You know, I can actually apreciate the fact that you openly say what you don't like about lomonaaeren's story, and I believe she will too.
If you don't mind me bucking in, I'll have to tell that at the beginning I also felt that Harry had problems and I consequently had trouble accepting his personae. Later on however, it became obvious what Harry's problem was.
However, your opinion on the problems that led to Harry developing MPD (and this is not exactly MPD, as in MPD the resulting persons(e) are mostly involuntary, brought about by the subconscious for fill in the desperate need for some quality or other, and more often than not the dominant persona has no idea about the existence of the other(s) and even if it does, it has little to no control over it, so this is not MPD, and is why the spells designed for detecting MPD failed) I find flawed.
You see while in depression - and by the description I assume Harry was in one after the war which is also normal after such an emotion-high and the end of a significant moment of one's life - those small things that a non-depressed person would never have problems with become a big thing. Guilt (and even self-created failings and guilt) are typical for depressed patients and they really wreck them apart. So I had no trouble seeing Harry in that condition. It also fits in with the panic attacks and all things that were revealed so far of him - his desperate struggle for the perfection of his personae, his conviction that they are better that Harry, his need to keep Harry sealed so that he doesn't fail people again. I agree that this is a weird and unique way to get out of depression and it is not really a true get out; it's more like going around it and having it trailing just behind, which led to the Pensieve incident. It is/will be Draco and his support, his insistence that real Harry is worth it that would ultimately help Harry, as I see it.
I hope you'll give the story another chance and maybe consider Harry through another angle, but after all, it's your choice. One of the reasons I like lomonaaeren's works is that she has quite good grasp of psychology and human nature and motives.
Still, feel free to tell me more on your own view about what didn't work for you.
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If you don't mind me bucking in, I'll have to tell that at the beginning I also felt that Harry had problems and I consequently had trouble accepting his personae. Later on however, it became obvious what Harry's problem was.
However, your opinion on the problems that led to Harry developing MPD (and this is not exactly MPD, as in MPD the resulting persons(e) are mostly involuntary, brought about by the subconscious for fill in the desperate need for some quality or other, and more often than not the dominant persona has no idea about the existence of the other(s) and even if it does, it has little to no control over it, so this is not MPD, and is why the spells designed for detecting MPD failed) I find flawed.
You see while in depression - and by the description I assume Harry was in one after the war which is also normal after such an emotion-high and the end of a significant moment of one's life - those small things that a non-depressed person would never have problems with become a big thing. Guilt (and even self-created failings and guilt) are typical for depressed patients and they really wreck them apart. So I had no trouble seeing Harry in that condition. It also fits in with the panic attacks and all things that were revealed so far of him - his desperate struggle for the perfection of his personae, his conviction that they are better that Harry, his need to keep Harry sealed so that he doesn't fail people again. I agree that this is a weird and unique way to get out of depression and it is not really a true get out; it's more like going around it and having it trailing just behind, which led to the Pensieve incident. It is/will be Draco and his support, his insistence that real Harry is worth it that would ultimately help Harry, as I see it.
I hope you'll give the story another chance and maybe consider Harry through another angle, but after all, it's your choice. One of the reasons I like
Still, feel free to tell me more on your own view about what didn't work for you.