[HPforGrownups] Re: "a much pleasanter reason"

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 131116

> Apparating lessons seem totally unlikely to me. If you could start
> lessons before coming of age he twins would have been eligible for
> apparating lessons in GOF and they would have complained about getting
> to the quidditch match by portkey even louder.


Lots of things get left out merely because they aren't relevant to
Harry's situation.  Just as an example, we never heard about the trips
into Hogsmeade until Azkaban, but surely Harry saw the notices.

I think it very likely that Hary will get Apparition lessons but I
don't think it remotely likely that those lessons are the much
pleasanter thing.

I don't have any real canon based ideas of what this pleasanter thing
could be.  Speculation is all we have and things like a Bill/Fleur
wedding have as much validity as anything else.

Personally, I think it will be something a little more Harry-centric
than the marriage of a couple fairly minor characters.

I basically see two possibilities.  One, he gets the story of his
family, or two he gets to leave the Dursleys permanently.  Either
would be much pleasanter than a new trial.  Then again, standing in
line to do your taxes would be much pleasanter.

My own non canonical gut feeling is that he gets sort of semi adopted
by the Weasleys.  There was a scene in OOP where Molly worries what
will happen to her kids if something happens to her and Arthur and
Lupin basically says "Do you really think we'd let them starve?"

Well as far as the wizarding world is concerned Harry's guardian was
Sirius Black who is now dead.  If you're Sirius Black and you want
someone to take care of your godson, aren't the Weasleys the obvious
choice in spite of the differences?  Lupin might make an excellent
father but it would be just him and he's busy with the Order.

-- 
Gregory Lynn