[HPforGrownups] When Harry meets Black (PoA)

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 32302



--- Monika Huebner <monika at darwin.inka.de> wrote:

> A while ago, I brought up the theory
> that Sirius is suffering
> from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and this
> incident can be
> perfectly explained by this. There are two things
> that come together here,
> 1) Harry attacks Sirius, 2) this attack prevented
> him to get at Pettigrew.
> If you have PTSD, you are stuck in an ancient
> defense mechanism that
> has been activated by some traumatic event (in
> Sirius' case the deaths
> of James and Lily and the years in Azkaban), and
> that hasn't shut down after
> the threat was over. Please note that this so-called
> fight and flight mechanism
> is a *reflex*, and therefore uncontrollable. 

Hmmm....could Snape be suffering from PTSD too?  God
knows his years as a DE and later a spy must have been
*full* of trauma. It would explain why Dumbledore is
so patient with his outbursts of temper.

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