[HPforGrownups] Re: How dim is Harry?

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 98430




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. 

> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
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.  
Marianne:

This discussion makes me think of something I read on another list I'm on where the poster was expressing one of her many dissatisfactions with OoP.  Her two-pronged point was that 1) she felt JKR wrote her characters to act in a certain way to preserve the secrets of the series until such time as it was appropriate that they 
be revealed. And, 2) eventually, as a reader, those characters and their actions may start to be unbelievable.


akh: At the risk of veering OT, I have a family story that helps make Harry's apparently unnatural lack of curiosity ring authentic for me.  My mother was always told her name was taken from a novel her mother was reading while pregnant.  I asked Mom what novel that was, and she had NO IDEA.  She wasn't even curious about the title!  And I believe my grandmother was still alive when I asked the question.  Now, if my mother had chosen to name me after the herione of a novel, I would most certainly want to know the title of the novel and read it, probably several times!

Rowling has chosen to create a character who is like my mother (not deliberately, of course).  If it's not directly affecting Harry's life, he accepts the explanation he's received and leaves it at that.  It may be frustrating, but it's not unbelievable.

 

akh, whose mother was NOT a dim bulb, by the way...

 


		
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