[HPforGrownups] Harry does cry Re: Of Sorting and Snape

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 175707

lizzyben04@:
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>And despite all his traumas, Harry is never allowed, once, to cry. Ever.

 Va32h:
 
>I have to disagree with you there.
 
>In PS, Dumbledore tells Harry how his mother's love protected him so 
>that Quirrel could not bear to touch him: "It was agony to touch a 
>person marked by something so good."
 
>Then, Dumbledore pretended to be very interested in a bird outside 
>the window "which gave Harry time to dry his eyes on the sheet."
 
>In GoF, when Harry is telling Dumbledore about what happened in the 
>graveyard, there comes a time when he "found his throat obstructed" 
>which requires more interpretation on our parts but which I consider 
 >choking back tears. 
 
>In OoTP, after hearing the prophecy, Harry spends an afternoon 
>walking around the lake, avoiding everybody and mourning Sirius. At 
 >the end of his reverie, he returns to castle "wiping his face on his 
>sleeve as he went."
 
 >In HBP, when talking to the other professors after Dumbledore's 
>death, he starts to say that the students should be allowed to stay 
>at school to say goodbye, but "the last word caught in his throat." 
 >Again, an interpretation, but I'd at least grant him "choked up" on 
>that one. 
 
 >And of course, in Deathly Hallows, Harry very clearly cries at his 
>parents' graves. 
 
>So perhaps three clear instances and two vague allusions to crying 
>over the course of 7 years and umpteen traumatic experiences isn't 
>much, but Harry *does* cry. He would just prefer not to, and 
>certainly not to do it in front of others. 
 
>I have to wonder what kind of response Baby Harry received from the 
>Dursleys, when he cried in those first few weeks at Privet Drive? I 
>would guess that Harry learned at a very early age not to cry. 

I have an example to add from GOF -- this scene broke my heart and it marked the first time I cried while reading a HP book...and it helps answer the question you pose in your last paragraph.

You asked us all for "our moment" from DH -- this would be my "first moment" within the series.

[Harry is in the infirmary, and Fudge has left the Tri-Wizard winnings for him.  Harry tells Molly that he doesn't want the gold, that he "shouldn't have won it.  It should've been Cedric's."]

The thing against which he had been fighting on and off ever since he had come out the maze was threatening to overpower him. He could feel a burning, prickling feeling in the inner corners of his eyes.  He blinked and stared up at the ceiling.

"It wasn't your fault, Harry," Mrs. Weasley whispered.

"I told him to take the cup with me," said Harry.

Now the burning feeling was in his throat too.  He wished Ron would look away.

Mrs. Weasley set the potion down on the beside cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry.  He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother.  The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her.  His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.

p. 714

Christy, who, if she were Molly, would have never let Harry go after this scene

       
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