Did Harry ever shed tears ?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 80567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" 
<greatraven at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "samnanya" <yswahl at s...> 
wrote:
> > My pensieve sprung a leak and a couple of stray thoughts snuck 
> out ...
> > 
> > Does anyone remember an instance where Harry actually shed tears 
in 
> > any of the books ? Even DD did, but no memory of Harry doing so.
> > 
> Ooh, I am SO glad someone has brought up this one. No, I don't 
think 
> he ever did. And this is a shame, because he badly needs to. The 
> closest he ever got was at the end of GoF, when Mrs Weasley hugs 
him 
> and I think he was about to, but they were interrupted. 


Geoff:
I must admit that I've always read this as Harry beginning to cry 
before Hermione slams yhe window.


Sue B:
> I don't think 
> this is a coincidence. Harry is going to get more and more stressed 
> out until he can finally cry (hopefully before someone tells him 
that 
> big boys don't). His anger would have been a lot less in OoP if 
he'd 
> been able to have that cry at the end of GoF. And now he's lost 
> Sirius and still he hasn't been able to let out his grief in a 
great 
> howl. Pity, that, but probably essential to the plot. 


Geoff:
I suspect that he already subscribes to the "big boys don't cry" 
club. After ten years of the Dursleys TLC and the problems of Dudley 
and his gang of thugs, I think Harry had alreayd learned to bottle up 
his feelings.

As I've said before, it's that wretched English habit. I caught it 
when I was a kid. I remember being totally unable to cry when my 
mother died twenty years ago and feeling there was something wrong 
with me until a friend (sensibly a female who didn't have the 
syndrome) helped me to close the matter.