My most vivid (Tender) scene--

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 60758

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thebasketfairy"
> <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


I think my most favorite (& vivid scene) that always sticks out in my 
mind is when Harry is talking with Dumbledore about his patronus & 
how he thought he saw his father on the other side of the lake.  
Dumbledore says something to the effect of:

"Do you think the dead that we loved ever really leave us?  They live 
on inside of us.  In a way you did see your father tonight Harry, you 
found him inside of yourself..."

Aah!  Even as I was writing it down I got chills and practically 
choked up.  (I'm a sucker for the mushy stuff...)  I think that's a 
wonderful thing that DD said to Harry.   I also love it when Harry 
sees his parents in the Mirror of Erised & when they come out of the 
wands at the end of GoF & (sort of) talk to him for the first time.

Brooke