[HPforGrownups] Re: This moment

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 175457

Mike:
Oh, this one is easy, especially since it's a character I not only didn't
identify with but actually didn't like at all. The fact that Kreacher could
actually aid and abet LV through Narcissa against Sirius and Harry, adore
Bellatrix, try to help Draco, and generally revile Harry and the good
guys... well, let's just say I agreed with Sirius, my favorite character,
Kreacher was a Toerag.

When Harry sent him on his mission to find Dung, I wasn't yet convinced
Kreacher was a changed elf. But he won me over and gave me first and loudest
LOL moment when, holding that ludicrous copper pan he turns to Harry and
says:

"Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?"  (DH p.221, US ed)

Admit it, Kreacher suddenly became likeable just then, didn't he? :D





Sherry now:
Oh yes, Mike, this was one of those moments for me too!  I've been waiting
to jump in on this thread, trying to find a moment nobody else had
mentioned, but I just had to say something about this.  Sirius is my
favorite character after Harry, so I never thought anything could make me
sympathetic to Kreacher or make me even like him, but this did!  I was
crying as he told his story to Harry, and the thing with the copper pan just
made me laugh and cheer.  How JKR could make me sympathize with someone I
blamed so much for Sirius' death is amazing.

Another such moment was right before Snape's death.  I have never liked
Snape, never sympathized with him in any of the previous books except in one
scene.  But when I realized that Voldemort was going to kill him, the person
he considered his right-hand man and most faithful servant, I was struck
speechless for a second and then began swearing violently!  This was before
we saw Snape's memories, and though I'd long suspected that JKR was going to
redeem Snape somehow, I was still shocked and sickened at Voldemort's cold,
almost careless, way of disposing of someone he considered so faithful.  

Sherry