Dudley/Treated As Adults/Therapy

[wildirishrose]

No: HPFGUIDX 184586

I have several questions.

Say the magical gene pool was stirred up.  Say the Dursleys "Dudders" started showing magical tendencies.  How far would the Dursleys go to try and force Dudley from showing those magical tendencies?  Explain him to the neighbors, family, etc.  Would they spoil, mollycoddle, indulge Dudley?  Couldn't you see the looks of the Dursleys faces when the letter from Hogwarts showed up.

Second

The age of 17 is considered being a man, I'm assuming a woman also, in WW.  All of a sudden they are thrown out in the world, they are treated as equals, well sort of in the case of the Weasleys and the twins.  They are expected to know what profession they want to go into.  In the case/book of the DH, they fight side by side with other adults that are older and more experienced then they are in the battle of HW and nobody thinks anything about it.

Am I the only one that thinks this is a real abrupt way to enter the adult world?

Third.

After the things that happen at HW to the kids in the DH book, well include OOTP, and especially the battle of HW, how can these young men and women, the 17 years that have attended HW,  just blow the ash off their wands, find a place to sit, and celebrate that a person has been killed.  Or HRH go up to the headmaster's office, talk to a portrait, fix a broken wand and discuss putting the elder wand back where it belongs and everything is fine.  Voldemort is dead and all is well with the world.  It seems such a quick and easy fix to end things.

I've thought about PTSD, anger managment, etc.  I would think after such a thing as the battle of HW there would be a line around the block to get help at St. Mungo's Hospital, and be in years of therapy afterwards.  Or would the magical world have a far different way of dealing with trauma in their lives.

Or maybe I think too much about such things that could happen in the books.

The other Marianne

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