CHAPDISC: PS/SS 1, The Boy Who Lived and Avatar SPOILERS LONG

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 187779

Carol wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187777>:

<< His father was imprisoned when he was quite young, so he could not have been much of an influence, and his mother had her hands full with Ariana, whom Albus never had to take care of. She didn't even see a danger in his friendship with Gellert Grindelwald, whom she might have distrusted if she had been more observant. >>

His mother was dead before he met Grindelwald. He cancelled his Grander Tour because he 'had to' stay home to care for Ariana because his mother had died suddenly. I believe it is only an implication that Kendra was killed by an effect of one of Ariana's magical tantrums, or is there a more psychiatric word for a rage?

<< It's not a matter of spoiling and pampering so much as simply not supervising him or having any degree of control over him. And they must not have been poor if he intended to go on the Grand Tour when he finished school. I think as long as he kept the family's dark secrets, he could do anything else he pleased. Wild Aberforth doesn't seem to have had any supervision, either. >>

Young Albus didn't NEED any supervision. He was a perfect child. I was so disappointed to find that he hadn't had schoolboy adventures. He never even discovered the Room for Hiding Things, when so many others had discovered it in their school days. There's no sign that he ever discovered a secret tunnel or sneaked into the Restricted Section after curfew (he wouldn't have needed to sneak, as teachers would have signed his permission forms), much less cast the Jellylegs Jinx on a Slytherin in the hallway. I bet he even kept his bedroom tidy. How obnoxious.