Did Harry ever shed tears ?

[njelliot2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 80574

--- 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. 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. Sue B

I reckon he has but you have to read between the lines because JKR 
won't share Harry's crying feelings with us. There's a reference in 
OoP (I think) to Harry coming back from having sat out by the lake 
till it got dark 'wiping his face? eyes?' on his sleeve. I don't have 
the books with me, I'm just leaving work, but I'll look them up later 
tonight. 
Nicholas