What if Harry had Tourette's.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 181098

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > Geoff:
> > I am somewhat puzzled as to why you are considering the possiblity of 
> > Harry having this condition? What relevance has it got to the story
> line?
> >
> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Why? For the fun of speculating, what else? How would different
> characters react if Harry had a tic in front of them...
> 
> As for relevance-- well, Rita Skeeter suggested mental issues/brain
> effection with Harry, so - what if he DID have some?
> 
> And, of course, Dursleys lack of care, so they'd NOT try and get a
> diagnosis, would they? As for coprolalia -- I suppose the word Harry
> might be using is 'MAgic' - Dursleys do treat it as a nasty swear
> word, after all.

Geoff:
Well, you just as well speculate that Harry had three legs or 
always wore a banana behind his left ear.... 

Rita Skeeter would suggest anything from self-destructing 
underwear to delusions of grandeur if it heped to destroy 
Harry's standing with the Wizarding public. She was a 
Bothersome Interfering Tenacious Critical Harridan - initially 
speaking. 

I quite agree that things are open to a little speculation but at 
least within the parameters of the story. I think if Harry had 
possessed a tic, JKR would have made mention of it and I'm 
sure that some of the nastier students - and even TMR himself 
- would have used it as a stick with which to emotionally beat 
Harry.