Harry's upbringing

[nancyaw2001 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30592

A sociopath? Harry is certainly the antithesis of that! 
My upbringing was very similar to Harry's (add to the fact that I was 
born deaf and didn't hear anything till I was about 3) but I turned 
out all right. Well, except for the little voices in my head...hehe.

Nancy


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Chip Olson <ceo at s...> wrote:
> Quoth Joanne0012 at a...:
> > --- 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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> "Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo,
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2001.
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