Nope. I reject the idea that there aren't any clues for him to pick up on. HE GETS ATTACKED MY VOLDEMORT DURING HIS FIRST YEAR. He sees Voldemort pretty much come back when he's been hearing that the guy is dead and he ends up in the hospital because of it. How much more of a clue does he need?
No one said he couldn't play Quidditch and do all the normal kid stuff too. He would be fucking boring if he didn't. But he doesn't even bother to take up a book on his own and try to learn some spells so that he can be ready. For the longest time, the thought to study outside of coursework doesn't even cross his mind. And then he goes so far as to make fun of Hermione for studying when she's not even the one that the guy is out to get.
And the "he's a child" thing doesn't jive for me either because people grow up much faster in their world than in ours. You're an adult at 17 years old in their world. And he's still fucking around after the threat becomes real, worrying about who's making the Quidditch team and other unimportant stuff like that. The adults in his life have their own share of blame but that doesn't make Harry any less accountable. I'll give him a break at 11 but after you've been attacked and seen people around you being attacked, it's time to buckle down and do some research of your own. Hermione manages it just fine. He has resources. Even if he never found out a damn thing in all his searching, at least he would have tried. And that's what bothers me. That he didn't try as much as it logically followed that he should have considering the threat against his life.
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No one said he couldn't play Quidditch and do all the normal kid stuff too. He would be fucking boring if he didn't. But he doesn't even bother to take up a book on his own and try to learn some spells so that he can be ready. For the longest time, the thought to study outside of coursework doesn't even cross his mind. And then he goes so far as to make fun of Hermione for studying when she's not even the one that the guy is out to get.
And the "he's a child" thing doesn't jive for me either because people grow up much faster in their world than in ours. You're an adult at 17 years old in their world. And he's still fucking around after the threat becomes real, worrying about who's making the Quidditch team and other unimportant stuff like that. The adults in his life have their own share of blame but that doesn't make Harry any less accountable. I'll give him a break at 11 but after you've been attacked and seen people around you being attacked, it's time to buckle down and do some research of your own. Hermione manages it just fine. He has resources. Even if he never found out a damn thing in all his searching, at least he would have tried. And that's what bothers me. That he didn't try as much as it logically followed that he should have considering the threat against his life.