OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 115228


Del said:
>>>Don't forget that you're talking about someone who doesn't even 
know the name of someone he's had a common class with for several 
years (Theo Nott). In general terms, we could say that unless 
someone shines in something that interests Harry, he simply won't 
notice them. <<<
 
Geoff replied:
>> "That is an assumption which could be wrong. I've been trying to 
locate a message I wrote on this very point some while ago when I 
pointed out that when I was in my grammar school, I didn't know 
everyone in a group necessarily."<<
 
DuffyPoo:
> OotP "If anything more was needed to complete Harry's happiness, 
> it was the reaction he got from Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle.  He saw 
> them with their heads together later that afternoon in the 
> library; they were with a weedy-looking boy Hermione whispered was 
> called Theodore Nott."  Obviously Harry didn't know his name or 
> Hermione wouldn't have had to tell him.  Harry's lack of knowledge 
> about other kids in his house/classes has always sort of bothered 
> me. 


SSSusan:
Doesn't anyone else besides me think that perhaps Harry "doesn't 
know" Nott because JKR simply didn't want us to think too much about 
him too early in the story?  

Siriusly Snapey Susan