On the Issue of "Boys will be Boys" Chapt 14 Disc

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190078


> Shelley now:
> <snip> There is one thing about Lupin's lecture to Harry that I
find disturbing- it's that everyone of power and position expects
Harry to make the wise and correct decisions without full
information. They know Harry had been living with the Dursleys,
they know he's been apart from the Wizarding World, they know he
hasn't been told much at all about his parents. Those with the
knowledge to help Harry don't bother to fill him in, and I found
myself, not the first time reading the books but certainly the
2nd and 3rd times, irritated with Lupin. He knows Voldemort, he
knows what the Potters were like and what they did, and he knows
Sirius. But, he doesn't bother filling in Harry on what he missed,
on what he can't possibly know about what happened to his parents.
I think if Harry knew more, then some of his decisions might have
> been slightly different, more cautious perhaps. <snip>


June:
Funny Shelley that you should point all this out because I have
often felt that way when reading the books. I know I myself won't
do something without knowing why I am doing it. If you tell me go
there or do that my first response is "Why" why am I to do this?
Why should I not go there when everyone else is? It is human
nature to want and need answers. I always thought everyone in all
the books should have told Harry more long before they did but I
guess that if they had then we would have been told too much too
soon. The idea of any entertainment is to leave the audience
wanting more so they will come back and J.K. Rowling is very good
at that.