[HPforGrownups] Harry's questions about his parents (was Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and the Dream, 2-way mirror)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 117376

> During Christmas at GP Harry
> wanted to tell Sirius not to worry that it was OK
> getting oclumency lessons with Snape, but he didn't he
> found plenty of time to talk to Ron and Hermione, but
> not 5 minutes to talk to his godfather. It just bugs
> me, why didn't they talked? If I was Harry I would
> have gotten as much information as possible about my
> parents and my grand-parents, but he didn't. I don't
> think he even knows his grand-parents name. He's never
> asked anyone were his money came from. Nothing, he
> doesn't seem to want to know anything at all.
> 
> Over the first 5 books he's met people who knew their
> parents but he never asls them much more than You knew
> my parents? I'm thinking about Remus, Harry found out
> he was a friend of James' and he didn't ask him a
> single thing about his dad. Then he meets Sirius, his
> dad's best friend and again not a sinlge question.
>  
> Juli, wondering if anyone else thinks this is weird


Quite definitely weird.  I completely agree with you.  And
considering all the times Sirius was alone with Buckbeak (and
obviously bummed out if not clinically depressed) when Harry could
have been with him hearing about his parents and his family....it's
so frustrating.  

I was particularly annoyed when Snape comes to tell Harry about
occlumency lessons and Molly finds him - where? getting the lowdown
on his grandparents from Sirius?  talking to Remus about what is was
like at school with James?  No, he's playing chess with Ron.  Like he
never seens Ron for 10 months of the flipping year anyway.

And when this dormant curiosity of his does have its annual flare up,
is he at 12GP where he can exercise it with Sirius?  Or in the
library so he can look up references to his own history (like
Hermione did before she got on the Hogwarts Express in PS/SS)?  No, 
he's in Snape's office and sticks his head into a pensieve - which he
still doesn't know how to get out of.

My annoyance with Harry over the whole curiosity issue has grown so
much that it interferes with my willingness to see him as an
attractive character.  I'm starting to think he's just dumb in a lot
of ways.

Magda
 



		
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