My most vivid scene--

[Juliet]

No: HPFGUIDX 60725

Kathleen G.: 
>      "I don't want that gold," said Harry in an expressionless 
> voice.  "You have it.  Anyone can have it.  I shouldn't have won 
it.  
> It should've been Cedric's."
> 
>     The thing against which he had been fighting on and off ever 
> since he had come out of the maze was threatening to overpower 
him.  
> He could feel a burning, prickling feeling in the inner corners of 
> his eyes.  He blinked and stared up at the ceiling.
>      "It wasn't your fault, Harry."  Mrs. Weasley whispered.
>      "I told him to take the cup with me," said Harry.
>       Now the burning feeling was in his throat too.  He wished Ron 
> would look away.
>      Mrs. Weasley set the potion down on the bedside cabinet, bent 
> down, and put her arms around Harry.  He had no memory of ever 
being 
> hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of 
> everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as 
Mrs. 
> Weasley held him to her.  His mother's face, his father's voice, 
the 
> sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his 
head 
> until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face 
> against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him. (GOF)


Oh, man...this scene gets me every time.  *sniffle*
 

> It just really shows me why he is "the boy that lived." I enjoy 
that 
> Harry does that have to be humbled every other week like a lot of 
> famous adolescent boys.


My view on the scene has always been that this is one of those 
moments when Harry is (almost) dealing, emotionally, with everything- 
and it's definately not something he does often(only other instance I 
recall is the end of SS/PS, when Dumbledore tells Harry about his 
mother).  He just gets through it all, and...well, it's interesting 
to see someone's breaking points...

I've got the feeling we're going to see more of this in OotP.


Aldrea, who needs to re-read the series again but hasn't got the time!