Secrets of Harry's past - At the Last Moment
June Ewing
doctorwhofan02 at yahoo.ca
Fri Feb 25 06:49:56 UTC 2011
No: HPFGUIDX 190127
> Shelley:
> So while you see looking at pictures of family members as "boring
and mundane", the fact that Harry is an orphan makes the photo book
a valuable tool to introduce us to people who will indeed play a
key role in this story. It's not boring because really, this is the
first opportunity you get to see the people that Harry was denied
the opportunity to grow up with (not everyday life, IMHO!) You can
be bored all you want, but the rest of us were looking for clues to
> how the story would progress.
June:
I think what Lynda was trying to say (and I totally agree with this)
is that Harry did look at the picture book when it was needed for
the storyline to help us learn things about it when we and Harry
needed to, however to have him looking at the book all the time and
to see these pictures over and over again would have been boring and
could have lost the audience. I think the way JKR did it was perfect.
It was obvious to me that he had himself looked at the pictures many
times so he did get to see his parents and we all learned something
about them in Philosopher's Stone when he saw his whole family in
the mirror of erised (in which I did make note that, that did not
include Mrs. Dursley, there's a surprise lol) but we learned along
the way as Harry did and that was the correct way in my opinion.
Too much information all at once isn't good.
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