My most vivid scene--

melindaleo2000 melindaleo at msn.com
Tue Jun 17 17:13:33 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 60740

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Juliet" 
<lilpurplealdy at n...> wrote:
> 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!

This is easily my most vivid scene too.  I've read and re-read that 
passage so many times.  I find I actually get irritated with 
Hermione for interrupting it as I think Harry so needs to get some 
of that pain out and he never seems to deal with his emotions at 
all.  I loved Mrs. Weasley so very much in this scene for offering 
him the only bit of comfort I think anyone ever has.  I really hope 
that OoP begins with how he handling some of these emotions 
and the trauma of what he experienced.  I would imagine that the 
Dursleys, sensing weakness, would be pecking at him even 
more than usual.  Harry, who sometimes has trouble controlling 
his anger anyway, would be more easily set off.  We saw this at 
the end of GOF, with his anger towards Malfoy both at the feast 
and on the train.  I would think, that some of the emotion he 
keeps inside would burst out in anger at the Dursleys and be 
making for a rough summer anyway.  I couldn't really tell from the 
ending if he even shared with Ron and Hermione all that 
happened in the graveyard, if he even could.

The other scene that comes to mind is in POA in Hogsmeade 
when Harry, under the table, overhears all about Sirius and his 
parents.  Back at school, Harry basically hides from R & H 
(pretending to be asleep to Ron) rather than sharing any 
emotion with them although they obviously realize he's upset.

Melinda ( a newbie who has been lurking for a while, so glad to 
have found something to help pass the time!  This last week is 
doing me in!)







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