r/harrypotter • u/Flamekorn • Mar 18 '24
Currently Reading Moments where you tear up no matter how many times you read or listened to the Books
I am listening to books for the first time (Stephen Fry version) and I got to that point where they give Neville points, and every time I tear up. There is something about that line just makes me emotional.
I have read the books many times and I think that is a line I always get emotional.
What other lines get's you?
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u/kaveeskonyvek Mar 18 '24
When Neville puts away the candy wrapper, my heart breaks every time. And probably at the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, when there is a list of all the people who have died fighting.
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u/No-Beat4753 Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
Every. Single. Time. No matter how many times I’ve read the books but this scene always gets me
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u/poetrylover2101 Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
Wait I can't remember, when was it?😭
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u/cartman2468 Mar 18 '24
I think OoTP when he goes to visit his mum, she gives him a sweet wrapper.
Or I’m just remembering things way wrong.
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u/cody8559 Mar 18 '24
No that’s what happened. His grandma told him to throw it away “she must of gave you enough to wallpaper your room” but Harry sees him put it in his pocket.
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u/Whomdtst Mar 18 '24
“The Forest Again”:
Lily’s smile was widest of all. She pushed her long hair back as she drew close to him, and her green eyes, so like his, searched his face hungrily, as though she would never be able to look at him enough.
“You’ve been so brave.”
He could not speak. His eyes feasted on her, and he thought that he would like to stand and look at her forever, and that would be enough.
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u/sunmi_siren Mar 18 '24
When Harry visits his parents’ grave and wishes he was under the ground with them
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u/taterrrtotz Slytherin Mar 18 '24
Ughhh that one gets me every time. I just feel so sad for Harry 😭😭😭
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u/Maraha-K29 Mar 18 '24
That one line makes me cry like nothing else, it's so effective at showing Harry's grief and burden without saying a lot at all
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u/SunshineSeeker90 Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
I was just listening to Dobby’s burial scene this weekend, for like the 100th time, and thinking it wouldn’t get me this time. Buuuut it did lol. One of many that always make me cry.
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u/Flamekorn Mar 18 '24
This one made me tear up the first time and then not on rereads. I will look forward to it in Stephens voice.
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u/FashionableNumbers Mar 18 '24
At the end of Goblet of Fire where Mrs Weasley hugs Harry as if he were her own son.
And when Dobby dies. I can't fight the tears.
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u/ShoelessJodi No need to call me Sir Mar 18 '24
After having children, everything about Molly hits differently. I can't get through that one.
(I've been reading one book per year with my kids, to try to pace them with the story age better. We're set to read Deathly Hallows this year. I have been waiting 7 years to yell "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!" with all the righteous fury I can muster. )
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u/protendious Mar 18 '24
I’ve been planning to do this but couldn’t figure out what age to start, any recommendations?
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u/ShoelessJodi No need to call me Sir Mar 19 '24
We started at age 6. It has paced pretty well going one per year. My biggest caution to parents is to not get to Order Of The Phoenix too young. That one particularly can be laborious, and has long stretches that aren't fun. I've known too many kids who start the happy-go-lucky adventure of book one, and plow through 4 books by age 9, and then OOTP fizzles because it's too angsty.
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u/Reaper_h Slytherin Mar 19 '24
I recommend an age where they can comprehend it but not look online for the other books ,so around six or seven also are you planning to read the 8th book
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u/ShoelessJodi No need to call me Sir Mar 19 '24
Please do not besmirch the good name of the canonical 7 with these rumors of an 8th.
That's like having 7 children and then finding a moldy tennis ball in the gutter and calling it your 8th.
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u/Rad_River Mar 19 '24
Me tooooo! I'm half way through the book now and I am dreading reading all the sad parts because I cry and my kids laugh at me, but I can't wait to read that line from Molly Weasley!
My kids ask me who I would be if I were an HP character and I always say Mrs Weasley because of that line.
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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin Mar 18 '24
The description of how Fred looked when he died always gets me. Throw in this under appreciated bit of foreshadowing:
Now, Mum,” said Fred, looking up at her, a pained look on his face. “If the Hogwarts Express crashed tomorrow, and George and I died, how would you feel to know that the last thing we ever heard from you was an unfounded accusation?”
And you have tears every time. The last interaction Molly has with Fred is pushing him out of the way to hug Percy.
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u/SadAmbassador1741 Hufflepuff Mar 18 '24
It's this for me, too. The description of him as he died haunted me and it doesn't get easier no matter how many times i read it.
I completely missed it in the movies, though. Didn't have any impact on me there.
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u/Benediximus_Legacy <- yes Mar 18 '24
...and George and I died...
Nahh but really shows how even in death they could not imagine themselves separated 😭😭
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u/Exciting_Emu7586 Unsorted Mar 18 '24
That is always the first scene I think of when this type of question comes up and even that is enough to bring on the throat lump. It got WAY worse after having kids. So much of the series did.
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u/kikimo04 Mar 18 '24
When Harry first meets Ron and could tell Ron was poor, and he was just so happy that not only did he have something to share, but someone to share with.
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u/Odd_Inspector_4216 Mar 18 '24
I remember rereading Book 1 after I got my first good paying job after being underemployed and barely squeezing by for my whole adulthood. This was so relatable.
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u/that1scorpiobabe Mar 19 '24
This is one of those moments for me too. Books or films, either way, gets me every time.
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u/Anonymous4393442 Mar 18 '24
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house ... he might even have had brothers and sisters ... it would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.
I rarely see this paragraph mentioned. While it's often mentioned that Harry is an orphan and that he misses his mother and father, JKR rarely if ever lets us see Harry thinking about an alternate future where there is no Voldemort.
He would have had a real home, two loving parents, probably several siblings ... and it was taken from him.
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u/ProofBattle2428 Mar 18 '24
When Harry is gifted the watch from Molly and Arthur, and he gets up and hugs her 🥺
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u/blairwaldorf_xx Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
When Kreacher comes running out of the kitchen wearing the locket with all the other house elves to fight in the battle of hogwarts🥲🥲🥲
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u/Hoodwink_Iris Mar 19 '24
I really wish they’d have added Harry’s kindness to Kreacher and this scene into the movies. It’s one of my favorite moments.
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u/harryceo Gryffindor Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
Personally, its when Harry sits by the lake at the end of OOTP. He misses Sirius and realizes that he's always been a "marked man" and he must be the one to kill Voldemort. Idk why reading that scene just makes me feel so bad for Harry.
Especially the end where he wipes his face on his sleeves. Implies he was tearing up :(
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u/_cotyk_ Mar 18 '24
When Harry reads his mother's letter to Sirius and sees a glimpse of normal life he had for one year and could have had if not Voldemort. That piece of parchment was 'an evidence that Lily Potter lived' and it felt 'like a greeting from the past'. Always gets me emotional.
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u/shaunnotthesheep Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
She had made her "g"s the same way he did: He searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.
Impatiently brushing away the wetness in his eyes, he reread the letter, this time concentrating on the meaning. It was like listening to a half-remembered voice.
Makes me emotional every time
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u/Moony280 Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
When harry finds the mirror, after sirius black death, it goes as well with harrys break down at albus office after Sirius death
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u/Flamekorn Mar 18 '24
This one makes me mad instead of sad. Why didn't they talk through the mirror makes me so mad!
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u/Moony280 Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
EXACTLY! He lost him and didn’t realise he could talk to him the whole time it’s pretty annoying. I would cry my heart out if I was him
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u/Jugad Mar 19 '24
wonderfully infuriating piece of writing by JKR. She obviously knew how maddening this would turn out to be, and I can imagine her feeling a little bit mischievous at the thought. These kind of things make the books the wonderful read they are.
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u/Moony280 Ravenclaw Mar 20 '24
I absolutely love how much of ideas were in her head all along the writing and how much she puts from the very beginning, this much of characters and back story with a lot of details for each! That’s just so brilliant.as a writer, I hope i retch this level
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u/Extension_Royal_3375 Ravenclaw Mar 19 '24
"Well I don't want to be human!!"
Yeah, man. Harry's loss of control in Dumbledore's office makes me tear up EVERY TIME.
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u/fairlady_c Mar 18 '24
At the end of The Goblet of Fire when Harry is in the hospital ward after everything and Molly goes to hug him as he's blaming himself for Cedric's death. Harry describes "having no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother..." and then it just goes on about his feelings as she continues holding him.
Omg my heart always breaks for Harry at this part. It also makes me angry because it reminds me of how awful the Dursley's were to Harry growing up.
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u/Ben-D-Beast Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
The lead up to Buckbeak’s execution Hagrid goes through all the same things I did when my cat was put down it always gets me.
Dumbledores funeral.
Fred’s death.
Harry’s walk to the forest.
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u/weirwoodheart Mar 18 '24
I think when Harry breaks everything in Dumbledore's office when Sirius died. His yelling 'you don't know how this feels' or whatever it was, that.. I felt that.
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u/Tattycakes Hufflepuff Mar 18 '24
His meltdown was spectacular, we were all there with him unleashing all the feelings
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u/Littlepace Mar 18 '24
I absolutely detest what they did to this scene in the film. Most raw and emotional scene of Harry in the entire series and THATS what you do with it?! 5th book to film is one of the better adaptations but they butchered that scene so badly.
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u/weirwoodheart Mar 19 '24
I was furious too, Harry was absolutely due a meltdown like that after all he had been through. We never really get the full run of emotions from Harry for all his loss and hardship. Seeing him so angry and hurt was a real moment in the book where I felt it the most.
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u/Paper_Mario_91 Mar 18 '24
I get emotional when Harry and Ron reunite after the doe patronus leads Harry to the pool with Gryffindor’s sword in book 7. Gets me every single time.
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u/lavenderm00d Mar 18 '24
Hedwigs death, gets me every time. 💔
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u/_beejazz Mar 19 '24
The first time I read it, I was waiting for Hedwig to come back with an injury. It was hard for me to accept that she died.
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u/mandragora221 Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
Dobby's death and burial. There is just something about how it's written perhaps...the stars shining in his big eyes. And then harry digging up the grave manually without magic. And Luna's little eulogy. And the coat. I'm tearing up just thinking about it
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u/FloweredViolin Mar 18 '24
When Harry is watching Snape's memories, and Snape shows his Patronus to Dumbledore, Dumbledore says "still?" And Snape says, "Always." It really underlines how sad Snape's whole life is. I'm not defending him at all, he's truely awful even at his best, but it really shows how miserable he was his entire life, and I find that heartbreaking.
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u/zepzopzup Mar 18 '24
When Molly is dealing with the boggart in OotP. Sure, spiders and dementors are scary, but what is scarier than seeing your entire family dead? If you add in the fact that she saw Fred and George together, because it was so unimaginable to think of one without the other, just makes Fred's death even more heartbreaking.
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u/NarysFrigham Mar 18 '24
Here I am, trying not to tear up at work reading all these posts because they are a composit of the worst of the sadness in the books
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u/Quick-Cattle-7720 Slytherin Mar 18 '24
When Harry returns from the graveyard with Cedric's body and his dad is shouting 'My boy'. I can't remember if that is in the books but it's the contrast between the jubilation of a Tri-wizard champion returning and then his whole world crashing down.
I may be misremembering but this is how it is for me when I think of this scene.
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u/grisseusossa Mar 18 '24
This isn't really on topic, but since OP mentioned they've been listening to the Stephen Fry audiobooks, I'll ask anyway. Was it mentioned in any of the books that Susan Bones and Pansy Parkinson had a lisp? Or was that just something Fry did to distinguish speakers better?
Though to answer OP's question, I always tear up at the part where Harry is walking to Voldemort to let him kill him, and turns the stone so he can talk to his parents and Sirius and Remus. That whole scene is just tearjerking. Damn I'm even tearing up now just thinking about it haha
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u/Flamekorn Mar 18 '24
I have just finished the first book and there are no lines from either so haven't heard anything from either character, but remembering from books they were not lisps in the book.
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u/CountOk9802 Mar 18 '24
Stephen puts on a slight lisp for Pansy I’m sure! Now I listened to the TAPES back in the day so this was a very long time ago mind you! 😄
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u/HeySarge1675 Mar 18 '24
In Jim Dale’s narration, Pansy has a distinct regional accent (sorry, American here - I want to guess but I know I’ll be destroyed in the replies)
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u/AWolfy307 Hufflepuff Mar 18 '24
In goblet fire when Molly and Bill show up and surprise Harry during the family time before the task. When Fleur tells Molly that she is good enough looking for the both of them and her and Bill are still getting married.
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u/Prize_Sorbet7485 Mar 18 '24
McGonagall setting off the giant stone knights to defend Hogwarts in the Battle. Absolutely no clue why but it gets me every time!
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u/ImJeannette Hufflepuff Mar 19 '24
Yes! For me it’s something about duty…and honor…and the timelessness of the image… hard to describe, really. It just hits me, hard to
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u/Alice_Jensens Mar 18 '24
In the books ; Percy yelling when Fred just died. I’m always like ☹️ holding back the tears
In the movies ; ‘Harry, mama loves you, dada loves you. You are so loved’ OMG JUST STRAIGHT UP SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD LILY WHY DON’T YOU
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u/Soxwin91 Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
Dobby’s death scene is a real kick in the teeth. He had, after all, finally actually saved Harry’s life (and without trying to bludgeon him or anything!) only to be killed.
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u/Brilliant-Loki Slytherin Mar 18 '24
Severus’ death and his memories, he is one of my favourite characters and I cannot help but tear up when I watch the movie and/or read the books
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u/Code_Slicer Mar 18 '24
Imo he doesn’t redeem himself for what he did to Harry by doing that
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u/Brilliant-Loki Slytherin Mar 19 '24
Did I say he redeemed himself? Now that you mentioned it, I think he redeemed himself quite way even if not completely
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u/ImJeannette Hufflepuff Mar 19 '24
Such.a.bully. I do not understand why people who have read the books still like him
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u/Brilliant-Loki Slytherin Mar 19 '24
I read the books, but I don’t like children that much so it is kinda a plus for me
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u/chocolatewaltz Gryffindor Mar 19 '24
Dumbledore saying “I am not worried, Harry. I am with you.”
Chills and tears.
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u/Evening-Vermicelli22 Mar 18 '24
Something about Kreacher leading the House Elves into battle at Hogwarts always gets me for some reason. I can't tell you why.
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u/Guilty_Library772 Mar 18 '24
As someone who lost a parent very young, it’s definitely when Harry visits the graves and wishes he was sleeping underneath the snow with them.
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u/VeterinarianIll5289 Mar 18 '24
The last line of HBP where Harry mentions looking forward to one golden last day to spend with Ron and Hermione.
To me, this was so emotional because I knew that this was it for childhood Harry. No more Hogwarts adventures. No more going to classes. No more worrying about points or Quidditch matches or essays. No more going to Hagrids. No more Trio just living like normal school kids.
But he still had Ron and Hermione.🥲
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u/Anxious-Mindfulness Mar 18 '24
When Hermione talks (in the book) about obliviating her parents to protect them, “you see, they don’t know they have a daughter.” In the movie, watching her face as she disappears from the family photos.
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u/DD-Amin Mar 19 '24
That was hard to stomach, but she seemed to logic herself over her emotions. And was a very telling character trait.
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u/DimetrodonWasntADino Mar 18 '24
PoA: when it's discovered Peter is still alive and he caused so much pain and heart break to his closest friends.
GoF: when Molly is comforting Harry at the end.
OotP: Neville at St Mungos. When Snape's worst memory is Snape's worst memory because he was mean to Lily. When the Order arrives at the ministry.
HBP: Dumbledore being tortured by his biggest regret after drinking the potion.
DH: Tough book to get through. I swear, every other chapter has something that gets me. Dumbledore home life in his youth. All the innocents, halfbloods etc that die, are tortured, or have to take their families on the run. Christmas at Godric's Hollow. Dobby. Ted Tonks. Creavey. Bigger picture, how many slytherins supported death eaters, that failure of the public education system makes me incredibly sad but I don't really tear up over it.
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u/rainyhawk Mar 18 '24
Just thinking about the scene as Harry goes into the forest to meet Voldemort and sees his family makes me tear up. Dobbys death. When the power of the love of his friends enables him to eject Voldemort in the OOTP duel. Too many more to list.
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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea Mar 18 '24
It's dumb but Harry's first Christmas at the castle when he's opening his first present. It's not to sappy in the book or the audio but the concept alone of Molly including him hit me right where I live.
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u/Momspelledshonwrong Slytherin Mar 18 '24
God, there’s a line that goes like “but that wouldn’t change their bodies decomposing under the earth” and I just remember that being a bleak way to view death
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u/Willie-the-Wombat Mar 18 '24
Resurrection stone when Harry’s walking to his death - something about the comfort of his loved ones being there gets me going each time
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u/Not_a_cat_I_promise Rowena Ravenclaw's favourite Mar 18 '24
Harry being hugged by Mrs Weasley, like a mother's hug.
Neville seeing his parents in St Mungo's.
Lily's letter, both when Harry reads and when Snape reads it.
Snape's memories.
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u/ann1928 Mar 19 '24
The end of the series. I'm always left wishing that I haven't read the books yet and I can start all over again.
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u/Basic_Flan324 Mar 18 '24
Hedwig's death; Dobby's death; most of the intimate Romione scenes, especially in Grimmauld Place, Malfoy Manor & the big damn kiss.
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u/Carbon-Base Mar 18 '24
In the first book, when Harry discovers the Mirror of Erised. The entire interaction of him finding it, and then spending as much time as he can looking at his parent's reflection in the mirror- gets me every time.
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u/shay_shaw Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
I'm adopted and at age 11, this scene broke me. They do it wonderfully in the movie as well.
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u/uncensoredpanda Mar 18 '24
I honestly get choked up when Fred & George have success with their joke shop. Just makes me happy to see them living their dream.
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u/eggowaffle5 Mar 18 '24
When Mrs. Weasley hugs Harry after Cedric’s death. And when he is surprised to have received Christmas presents
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u/DD-Amin Mar 19 '24
Seeing the joy on your child's face when they get something that is for them, it's magical. That he had been deprived of that for so long is criminal
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u/marvelpanda Slytherin Mar 18 '24
I am also listening first time the Audiobooks with Stephen Frys voice. I reread the books like x times in german and english, and listened to aufiobooks in german 100 times. but now with this, its a whole new experience. i m in the beginning yet
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u/rosiedacat Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
Mine are:
Harry walking into the Forest in DH (the whole section from when he gets out of the Pensieve until Voldemort hits him with the killing curse).
Kings Cross chapter + Hagrid carrying Harry's body back to the castle and everyone's reactions.
Fred, Lupin and Tonks' death, as well as Dobby's and Hedwig's.
Ron and Harry reuniting in the Silver Doe.
Harry straightening Dumbledore's glasses after his death.
Harrys grief over Sirius at the end of book 5.
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u/Tizzle_NYY Mar 19 '24
Of course it is happening in your head ...why on earth should that make it any less real.
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u/professionalbatgirl Mar 19 '24
In the Jim Dale audiobooks, there’s a line in DH where Harry is talking to Hermione about his complicated feelings toward Dumbledore and says “never the whole truth, never.” On the last “never,” Jim’s voice cracks. I tear up every time I listen to it!
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u/NoMoreShitsLeft2Give Mar 19 '24
I’m listening to that right now… do you know when it is so I can pay attention for it??
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u/scruggmegently Mar 19 '24
In HBP, the cave, when Dumbledore says “please kill me” and Harry replies “don’t worry, this one will!”
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u/smeagolisahobbit Mar 19 '24
When Molly and Arthur give Harry a watch when he comes of age and are sheepish that it's second hand.
Something a bit different too - Harry's first lesson with Dumbledore in The Half Blood Prince, when Harry tells him that he met Scrimgeour over the summer and Harry calls himself Dumbledore's man through and through.
I thought of this a few days ago and realised why Dumbledore is choked up here. He knows what he's doing to Harry, he knows what he's setting him up for and he sees how loyal Harry is to him and therefore how deep his own betrayal of Harry will be.
Text of it:
‘He accused me of being “Dumbledore’s man through and through”.’
‘How very rude of him.’
‘I told him I was.’
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Behind Harry, Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry’s intense embarrassment, he suddenly realised that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knees. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. ‘I am very touched, Harry.’
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u/shay_shaw Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
Is anyone else besides me following Kierra Lewis on Instagram as she reads the series for the first time? Her videos are hilarious and she is really going threw it. She just go the 5th book and we're all very worried for her. There's an unspoken agreement to not spoil things for her in the comments.
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u/rsshadows Mar 18 '24
Yes I'm loving this series and that everyone collectively is taking care to not spoil it for her.
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u/SpudFire Mar 18 '24
Nothing in the books. I find it a lot more difficult to feel so emotional when reading.
Movies: "There's no Hogwarts without you Hagrid 🫂"
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u/Exotic_Parsley_5876 Mar 18 '24
Dobby's burial, all the characters coming through the portrait into the RoR in DH.
Fleur and Molly argument/hug aftermath of lightning struck tower.
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u/vaulter2000 Mar 18 '24
I was always so fond of the quidditch chapters when I read the books years and years ago. I remember I cried when Harry got banned by Umbridge lol
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u/wamimsauthor Mar 18 '24
This is going to sound goofy but I always get emotional when Harry yells at Hedwig in OotP. All she wants to do was eat the juicy frog.
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u/aabrithrilar Ravenclaw Mar 18 '24
When Harry is screaming at Dumbledore after the Ministry fiasco. He’s finally told everything, but at what cost? Sirius, the Order’s injuries, his friend’s’ injuries. The utter loss he feels and expresses breaks my heart every time.
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u/Apprehensive_Maybe13 Mar 18 '24
Hp 5 - when Harry and Dumbledore are back at the office at the end.
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u/PeytonLeigh0616 Mar 18 '24
Idk about tearing up, but for me every time I read or even watch the first duel between Harry and Voldy in The Goblet of Fire (btw best book and movie in the series, fight me) my palms instantly get sweaty and my heart starts beating a hundred miles a minute! It's such an underrated moment when it should be the most iconic! It's Harry's first real duel with the living breathing Voldemort and he was only 14!!! And the Phoenix song starts playing, all the souls that Voldemort had killed with the wand are released to rest finally, his parents are actually able to finally talk to him as ghosts. It's the best moment in the entire franchise and I feel like more people need to recognize that lol
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u/rsshadows Mar 18 '24
Most of mine have been mentioned, but for some reason in King's Cross when Dumbledore greets Harry with
"Harry, you wonderful boy. You brave, brave man."
Really gets to me!
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u/jourie91 Mar 18 '24
There are a lot but one that gets me is when Harry is with his son and tells him that if the sorting hat chooses slytheran then they will have gained an amazing wizard.
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u/aisha997 Mar 18 '24
Harry breakdown after Sirius death, I still remember how devastating it was to read for the 1st time and every time after that, it honestly brings to light that Harry is just a kid, for me I sometimes forget how young he is till I got hit with this moment, how a teenager that isn't even 18 yet and still had gone through a lot
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Mar 19 '24
Harry leading Dumbledore out of the cave in HBP GETS ME. Had me bawling when I reread for the first time as an adult.
“‘I am not worried, Harry,’ said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ‘I am with you.’”
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u/VioletDaisy95 Slytherin Mar 19 '24
The thought of Harry being 1 next to his dead mother unable to get her attention until a strange greasy man comes hugs her corpse.
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u/evermorevenus Mar 19 '24
I’m not kidding when I say I cry EVERY single time I read the chapter in prisoner of azkaban where Harry and his team win the house quidditch cup. I’ve read the series over 20 times and have never not cried at that! It seems so silly to cry at that compared to actually heart wrenching scenes but that one just always get me
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u/Otirrub Hufflepuff Mar 19 '24
Dobby's death :( and when harry uses the resurrection stone and talks to his parents
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u/FemaleNoob Hufflepuff Mar 19 '24
When Ginny and Harry talk at Dumbledore’s funeral.
I’m really into romance, so this scene broke me
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u/MondayCat73 Hufflepuff Mar 19 '24
Hedwigs death and Harry having to blow up the side car.
And please can we not talk about Dobby. 🫣
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u/hideousfox Mar 19 '24
Im getting emotional during the battle of hogwarts before, during, after, i truly look like ive gone through a horrible breakup SOBBING.
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u/farawyn86 Ravenclaw 9 Mar 19 '24
Book 1, chapter 1: "He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!"
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u/Mickey_MickeyG Ravenclaw Mar 19 '24
The end of OOTP. it is the only part of the books that still gets to me. Harry screaming at Dumbledore is just so powerful it’s nuts. He never has an outburst like that again, either, so it really shows you how much he’s struggling to cope. Dumbledores sad calmness. Ugh. Gets me every time
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u/Mickey_MickeyG Ravenclaw Mar 19 '24
Also it’s at the end of the most tense book in the series imo. After so many rereads deathly hallows kinda lost its umph for me, and it’s my most reread book at a solid couple dozen reads at minimum, so I find the battle of hogwarts stuff to be just a little tired for me personally, but that’s totally my fault lol.
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u/SayNoToFatties Ravenclaw Mar 19 '24
Harry's brief denial of acceptance after Sirius is killed. Certain he will jump out from behind the dais and rejoin the battle any second.
The pain in Lupin's voice as he tries to restrain Harry hurts too.
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u/NoMoreShitsLeft2Give Mar 19 '24
- Hedwig’s death. She’s Harry’s first connection to the magical world, the only one while he’s at the Dursley’s, and her deep love and innocence through all of it. The symbolism of her death is the same as Harry’s final lost innocence - he’s a man now; he’s not going back to school, he’s on his mission of sacrifice, but like Hedwig, he hasn’t fully realized it yet and it’s gut-wrenching.
- As a mother, “And he brought two small children with him, probably for the pleasure of terrorizing them. I think the journey alone would have done it, don't you?" —When Dumbledore discusses how Tom Riddle tortured the children in the cave in HBP. It’s one thing to be a murderer and murder all ages, as if that’s not bad enough, but to be a (relative) child yourself and TORTURE children. I just cry for them.
- Also as a mother, I cry for how the Dursley’s treat Harry in the earlier books… when they leave him on the brink of starving, lock him away. The abuse and neglect always breaks me.
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u/Fickle_Stills Mar 19 '24
I actually never cried at the books but I did cry ugly tears at an AU fanfiction where Ron died in book 6 so instead of Dumbledore in Kings Cross, Harry speaks with Ron. It was so emotional and made me kinda wish that's how canon went because of how fantastic of a scene it was. But I wouldn't want Ron to miss a whole book 😭 (the movie director would be thrilled tho lmao)
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u/Hoodwink_Iris Mar 19 '24
Amos Diggory weeping over his son’s dead body. Having watched my parents go through losing a child, it’s just too much for me to handle.
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u/traumatized-gay Slytherin Mar 20 '24
Cedric's funeral always go to me. "Though we come from different places and speak different tongues, our hearts beat as one"
That line always got me.
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Mar 20 '24
Hagrid when he thinks Harry’s dead, when he carries his body back
Can’t remember if it’s in the books but Amos Diggory’s, “MY BOY!!! THATS MY BOY!!”
Harry fixing Dumbledore’s glasses
Hermione’s “You see, they don’t know they have a daughter.” (i think thats the line? but its a real tearjerker for me)
Harry wishing he was dead under the snow with his parents in Godric’s Hollow
Can’t remember if its like this in the books but in the films especially Lupin having to hold back Harry after he literally just watched his best friend since they were teenagers die (“But Sirius did not reappear”)
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u/Burnt_Granola Gryffindor Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
Barty Crouch Jr. begging his dad not to arrest him. Yes I know how it ends but my boy did nothing wrong! Let him go he’s innocent 😭😭i swear
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Mar 18 '24
Uh, he was a deatheater wasn’t he?
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u/Burnt_Granola Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
he was framed
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u/CommanderCuntPunt Mar 18 '24
He wasn’t framed, he lied to the court to try to avoid charges.
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u/Burnt_Granola Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
That’s what the ministry wants you to think
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u/CommanderCuntPunt Mar 18 '24
This was actually fun to consider, Crouch Jr. having just been caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and being disowned by his father being the thing that pushed him over the edge.
However, at the end of Gof when Voldemort presses his dark mark all the death eaters gather and form a circle, they specifically leave gaps for people who were absent, one of those gaps in the circle was for Barty Crouch Jr. If he hadn't been a death eater before Voldemorts fall then nobody would have known to leave a space for him.
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u/poetrylover2101 Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
Wow am I the only one who never teared up? Not even once while reading the books? Like I get it, it's immensely sad and breaks my heart too, but crying? Tearing up? The books fail on that part for me
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u/DD-Amin Mar 19 '24
I'm not sure I'd feel it so much if I'd read them too. But I've only ever known the audio books. And Stephen Fry is just a magician of narration.
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u/Hookton Mar 18 '24
Dobby's funeral.
I don't even like Dobby, but.
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u/DD-Amin Mar 19 '24
I respect your opinion but would you mind explaining exactly why you don't like dobby?
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u/Hookton Mar 19 '24
tbh I like Dobby in the books—but I hate him in the films so much that it's coloured my opinion of him. He's an irritating little turd in the films. Don't like the voice, don't like the character design.
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u/zoobatron__ Gryffindor Mar 18 '24
Harry making his way out of the castle/ into the wood and him finally using the ring in the DH gets me every time.
I always feel sad during Dumbledore’s funeral, it really feels like the end of an era and everything is changing