Why Harry never asks questions...

[Traci]

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vmonte wrote:
 
> It really bothers me that Harry never asks questions. I realize
> that this is the way JKR keeps us from finding out information she is 
> not ready to reveal, but it still bothers me.

Traci:

Harry has been forbidden for years to ask questions by the 
Dursleys.  He's probably curious, but they have drilled into his head 
to keep quiet and not ask questions for so long, I'm sure he just 
goes with it.  Even when Petunia slipped up in OotP and revealed that 
she knew a little more about the wizarding world than she had been 
letting on, she refused to follow up with any of the questions Harry 
asked her then.

vmonte:

> Who was the other person, that along with Dumbledore, heard the 
> prophecy?  Why was that person thrown out of the tavern? (Is it 
> illegal to over hear a prophecy?)  

Traci:

I don't think it's illegal to overhear a prophecy, I just got the 
impression that the person that was listening to DD and Trewlaney in 
the hoghead was someone that wasn't welcomed in that pub at the 
time.  Similar to how Mundungus isn't welcomed there now.

vmonte:

> Why make such a big deal about apparating, but yet allow students 
> to time travel which seems potentially more dangerous. (Why introduce 
> time travel at all unless it becomes important later?)    

Traci:

They don't allow children to time travel.  They don't really allow 
anyone to time travel, but Hermione got special permission because 
she was a model student and they trusted her not to use it for 
anything except her lessons.  She actually kept her promise until DD 
encouraged her to break it to save Sirius and Buckbeak. 

vmonte:

> Why was Dumbledore against hiring a fortune teller as a professor 
> before hearing the prophecy?  Is he a seer himself?  

Traci:

I would think the DD is not a seer.  He didn't want to hire a 
fortune teller because he was skeptical about the subject.  Why would 
he be skeptical if he was a seer?  Anyway, he thought Trelawney was 
an "old fraud" as well, until she gave the prophecy about Harry and 
Voldemort.

vmonte:
 
> Why was the Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone hidden at a school?
> Is Nicolas Flamel a teacher at the school?  

Traci:

The PS/SS was at the school because it was under the watchful eye 
of DD, not because Nicholas Flamel was a teacher.  Remember, the trio 
had a hard time figuring out who he was.