Adults "failing" Harry (was: Themes in OotP)

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 120026


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:

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> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Hmm-mm. Fore-warning is equipment. Just like Sirius considered about
> the DA-club. The thing is - they ARE at war. Everyone IS involved,
> aware or not. Those who *know* what's going on are better equipped 
to
> deal with it and to survive. The decision of not telling the kids
> anything simply proves to me that these wizards truly aren't much 
for
> logic.
> 
> And Harry in particular *was* involved since before his birth, HAS
> faced Voldemort more times than the adults, so er - keeping Harry in
> the dark was just stupid. No one ever told him that V might feed him
> false visions - just that he knew of the connection and that was
> somehow dangerous... of course, it's easy to say that when I'm just
> reading the book...
> 
> And what comes to Harry's emotional health - yes, Sirius is the one
> who should keep that as the godfather - he tries, but after 12 years
> with Dementors, short break and back in the house that created some 
of
>  the memories he was more or less forced to dwell in for 12 years -
> he's not in much of a healthy emotional state himself.
>
> Finwitch

imamommy:

one of the things that really bothered me was the lack of "hang time" 
Harry and Sirius had together.  Why, during the month of August and 
two weeks at winter break, did the two of them have, what, at most 
three conversations?  I think this was why Sirius' death didn't have 
quite the impact on me that it should have.  I was told by the 
narration that Harry and his godfather had gotten close, but I never 
actually saw (or read) it happen.

Honestly, all that time for Harry to probe Sirius, to ask about 
James, to bake Christmas cookies together, whatever, and it doesn't 
seem like they spend any time alone.

It seems like Sirius would have been the best person to pass 
Harryinformation, with or without DD's permission, and yet the two 
*never* talk.  

Daggone uncommunicative men!  If the story were about "Harriet" and 
her godmother, you can bet it would be a very different story!

imamommy
(not saying all men are uncommuicative, just these two in particular)