Tear-Jerking Moments in the Series -- Some OoP

[Marie Jadewalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 66856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Melissa Worcester" 
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> Melissa:
> Well, I haven't actually *cried* reading any of the HP books, but 
if I did, the moment that got me the most would be when Harry is 
going thru his trunk toward the end of the book and finds the package 
Sirius gave him "in case you need to contact me" or whatever. And 
Harry didn't want to get him into trouble, so he *never even opened 
it*! This is such an "if-only" moment. If only he'd realized it was 
there, he wouldn't have had to break into Umbridge's office to use 
her fire (though I was really impressed at how he figured out how to 
do that sticking-your-head-out-of-the-fire thing. I thought he'd just 
go all the way thru...). If only he'd have made more contact with 
Sirius, it would have made Sirius' last days happier, even if the 
final outcome couldn't have been changed. But, the biggest, if only 
he'd consulted with Sirius about the dreams, etc. and really 
listened, he may have helped him to see it was a trap and changed the 
whole outcome. 
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Now me:
I do sometimes cry at books, but like Melissa I hadn't cried at a 
Harry Potter book before.  (Although I think I came close when Harry 
first thought he was going to get to live with Sirius.)  In OOP, 
however, I started to cry when I was reading the ending aloud (over 
the phone, no less) when I came to the scenes with the mirror and 
Nick.  It's not so much Sirius's death I was crying for as it was 
Harry's grief.  He wanted so badly to find a way to see Sirius again, 
and that touched me.  It's often that way for me -- I don't cry when 
a character dies, but when someone else grieves.  For instance, in 
Little Women I always cry when Jo is missing Beth so badly, and in 
Anne's House of Dreams, her comments about not getting to see baby 
Joy grow up get me every time.  

~Marie