The character I pity the most

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No: HPFGUIDX 35468

I just started rereading GoF today (actually, I'm reading the British 
version for the first time).  I've reread the first three books 
(British versions), and I think I can safely say that the character I 
really feel sorry for is Frank Bryce.  Honestly, the war veteran who 
tried to prove his innocence (even tried to talk about Tom Riddle, 
Jr. being there that day, though he didn't know who he was), and all 
he gets for his trouble is ire from the village for the rest of his 
miserable life of gardening and loneliness, then gets killed by the 
man responsible for that lifetime of agony.

What really did it for me was two things, one was when he listened to 
Voldy and Pettigrew talking and got worried about their planning to 
murder someone, yet when they called him out (after Nagini saw him), 
he really stayed as brave as he could (I don't consider it cowardly 
to scream when you see baby Voldemort) and stood his ground.

The other really made my eyes fill with tears.  It was when Rowling 
described the children of Little Hangleton breaking the windows and 
breaking into the house...and the kids being amused at Frank limping 
over to them, shouting all the while, convinced they hated him so 
because they considered him a murderer.  Honestly, I was really upset 
when I read that (at the kids' maliciousness and at Frank's thoughts 
on why they did these terrible things to him).  That's fifty years' 
worth of solitude, resentment, and just giving up on others because 
of your own tarnished reputation.  Really almost made me cry.

Does anyone else see the tremendous pathos here?  Or was I just wound 
up today?

Devin, who can't believe he thought himself up another little 
character breakthrough at this stage of the game