Petunia and Dementors

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 147814

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins 
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
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Another point I have been pondering, as awful as Harry's childhood 
> has been, as many bad memories that he must have, why does he keep 
> remembering *only* the memory of his parent's death when attacked 
by Dementors? Everytime I remember people talking about Dementors, 
they make you relive your worst MEMORIES (note the plural) yet all 
Harry remembers is the night his parents were murdered. I think that 
this will come into play. Either on purpose (or being overcome 
perhaps by 
> Dementors) Harry will relive the *entire* night, and see who else 
> was in Godric's Hollow the night his parents died. JKR has hinted 
> that maybe Voldemort was not alone that fateful night. There might 
> have been witnessess, and where better to get this information, 
then 
> his own memories? Opinions?
>    
>   Cat

Hi Cat,
This last point got my attention and I wanted to add a little bit of 
RL information. Harry was very young at his parents' death. Pre-
verbal would be the important descriptor. I am not an expert at this 
and if anyone is, please enter in, but pre-verbal memory is very 
amorphous and unformed. Usually pre-verbal memory has to be fastened 
to sight,smell, the senses, as it were. I find it very telling that 
Harry can remember the screams of his mother. I don't think he can 
remember very many things she said and surely he'd have heard her 
begging for Harry's life. But since he was so very young, he just 
didn't have the words to put meaning to his experience. So I do not 
think there will be much more coming from Baby Harry. And if it were 
possible, would not DD have tried to explore that time in order to 
gain information about LV?
Just a few ideas.
Jen D.
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