My most vivid scene--

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 60654

Nowadays I'm mostly a lurker, but I can't help resurfacing once in a 
while. Besides, I'm finding it hard to contain myself in my 
anticipation of Friday night-- yeah yeah me and the rest of the 
world. But instead of tantalizing myself with thoughts of OoP (now 
I'm slobbering!), I thought I'd take a look back at what scene(s) 
sparked the most vivid imaginings in the first four books.

I know that not everyone imagines the same way; some people hear 
voices, or see still images, or movies (well you know what I mean), 
but however you *do* it I'm curious as to what scenes stand out.

For me it's the scenes at the Burrow, and especially in GoF this 
passage in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes (p. 57 Brit. Edition)-- 

   "By seven o'clock, the two tables were groaning under dishes and 
dishes of Mrs Weasley's excellent cooking, and the nine Weasleys, 
Harry and Hermione were settling themselves down to eat beneath a 
clear, deep-blue sky.  To somebody who had been living on meals of 
increasinlgy stale cake all summer, this was paradise, and at first, 
Harry listened rather than talked, as he helped himself to chicken-
and-ham pie, boiled potatoes and salad."

It's not so much what is stated in this passage but what isn't-- the 
sweet smell of earth and grass (it must've rained earlier because 
it's quite damp and soft and suprisingly fresh in its stale 
pungency), the  green leaves of the tree, an oak, that tower above 
and lean over, the table drooping down and leaning so far that they 
scrap the stone house. 

Anyway here's a link to a picture of the Burrow that I drew which 
(although it's raining) I think sums up my feelings even if it 
doesn't show the back of the house and isn't very good.

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/myharrypotterpictures03/vwp?.dir
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Hmmm...so what else is vivid in the minds of us readers?

Let me (and everyone else) know.

Cheers,
Scott