OOP: Crying, Neville, Sirius and various other non-related things

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 61411

This contains replies to emails on OT chatter but I took so long reading and replying that the list was back by the time I finished so I'll send it here instead if that's ok:

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Wendy wrote:
> > Did 'Order of the Phoenix' make you 
> > cry?  Vote for as many options that 
> > apply. 
> > 
> >   o I'm not a crying sort of person 
> >   o No, it wasn't that sad 
> >   o I cried at the death 
> >   o I cried at the last lines of Chapter 37 
> >   o I didn't cry about the plot, but I did when I realised that 
> >     I'd just finished a book I'd been waiting for for years 
> > 
> 
> SNIP
> "I didn't cry at the death or the end, but was moved to tears by 
> things earlier in the book"
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> Molly's encounter with the boggart
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> The scene where Harry overhears Moody and the others talking about 
> him when they're visiting Arthur in St. Mungo's (something about 
> them all knowing that there's something odd about that Potter boy). 
> That one REALLY got me - Harry'd already spent most of the book 
> fighting feelings of alienation, and then to overhear them talking 
> about him like that. Broke my heart.
> 

HOLLYDAZE reply:
The only other place where I cried other than the death was when Mrs Lestrange (I think it was her, I'm waiting on re-reading letting things sink in a bit first) tortured Neville, that bit really got to me. In fact I almost cried (not quite) at the way James and Sirius treated Snape which was a really weird experience as I don't like Snape. I think that might however have been related to a couple of things that happened to me at school (although they obviously didn't include me being hung upside down)

And linked to Neville Richelle  wrote:
> And finally, poor Neville. Am I the only one who cried when he put 
> the gum wrapper his mum gave him in his pocket? 
I didn't cry there but it was heart wrenching and the way his Gran reacted was just nasty, her "put the wrapper in the bin" comment and the way she acted toward Neville's parents was just nasty. And does anyone else thank the Drooble's best blowing gum wrappers might be significant in some way as his mum KEEPS giving them to him? I think his Nan said he had enough to wallpaper his room or something didn't she? or am I getting way out of hand with JK's clues now? Also one further Neville thing, in the first book it says that the hat took a long time (I think it was nearly a minute) to sort Neville, perhaps now we have inkling as to why.

Thankyou to whoever it was that pointed out that re-reading books 3 and 4 won't be the same ever again, I hadn't even thought about that and the moment I realised I almost burst out crying again! I do mean Thankyou by the way because I have a feeling that knowing Sirius's fate is going to make those two even more powerful, especially the SS in book 3 and especially Sirius's line "then you should have died, died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you" because that's kinda what he did isn't it? He died because he came to protect Harry. Or is this me being ridiculous?

HOLLYDAZE!!!

"No one's going to try and kill you until we've sorted a few things out," said Lupin.


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