Theory on James and Lilly Potters occupations

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No: HPFGUIDX 107711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charme" <dontask2much at y...> wrote:
> 
> Charme:
> 
> Uhhhh, no one told Harry that his father had played Quidditch, and
> specifically that he was a Seeker. We have Hermione to thank for that in the
> movie (is it in the book?,) don't we? With the way the WW loves to play the
> game, wouldn't someone at Hogwarts have mentioned it? Minerva didn't when
> she saw him in PS/SS, did she?
>
Kneasy:
Erm, yes - she did.
PS/SS chap. 9.
After Minerva had introduced him to Oliver Woods:
"Your father would have been proud," she said. "He was an excellent
Quidditch player himself."
 
Charme:
> I notice Harry doesn't ask direct questions about his parents until OoP,
> when he sees Snapey's memory of the events after his O.W.L's ( I think
> that's it - don't have my book handy at the moment) with James, Sirius,
> Lupin, and Lily.  Mostly what's discussed is how they died, not how they
> lived.

Kneasy:
Very  true and bloody  frustrating.
Harry *never* seems to ask the obvious questions - and not just about his
parents.
Yeah, OK, it's a plot device to keep us from learning too much too soon,
since everything Harry hears we hear too. Sometimes some of us sit there,
book in hand, puce in the face, screaming "Ask the question, damn it!"

He never asks where all that money came from;
He never asks where 'home' is;
When Hagrid gives him a 'photo album he never asks "when, where, who?"
Despite the  Mirror of Erised he never asks about his wider family;
Despite Dementor induced visions he never asks about Godric's Hollow;
He never asks what his parents did  for a living;
He never asks where his parents are buried;
On past form he probably won't ask about 'defying Voldy three times'; 
The list just goes on....and on.

JKR has slapped an injunction on this by telling us that he had learned
not to ask questions of the Dursleys. But that only applies to his time
in Privet Drive; DD, Lupin, Sirius, Hagrid, Minerva all volunteer snippets
of information about his parents and he *never* follows them up with
questions that seem inevitable. Argh!

Just think of all the wonderful posts we could write if we had at least
a little more light cast on the above points.