Heartgrabbing moment

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 77540

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:

Winky:
>There have been lots of moments where my heart just hurts for 
>Harry but one particularly stands out and I don't know why.. 
>Its in OOTP when Snape is reading Harry's mind and one of his 
>memories is when he was 9 (or something) and his heart was bursting 
>with jealousy watching Dudders ride his bike! :(! Any other moments 
>like that?
> 
<snip> 

Marianne:
Heartgrabbers:
> There were 2 for me in OoP.  The first was right after Sirius' 
death 
> when Neville, legs still dancing, crawls his way down the stone 
> benches to Harry and asks, through his broken nose, if Sirius was a 
> friend of Harry's.  And, when Harry nods, Neville says, "I'm sorry."
> Here's this battered, hexed kid who's in way over his head dealing 
> with DEs, but who has the decency and empathy to ignore all that 
just 
> to say he's sorry.  
> 
> The second was the image of Harry sitting alone with his grief 
under 
> the tree by the lake.  

Me: 
I feel for Neville as well, but I have another episode in mind. It's 
the one when Harry learns about the state of Nevilles parents and 
what happened to them (at the end of GoF). It must have been 
traumatic for Harry to lose his parents, but if he had been raised by 
warm people who loved him, his life could have been nice anyway. 
Neville on the other hand has never had the opportunity to forget. 
His parents are still alive, but never there for him. He can't turn 
his back to the past and look forward. Every time he visits them he 
is reminded of what happened.

Marika