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

[lynde at post.com]

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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.

Lynda:

I don't think that's the way the Wizarding World ala Rowling works. She wrote it way too much like the way people really are. Real people, meaning to or not, too often look the other way, don't notice things that are going on right under their noses, so to speak. They decide (and I think this is a very large -- anvil attached even -- part of the puzzle that is the mystery part of HP) that the kid needs to discover, by trial and error, or by overcoming the obstacles in their lives the truth about their backgrounds. Having it handed too them is too easy. It is especially too easy in a mammoth story spanning seven books and the entire upper school years of a kid like Harry. Take away his discovering his past on his own and a large part of the story goes missing. Add to that, the fact that the WW is steeped in secrecy. (An entire hidden culture living alongside nonmagical people undetected--there's no big secret there is there?) and the way not only Dumbledore, but Harry were raised and it's not so strange that Dumbledore and the others didn't consider simply telling Harry about his parents. It's just  not the way their society works. 






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