What is the single best scene in the HP series?

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25630

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., justanopinion2001 at h... wrote:
> I was wondering which single scene out of the Harry Potter series 
you 
> think is the best?  In other words, if you were trying to convince 
> someone (who has read the books) that the series is really 
something 
> special, which one scene would you direct them to?
> 
> 

I know a lot of people have problems with the climatic scene in GoF 
("Mad, am I?"), but I'd have to point to that as a favorite.  Maybe 
some small things could have been done better, but the scene really 
worked for me.  

First, in a blink, we go from Harry and Cedric about to win the 
tournament to being in mortal danger.  Harry's situation gets 
progressively worse, and we start to wonder how on earth JKR is 
getting him out of this one and whether the next book will be "Harry 
Potter and the Burial Plot".  Then, she starts pulling out plot 
devices she's nurtured hundreds of pages ago.  And just when we start 
to relax, Harry is in mortal danger again, this time by Moody.  Then 
we get a parade of meaningful cameo appearances by favorite 
characters, and everyone gets into the act (Sirus, Snape, McGonnagal, 
Molly).  It is one of the longest, most tense climaxes I've read in a 
good long while.  If you're going to make people wade through 700+ 
pages, you have to deliver a darn good climax, and JKR really does.

Cindy
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"As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come . . . and he would 
have to meet it when it did."  GoF, p. 734.