Harry and "I Love You" (was: Who is the boy?/ Harry's Funeral)

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 54221

Nobody's rib wrote: 
> My turn:
>Hermione saying it first makes sense, but that could also cause 
>some problems.  Like Ron getting jealous.  Or Harry not being sure 
>how to interpret the words (he is a teenager, after all).  I'd hate 
>for this moment to get entangled with petty emotionalities.

>So here's another candidate.  I hope that the first time he hears 
>it is from a parental-figure: Hagrid.  While Hermione is the first 
>to kiss him (on the cheek), Hagrid is the first person to reach out 
>to him in general (that he remembers.)  Hagrid takes him away from 
>the Dursleys, buys him his first (real) birthday present, tells him 
>about his magic status, tells him about his parents...  Hagrid 
>swooped in and rescued baby Harry from the rubble, eleven years 
>later he swooped in again, and he has remained a close friend and 
>confidant.  I think "I love you, Harry" coming from Hagrid would be 
>especially weighty.  (And it's not like Hagrid is especially good 
>at keeping his emotions hidden.  He might say it in passing, but he 
>could also burst into tears and wrap Harry up in a big bear hug, 
>which enables Harry -  ie The Boy Who Hardly Cries - to hear the 
>words and let their full impact sink in without being seen by the 
>world while he does so.)
 
>(Oh no! I just pictured Hagrid saying it... right before he tumbles 
>to his grisly death, and I'm reaching out for one of Greicy's 
>tissues.  No fair for Harry to finally hear these words but then 
>have them tangled up with grief and guilt.)



YES!  Hagrid, Harry's "hero" in a way, would be more than perfect to 
be the first person to tell him I love you, for the reasons you 
stated.  And it would be perfect in OoP being that Hagrid is a 
candidate for death, making it dramatic.  Making it not only the 
first person to rescue Harry from the rubbles of Godric Hollow and 
Dursleys and his first friend, but the first to say I LOVE YOU and 
the first to die, as well.  Oh no!  This I love you stuff makes 
Hagrid dying in OoP even more sense!  (joins Nobody's Rib in taking 
a tissue!)

And yes Hermione telling Harry she loves him would make Ron jealous 
making him think that again, Harry gets "everything".  Uh I see 
another rift coming if this happens.

Greicy