New List: Moments of Love

[bethcurrie2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 68320

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ivan Vablatsky 
<ibotsjfvxfst at y...> wrote:
I'd like to start a new list naming moments when you felt you'd like 
to run into the book and hug the character, and say to 
him/her, "That was wonderful. I love you!" 

Now me:
Great list idea!

One of my top "love/hug" moments is in PoA when Buckbeak is due to 
be executed.  I just want to give Hagrid the biggest hug and tell 
him it will be ok and Beaky will get away.  This bit in particular 
gets me, when HRH go to see him just before the execution party are 
due:

"Hagrid was not crying, nor did he throw himself upon their necks.  
He looked like a man who did not know where he was or what to do. 
This helplessness was worse to watch than tears."

That's a man that needs a hug!  I think I find Hagrid's love for 
Buckbeak particularly moving as I have two dogs I am stupidly 
devoted to...imagining how I would feel if they were in Buckbeak's 
position just makes me fill up with love & sympathy for Hagrid.

Beth, getting *way* too emotional over a Hippogriff