[HPFGU-Movie] Re: What will be deleted from OotP???

[AnitaKH]

Akh expounded earlier:
 >Given that they left him on his own, more or less, for the graveyard 
 scene in GOF, this says to me that they're expecting believable signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (which I think is largely what JKR is depicting in his behavior) in his performance.
 
jeffschick16 observed:
 
 Do you really think its like PTSD from the graveyard incident?  When I look back I kind see a variety of issues, not just a like a single incident.  He was angry because he was still at the Dursley's, he was  angry that there was a dementor attack near his "home", he was angry because Hermoine and Ron weren't writing him the info he wanted to know, nor was Sirius really.  Then of course, Dumbledore not looking at him and not telling him anything, the whole trial thing, and no one believing him.  For me, Cedric's death made him sad, LV's return was frightening, but what made him angry was all the other stuff.  So it doesn't seem like one incident that set him off, it seems like multiple issues.
 
 akh replies:

If we're looking at it from the movie perspective, they will likely use all those conditions to shore up his reactions, since we can't know the internal dialogue in film.  

I looked up a definition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_traumatic_stress_disorder

(bless Wikipedia!)

Included in the definition is: 

 Symptoms of PTSD can include the following: Nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders ("triggers"), irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response.
 These fit a remarkable number of Harry's reactions.  Certainly, if anyone is entitled to PTSD, it's Harry!

akh, who feels like she's putting in a cameo appearance at work today (off-site meetings).
 

		
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