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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 96252

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "daled7350" <daled73 at e...> 
wrote:
> 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


Hi, Dale! Well, as some posters probably know by now, I also don't 
find this situation very realistic. No way abused child will be that 
well-adjusted as Harry is.


I can only think of plot-driven reasons. The story indeed started as 
fairy-tale hero quest and motive of the hero getting away from his 
evil relatives is quite common indeed.

The problem is that OoP moved to more realistic depiction of Harry's 
emotions and I am left wondering why Harry did not blew up at the 
world, which treats him so unfairly at much earlier time in the books.

I am also quite fond of Lily's protection on Harry's soul theory.

Alla