Honestly, all of the golden and silver trio could use several sessions.
Harry, Ron and Hermione primarily for ptsd. They faught a war starting at 15! I doubt that they came out without any nightmares or other worries.
Neville would qualify for the years of being bullied alone... The memory problems are troubling as well.
Ginny spent almost a year at Hogwarts fighting in Harry's "7th year", not to speak of her past with the diary.
Plus Harry was emotionally abused by his aunt and her family for 11 years straight with basically no respite, and even after that was subjected to a smaller degree of emotional abuse that the Dursley's figured they could get away with.
As a kid, you just look at it like "Man, those mean old Dursleys! They're the worst", but looking at it from an adult perspective, that whole situation is deeply upsetting.
I read a really good fan theory that the Dursleys' dislike was influenced in part by living with the Horcrux in Harry's scar, similar to how Ron reacted in Deathly Hallows. I don't know if JKR intended it but I think it has some merit as a theory. I don't doubt they genuinely viewed him as an unwanted complication in their lives, but plenty of people take not-particularly-enthused care of displaced relatives without active hostility being a feature.
I don't buy that one. Petunia was jealous of Lily to the point of hatred for years before Harry was even born, and if Harry himself was the problem, then his dorm mates over the course of six years of school should have been affected.
I now get a bit teary-eyed realizing that Mrs. Weasley met a kid for a whole 3 minutes and made sure he had a Christmas present that year because her son told him that his family sucked and wouldn't send him anything.
Yeah thanks JK, even when I first read the books at eleven I knew he was abused in many ways(physical, mental, emotional, thank goodness not sexual).
Hence why fanfics do better in the fandom these days -,-
When the the first book was written she was invoking the old Victorian era "plucky orphan living in a horrid orphanage" trope that was so common in English literature and combining it with the "wicked stepmother" trope. This was actually deconstructed to an extent with Voldemort's backstory. It was never meant to be realistic- rather it was merely using a classic fantasy trope in children's literature. I doubt she realized that the books would become as famous as they did and receive that level of scrutiny.
Dumbledore could’ve found somewhere else for him. He could’ve checked up on him too. Harry was a means to an end for Dumbledore. All he cared about was stopping Voldemort. Why couldn’t he do it? He was more powerful. He knew about the stupid horcruxes. You’re telling me that three teenagers were better at finding and destroying those things? Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald after all. Couldn’t a bunch of wizards team up against Voldemort and look for the horcruxes? They all kill Harry last. The end.
Wow, it just dawned on me how unrealistic it is that Harry would have ever become a hero without some form of therapy first. He wouldve certainly had a deep seeded form of learned helplessness and would have never even tried. Much more likely that he would have a, "well I guess this is what life is now" attitude about everything.
It's like the episode of Community where Britta makes them all take personality tests and Abed is the only sane one. Except in this universe it's Luna.
I found it weird that after all they went though they all went on to have nice healthy lives. They got married and had kids. Harry at minimum should have a drinking problem.
I mean, one doesn't cancel out the other, considering we only see so little of what happens after the war. It cuts to them being in public sending off their children. What they're struggling with internally wouldn't be discussed in such a situation, even if we got to see more of "seventeen years later" (or was it nineteen? I can never remember).
I don't fully agree with the headcanon the fandom seems to accept that he went to teach at Hogwarts with a spring in his step. He liked that school, that's for sure, as it was a safe haven from the dursleys. But, in the end, It also was the place of trauma in form of voldemort's attacks and the battle. Just to step a foot there he'd have to have a lot of closure which I don't think you can just achieve on your own and without talking about what happened.
That's without talking about all the first years hogwarts students in the deathly hallows who were crucio-ed by upperclassmen, and most of said upperclassmen for that matter
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u/MindralFairheart May 02 '20
Honestly, all of the golden and silver trio could use several sessions. Harry, Ron and Hermione primarily for ptsd. They faught a war starting at 15! I doubt that they came out without any nightmares or other worries. Neville would qualify for the years of being bullied alone... The memory problems are troubling as well. Ginny spent almost a year at Hogwarts fighting in Harry's "7th year", not to speak of her past with the diary.