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

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> 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.

Alla:

Maybe owls could have been sent out couple years before? And after Dumbledore's multiple lies and many people (including Hagrid) omitting things, to be honest I am not sure that this is exactly how it occurred. Although since it is pretty much uncontradicted canon I guess I have to believe it, but again, way too many times Harry had been deceived, so I do not know.

Margie:
> 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.

Alla:

Actually in OOP Dumbledore also tells Harry that I had been watching you more closely than you could have imagined, so there is a view to which I personally subscribe for quite some time now that Dumbledore knew pretty well what was happening in Dursleys household pretty much in very great detail. Of course the reader who holds such view (me) would not like Dumbledore much because that would mean that he is responsible for a great deal of cruelty in Harry's life, but I had been feeling this way for quite some time now.

So, yes I think he knew what Dursleys did to Harry, told Harry or not told Harry because he was watching him by unspecified magical tools and since he says it in OOP, I do not think he refers to Arabella either.

JMO,

Alla