I have 2 question about Harry POTTER?

Question

1. How come harry could not see threstral in his second year, when he witnessed his parent's death.?
2. Why couldn't harry find out that the Half-Blood Prince and Professor Snape have the same handwriting?

Answer 1

I always hear about how he had seen Lily and Quirrel die (he didn't see Quirrel die though). J.K. Rowling once said in an interview that to be able to see thestrals one has to see a death but the concept of death has to be grasped as well. In the book Harry didn't see Quirrell die. "He felt Quirrell's arm wrenched from his grasp, knew all was lost, and fell into blackness, down... down... down... (225)." The movie depicted it another way. In the movie Harry clearly sees Quirrell burn until nothing is left but in the book Harry loses consciousness. Although he did see Lily's death, he doesn't remember it at all. He only found out about her real death when he was 11 years old by Hagrid and only remembers green flashes and a "high, cold, cruel laugh." I added the Quirrell one just in case you got curious. Yes, Harry saw his mother die but he doesn't even remember it, and even less understand it as a baby.



Snapes handwriting as a teenager may have been different to when he is marking potions homeworks. additionally I don't think Snape usually commented on there homeworks, as it doesn't seem like something he would do. Instead he only put a grade on it.



Another questions?



Harry's bedroom was the cupboard under the stairs until he was slightly older.



In response to your 3rd update, In the books he moved to it after Harry started getting his Hogwarts letters, although in the films they are just shows to leave Privet Drive, and later at the beginning of the Chamber of Secrets Harry is shown to live in Dudley's second bedroom..



Hope you got your answers

Answer 2

These have all been answered multiple times all over the internet:



1. To see thestrals death had to be seen and fully understood. He was too young to remember seeing his parents die, and he didn't witness Quirrell dying because he blacked out. Cedric was the first person who died right in front of him that he was old enough to remember and fully comprehend, so that's why he couldn't see the thestrals until after Cedric's death.

2. That has got to be one of the most idiotic question I've heard about HP. No offense to you, at all. Everyone asks it as if it's some great big mistake that JK Rowling made...but really, who's handwriting hasn't changed since they were a teenager?! My handwriting has changed significantly since I was in school, and so has everyone else's that I know. Plus, with how much Snape has been through since his teenage years, becoming a death eater, losing the woman he loves, working for Dumbledore, being a double agent, etc., his handwriting is bound to change, as handwriting often changes after big, stressful, life-changing events in your life. He has grown and evolved with him, and so has his handwriting. That's why Harry didn't recognize it.



3. His room was a cupboard under the stairs at first, no windows. One he got Dudley's old room, I figured that Dumbledore and Hagrid just wanted to mess with the Dursleys a bit. I've always pictured Dumbledore and Hagrid having a great big laugh as all of those letters came tumbling into the house from every orifice!

Answer 3

That's a question for JK Rowlings .. only she holds the answer to the HP questions.