Quick to define Harry as "clinically depressed"?

[syroun]

No: HPFGUIDX 110861

I find it odd that so many of you are quick to label Harry as 
depressed in GoF/Phoenix. As the facts stand, his life is quite 
complicated for a teenager, let alone an adult. He has no parental 
resourses, in whom he can confide and turn to for advise. He comes 
to find out that his father is less than "noble" in his routine 
behavior and even further, seems to derive great pleasure in 
torturing classmates, such as Snape, in much the same way Harry was 
constantly derided and mishandled by DD/Dursley family. And then, as 
the book ends, he is finally confronted with his most unfortunate 
fate - kill or be killed. 

His reaction to this can only be one of deep melancholy, as true 
depression is defined not by the preponderance of unfortunate or 
even dire circumstances, but rather, a lack of those circumstances. 
Those who become clinically depressed do so, in a cyclical fashion 
regardless of their environment, and have difficulty finding their 
way out. The rest of us, when confronted with awful circumstances, 
simply continue to trudge on with life, and despite the negative. In 
doing so, we find that eventually, we achieve one type of success or 
another and that gives us hope that others are to come. 
Harry will be no different.

Past that diatribe, does anyone else think that TMR is the half-
blood prince?

Syroun