This moment

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 175291

Potioncat:
> 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.

Jen: Now I'm curious to read yours, Potioncat.:)  Has it already been 
mentioned?  Several of mine have been, Dobby's death for one.  His 
actual death was incredibly sad to read: "And then with a shudder the 
elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great 
glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see." 
(chap. 23)  Poor Dobby.  He always warmed my heart, same as I felt 
toward Neville and Luna, because all three were characters with 
heartbreaking stories who didn't whine or complain but just pitched 
in and did what needed to be done. I admire that. 

Oh, and before I leave Dobby, the fact that they dressed him before 
burying him *sniff*....I also identified with Harry as becoming very 
clear about his path after losing Dobby, sort of a last honor to 
Dobby.

My most surprising identification was with Snape when he was crying 
like a 'wounded animal' after Lily died.  I didn't know he had that 
in him from how he was portrayed in earlier books.  

One story I truly believed would happen and didn't was Harry 
discovering his nature was more like Lily's from hearing about her 
life, *her* life, unconnected to Snape's or her husband's or her 
sister's...and not hearing it from Dumbledore in a Pensieve memory! 
Gah.  Harry never got to see her be her own person.  I suppose her 
role was Mom and the rest of her story was too intertwined with other 
characters to hear about separately. Sigh.

Thanks, Potioncat!

Jen