This moment

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 175297

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
> 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.
<<<SNIP>>>

****Katie:

I already answered this, briefly, but I had to add a couple. 

1 - When Dumbledore asks Harry to forgive him in King's Cross. I was 
soooo angry with DD by that point, so confused as to his character, and 
really wondering if he was just a bad guy, plain and simple...and then 
MY DD came surging back. His self-loathing at his behavior, his 
complete respect and love for Harry - him calling Harry a "better man", 
and his tears. It really made me love him all over again, and this 
time, for who he *really* was. I felt, at that moment, like I knew the 
WHOLE Dumbledore, and I could really love him, instead of looking up to 
him. He became human to me in that moment and I loved it. 

I also loved that at the end of that conversation, his demons scourged, 
he turned into that silly Dumbledore who has always made me laugh, with 
the comment, "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but 
why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" I could just SEE 
his twinkle and his crooked nose, and it was just a perfect and 
satisfying moment for me.


2 - Narcissa. God, how I have hated that woman. Even in HBP, when we 
saw her love for Draco, I still hated her. But the last few scenes with 
her really touched me. The vision of her and Lucius calling desperately 
for Draco still gives me goosebumps, just because I was (and am!) so 
surprised to feel any kind of sympathy for those people. It was in the 
moments with Narcissa, Lucius, and Draco at the end, that I could 
really tell that Jo is a parent. That desperate, all-consuming passion 
for your child was never written better in these books than in those 
scenes. I even had some sympathy for Lucius...although not much. ;)


3 - I really sympathized with Snape in that first scene when he meets 
Lily and Petunia. I remember being the wierd kid that couldn't say the 
right thing to have people like me. I remember the frustration of 
trying, so hard, to seem "normal". It worked for me about as well as it 
worked for him. I think Jo must have been that kid, too. That scene was 
so real, it almost brought up my own long dead insecurities! She really 
knows how to write "the wierd kid."

Katie, having embraced her inner wierd kid and thoroughly enjoying the 
ride.