OOP:Favorite Lines...

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 87548

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annabellejane97"
<annabellejane97 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arealin" <alina at d...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, PurpleBear1976 at a... wrote:
> > >fav lines thread
> > 
> > I know it's "a bit" late .....
> 
> Okay, my favorite is a bit late too, but I couldn't resist.
> 
> Like so many other HP fans, my favorite character is Lupin, so it
is 
> no surprise to me that my favorite line in OoP describes his 
> actions.  The line I love most appears in Chapter 36 -   "The
> Only One He Ever Feared."
> 
> Just after Sirius died, Lupin simultaneously tries to restrain 
> Harry, un-curse Neville and figure out how to find the others in 
> order to help them.  In doing so: 
> 
> "It sounded as though every word was causing him pain." 
> 
> For some bizarre reason, I think that is one of the most poignant 
> lines, not only in the book, but in the whole series.  

I'd have to agree, but the one that got me, earlier in the book,
was this:

"Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother
dropped an empty Drooble's Best Blowing Gum wrapper.

...Neville said quietly, 'Thanks, Mum.'...

'Neville, put that wrapper in the bin, she must have given you 
enough of them to paper your bedroom by now.'

But as they left, Harry was sure he saw Neville slip the sweet wrapper
into his pocket."

That last line always gets me. The image of Nevilles mom 
recognising him somewhere inside, and only able to express
it by giving him empty gum wrappers, and Neville carefully
saving each one is simply heartbreaking...

--Arcum