Looking at Harry Potter’s childhood trauma and how it stayed with him as an adult
We all have some thing that happened to us as kids that has stayed with us into our adulthood but there is something about Harry Potter’s traumas that hit an emotional chord.
Harry Potter did not have an easy life, not by a long shot, but there are some things about him that are very accurate to how many of us are. Sometimes, our fears as adults are informed by something in our childhoods.
Whether it be clowns, snakes, spiders, or the dark, we all have those things that still give us the chills even as we’re older. For Harry Potter, he tells his son Albus that he’s afraid and while most everyone would think it’d have something to do with Voldemort or his trauma through Hogwarts, it’s even more emotional.
He tells Albus that he’s afraid of the dark and small spaces. While some people do not instantly recognize the significance, the line shows that Harry’s time with the Dursleys is, unfortunately, what has stayed with him the longest.
The dark and the small space he’s referring to? That’s the cupboard under the stairs that the Dursleys made him live in while he was growing up. With plenty of space and money to give Harry a happy childhood, they refused and threw him into their cupboard and made him cook and clean for them.
And while adult Harry has a lot to worry about on his plate, that fear and upset has never left him. Sure, he’s also afraid of pigeons but he still has the dark and small spaces on his list because of what they did to him and it’s absolutely heartbreaking.
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