[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius: Sensory Deprivation and Slashing the Fat Lady

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 48190

Okay, in a nutshell:

I can't understand how anyone can be so hard on Sirius.  It's a miracle he's 
alive and sane at the point where he returns to "normal" wizarding life - he 
is a very hardy survivor, and IMNSHO opinion, that's a solid virtue.  No 
doubt he was traumatized by what happened, but some very hardy personalities 
have a way of shunting aside what is going on in the near term in order to 
survive.  I'm not convinced that Sirius' mind is completely out of the "I'm 
in danger" mode yet by the end of GoF, *nor should it be*.

Felinia

As an aside - I have a very close friend who suffers from PTSD from Vietnam. 
  How long ago was that?  He has received treatment and counselling over the 
years, finished up a military career, gone through school, started a new 
one, had a son...and still he gets traumatized *and violent towards anyone 
who tries to touch him uninvited, including those he loves* - in the 
presence of fireworks (or sirens or anything else happening close, loud and 
unwarned).  Webpages aside:  this is very up close and personal, and 
happened again just this past February.

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