Lily WAS: First lesson

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185727

 
> Annemehr:

> 
> 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.


Potioncat:
Looks like depression to me. It's not clear how old he was either. He 
could be 17--or he could be 16, thinking he can get away with doing 
magic in a magic household in his own room. Or not caring that he 
shouldn't be doing magic at all.

If he had been catching flies and pulling off wings--then I'd be 
concerned about something worse. I mean, depression is bad enough.

The other thing this memory does is to show us something of his living 
conditions. Quite a few readers picked up on that the first go around. 
Yeah, flies get into any sort of house, but he has flies in his 
bedroom. Probably has a garbage can just below his window. No screen on 
the window.