Veterans Suffering, was Re: CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 185045

Shelley:
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> You are fully right that "19 years later", and "Happily ever after" 
> do not cut it, they do not tell the story of Harry's rough 
> readjustment. They do not tell the story of a Harry, touched by war 
> but managing to survive anyway. I would have believed it if she had 
> written something about a loud noise going off, and Harry startling a 
> bit too much, and Ginny's soothing hand on his arm, and him taking a 
> deep breath, saying "I'm all right, dear, I'm all right", indicating 
> that truly YES, Harry had scars from the war, and would always have. 
> That would be a story painted in green, but I agree, that as
> she's written it, there is no green in it at all.  
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Ceridwen:
Ginny, Ron and Hermione, together with Harry our core group "Nineteen
Years Later," all fought in the war, too.  They didn't face Voldy, but
they faced other DEs as intent on killing them as Voldy was on killing
Harry.  It might just as easily be Harry soothing Ginny's nerves, or
Ron and Hermione reassuring each other.

With St. Mungo's level of physical care, there would have been very
few visible scars - only the ones from Dark Magic would remain.  Draco
or Goyle should have burns somewhere, perhaps Ron, Harry and Hermione,
too.  The deepest scars, though, given the children killed, would be
the ones seen reflected in haunted eyes as parents see their children
off and perhaps think of that day when classmates or siblings were
killed.  Hogwarts isn't safe if someone really wants in there. 
They've lived that.  Since kids don't tell their parents everything,
quite a few of these soul-scarred people might wonder what sorts of
shenanigans are going on that they don't know about.

Ceridwen.