Harry's Temper Was Re: Feelings on OoP

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 80460


Golly wrote :

>  He's angry.  Some say "finally" or "reasonably".  But when he does 
> explode he doesn't get what he wants.  He gets the whole order 
> before him.  He gets Sirius and Molly to tell him what he says he 
> wants to know.  But when all is said and done he never asks them 
> anything important.  
> 
> Like
> 
> 1. Am I a weapon? 
> 
> 2. Why me?  What is so special about me?  
> 
> 3. Where is Voldemort or do you just not know?  Have any ideas what 
> he is planning.  I think I should know since it might very well 
> involve a plot to kill me!
> 
> 4. Have I any hope of seeing an age where I can drink legally?
> 
> 5. Why is DD avoiding me?  I didn't kill Cedric.  It wasn't my 
> fault.  I only told the truth. Why is he mad at me?
> 
> Conviently Harry asks none of these sticky questions. It makes no 
> sense to me that he's angry and wants desperately to know what is 
> going on, but never actually demands the answers to his own 
> internal musings and the causes of his explosions.

That's always been the stickiest part for me, right from PS. Harry 
*never* asks the most obvious and necessary questions. He *never* 
asked anyone to tell him about his parents. He still doesn't know for 
sure what they did as a job. He never inquired about his grandparents 
either. He *accidentally* discovered about Sirius, his father's very 
best friend, his parents' best man, during his *third* year at 
Hogwarts !! Etc, etc, etc...

I understand JKR had to withhold information from us, but this never 
made any sense to me, so I'm not bothered anymore that he doesn't ask 
the questions that truly bother him in OoP...

Del