Molly's touch (was: Lupin's touch)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 112558

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:

Mac: I absolutely agree. This scene was SO poignant that it 
> bought a tear to MY eye too.  

<snipped>

> So, by the time Molly's hug was offered, 
> when Harry's heart was in any case fit to burst in sorrow, it 
wasn't 
> unwelcome, it didn't mean nothing and it certainly wasn't 
> embarrassing. Why he wanted Ron to look away was because he didn't 
> want his mate to see him cry/vulnerable and/or to be jealous.

Geoff:
Speaking as another bloke and an English one at that, I'll wager that 
it was the former - he didn't want /anyone/ to see him crying and 
vulnerable. I don't think, from my own experience, that jealousy even 
entered into it.

It's that damned "boys don't cry" syndrome which is overtly or 
covertly hammered into us here in the UK......

Geoff
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