[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's upbringing

[Chip Olson]

No: HPFGUIDX 30570

Quoth Joanne0012 at aol.com:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., nancyaw2001 at y... wrote:

> > It's amazing to me that Harry is able, despite his childhood with the 
> > Dursley's, to love and to trust.

> Harry does act like an emotionally abused kid, hiding his emotional reactions
> and constantly doubting his own value.  His coping does, however, seem to be 
> like kids who are described as "resilient," they are true Stoics, with an inner 
> life and confidence that they manage to hide, but which enables them to 
> blossom once they're released. 

My wife, who studied the effects and implications of childhood trauma
very intensively in graduate school, has commented that Harry's level
of coping and social adjustment is far, far higher than could be
expected from someone with that kind of upbringing, to the point of
being utterly unrealistic. She would have expected him to develop into
a complete sociopath (and she is *very* much not the sort to
underestimate the resilience of the human psyche).

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