This moment

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 175260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
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> 
> 
> Is there a moment in DH where you really identify with a 
character, or 
> the character's situation? It doesn't even have to be a character 
you 
> generally identify with---just a moment that particularly speaks 
to you.
> 
> Potioncat, who will post her moment later, and who is creating 
light- 
> weight threads because she doesn't have the intellectual energy at 
the 
> moment to join in with the heavier ones, but is reading them with 
great 
> enjoyment.
>

Katie added:
2 - I also really loved Harry's burial of Dobby. As someone who has
lost many loved ones, including friends, I was so affected by
Harry's grief in that scene. It really got me. His digging of the
grave with his own two hands, instead of magically, was such a Harry
kind of thing to do, and it made me love him even more. I also felt
Harry understood, for the first time, that Dobby wasn't a joke or a
pet, but a brave and loyal friend. It was just a beautifully written
scene, and one of my favorites in the whole series.

Shirley:
Yes, the whole bit of Dobby's death and Harry burying him 'non-
magically' really, really hit me.  Same reason, I expect - I've lost 
a lot of people, and giving himself the opportunity to grieve and do 
something for his friend, Dobby...  Well, let's just stay I had to 
stop and sob during this scene - every time I've read it and/or 
listened to it.

Something else that struck me was Neville.  I know there's a bit of 
contamination from that "other medium" (i.e. OotP on film) making 
him the one that found the Room of Requirement, but it seems like 
total foreshadowing of part of Neville's part in this book.  When 
Seamus says that "Neville really gets this room" - I made that 
connection when I heard it in the audiobook, even though I'd already 
read the book twice.  

But, aside from that odd little observation, I also had this "aHA" 
moment (while listening) of perhaps another reason that Snape was so 
horrible to Neville during the entire series:  If Voldemort had only 
gone after Neville (the other child born as the seventh month died) 
instead of Harry after he heard the prophecy, then Lily would have 
lived (presumably).  So perhaps every time he looks at Neville, he 
thinks of what might have been.  Logically, he shouldn't blame 
Neville for that, but emotions are rarely logical.  I don't know 
why, but for some reason this thought has really stuck with me.

Shirley, who is also at work, and should now get back to it...