[HPforGrownups] The Problem with Lupin (long) was Re: How Close Are Harr...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 96934

In a message dated 4/25/04 10:36:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
vmonte at yahoo.com writes:
vmonte responds:

I have to agree with Nora.  There are other problems as well.  For 
example, why doesn't Harry ever ask questions? (See post 93622.)  

Some posters believe that Harry was taught not to ask questions by 
the Dursley's.  But Harry asks the Dursley's questions all the time?! 
Most recently, he asked Petunia (in OOTP) if she was getting 
correspondence from someone in the WW? 

The only way to answer for Harry's lack of curiosity is to 
acknowledge that JKR is not ready to reveal certain information. 
Unfortunately, I think that it's reasonable for Harry to ask, for 
example, what happened to his grandparents?  Would it really take 
Harry 6 or 7 years at Hoggwarts before he becomes curious?   

The mistake that you are making is equating curiousity with questioning. A 
person can be curious and still not question certain people. If you notice, 
Harry questions his friends, but not adults because his questions are answered by 
his friends but not by adults. Harry finds out more information by listening 
than by questions, so we find that he is adept at finding ways to listen for 
news he wants than asking directly. Why then in POA, did he listen in to the 
Weasleys arguing in the Leaky Cauldron, he also listens in to Snape and Karkaroff 
in GOF, the teachers in COS, and in OOTP, Fred and George help him listen in 
to conversations that the adults have. 

Batchevra 


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