Lily WAS: First lesson

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:

> What I see is *depression*, leading to bitterness.
 
> He's not talking to Lily anymore.  He's not, as Alla says, doing 
> potions or taking a walk.  He's not owling his "DE" friends.  He's 
> not doing anything positive at all; he's just closed up in his room 
> shooting down flies as though it were a distraction from what's 
> really eating him.


zanooda:

I agree with you. The fly-killing memory is shown among bad,
unpleasant memories, which means that this is a bad memory too. If he
killed flies just out of boredom, this wouldn't be a bad memory, in
fact, this wouldn't be something worth remembering at all. If he took
pleasure in killing flies, it would be a good memory to him, not a bad
one :-). No, this memory is a bad memory because it shows some really
bad moment in his life, maybe even depression, as you suggest ;-( .