Against all odds, Harry isn't a mass murderer

[fandulin]

No: HPFGUIDX 56365

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "martha" 
<fakeplastikcynic at h...> wrote:
> Along with all this, though, I'm going to throw in a couple of 
> annoying thoughts on the matter - I believe that Harry is well-
> adjusted and noble and sociable and all the rest of it because JK 
> Rowling didn't want to write "A Child Called It". She could have 
> done - "Once upon a time there was a boy called Harry Potter, and 
he 
> was treated so badly he couldn't sustain a normal relationsip in 
his 
> adolescence, so he received ECT and Ritalin and got taken into 
care, 
> etc etc etc" - but she didn't. She wanted to write about Harry 
> Potter, the boy who lived, Gryffindor extraordinaire, school 
> champion, king of quidditch and all-round Good Bloke. (And yay that 
> she did.)

Actually, Martha, that's a wonderful answer, and the one that most 
often jumps into my head when I go into my flights of over-
analyzation.  However I can't help myself from dissecting things from 
time to time.  Some things aren't going to correspond to the most 
likely case in our "muggle world" where there is a syndrome for 
everything, valid or not.  The brilliance of J.K. Rowling IMO is that 
she makes people want to dig deeper and ponder the details because 
her world IS so real and human.  Hallmark of an awesome writer.  I 
agree however, that we wouldn't want Harry the Ritalin popping 
Columbine kid stalking the halls of Hogwarts.

Fandulin