What I have a hard time with in the canon...

[daled7350]

No: HPFGUIDX 96234

As a newbie to this Group I may be bringing up an old gripe which has 
been hashed to death before, but I'll risk it.

I don't have much problem with "suspending disbelief" over a magical 
universe intertwined with "our" non-magical one. Even such a "hard" 
SF author as Robert Heinlein took a crack at that one. I forget the 
name of the Short Storey or Novella, but the plot was "When the 
wizards who had been enchanting the A-bombs were finally discovered, 
then the ones who were making the washing machines and automobiles 
work started coming out of hiding, too."

What continually niggles at me when I try to relax and enjoy the 
Potterverse is the belief that any child who had endured the loveless 
world of psychological abuse that Harry lived in from age 2 till 11, 
wuld be undamaged enough to be able to make friends with Ron and 
Hermoine the way he does. 

Excuse me, but he's been isolated from any form of love in the family 
setting, and although JKR doesn't say much about his pre-Hogwarts 
schooling, I doubt if he could have been adequately socialized by the 
children he found in school, after being treated like a leper at home 
until he reached school age. 

My own experiences tend to tell me that he would be taunted and 
further harrassed by his "schoolmates" for the cardinal sin of "being 
different"...the so-called "reen monkey syndrome".

Has this been addressed, and has someone come up with a satisfying 
answer as to why, according to the canon, it didn't happen? 

To me, believing in house-eleves is NOTHING compared to THIS 
plothole.

Respectfully, 

Dale