Harry's assumption VS Everyone's assumption

[richter_kuymal]

No: HPFGUIDX 151711

Tonks:
> > I disagree that a child can make an "informed decision" about 
> things 
> that a child does not understand. Some things have been kept from 
> Harry and rightly so.
> 
> Ceridwen:
> I have to agree with Tonks on this.  JKR has said something about 
> setting the genres on their ears, and actually showing that the 
hero  has some growing up to do would, at least in the TV shows I've 
seen, 
> be setting that particular genre on its ear.  I'm fuzzier about 
> classical storylines, but I very vaguely recall that heroes were 
> stupid and bull-headed until they were out on their own and had to 
> make decisions without the buffer of their elders to protect them.
> 
> Tonks:
> > Children are told what they need to know for their stage of 
life. 

PAR: in real life, children have to be told about sexual predators. 
About avoiding drugs. In some countries, they had better be well 
knowledgeable about land mines and the fact that bad people might 
kidnap them and force them to become child soldiers.  I don't know 
very many children who haven't watched the news which presents facts 
of life in explicit detail.  News about wars, terrorists, gangs.  If 
you are putting a child in harm's way, then you aren't treating him 
as a child.  If you put an individual in harm's way, you have the 
obligation to provide that person as much knowledge and help as you 
can.  And sorry, I don't find that DD has done that.  
PAR