[HPforGrownups] Who will tell Harry what happened? (WAS:Re: Question1 - Godrics Hollow)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 132234

--- Inge <Elvishooked at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "'You heard James?' said Lupin, in a strange voice. 
 
> Once again - Lupin seems surprised to learn that Harry heard his
> dad - as if it shouldn't be possible. Lupin knows more than he 
> wants Harry to know. Why does Lupin start to stutter when he talks 
> about James? Why does he 
> suddenly want to end the Patronus-lesson when he learns about Harry
> hearing James?


I don't think that Lupin was at GH; the truth doesn't need to be that
complicated.  I assumed - when I read POA - that Lupin assumed (and
took a lot of comfort from the assumption) that Harry at 15 months
was too young to remember anything about that night or to understand
what happened.  That while it was tragic to lose his parents at least
he had no memory of the matter.  And then to find that Harry
remembers his father's words and his mother screaming is a pretty
shattering blow to Lupin's comforting fiction of an unaware Harry. 
His first impulse is to do something comforting but he pulls back -
not because of an ulterior motive but because Lupin always pulls back
in emotional matters.

Magda

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