Harry and questions (again :-) )

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 97168

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 

> Del replies :
> I can understand that, but you see, the thing that really bothers 
me 
> in OoP is that Harry *does* get over that mistrust with Petunia, 
but 
> *not* with Sirius barely a few days later ! I would have expected 
> the opposite, that he would ask questions of people he trusts and 
> not bother asking questions of people he's known forever he can't 
> get answers from. But this reverse way really bothers me. He goes 
> straight against what's been ingrained in him during his whole 
> childhood and asks questions to Petunia, repeatedly, over several 
> days, and even though he doesn't get any answers, but he doesn't 
ask 
> any question to someone he's trusted for 2 years and who's made it 
> crystal clear just a few days earlier that he was ready to answer 
> *any* question, even if DD said no. How logical is that ?
> 

Marianne:

This bothers me, too.  Other than the conversation by the tapestry, 
we never see Harry and Sirius have a conversation that is mostly just 
between the two of them at any time that Harry's at 12 Grimmauld 
Place.  Doesn't seem at all logical to me, either. 

Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised to find out in later books 
that they did have some conversations like this, but the gist of 
those conversations will only come to light when they have a bearing 
on moving the plot forward.  I can see something happening in the 
next book that causes Harry to reflect...."Draco's words suddenly 
made Harry remember something that Sirius had told him last summer..."
And, lo and behold, we will be given more information that we were 
not allowed to have in OoP.

Marianne