I don't think that's a fair judgment though. He was eleven when he found out and by the time he was old enough to perform more advanced magic, he was also a teenager. Does he have to spend his entire existence focusing on Voldemort? I think he did that enough throughout the series; those little bits of happiness were dearly important to him--they gave him an escape.
All those things are things that teenagers think about: who likes who, what sports to play, make fun of the nerd. He had to add things like "how to destroy Horcuxes", "how to defeat the most evil Dark wizard" to that list because of fate.
And of course finding out his father was a bully would be hard for him to take. He never knew his parents and he had an idealised image of them in his head. He not only found out that image was wrong, he also had to cope with the fact that his dad was the same sort of person who would pick on Harry.
Harry was never the studious type; he was all action. Which does make sense considering he never got to be a normal kid, playing and doing. He was in a box for ten years of his life, where he couldn't do or say or react to the things that went on around him or how he was treated.
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All those things are things that teenagers think about: who likes who, what sports to play, make fun of the nerd. He had to add things like "how to destroy Horcuxes", "how to defeat the most evil Dark wizard" to that list because of fate.
And of course finding out his father was a bully would be hard for him to take. He never knew his parents and he had an idealised image of them in his head. He not only found out that image was wrong, he also had to cope with the fact that his dad was the same sort of person who would pick on Harry.
Harry was never the studious type; he was all action. Which does make sense considering he never got to be a normal kid, playing and doing. He was in a box for ten years of his life, where he couldn't do or say or react to the things that went on around him or how he was treated.