one of the thing that bothers me about OoTP is that with all the magic we've already seen NO ONE seemed to know a way to make Sirius useful, or just aleviate his stress. They just let him rot away in that house and in some cases even contributed to the problem.
In various discussions recently, we've talked about how the wizarding world takes an astonishingly low view on emotional trauma. That is, they basically deny that it exists or else blame the victim. I think it's really interesting because so much magic is directly related to emotions and/or the psyche -- dementors and patronuses, boggart defense, Occlumency, spells to control people or alter memories -- yet we get the impression that psychology is a completely foreign concept to them. Certainly people have made observations here and there, but apparently no in-depth studies of the question, or if they did they were ignored.
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Date: 2004-11-18 06:51 am (UTC)In various discussions recently, we've talked about how the wizarding world takes an astonishingly low view on emotional trauma. That is, they basically deny that it exists or else blame the victim. I think it's really interesting because so much magic is directly related to emotions and/or the psyche -- dementors and patronuses, boggart defense, Occlumency, spells to control people or alter memories -- yet we get the impression that psychology is a completely foreign concept to them. Certainly people have made observations here and there, but apparently no in-depth studies of the question, or if they did they were ignored.