Excellent point. JKR knew by the time she wrote OotP that she wasn't just writing for children. If you go with the premise that she "grew the books up" with the characters, she had to understand that her readership was growing up as well. By 17 or 18, the readers should be able to grasp the concept of the horrors of war and its aftermath, however, she took the easy way out.
All was well, indeed! My husband suffers from PTSD because of the Persian Gulf and other events from his time in the Navy. He's been retired for 13 years, and he still has nightmares, he still thrashes around and cries out in his sleep, and that's after two stays in a psychiatric hospital to deal with it.
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Date: 2008-02-02 04:28 pm (UTC)All was well, indeed! My husband suffers from PTSD because of the Persian Gulf and other events from his time in the Navy. He's been retired for 13 years, and he still has nightmares, he still thrashes around and cries out in his sleep, and that's after two stays in a psychiatric hospital to deal with it.