The Easter Egg

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 73722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kim" <cherlouize at a...> wrote:
> > > 'She handed him a handsome choclate egg decorated with small, 
> iced 
> > Snitches 
> > > and, according to the packaging, containing a bag of Fizzing 
> > Whizbees. Harry 
> > > looked at it for a moment, then, to his horror, felt a hard 
lump 
> > rise in his 
> > > throat. 
> > > 
> > <SNIP>
> > > 
> > > "Yeah, I'm fine," said Harry gruffly. The lump in his throat 
was 
> > painful. He 
> > > did not understand why an Easter egg would have made him feel 
> like 
> > this.' 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > So...anyone have any thoughts? 
> > 
> > I had a couple of thoughts when I read that.  First, I think he 
was 
> > feeling overwhelmed by the love-of-family that was demonstrated 
in 
> > him being given the egg.  Secondly,  I think it could have 
reminded 
> > him of the egg from the second task in the Triwizard tournament.  
> > This could have, in turn, reminded him of Cedric & brought the 
> horror 
> > crashing back down upon him.  
> > pax,
> > Kim
> 
> Jennifer adds:
> I think it reminded him of the previous year, when Mrs. Weasley 
first 
> sent him an Easter egg.  That reminded him of family and in turn 
> family reminded him of Sirius, whom he considered the closest thing 
> he had to a parent. He didn't want to talk to Mrs. W, he wanted 
> his "parent."
> Jennifer

Ok, at first, I thought it was the Fizzing Whizbees that make him 
choke up, (just kidding) but then actually, I thought it was the 
snitches that reminded him of his father playing with the snitch 
which made him feel way too many different things (shame at making 
fun of Snape, confusion for how his mom got along with his dad, and 
the natural love of a prent-- which he no longer has, etc) and thus, 
is why when Ginny asked about him, that he brought up that he wanted 
to talk to Sirius-- about the incident in the pensieve.

Arya