Oh well, seeing as how a discussion has opened and I love to stick my two penneth in…
I agree, when you have a real down on yourself, every little mistake you make gets blown out of proportion, you have endless sleepless nights worrying over silly things that anyone else would have already forgotten about, you become convinced that you are the worst person in the world and everyone hates you for some stupid little mistake and it's just one big downwards spiral until you're the lowest of the low and you can see no way out. Sometimes it's the little niggly things that do the harm, because nobody else knows what you're stewing about and you put masks up to hide it, with bigger things people can see it coming and try to help you out of the funk, like Draco did with Harry in the last chapter.
For point 2, Hermione might have meant well, but she might as well have kicked Harry in the chest and then jumped up and down on him, she was responsible for putting him on the verge of breakdown, even if it was unintentional, and she destroyed his fragile self belief and she destroyed if trust in her.
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I agree, when you have a real down on yourself, every little mistake you make gets blown out of proportion, you have endless sleepless nights worrying over silly things that anyone else would have already forgotten about, you become convinced that you are the worst person in the world and everyone hates you for some stupid little mistake and it's just one big downwards spiral until you're the lowest of the low and you can see no way out. Sometimes it's the little niggly things that do the harm, because nobody else knows what you're stewing about and you put masks up to hide it, with bigger things people can see it coming and try to help you out of the funk, like Draco did with Harry in the last chapter.
For point 2, Hermione might have meant well, but she might as well have kicked Harry in the chest and then jumped up and down on him, she was responsible for putting him on the verge of breakdown, even if it was unintentional, and she destroyed his fragile self belief and she destroyed if trust in her.