My most vivid (Tender) scene--

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 60757

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<thebasketfairy at y...> wrote:
> So many scenes stand out in all four books.  ...edteid..
> 
> 
> Katheen G.

bboy_mn:

This is a scene that has always stood out in my mind because it is
such a tender endearing scene, although actually a very minor scene.

The setup-

Hagrid and Harry have left Diagon Alley and are having a hamburger at
the train station.

. . . . .
He bought Harry a hamburger and they sat down on plastic seats to eat
them. Harry kept looking around. Everything looked so strange, somehow.

"You all right, Harry? Yer very quiet" said Hagrid.

[Comments: I can just picture this from Hagrid's eye. Giant Hagrid
looking down at this tiny little boy holding his hamburger with both
hands, staring at it, lost deep in thought.]

Harry wasn't sure he could explain. He's just had the best birthday of
his life -- and yet -- he chewed his hamburger trying to find the words. 

"Everyone thinks I"m special," he sid at last. "All those people in
the Leaky Cauldron, Professor Quirrel, Mr. Ollicander... but I don't
know anything about magic at all. How can they expect great things?
I'm famous and I can't even remember what I'm famous for. I don't know
what happned when Vol-, sorry -- I mean, the might my parents died."
. . . . . .

Poor Harry...

...sad, happy, confused, afraid, uncertain... They said he was a
wizard, but was he really? How could he be? But he was having lunch
with a giant, and had just seen the most amazing and wonderful place
in the world, so it must be true. But how could it be? And people
expected so much from him.

I can so vividly see little Harry sitting across from Hagrid as he
stared at his hamburger, full of doubt and uncertainty. I mean, it
just doesn't get any sweeter or more endearing than this.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn