Secrets of Harry's past - Tranfer, or not, of Information.

[Joey Smiley]

No: HPFGUIDX 190090

> Steve:
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> While I agree to a certain extent, I'm not as sure that it is as simple as that. 
> 
> Take Lupin for example, I'm sure, like Sirius, he feels a degree of personal guilt for what happened. Plus, he doesn't really know Harry. Yes, he knows who Harry is, but for 11 long years and more, he has had no personal contact with him. 
> 
> I think most would leave it up to Harry to take the lead, rather than force information on him that he might not want to hear. Now, he might want to hear it, but you don't know. 

Joey:

Agreed. Moreover, I also thought Lupin being a werewolf might have made him refrain from getting too close to Harry. He might have feared rejection or harming Harry or both.
 
> Steve:
> When Lupin or anyone else speaks of Harry's parents, Harry luxuriates in the feelings of that knowledge, but he rarely to never asks for it, and he rarely to never gets it. He does savor it, but he doesn't go chasing it.
> That was one of the very positive things about Sirius and Lupin, they knew both his parent, one could say, intimately. And Harry takes joy in knowing that resources is there, but does he ever pursue the resource, does he ever tap it? I don't think so. If he does it is rare. 

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> I think a degree of this is the natural separation of kids and adults. To some extent, they live in separate isolated worlds. Harry may not have wanted to bother 'the adults' with is childish questions. Harry may have felt that perhaps, his parents were a sensitive subject for the adults, and not known how to broach the subject. 

Joey:

Well, that could be because Lupin was Professor Lupin for Harry at that time and not good old Remus. I guess it would be tough for Harry to go to a professor and open up the topic of his dead parents, however friendly Lupin might seem. Also, almost the entire WW seem to know something about James and Lily as their deaths lead to the downfall of LV. So, I think it would be difficult for Harry to distinguish between a person who really knew them for what they were and a person who knew them just the way many of them did. Harry is quite different in OoTP and HBP where he asks Remus many questions about James as, I think, he is comfortable with Lupin now and also, confident that Remus can be trusted to provide first-hand information.

JMO,
Cheers,
~Joey :-)