What is the single best scene in the HP series?

[Gwyneth]

No: HPFGUIDX 25719

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., magpie1112 at y... wrote:
> --- 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?  
> 
> Hmmm, I'd like to break this down into three types:
> 
> 1)  A reason to recommend the series to someone who hasn't read the 
> books yet:
> 
> I'd talk about a favorite scene that happened in an earlier book 
(or 
> rather, the first book) - in SS/PS, the scene where Harry keeps 
> getting letters from Hogwarts and the Dursley's keep denying and 
> denying him until *Boom!* Hagrid shows up!  I always do a 
> mental "Yay!" everytime I read it.  
> 
> 2)  My favorite scene overall:
> 
> When Dumbledore gathers everyone together at the end of GoF and 
> starts to prepare for what's coming.  Snape and Sirius shake 
hands!  
> We find out that Mrs. Figg is part of "the old crowd"!  Hagrid and 
> Madame Maxim get sent out as envoys!  We hear Lupin's name 
> mentioned!  Talk about getting fired up!
> 
> 3)  The scene that has now become my personal wish list:
> 
> The prefects bathroom in GoF - "It was softly lit by a splendid 
> candle-filled chandelier, and everything was made of white marble, 
> including what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming 
> pool....About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pool's 
> edges, each with a differently colored jewel in its handle....He 
> could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble 
> bath...."  I've wanted one of those ever since I read the 
> description!!!
> 
> 
> Denise (who just has to learn to accept her standard bathtub)


My favorite scene:  in CoS, When Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart 
return from the chamber of secrets and barge heroically into 
McGonagall's office, covered in muck and slime and (in Harry's case) 
blood.

I also like the following chapters from Goblet of Fire:  Veritaserum, 
Parting of Ways, and The Beginning.

oh, and any with the Centaurs.

OOO..and all of Dumbledore's wise-old-mentor thing.