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

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No: HPFGUIDX 190088

Shelley:
> 
> But for Harry, he didn't even know how his parents died until Hagrid 
> came along! He had no pictures of them, didn't know what they looked 
> like, knew nothing of their lives. Personally, if I was very good 
> friends of someone, and they died, I wouldn't be so tight lipped about 
> who they were around their only surviving child. One way to keep the 
> memory of my friend alive would be to share all my memories with that 
> child. It would keep that dead friend alive for both of us. Hagrid 
> shares only a tiny amount, but no one else does, and that bothered me 
> about the series. 

Pippin:
Who was left to do it? Most of James and Lily's friends were dead, or worse. Lupin probably felt he didn't belong in Harry's life for the same reason he didn't think he belonged in Teddy's. 

But Harry knew  about the school trophy room and all about the fact that his parents were mentioned in history books,  from his very first days at Hogwarts, and actively resisted seeking information about them, as well as from Mad-eye later on. It's partly that he's embarrassed to know so little, but also that he doesn't like letting his feelings about them show. He never asks Hagrid to identify any of the other people in the photo book or even asks who the friends were who supplied the photos.  You know if he had gone after information about James and Lily the way he'd tried to find out about, say, The Chamber of Secrets, or the secret of the trapdoor, there was loads more available. 

Pippin