[HPforGrownups] What was the saddest scene for you?

[Pam Hugonnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 23905



r_e_d_queen at yahoo.com wrote:

> How about you guys? Any misty moments while reading the books that
> you care to admit?
>
> Red Queen
>
> P.S. Like Kelly, I too have noticed that JKR knows how to throw in
> a timely diversion to keep things from getting too sappy. Just
> another piece of her genius.
>
>

    For me, the scene that always gets me is the Leaving Feast in GOF,
when Dumbledore speaks of Cedric:

                ...Remember Cedric.  Remember, if the time should come
when you have to make a choice beetween what is
                   right and what is easy, remember what happened to a
boy who was good, and kind and brave, because
                   he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.
Remember Cedric Diggory.


That speech really brings home the senselessness and randomness and
terrible waste of  Cedric's murder.  I tear up even typing this...

drpam


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