Harry leaving Privet Drive

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 93554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

Kneasy:

> Besides, Harry already has a home, or  had you forgotten?
> Godrics Hollow might be a mess, but it's all his and his alone.
> The fact that  he has never visited the site of his parents deaths
> has always  seemed a bit strange IMO;  un-natural even. 

Geoff:
Why?

Harry presumably never knew about Godric's Hollow until he was 11. 
His movements have been (and are very often during holidays) dictated 
by the Dursleys; during term time, I don't feel that the Hogwarts 
staff would want him galloping off into the outback to look at the 
remains of his parents' house.

You may say, well what about when he was at the Burrow? well, he was 
busy enjoying his time with the family there and the thought may not 
have crossed his mind; there again, what would Molly's reaction be to 
Harry wanting to go off on a search like this? On his visits to the 
Burrow, there are usually factors limiting his movements away from 
the others - certainly Sirius Black (apparently after him) in POA and 
the post-World Cup problems in GOF.

I just do not think that the opportunity has arisen for him to make 
this "pilgrimage".