This moment

doddiemoemoe doddiemoemoe at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 14 07:18:28 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 175358

 "potioncat" <willsonkmom@> 
> > 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*

I forgot a couple of moments which I thought was absolutely 
superb...Neville's gran showing up, moth eaten vulture hat on her 
head to join her granson to do her bit..(FINALLY...Gran gets on 
Neville's bus rather than Gran chiding Neville to get on his parents 
bus.)

Loved how she greeted Harry but didn't fawn over him...just headed 
out to meet Neville(grans true hero in her eyes and rightfully so).
(I refuse to delve into the whole Neville's boggart scene on this 
one)!

It makes one wonder what type of owl McConogal may have sent to 
Neville's gran in HBP (which was the last commentary we heard from 
Neville about his Gran)..

I also loved the fact that despite Luna's imprisonment and Ginny not 
returning to Hogwarts after the Easter Holidays that Neville still 
kept up the fight.(remember when he first went into hiding(not at 
home, but at Hogwarts no less) there was only one hammock in the 
ROR..perhaps it may have been the room more than harry that taught 
patronus charms to the DA..most likely a combo of both.

I had so many moments in the book with ALL the characters....all 
representing something in the end--hope, rebellion, freedom, 
redemption, forgiveness, grief, and understanding. It will take us 
longer to get to the understanding point I think(several hints at 
that--not sure if DD, ever got there, but we do know that Voldy 
never did)..I'm guessing that a few years from now, most will get 
what JKR was telling us. I think the fact that she had outlined said 
book shortly after she envisioned the story...yet she  never did 
tell her Mum about it before she passed had a massive impact upon 
the character development more than the story-hence the holes.  I 
imagine JKR shared more of herself in these series than she ever set 
out to do...simply makes sense when we look at REACTIONS 
to "significant deaths"..which could turn into a whole other post 
that I wouldn't tarnish this thread with.

Although I do have to add one more thing....when JKR first said Luna 
ended up with some naturalist...then reconsidered and thought well 
perhaps she ended up with Neville...I thought that Luna and Dean 
were a good match because they actually had something in common that 
was mentioned in the books...they were both good artists.(Dean 
making those banners...and Luna and her ceiling and 
all...*shrug*..not upset just saw a match that wasn't out of the 
blue or out of question....)    

Doddie
(who cannnot quite imagine Luna and Olivander imprisoned in the 
cellar--poor Ollie..he probably thought he was having 
illucinations....because the only thing he could hear was someone 
talking about gurdyroot infusions followed by gulping plimpie 
broth..inbetween the crucio curses he had to endure. )





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