[HPforGrownups] What I have a hard time with in the canon...

[danielle dassero]

No: HPFGUIDX 96413

I am an early childhood education major, one of the
things I learned is that children build and learn how
to trust with the first couple of years of life. SO if
Harry's needs were met and he was able to build trust
and trust his caregivers. He can probably live the
next years turning out somewhat ok all because he was
loved very well for almost 2 years. This is why
holding babies is so important. There are cases where
studies have shown that children who came from abused
homes and taken out with the first 2 years have a
disattachment disorder. Because they were not held and
loved and needs not met, they were not able to become
attached to anyone no matter how much they were loved
and taken care of. Harry was loved by his parents,
Petunia probably took good care of him to get him by
his toddler and preschool years. She probably started
ignoring him and badmouthing him by the time he was in
school. When he could do things for himself.
Danielle D.
--- daled7350 <daled73 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



	
		
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