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

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 54227


 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.  
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 Greicy wrote
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. 
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Hello all, Fred waldrop here
While I think it would be great for Hagrid to tell harry he loves him 
or Hermione for that matter, I think of one other that would be 
better. 
(Page 714 GoF, US) "Mrs Weasley set the potion down on the bed side 
cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry. He had no memory 
of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother." 
Yes, my candidate is, Molly Weasley, someone he now considers 
a "mother figure".
(A side note, page 700, GoF), "I'm alright", he told them, "just 
tired." "Mrs Weasley's eyes filled with tears as she smooth his bed 
covers unnecessarily."
There have been so many people that have already shown Harry they 
love him, as he has shown them he loves them also. But, Mrs. Weasley 
is the first he has looked at as family, a mother figure.

Fred