How dim is Harry?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 98391

Meri 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.
 
Mel: 
> 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.


Siriusly Snapey Susan:
This is so fun to read everyone's thoughts on this. :-)  I sense a 
fair bit of frustration with our Harry for his failings in this 
area.  And I include myself in that, btw.  "Ask the QUESTION, 
Harry!" I've been known to snarl at the book.  I've also been known 
to offer up the excuse that Harry was told so often from the age of 
15 months to 11 years to "Be quiet!" and "Don't ask questions!" that 
it became a way of life for him to just accept and not ask.

But of course, the REAL ANSWER to all this...and we all know it, it 
just frustrates some of us more than others...is that JKR can't 
allow Harry to ask those questions yet because she'd give too much 
away.

I *love* Jen's suggestion [#98371] that Harry will "step up to the 
plate" from here on in and ask loads of questions, demand all kinds 
of answers.  Hopefully we're near enough to the end of the series 
that JKR will "allow" that now!

Go Harry--the time is now!!

Siriusly Snapey Susan