depression??

[Marleen]

No: HPFGUIDX 110767

Jennie <meyerjc16 at u...> wrote:
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  2. However, I think that we're forgetting that depression is actually 
  a normal and healthy emotion.  Now, like anything else if it is 
  uncontrolable that there's a problem but I don't think that Harry's 
  sadness can be looked at like that.  I mean, think about the events in 
  his life... he actually handles it all incredibly well.  Is Harry 
  sad, yes.. is he angry, oh sure... but doesn't he have reason to be?  
  I think that his emotional outbursts are really very healthy and 
  important to have if he's going to keep control of things.  Even DD 
  says at the end of OotP that the fact that Harry can feel this way is 
  he's biggest strength.  
  Just hope that nobody feels that Harry is being unhealthy...
 

  Marmy replies:
  I so totally agree! I think Harry is holding up really well under the circumstances. Also, don't forget, during all this, he only has his peers 
(who are just growing emotionally themselves) to help him through it. And 
they aren't the ones experiencing the actually pain..they are only feeling 
what Harry tells them. We don't realize how much our parents help us through difficult times when we are teenagers, but we always know they are there. 
Harry doesn't have that, and even DD is avoiding him and Hagrid isn't there. All the male adults that he needs. I think Harry is really holding it 
together! I don't feel he's being unhealthy at all. I think JKR is just 
trying to show us how BAD life is for Harry and prepare us for the emotional explosion yet to come!