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

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No: HPFGUIDX 117474


> Juli wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Magda wrote:
> >>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.<<
> 
> ---------------------------
> Susana wrote:
> 
> Yes, it seems strange at first sight. But you need to remember 
where he's
> coming from. The kind of reaction he would probably provoke on his 
uncle and
> aunt with questions about his parents would leave a mark in a 
young child.
> He grew up learning that it was *wrong* to talk about his roots.
> 
> I'm more concern about what Juli wrote: he didn't talk to Sirius 
at all! Not
> about his parents, nor anything! Maybe he was jus being a teenager 
(thinking
> he had all the time in the world; not wanting to have a serious 
talk) but it
> bugs me a lot more than his lack of curiosity, correction, his 
lack of will
> to talk about his parents (he does seem curious, but he doesn't 
ask). I'd ex
> pect him to run around Sirius like a puppy whenever he had the 
chance.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------
> Magda wrote:
> >>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.<<
> ----------------------------
 


********My two cents:

Back when you were 15,16,17 years old --How many of you out there 
knew how your grandparents met?  Or at least some of the 'censored' 
details of your parents dating life?  Moreover, did you ask for that 
information or did you just happen to hear about it because it 
was 'given' to you, as a story or comment?

I found Harry's "un-curiousness" rather puzzling in the beginning, 
too.  But going back in time with myself, I don't recall being that 
curious about my ancestors as I became when I started having my own 
family, that's when it hit me: my ancestors must have gone through 
all this stuff too, and I don't even know how or when it happened, I 
didn't even know some of my great-aunts/uncles' names.  Oh well, 
maybe it is just me, but in all honesty, I don't think that Harry is 
*that* different from any other teen boy, especially if you add his 
Pavlov's conditioning to not ask questions about his parents/family.

Marcela