There Are No Therapists: Difference between revisions

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** Everybody failed to see the warning signs that Tom Riddle was a deranged sociopath who would eventually become Voldemort. They were blatant when he was a child before he entered Hogwarts, and then he did everything he could to hide said warning signs. But Dumbledore should have known better than to go "Oh, he seems so different, I'll just hope for the best."

*** On the other hand, Voldemort went to school from 1938 to 1945. Would good psychiatric help have been provided very widely even in non-magic schools then? Or would people recognize the signs of sociopathy?

**** The woman in charge of the orphanage Tom was at may not have had the training to make a formal diagnosis, but still quite accurately pegged Tom as a sadistic, twisted child who had the potential to be quite dangerous later in life. Unfortunately, Dumbledore paid no attention to her.

** Smaller scale of course, but Cho Chang gets a lot of flack for using Harry to feel closer to Cedric, when anyone can see what the girl seriously needs is some grief counseling. She lost her boyfriend in a way that no one wants to talk about, and since Hogwarts doesn't believe in helpful things like counselors, Harry's the only game in town.

** Never mind Harry himself—ten years of neglect and abuse (which Dumbledore explicitly knows about but never bothers to stop), then an adolescence peppered with torture, being nearly murdered, witnessing several murders, etc. Plus a martyr complex. (They claim that most muggle science doesn't work on Hogwarts campus. Apparently, that applies to psychology as well.)