The dragon memory (Was: Dursleys abuse)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117555


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Pippin wrote:
> ><snip>
> > 
> > We've heard about a few upsetting incidents, but we also 
know,  from the occlumency lessons, that Harry has forgotten 
quite a bit  about his childhood, including, apparently, an incident 
with a  dragon. <snip>
> 
> Carol responds:
> I think I know the memory you're referring to--it's in the same 
clump of memories as Cedric's death. I saw it as referring to his 
recentencounter with a dragon in the TWT. Any reason why you 
see it differently?<

Pippin:

It's not an original observation of mine, and I can't remember 
who deserves the credit, but all the other  clumps of memories 
seem to be in chronological order. However,  the great 
black dragon rearing in front of him appears before seeing his 
mother and father waving to him out of the mirror. If it's the 
horntail from the TWT, it's misplaced.



Carol:
> (I also saw no reason to think that he had "forgotten"any of the 
memories that were revealed in the Occlumency lessons. None 
of them occurred before he was about five years old and most 
related to the Dursleys.) Can you explain your thinking for me?<

Pippin:
"He had just been forced, yet again, to relive a stream of very 
early memories he had not even realized he still had, most of 
them concerning humiliations Dudley and his gang had inflicted 
on him in primary school." --OOP 26

Harry would have to have been five or older in those memories, 
which he doesn't realize he has.

Pippin