The root of Harry's personality (Was acceptable abuses)

[justcarol67]

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Melanie wrote:
snip>  If Lily, as I suspect was in deed holding Harry at the time of
death, don't you think that would have an affect on him.  We all see
that Harry is afraid of getting close to people, of loosing them.  I
personally believe that these are very repressed feelings not from
just the horrors of Sirius falling through the veil or the years of
growing up with the Dursleys, but from the very momment that this
child's life was turned 180.  


Carol:
If Lily were holding baby Harry, wouldn't Voldemort have been able to
kill Harry without killing Lily first? Voldemort's request (or order)
for her to "Stand aside" suggests that she was blocking his way,
perhaps standing in the doorway of Harry's room with the baby behind
her in his crib. (That doesn't in any way invalidate your theory that
losing his mother caused little Harry to fear getting close to people,
but I don't have any views on that topic. I'm more interested in what
happened at Godric's Hollow.)

Carol