Sirius and Snape - the jury's still out; PTSD

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 28385

I just wanted to comment on the discussions about the 'prank' committed when they were 16.

In PS, Dumbledore gives one view of the incident.
In PoA, Snape gives another; Sirius and Lupin confirm that it happened in a general sort of way.

I'm fairly firmly of the opinion that this is one of the many progressive revelations about Snape and the background of the first war against Voldemort.  We have not heard Sirius' version, or Lupin's, of the events (can a werewolf remember what happened while in wolf form?).

I must say I'm somewhat skeptical about PTSD.  OK, so JKR may have good knowledge from her AI days.  But to me it seems to go against the genre - I think that in general people in HP will bounce back without much apparent effect from things that in reality would be psychologically quite damaging.  Just as in action movies, people regularly survive lethal blows almost unharmed.  So we will get a few references to the haunted look in his eyes but that's all.  And Harry will appear bright eyed and bushy tailed at the beginning of Book 5, moaning about the Dursleys but not seriously affected by the rebirthing - oooh! a prediction!

David, slightly unsure *which* genre the books are, but I don't think it matters.


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