seeking knowledge and keeping secrets

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 80905

-angelberri56 wrote:
> *This is just an off-hand thought... Isn't it interesting that Harry 
> goes to many lengths to find out about the Sorcerer's Stone, or to 
> learn more about the Chamber of Secrets, but never seems to 
> want to solve that Egg Clue...

I found that as the single most perfect characterization of a 14 year 
old I had seen in almost any book until Harry's fits of anger in OoP. 
*All* boys of that age that I have ever known (including yours truly) 
would *never* even think of starting on homework until the night before 
the deadline. Harry is a very peculiar sort of boy, much more 
responsible than the average boy when lives are on the stake (he makes 
a great main character and hero), but when matters are not boiling, he 
certainly used to take the long view ("Bah, I ahve forever"). 

I loved that part - I can picture him sitting in the seats in the 
Gryffindor hall playing chess or explosive Snap with not a second (or 
first!) thought for the Egg for weeks... and suddenly find out that 
he's out of time. I think that JKR did a great job on this... including 
Harry learning the lesson and getting extra training from moment one 
for task 3.

Yep, all in all a perfectly healthy, normal adolescent boy (and poor 
Harry has so few oportunities to be just that, he should treasure those 
few and far between times).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, discouriging the other males in this list from e-mailing him 
to tell him they weren't that lazy at fourteen, since he already knows 
there must be exceptions, and that just because he has never seen one 
it doesn't mean they don't exist.