A question about each HP book

[Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 139433

Hi, after lurking on and off for a couple years I worked up enough 
courage to post a couple of questions that have burning in my mind as 
I read and reread the HP books. Some queations my co-workers and I  
have been discussing as we read the books together.

1. Book one- a two part question-- How did Harry survive the cold, 
both literally and figuratively? How did Harry survive a cold night on 
the Dusley's door step. In my part of the world its freezing cold 
Oct.31/ Nov.1st. An older infant can freeze to death in a 
surprisingly short time. I assuming that Dumbledore or Hagrid put 
some kind warming spell on the blanket and magically wrapped the 
blanket so Harry would stay wrapped up. Babies tend to move around a 
lot when they sleep. (Okay that question was kind of simple but it 
fun to think about.) The next part of the question is harder- how did 
Harry survive the icy cold treatment from his family? Evey time I 
read the fisrt book I suprised that Harry is not suffering from 
failure to thrive. Failure to thrive is a condition that we seen time 
and again throughout history. The fisrt time it came into the world 
view was during the Great Depression. Infants were dropped into 
orphanages at a alarming rate. Well meaning ophanages placed the 
children in cribs, feed them on schedule, keep them clean and dry, 
and they recieved medical care. And the infants died at alarming 
rates. It was discovered that the lack of human touch and connection 
caused the infants to stop growing, lack of phycial development( 
sitting up, crawling, etc. etc.), withdrawl from social interaction 
and after awhile the children would just loss the will to live. (by 
the way Harry was discribed as small for his age in SS/PS) I image 
that Harry was treated the same way as the orphanes, he was feed and 
kept clean and that was about it. I cann't remember any time in the 
books were Harry was touched by the Dursleys until book five were 
Vernon choked Harry. I know many people have commented that Harry had 
15 months of loving care from his parents, but nurturing a child is 
not like an vaccaine- you get X number of hug and attention and 
you're fixed for life. Nuturing a child is like feeding them, they 
need consent love and attention. If a child is well feed for 15 
months, then had a poor diet afterwards, they would soon start to 
show the same symptoms as child who had the same poor diet from the 
start of their life. So how did Harry survive the cold treatment from 
his family?

2. Book Two-- How far does the clothing rule goes with House Elves? 
Dobby said that his family is very careful not to pass him a single 
piece of clothing, and Ron stated that his Mom wanted an elf to do 
the laundry. Can the family order the elf to do laundry and not set 
them free as long as they don't hand the basket. I tried to visilized 
Narcissa doing laundry, but I can't see her scubbing the skid marks 
out of Draco's underroo's if there was a house elf around to do it. 
Also, what did the O.W.L and N.E.W.T. students do when exams were 
canceled? How did that effect their future careers and school 
placements   

3. Book 3--When Hermione had a time-turner since day one of school, 
how come both her and her "time double" didn't know about each other. 
She know she was redoing hours, so she souldn't be surprised if saw 
each other. I could see Harry's confusing if saw himself becouse he 
didn't know it exsisted until he used it after all events of the day-but Hermione know she running amuck with time. 

4.Book Four-About Hargid and other half giants-- Not to be crude or 
anything, but how could a giant and wizard/witch live together, let 
alone procreate? If a giant is 20-25 feet and human is 5'8-6'2, how 
can they share space? Would a giant be willing to be shrunk to fit 
into a normal house and live as spouses and all that entails.

5. Book 5-- What is Dudley worst fear when he incounter the 
dementors? I think it was his witnessing all the bad treatment of 
Harry. I grow up with a father who makes Vernon look like Father of 
the Year in comparsion. Luckly, he rarely took his anger out on me,( 
I was sick a lot and also learned how to fly under his radar early) 
but watching him mistreat my six siblings was much more scary for me 
then any physical abuse I could suffer. Imagine that you are a 16 
month old and you have a happy and spoiled life and all a sudden a 
new person showed up and you witness a new and mean side to your 
parents. Then you see this treatment for the next 14+ years. All you 
can think is when am I going to be next? i think Dudley lives in fear 
of being treated like Harry.

6. Book 6-- Who is R.A.B. I know that a lot of people believed that 
its Sirius's brother, but J.K. Rowlings has surprised so many times, 
that I just can't see the answer being in that plain of sight.

7. Book 7-- ????? I cann't list all the questions I have so I just 
post the most important one. When will J.K.R. finish writing it. I 
can't wait to read it.   
Lady Hawk