[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Lily as friends- How could Harry not know?

[Lenore]

No: HPFGUIDX 172760


>Carodave:
>THis has bothered me from SS/PS on!  No one ever told Harry anything
>about his parent's childhoods or pasts - he found out about Sirius
>being his godfather and father's best friend by overhearing it in a
>pub; Lupin never told Harry until he had to that he had been a close
>family friend, and not one of Lily's friends ever contacted him to
>say 'I knew your mother'.  It seems natural that on the platform to
>the Hogwarts Express, Harry would have been recognized and
>approached by an old classmate of his parents, (the way that Harry
>and Ron see Draco on the platform in the dreaded epilogue) but it
>never happened.  There were definitely old friends/classmates who
>were tapped by Hagrid to donate photos to Harry's album, but none
>ever contacted him.  Maybe there was an unspoken understanding in
>the WW that it would do cause pain to Harry to hear about his
>parents?  I don't see why.
>Carodave

Lenore:
I've been bothered by the same kinds of missed opportunities,
especially when Hagrid had been able to contact several of the
old friends of Harry's parents, yet there was no followup at all.
I wish Harry had been invited to contact some of them, or
that Harry had simply had enough curiosity to ask Hagrid
for specific details about those friends so he could talk to them.

One reason that Harry became obsessed with the Mirror was
because he did not have enough information about his parents.
But their friends could have been enormously helpful to him, just
in sharing what his parents were like, interesting experiences
which they and their friends had had, etc.

Lenore