[HPforGrownups] Re: Against all odds, Harry isn't a mass murderer

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 56537

From: fandulin
     I guess the best way I can explain the way Harry manages to come
out of his childhood unscathed, without resorting to reason number
two is this.  MOST kids would have been severely affected by all the
things that happened to him (heck, most adults would).  MOST kids
would not have made it to Hogwarts, and would probably have been
consigned to a sterile room with padded walls.  Harry is the
exception because he's the heroic archetype.  Granted, he's in it's
fledgeling form, but he's the literary figure that can rise above it
all because he has bigger fish to fry.  The Hero doesn't let spiders
in cupboards and schoolyard bullys get him down, because there is a
Voldemort waiting for him down the road.  The trials and tribulations
that he fights through to get there will make him capable of facing
him when that time comes.

From: Me

Nice point you brought up.  Harry has had enough dreams that show he does
remember his past, if only in his subconscious.  Flying motorcycles, flashes
of green light, a high cold voice...  Although not consciously aware of this
for those ten years at the Dursleys, a part of Harry remembers Lord
Voldemort and what he did to his parents.  Following this logic, Harry might
also remember Lord Voldemort failing to hurt him.  What happened to him in
his first year of life would make the hell he experiences living at the
Dursleys not so bad after all.  Maybe defeating LV even subconsciously gives
him the strength to persevere.  He made it through LV in one piece,
therefore he will survive the Dursleys as well.  Not to mention that Harry
doesn't seem to question their treatment of him too much, considering it
normal, although he hates it.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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