Suicide / Blood Protection / Psychotherapy

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 184590

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184540>:

<< Suicide (which would probably split his soul) would not
end the power of the [Elder] wand. >>

How do you figure that? Maybe the Elder Wand thinks 'my master was
killed, so whoever killed him is my new master. But the person who
killed him is my old master, who is no longer my master' until its
brain explodes.

Joey wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184544>:

<< When Voldy used the AK curse in DH climax, Lily's protection was
not with Harry. >>

I thought it was, because of the drops of Harry's blood that LV had
taken in GoF.

Montavilla wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184569>:

<< And now that I think about it, how does the blood protection end
when Harry becomes seventeen? What kind of magic is that? And, if it
does, why does it still work later on in the book when Voldemort AKs
him? >>

The blood protection from living with the Dursleys ends when Harry
turns 17 because that's how that spell works.

What works later on in the book is blood protection from being near
those drops of his own blood that LV took into his new body back in
GoF, causing the famous gleam of triumph in DD's eye.

Rowling entangles the word 'blood' when explaining the blood
protection magic. She had DD say 'where your mother's blood dwells'
using 'blood' to mean kinfolk, Petunia and Dudley (and never explained
whether it would have still worked if one of the two sisters had been
adopted). And she had DD also say 'blood' to mean that red liquid that
leaks out of injuries.

Harry is more closely related to his mother than Petunia is, let alone
Dudley, AND Harry's blood is his mother's blood in a way that their
blood isn't: it grew inside her body, and recent research has found
that a few blood cells can cross the placenta and decades later some
of the child's blood cells can be found in the mother's blood and some
of the mother's blood cells can be found in the child's blood

But Harry is not protected by nearness to his mother's blood in his
own veins, and not even protected when it got all over his clothes,
but he is protected by nearness to his mother's blood in LV's veins.

Marianne wildirishrose wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184586>:

<< 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. >>

The wizarding folk seem to have no concept whatsoever of psychotherapy
except for Cheering Charms and Calming Concoctions. They expect
everyone to 'just get over it'. I imagine that they are more
psychologically resilient than Muggles, for the same reason that they
are more physically resilient, which is that their magic does some
protection and some healing without even being asked, and even Muggles
used to survive or not survive without psychotherapy until about one
hundred years ago.

Maybe part of the reason that many of the wizarding folk behave in an
irrational and/or stupid manner is because of their untreated PTSD
about which they are in denial.