How dim is Harry?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 98369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Our eponymous hero struggles with monsters, Dark Wizards
> and occasionally with his friends. Life is dark, desperate and
> seemingly without succour. In between all these shenanagins
> he makes fitful but apparently futile attempts to find out more
> about his parents and the circumstances surrounding the 
> events at Godric's Hollow.

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> But there is someone he's never asked; someone who has
> already volunteered that they are in possession of a great
> deal of information about Harry - Hermione.
> 
> Oh, yes! Little-miss-know-it-all

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Meri now: 
Do you really think that Harry's entire family history (or, 
basically every question that any HP reader worth their salt could 
ever want answered) is sitting in some mouldy old volume in the 
Hogwarts Library? Interesting...but I find that unlikely. As we saw 
in OotP, DD has taken many percautions (some, myslef included, might 
say too many) to prevent Harry from learning about the prophecy and 
the mysteries surrounding the events at Godric's Hollow too early in 
life, and what good would that have done if there was some book 
("The Potters, A History") just down the hall waiting for Harry to 
read. (Oooooh, the screaming book from CoS just jumped into my 
head...small thing theories anyone?) Anyway, as to Hermione being an 
untapped source of Potter family lore, I don't see that either. 
Unless she's in a bad mood, there is usually little to stop her 
sharing (forcibly, if need be) with Ron and Harry. And as to Harry 
asking the wrong questions (or the wrong questions to the wrong 
people), as far as he knows these are the right people: DD, Sirius, 
Remus, Mr. Weasley, etc. He's not a seer, after all. He's a kid.

Meri - who has faith that the boy will, eventually, get with the 
programme.