[HPforGrownups] Secrets of Harry's past WASRe: On the Issue of "Boys will be Boys" Chapt 14 Disc

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190095

> Shelley:
> <SNIP>
> I don't think it would have spoiled the story at all to have someone
> give Harry a small photo book of his parents earlier in the series, and
> have him take a brief scene looking at his mom and dad having fun at
> school, looking happy on their wedding day, etc.
>
> Alla:
> Agreed.


Margie:

On page 304 of Sorcerer's Stone (US paperback), Hagrid gives Harry a photo
book and says "Sent owls off ter all yer parents' old school friends, askin'
fer photos...knew yeh didn' have any...d'yeh like it?"  I don't see how it
could have been given to him much earlier in the series given that owls
needed to be sent, pictures need to be found and sent back from multiple
people, etc.

Also, one thing that I think people are missing here is that the characters
don't know everything that we know.  Dumbledore does not know from the
beginning that Harry was told that his parents were killed in an accident
and that he was not to talk about them at the Dursleys.  None of these
characters know what Harry has been or has not been told by the Dursleys or
by anyone else.  The typical assumption is that the Dursleys, being family,
probably told Harry a lot about his parents and most adults don't get a
clear view of the Dursleys until late in the series.


Margie