[HPFGU-OTChatter] Favorite HP moments

[Iggy McSnurd]

> My votes:
> Favorite dramatic scene:

The battle in the MoM in OotP tops my list... from the point at which Lucius
Malfoy's voice is first heard, through the duel between Dumbledore and
Voldemort.  I couldn't put the book down for this part, since you had this
feeling through to the end that "something else is gonna happen..."

> Second runner-up:

The tension of the scene in the Shrieking Shack from PoA.  From the arrival
of Padfoot dragging Ron into the tunnel through to when everyone was heading
out of the shack.  This scene actually held more drama, IMHO, than even most
of the rest of the book.  You were finally going to find out what really
happened, and still needed to figgure out for yourself who was really
telling the truth.

> Favorite comic scene:  Fred/George swamp scene and departure (OoP)

I think I'd have to agree with this one...  I think the only thing I see
that comes close is the events following when the teachers at Hogwarts
proceed to help "dismantle" Umbridge in the most polite ways imaginable.

For a "quick shot" description, my all time favorite is the image of Peeves
chasing Umbridge from the school grounds while alternately whacking her with
McGonagall's walking stick, and a sock full of chalk...

>
> Favorite Tear-jerking scene:  Harry being hugged by Molly Weasley
>                     at the end of GoF ("He had no memory of ever
>                     being hugged like this, as though by a mother.")
>                     <sniff>
>

For me, it would be either that, or the short scene when Harry realizes that
his Patronus is, in essence, his own father.  (It's the knowledge that, in
one way or another, his father is still there to protect him just as his
mother is.)



Which brings me to an interesting point.

Everyone keeps dwelling on the fact that Lilly's love for Harry protects him
from Lord Voldemort through the ancient magics... But nobody seems to
recognize that James protects Harry almost as much, by shielding him from
the Dementors as Harry's Patronus.  Both give love just as strongly, even
after death, but their forms of protection differ.  Lilly shields him with
love... James shields him with courage.


Just a thought.

Iggy McSnurd