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.
You're an adult at 17 in HP-verse so the "he's a teenager" thing doesn't get him off the hook for me.
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.
Not his whole entire existence but a bit more than he did in the beginning. Finding out that someone killed your parents and tried to kill you, and then running into that person and having them try to kill you again? And knowing that they STILL wanna kill you? Should have fucking terrified him enough to get his ass into the library every one in a while without being forced by someone being hurt, or dying LOL. I'm not saying he can't be a teenager because he was. But he certainly wasn't a normal one and it just seemed like he waited to long to take up the implications of that.
Harry was never the studious type; he was all action.
And it just seems strange that he never took the initiative earlier and was like "I'm not gonna sit around and wait for his guy to get me. I'm gonna prepare myself." Preparing to possibly be attacked for Voldemort is NOT all reading. He's gotta learn spells and actually practice them and stuff. It involves a TON of action. And it just disappoints me because I feel like he never really took up the amount of responsibility he should have in order to protect himself. I just think he should have cared more about being ready.
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You're an adult at 17 in HP-verse so the "he's a teenager" thing doesn't get him off the hook for me.
Not his whole entire existence but a bit more than he did in the beginning. Finding out that someone killed your parents and tried to kill you, and then running into that person and having them try to kill you again? And knowing that they STILL wanna kill you? Should have fucking terrified him enough to get his ass into the library every one in a while without being forced by someone being hurt, or dying LOL. I'm not saying he can't be a teenager because he was. But he certainly wasn't a normal one and it just seemed like he waited to long to take up the implications of that.
And it just seems strange that he never took the initiative earlier and was like "I'm not gonna sit around and wait for his guy to get me. I'm gonna prepare myself." Preparing to possibly be attacked for Voldemort is NOT all reading. He's gotta learn spells and actually practice them and stuff. It involves a TON of action. And it just disappoints me because I feel like he never really took up the amount of responsibility he should have in order to protect himself. I just think he should have cared more about being ready.