Edit: I just realized that Harry was probably abused almost every night (or day) for some significant period. There was a time turner involved, and that’s why his sleep cycle is off.
I don’t know about this, for a couple of reasons.
1) If there was a time turner involved, why do the issues with Harry’s sleep schedule persist even after he gets to Hogwarts and gains a time-turner of his own?
2) If someone spent a two-hour period of time abusing Harry and then time-turnering it away every day, wouldn’t he get tired two hours early nstead of two hours late? That is to say, wouldn’t his sleep cycle appear to be 22 hours instead of 26?
If there was a time turner involved, why do the issues with Harry’s sleep schedule persist even after he gets to Hogwarts and gains a time-turner of his own?
For the same reason his response persist even when the abuse no longer does: he’s been conditioned.
If someone spent a two-hour period of time abusing Harry and then time-turnering it away every day, wouldn’t he get tired two hours early nstead of two hours late? That is to say, wouldn’t his sleep cycle appear to be 22 hours instead of 26?
It goes the other way. See, while he was being abused for two hours a day that no one else experienced, he was experiencing 26 hour days when everyone else was experiencing 24 hour days. So his body adjusted to that.
It goes the other way. See, while he was being abused for two hours a day that no one else experienced, he was experiencing 26 hour days when everyone else was experiencing 24 hour days. So his body adjusted to that.
I’m having a little trouble making the timeline work out on this, since one wouldn’t be able to notice his sleep issues while the time-turner abusing was ongoing; it would be a consequence that appeared after the fact. It’s mentioned in chapter 2 that Harry was in school when he was seven; that could be argued as evidence that his sleep issues hadn’t quite manifested at that point, and that he’d been pulled out of school soon after, once they did.
But that still leaves a period of three or four years for Harry to readjust to 24 hour days. You’d think Harry and his parents would have at least tried some kind of therapy, if the issue was severe enough to pull him out of school, and in the absence of some kind of reinforcing factor, why wouldn’t said therapy at least have made some progress on the issue?
The story clearly states Harry’s explicit interest in not attending school, so he wouldn’t have tried anything to change his sleep pattern for that purpose, and I doubt by the age of 10 he’d found any other important reasons to motivate sleep pattern changing therapy.
I also doubt his parents’ preferences matter, here, and even if they did prefer he change his habits, I doubt they’d press him into therapy without his explicit, cooperative, interest.
I don’t know about this, for a couple of reasons.
1) If there was a time turner involved, why do the issues with Harry’s sleep schedule persist even after he gets to Hogwarts and gains a time-turner of his own?
2) If someone spent a two-hour period of time abusing Harry and then time-turnering it away every day, wouldn’t he get tired two hours early nstead of two hours late? That is to say, wouldn’t his sleep cycle appear to be 22 hours instead of 26?
For the same reason his response persist even when the abuse no longer does: he’s been conditioned.
It goes the other way. See, while he was being abused for two hours a day that no one else experienced, he was experiencing 26 hour days when everyone else was experiencing 24 hour days. So his body adjusted to that.
I’m having a little trouble making the timeline work out on this, since one wouldn’t be able to notice his sleep issues while the time-turner abusing was ongoing; it would be a consequence that appeared after the fact. It’s mentioned in chapter 2 that Harry was in school when he was seven; that could be argued as evidence that his sleep issues hadn’t quite manifested at that point, and that he’d been pulled out of school soon after, once they did.
But that still leaves a period of three or four years for Harry to readjust to 24 hour days. You’d think Harry and his parents would have at least tried some kind of therapy, if the issue was severe enough to pull him out of school, and in the absence of some kind of reinforcing factor, why wouldn’t said therapy at least have made some progress on the issue?
The story clearly states Harry’s explicit interest in not attending school, so he wouldn’t have tried anything to change his sleep pattern for that purpose, and I doubt by the age of 10 he’d found any other important reasons to motivate sleep pattern changing therapy.
I also doubt his parents’ preferences matter, here, and even if they did prefer he change his habits, I doubt they’d press him into therapy without his explicit, cooperative, interest.