[HPforGrownups] Depression in HP characters?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 182275

From: "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at yahoo.com.au>
>I just saw a news article about JKR being so depressed before starting
> to write HP that she was contemplating suicide.
>
> http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/news/24032008/jk-rowling-admits-she-
> was-suicidal.html
>
> Jo has brought other things into Potterworld as instructional to teens.
> Have we also seen those in serious depression and fighting to get out
> of it?
>
> Not just Filch regretting punishments weren't like the good old days,
> nor Moaning Murtle who is not in the right state to accually overcome
> any depressed feelings ...
>
> Ginny when she was loosing hours out her day during COS - you wouldn't
> say actually suicidal, but she put herself down alot.
>
> What / who can you think of?
>
> aussie

Shelley:
I think Neville might have been a little depressed- depressed people don't 
often stand up for himself, and it's only later in the series that he seems 
to shrug it off, gain some confidence and take the initiative to be the 
leader. The answer there? Friends believing in him and encouraging him to 
grow as a person.

And Hagrid- months at a time shutting himself in and shutting others out- 
sounds like he suffered from bouts of it too. Answer there- DD tried to talk 
to him, as a friend, and then the three come to his door and practically 
tell him off for being so selfish, and listening to his friends, he comes to 
his senses and forces himself to move on, and by doing so, he gets better.

But I dispute what you say about Ginny- if she was going to be depressed at 
all, it would be after she realized that she had been possessed by LV- 
people often get depressed and want to be suicidal after doing something 
horrible, as they deal with the guilt of what they've done. But no, Ginny 
seems to take in strike that those actions weren't her own, and is OK with 
that, rather than dwelling on it like a depressed person would. The hours 
she lost track of were not depression hours, but clear "possession" hours. 
Someone suffering from PTSS that loses hours from blacking out has no 
explanation for their time (if fact, for them time hasn't passed at all, and 
you have to convince them they lost hours) but Ginny really did have an 
explanation, looking back on it, and what LV made her do during those hours.