Harry - why he doesn't ask questions

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hedwigstalons" 
<hedwigstalons at y...> wrote:
> I've read a number of posts (and agree with them) that Harry doesnt 
> ask questions. He doesn't ask them when we wish he would, he 
doesn't 
> ask enough when he does ask, etc. Well, it just hit me that in 
PS/SS 
> it's stated: "Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a 
> quiet life with the Dursleys." (p.20 US edition)
> HedwigsTalons

I think that's a very good point.  Harry seems reticent and 
introverted, and both of those qualities probably have something to 
do with a nasty upbringing in which he was constantly being shushed.  
Fortunately he now has good friends who draw him out a bit.

I thought, after reading the Pensieve chapter in OotP, that Harry 
must have his father's looks and his mother's personality.  But now I 
think his compassion for people like Luna Lovegood (and even Snape 
when he's being picked on) has more to do with Harry having been 
picked on so much himself before he went to Hogwart's.