Mirror of Erised, but each 
and every time he is offered a chance to learn about his parents, he 
NEVER seizes it !! I'm sorry, but this STINKS in my opinion. I grew 
up without a dad (boy meets girl, girl gets pregnant, boy runs away), 
and I clearly remember, when I was 10 or 11, going to my mum in tears 
to ask her details about my father. And even though what she told me 
convinced me not to go and look for him, I still wished to know more. 
So if I had grown up without my parents, and suddenly I learned that 
they were heroes and that there are tons of people who can tell me 
about them, believe me, I would have gone and asked them questions, 
tons of questions.

All of this to say : there IS something HIGHLY FISHY about Harry's 
family, and that's why JKR never tells us anything about them.

Del