Stockholm Syndrome - was No sympathy for Kreacher

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 124629


> Tonks now:
> Well we are back to the fact that Harry's *abuse* was not that 
> severe or that unusual. Many children in his situation, especially 
> when placed with relatives after the death of a good parent would 
> not be *sociopaths*. A child has to have an early life like that 
of 
> Tom Riddle for that to happen. If a child were given love are good 
> care from birth to age 2 they could be messed up later, but not 
> become a true *sociopath* in the strict sense. They could be anti-
> social personalities... the criminal type personality. But not all 
> anti-social personalities are *sociopath or psychopath*. 

Sociopath is a movie term because it is more well known than the 
correct terminology of Antisocial personality disorder. That was why 
I framed it the way I did. The more important part of my argument is 
that the emotional consequences that DD barely touches on in that 
second to last chapter would be far more dire than acknowledged. 
And can you imagine what a Harry with a criminal personality would 
do to the wizarding world, and what needing to rely on him would do 
to the prophecy.

I stand by my assertion that DD is a very lucky man.  
 --phoenix god