Seeing Harry as My Son

[Leeann McCullough]

I suppose I should post this on the movie list, but here goes. 
I am watching POA, for the umteenth time, the scene where Harry rides Buckbeak for the first time. As he takes off, my stomach did a kind of swooshing lurch and I find myself teary eyed. I don't know how many times I have seen that scene and read it in the book and had the same reaction. It just dawned on my why I react that way. I have fallen into the trap that JKR and director Couran have set for me;  I realize this. But I see this boy who has been repressed his entire life literaly flying free. I truly feel  happiness for him as I would for my own child.  I am the mother of 3 boys, so I guess I relate to them better. I see my own boys struggle with emotion. Anger and happiness are the easy ones, but there are so many in between. I try to teach them that they are all ok. No one can tell you how to feel, it's how you act on those feelings that is important. There is Harry, never allowed to express feelings or opinions while at Privit drive. Now at his age at Hogwarts has almost no boudaries. My heart is with this boy.
I just wanted to share my moment of mushy motherly love. Thanks for listenting.
Leeann

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