How dim is Harry?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 98382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" 
<meriaugust at y...> 
> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> But he never asks ANY questions! I mean...really! Kneasy's right. 
> If someone told YOU that you were in a book I BET you'd run out 
and 
> find a copy. Especially if you'd just found out your entire life 
was 
> something knew nothing about. HE DIDN'T! 
> If you were escorted to a bank and shown a HEAP OF GOLD COINS and 
> told they were YOURS, wouldn't you ASK WHERE THEY CAME FROM? 
Sorry, 
> your mom and dad left them ISN'T good enough for me.
> 
> And all this is before he even MEETS Dumbledore.
> 
> 
> Mel, nosy.

Meri replies: 
You have a valid point. But remember, Harry spent ten years of his 
life reciting "don't ask questions", which was rule number one for a 
semi-quiet live at No. 4 Privet. The first time he really had a 
chance to question DD was in the Mirror of Erised scene, and even 
there Harry isn't sure that DD is being entirely truthful (the 
question being, what does DD see in the Mirror). And even when Harry 
asks the vital and crucial question (why did LV want him dead) in 
the hospital wing at the end of SS, DD tells him that he can't 
answer that, and not to ask again. What's an eleven year old boy 
who's just had a near death experience to do but listen to the 
wizard who just saved his life. Anyway, give Harry a little credit: 
he knew the question to ask, and even the person to ask it to. He 
just didn't get an answer. 
Meri - defending Harry despite his faults.