This moment

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No: HPFGUIDX 175458

Mike:
> <snip> 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!  <snip>  
> 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!  

SSSusan:
This was one of my favs, too, but definitely was THE fav for my 
children.  My 11-year-old daughter & I took turns reading aloud for 
the first 400+ pages, 'til we went our separate ways and paces with 
the book, and my 8-year-old son happened to be in the room when I got 
to this scene.  The two of them squealed in delight and were rolling 
around the bed, laughing.  It was priceless.


Sherry:
> 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.  

SSSusan:
Sherry, this is truly amazing to me.  In my mind, I think of you as 
one of the staunchest of staunch 'anti-Snape' members of our fair 
list.  You & I long ago agreed to disagree on him (except that he was 
without doubt a nasty git :)).  That you ended up with this reaction 
I think speaks volumes about JKR's ability to transform views for 
some folks with her writing.  I think that's just too cool.  

I ended up mentioning my This Moment in a different thread yesterday, 
but it follows shortly after your This Moment, Sherry.  It was the 
unfolding of Snape's memories for Harry and the realization of what 
he was giving to him.  As I said in that other thread:

With Snape giving Harry so much -- so much more than he 'had' to --
he gave Harry the full story, the truth, something that Harry had
been **craving** throughout the story. It's part of why Harry was
so angry with DD -- all those things DD did not share, did not show
or tell him about, the truth lacking parts of itself. But here was
Snape, of all people, giving Harry All Of It.

To me, it was a stunning moment, this gift of the full background,
this most difficult gift to give, revealing those things which had
been hidden from all to the person to whom it was most difficult to
allow to see. It was amazing.

Siriusly Snapey Susan