[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 185069

> Alla:
> I get it, really. However, when she says stuff like that, I cannot
> help but say, oh really?
>
> What Shelly said, I mean, any slightest sign in the epilogue that all
> those war hurts are still with Harry and his friends? Because I
> surely did not see them.
>
> Pippin:
> Perhaps you saw what you wanted to see?  How much of Harry's trauma
> was visible when we first met him in PS/SS?  We expect a damaged
> psyche to show itself in dramatic ways, especially in stories. But
> often it doesn't.
>
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> Epilogue Harry absent-mindedly touches his scar because he's worried,
> just like Snape unconsciously rubbing the dark mark. The scar hasn't
> pained him for nineteen years, but  we're shown that Harry's fears are
> still with him. Ginny has to reassure him. He has to be reminded that
> all is well.

Shelley:
When I read the section about Harry touching his scar, I didn't take it at 
all to be a sign of stress from the "war". No, he didn't touch it because he 
was worried. No, it's about Rowling telling us that he scar hadn't hurt in 
19 years. That's ALL that I got out of it. There is no mention of "fears 
being with him" for that passage. Instead, all we are supposed to get out of 
it is that scar hadn't told any sign of Voldemort since he died, to tell us 
that indeed, he was gone forever and that everyone had nothing to fear. 
Rowling was telling us Harry could live his life in peace- quite the 
opposite of what you are getting out of it- that Harry had leftover fears 
and struggled as a war vet.