OOP Tear Jerking Moments in the Series

[Melinda Leydon]

No: HPFGUIDX 66741


> 
> * SS/PS: Neville gets the points to put Gryffindor over the top. I
> confess to a touch of movie poisoning here, as the young man
playing 
> Neville played the shock very well, but even the first time I read
> SS, this got to me. I'm a sucker for a kid who hasn't done anything
> right being the hero at the end. Gets me every time.
> 
> * CoS: You Solved It! You Solved It! The film ruined this moment,
but 
> just the image of Hermione racing to the boys, giving them the
> highest praise that she, as a 12-year-old girl, knows how to give
at 
> the time, touches me.
> 
> * PoA: Harry finally accepts Sirius as an innocent man. The "you
fly 
> as well as your father ever did" gets me every time too. I've been
> dreaming about how Gary Oldman is going to deliver that line.
> 
> * GoF: Harry nearly breaks down completely on Molly's shoulder.
I've 
> been dogging Molly really bad lately, but it's mainly because I
> remember the woman who just seemed so perfect in this scene.
> 
> Darrin
> -- Gawrsh. Anyone got any tissue?



ME:  Now, mind you I cry at Hallmark commercials (pathetic, I know) and have
more tear jerking moments in these book than I can remember, mostly POA (and
the movie better not ruin that book!)  So, here were a few:

SS: Harry sitting with Hagrid eating a burger, trying to put the words
together on why everyone thinks he's special and worrying about whether he's
up to Hogwarts.
Harry's deepest desire in the Mirror of Erised being his family and having
his mother staring at him, smiling but crying.
Hagrid's gift of the photo album with all the pictures of Harry's parents
because he knew Harry didn't have any.  This was such a thoughtful thing to
do

POA:  "He killed my Mum and Dad" as little 13 year old Harry forgets he's a
wizard and runs at full grown Sirius across the room, using his fists, not
magic.
When Harry is standing in Lupin's office talking about the dementors at the
Quidditch game and he says, "When they get near me, I can hear Voldemort
murdering my mum"
Harry trapped under the table in the pub listening to how Sirius betrayed
his parents, and later when they get back to the dorm and he sits in his bed
looking at the same photo album Hagrid gave him.
When Dumbledore is talking to Harry about his stag Patronus and how the dead
we have loved never truly leave us.  Harry's father showed himself most
clearly when Harry had great need of him.

GOF:  It's been mentioned before, but that scene in the hospital when Harry
nearly breaks down on Mrs. Weasley's shoulder gets me every time.
The entire graveyard scene, I still find it so distrubing.

OOP:  At Christmas when it's learned Mr. Weasly will be okay and everyone
goes upstairs for a sleep.  Harry sits up keeping himself deliberately
uncomfortable because he's afraid to go back to sleep.
The Easter egg scene with Ginny really touched me in this one.
Sirius.  I did cry for Sirius because it seemed so unfair, what a wasted
life.  I can picture in my head a grieving Lupin trying to control a
panicking Harry and Harry screaming for Sirius "as if his life depended on
it"
Back in DD office when Harry is throwing things and yelling He's had enough,
he's seen enough"
Harry grieving alone in the bushes by the lake.  This more than anything
else really bothers me.  This book left me kind of cold and down.  Stunned
as if someone really has died and I'm having trouble taking it all in.  The
1-2 year wait for book 6 is going to be agony.

Melinda


Melinda