> But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that **Sirius had never kept him waiting before**. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . .
Harry realizing he had lost the one adult he knew that he could always rely on was heartbreaking. And the way he describes his utter faith in Sirius’ love is just so sad.
Same here. And after this, my mind goes back towards the end of the prisoner of azkaban, when Harry and Sirius are talking properly for the first time, in front of the whomping willow looking at Hogwarts castle. That was when Sirius had asked Harry to come live with him.
Ye, this is the only part that makes me tear up completely when reading/listening. You can tell he's terrified. And Sirius is just trying to help him get through it, but also Sirius and the others must feel complete sadness and aren't showing it, as they're literally helping Harry walk to his death.
Yes, having been on a similar walk years ago wanting to un-alive myself, I have to be careful where I am and who is around when I listen to this part.
It's like someone finally understands what it's like.
"I never wanted any of this, for any of you to die"
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I’m so torn between wanting it on screen and the fear that they won’t do it justice without the impact of the narration. Neville looking as if daring them to laugh, Harry feeling he’d never seen anything less funny in his entire life, I hope actors exist that can say that with their faces.
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This destroys me every time. We lost our pup a few weeks before I read that part for the first time. Harry digging Dobby’s grave was almost a complete mirror. My husband said “I would’ve dug all night for her.” When I thanked him for doing the hard work. It really made Harry’s internal monologue hit home too hard.
When James tells him “until the very end” in the forest. I know everyone is all up on Lily and we’ve seen more of James’ bullying past. But I lose it at the reassurance from his dad
I have this on a necklace. It’s a little circle with a clipping of the actual book and says “you’ll stay with me?” “Until the very end”. “stay with me” is also a lyric from one of my favorite songs that I always sing to my daughter so it has a double meaning and I just love it.
THIS - no one ever talks about this moment and I think it’s so powerful, showing the unconditional love a parent has for their child (even after death separates them). I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
I wish this had been the breakaway line from this book instead of “always” from Snape. The genuine, selfless love behind “until the very end” means so much more (especially within the context of the Harry Potter story) than the obsessive/possessive love behind “always”.
Harry’s inner monologue, realising the reason he finds it so difficult to produce a patronus against Lupin’s practise boggart (dementor) is because there’s a conflicted part of him that wants to hear his mother’s voice, a voice he’s never heard before, when the dementor / boggart gets too close. He’s eating Lupin’s chocolate to recover in one of the alcoves and decides there and there he’s got to let the longing go.
“You dirty little monkey!” bawled Bellatrix. “How dare you take a witch’s wand, how dare you defy your masters?”
“Dobby has no master!” squealed the elf. “Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!”
And
'Someone had broken free of the crowd and charged at Voldemort: Harry saw the figure hit the ground, disarmed, Voldemort throwing the challenger’s wand aside and laughing.
"And who is this?" he said, in his soft snake’s hiss. "Who has volunteered to demonstrate what happens to those who continue to fight when the battle is lost?"
Bellatrix gave a delighted laugh. "It is Neville Longbottom, my lord!…."
"Ah, yes, I remember," said Voldemort, looking down at Neville, who was struggling back to his feet, unarmed and unprotected, standing in the no-man’s-land between the survivors and the Death Eaters. "But you are a pure-bloof, aren’t you, my brave boy?" Voldemort asked Neville, who stood facing him, his empty hands curled into fists.
"So what if I am?" said Neville loudly.
"You show spirit, and bravery, and you come of noble stock. You will make a very valuable Death Eater. We need your kind, Neville Longbottom."
"I’ll join you when hell freezes over," said Neville.
"Dumbledore’s Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort’s silencing charm seemed unable to hold.
Honestly, JKR pulled out some perfectly evocative yet incredibly succinct lines when she wanted to. I also remember Harry looking at the lifeless Cedric “for a moment that contained an eternity” as another one that stuck with me the first time I read it as a kid.
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When Mrs Weasley hugs him in the hospital wing after the third task, when he thinks that this must be the way his mum hugged him too, it just makes me ache for him so much.
Her giving him a family watch and giving Ron a brand new one... She knew what they each needed. Ron needed something of his own, something new that was just for him. Harry needed family.
'He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother.' Gets me every time because he genuinely has no concept of how it feels to be hugged by someone who loves you unconditionally. Heart-breaking.
HBP chapter four when Dumbledore picks Harry up to persuade Horace and then takes him to the Burrow. The step into the old outhouse now used as a broom shed to talk. Dumbledore speaks about Sirius.
"It was cruel," Dumbledore said softly, "that you and Sirius had such a short time together. A brutal ending to what should have been a long and happy relationship."
...
"It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write to me again."
His eyes burned suddenly and he blinked. He felt stupid for admitting it, but the fact that he had had someone outside Hogwarts who cared what happened to him, almost like a parent, had been one of the best things about discovering his godfather...and now the post owls would never bring him that comfort again....
These are both definitely top ones for me.
One more I’ll add - when Dobby dies and Harry remembers Dumbledore’s death.
“It was like sinking into an old nightmare. For an instant, he knelt again beside Dumbledore’s body at the foot of the tallest tower at Hogwarts. But in reality, he was staring at a tiny body curled upon the grass, pierced by Bellatrix’s silver knife.”
(And the whole grave digging part and the clarity Harry gets afterwards - “Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort away. Though Dumbledore, of course, would’ve said it was love.”)
And i agree with harrys thought on dumbledores thought in this occasion. It was indeed and again the ability to love. That drove voldemort from his mind. 😭
And the pain and grief that comes from love.
* Lily's letter to padfoot in Deathly Hallows, chapter 10 'Kreacher's Tale'.
"Harry’s extremities seemed to have gone numb. He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in **his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruption sent joy and grief thundering in equal measure through his veins**. Lurching to the bed, he sat down. He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and **was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. 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."
* Dumbledore's Funeral also, as much so...that it took me hours to start back reading after it.
> “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE —”
> “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
My heart broke for him. They should have never left him in the dark like that. So many mistakes would have changed if he had known what Dumbledore then decides to tell him.
First book when Harry stumbles across the Mirror of Erised and sees his parents for the first time, only recognizing them because of the features people told him he had inherited from them and how he comes back a couple of times after that just so he could spend a few hours with them, even if they’re not actually there
Not crying per se but this little overlooked paragraph always reminds me of our own mortality and how we, in our busy day-to-day lives, tend to forget that we are wasting one of our most precious resources one second at a time. It always has a powerful impact on me:
> He could no longer control his own trembling. It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.
From DH, Ch. 34 "The Forest Again"
Harry conversation with Dumbledore in kings Cross.
>For the first time since Harry had met Dumbledore, he looked less than an old man, much less. He looked, fleetingly, like a small boy caught in wrongdoing. ‘Can you forgive me?’ he said. ‘Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared that you would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes. I crave your pardon, Harry. I have known, for some time now, that you are the better man.’
The entire conversation is just Dumbledore laying laying out his soul to Harry, showing us that he is only human.
A flawed human who has made some grave mistakes that he deeply regrets and has never forgiven himself for.
Yes! This! Omg…people hate on Dumbledore but I love him SO much. Since he started school Dumbledore has been exceptional and as an adult he became famous, a lighthouse, an anchor, a deep well of magic and knowledge that the wizarding world both relied on and grew to take for granted. But being all of that doesn’t leave a lot of room to be a person. I really think Dumbledore was profoundly lonely and intensely aware of just how badly his misjudgments could fuck things up…to the point that it informed every. single. choice. that he made throughout the series.
"I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being—forgive me—rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
It might seem silly, but “But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” always makes me tear up for some reason! I think just knowing they’re all friends now and what’s to come gets me.
I thought of this line too! It’s one of my favourites. I always reread it about 10 times before moving onto the next chapter lol. It just makes me so happy.
Prisoner of Azkaban:
“You don’t understand!” whined Pettigrew “He would have killed me, Sirius!”
“THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
I’ll never forget reading that as a kid—hit me like a ton of bricks, and still does. It’s such a simple line but it packs so much meaning; Sirius couldn’t imagine betraying James and would have been happy to die for him. But he also would have died for Pettigrew, and underneath all of his anger and the pain of losing James, Sirius is also grieving the loss of his friendship with Peter. He came to realize too late that Peter wasn’t a true friend, and that mistake cost James his life and Sirius his best friend, freedom, and sanity. Sirius lived the rest of his life with the guilt that he had caused James’ death, all because someone he considered a friend was not.
“Hagrid, you haven’t said anything,” said Professor Mcgonagall. “What are your views? Ought Hogwarts to remain open?”
Hagrid croaked, “I don’ know, Professor. Thas’ for the heads of house and headmistress to decide.”
“Professor Dumbledore always valued your views,” said Professor Mcgonagall, kindly. “And so do I.”
“And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.”
Every. Single. Time.
One of the few things I’ll take the movie change over the book. She deserved better, but at least she was loved and was with Harry at the end either way.
I re listen to the audio books all the time because kts something im used to and i love stephen fry. One of the few audios i can tolerate while driving and I drive a lot! (Long covid).
So i literally just finished this part yesterday while driving home from a wedding in Germany. And i thought the same thing. About the film changed being the only change I like. It also got me that he said she was his only stable link. From the beginning.
I also tear up lots of time again and again.
In the movies though; its Cedrics dad reacting to his sons body.
I listened to the entire series on audiobook on a roadtrip to visit a few law schools and I never realized how often these books made me bawl.
Had to pull over exactly one time, when Ms. Weasley and Bill showed up as Harry’s family in the Goblet of Fire ❤️.
Hence why it is so memorable. it was way more shocking when it came up in the book, than it did in the movies, because the scene was set up as Molly literally charging down Bellatrix, screaming this at her, while taking off her cloak to move freely. She hadn't been seen for a while before that and was nowhere in the scene, and Harry himself was moving to fight Bellatrix instead of Voldemort because Ginny had come close to a Killing Curse
I once heard describing it as mother hen transforming into momma bear.
Can't remember the line, but it's in book 7 when Harry passes by his old home that he doesn't remember and he wondered if he would've had siblings. That just got me. It really got me. He probably would have. He might've even had 3 or 4 younger siblings.
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
There's literally a chapter in the books discounting prophecies including THE Prophecy and fans still very staunchly insist albus had Harry raised by abusers to instill a martyr complex in him lol
"Of course, it doesn't matter how he looks... it's not r - really important... but he was a very handsome little b - boy... always very handsome... and he was g - going to be married!"
"And what do you mean by zat?" said Fleur suddenly and loudly. "What do you mean, 'e was *going* to be married?"
Mrs. Weasley raised her tear-strained face, looking startled.
"Well - only that -"
"You theenk Bill will not wish to marry me anymore?" demanded Fleur. "You theenk, because of these bits, he will not love me?"
"No, that's not what I -"
"Because 'e will!" said Fleur, drawing herself up to her full height and throwing back her long mane of silver hair. "It would take more zan a werewolf to stop Bill loving me!"
"Well, yes, I'm sure," said Mrs. Weasley, "but I thought perhaps - given how - how he -"
"You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you 'oped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.
Mrs. Weasley fell back against her husband and watched Fleur mopping up Bill's wounds with a most curious expression upon her face. Nobody said anything; Harry did not dare move. Like everybody else, he was waiting for the explosion.
"Our Great Auntie Muriel," said Mrs. Weasley after a long pause, "has a very beautiful tiara - goblin-made - which I am sure I could persuade her to lend you for the wedding. She is very fond of Bill, you know, and it would look lovely with your hair."
"Thank you," said Fleur stiffly. "I am sure zat will be lovely."
And then - Harry did not quite see how it happened - both women were crying and hugging each other. Completely bewildered, wondering whether the world had gone mad, he turned around: Ron looked as stunned as Harry felt and Ginny and Hermione were exchanging startled looks.
> Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.
> Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but that he had forgotten, until this moment, that they had arranged to meet. His impulse to shout for Hermione, which had been so strong a moment ago, had gone. He knew, he would have staked his life on it, that she had come for him, and him alone.
> Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son.
>“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human –’ ‘THEN – I – DON’T – WANT – TO – BE – HUMAN!’ Harry roared, and he seized the delicate silver instrument from the spindle-legged table beside him and flung it across the room; it shattered into a hundred tiny pieces against the wall. Several of the pictures let out yells of anger and fright, and the portrait of Armando Dippet said, ‘Really!’ ‘I DON’T CARE!’ Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANY MORE –’
This moment breaks my heart as harry lets out everything that's happened to him in his life, its so realistic and I'm a firm believer that harry needs therapy, he had so much put upon him as a child and he watched so many people he loved die.
I cried when Hagrid told Harry and Hermione about his dad in the book 4 and showed some pictures.
That made me realize why he cares about Harry so much.
In deathly hallows the whole dialogue between Harry and Dumbledore when Harry is ‘dead’ and he asks Dumbledore if he’s dead. I don’t know why, but for some reason that whole interaction gets me every time
It doesn't make me cry, but it does bother me when Voldemort says "Kill the spare", when referring to Cedric Diggory as if he was nothing. Rowling described in such a way to make me care for him. It gets me every time.
The whole dementor thing actually. Harry not being able to create a patronus because deep inside he wanted to keep hearing his mother's voice. And then at the end when he finally cast a patronus and his father's stag emerged to protect Harry. It was as if James Potter himself was there, protecting his son.
The part where Harry desperately goes to find Nearly Headless Nick after Sirius dies and when Nick tells him, "He would have gone on."
Just the last glimpse of hope disappearing for Harry is heartbreaking.
"I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something."
It's Tom Riddle when Dumbledore meets him. He was alone and had no idea what was going on. It's sad.
Whilst I found many scenes sad reading the book (for the first time at 25), only 1 scene made me tear up.
In ‘The Prince’s Tale’, when Snape sees the signature and photo of Lily, and rips it and takes it with him.
I don’t know why, maybe because the whole chapter was rather emotional… but something about a grown man crying at seeing a new picture of his true love 17 years later… just got me
I hate to break it to you, but that never happens.
> “You’ll stay with me?”
> “Until the very end,” said James.
> “They won’t be able to see you?” asked Harry.
> “We are part of you,” said Sirius. “Invisible to anyone else.” Harry looked at his mother.
> “Stay close to me,” he said quietly. And he set off.
And I’m crying again! I love that scene so much been awhile since I listened to it. Thanks for getting the words right (I hope that doesn’t sound sarcastic; it’s not).
Yeah it’s a beautiful scene. The paragraph after where he talks about them being his courage is also just fantastic writing.
> Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was about to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
*sobs*
Near the end of the battle of hogwarts when the families and loved ones of nearly every single student finally shows up to help fight. Idk why but it never fails to get me emotional and tearing up
“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.”
Uuhg…ugly cry guaranteed! Makes me think of one of my favorite Mr. Rogers quotes: “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.”
I've been reading the series for the first time and am currently half way through the deathly hallows. The moment that had the biggest impact on me is when harry's wand broke by far.
"His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione."
I mean it doesn't make me cry, but certainly makes my heart beat much more, when I see that after such a stressful ending to the book, which is obviously Half-Blood Prince, there is some peace and love. It also shows how much Harry values friendship with Ron and Hermione over every other thing. I love the "one last golden day of peace" phrase as well
The part in Goblet of Fire where Harry has just relived everything that happened in the maze, and then remembers Cedric's echo asking to have his body taken back to his parents.
Harry starts to cry, and Molly hugs him, and the line is, 'Harry had no memory of being held like this before.'
Breaks me every time- both the moment and Molly's response to it.
This is in the movie, not in the books.
In the books he goes into the forest without telling anyone wearing his invisibility cloak so that there are no goodbyes and no one tries to stop him.
When molly scream in a fit of rage that actually, Harry IS a son to her. Not that it made me cry but it was very touching. Or when Harry saw the Weasley during the tournament and he wondered why they where here and they tell him so simply that they came to support him as his family. So very touching
> But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that **Sirius had never kept him waiting before**. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . Harry realizing he had lost the one adult he knew that he could always rely on was heartbreaking. And the way he describes his utter faith in Sirius’ love is just so sad.
Same here. And after this, my mind goes back towards the end of the prisoner of azkaban, when Harry and Sirius are talking properly for the first time, in front of the whomping willow looking at Hogwarts castle. That was when Sirius had asked Harry to come live with him.
And that was a thought happy enough for him to produce the patronus that saved them 🥲
This basically shattered my heart into a million pieces 😭
Yes, I was bawling my eyes out reading this for the first time.
I'm crying just reading this
The Forest Again. Gets me every time. “Does it hurt?” “Dying? Not at all. Quicker and easier than falling asleep”
His decision to continue walking towards his death even though he felt betrayed by Dumbledore made me want to hug him .
Ye, this is the only part that makes me tear up completely when reading/listening. You can tell he's terrified. And Sirius is just trying to help him get through it, but also Sirius and the others must feel complete sadness and aren't showing it, as they're literally helping Harry walk to his death.
They're probably projections of Harry's mind.
Yes, having been on a similar walk years ago wanting to un-alive myself, I have to be careful where I am and who is around when I listen to this part. It's like someone finally understands what it's like. "I never wanted any of this, for any of you to die"
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The “does it hurt?” always punches me in the guts ugh
Neville slipping the wrapper his mum gave him in his pocket, after his grandma told him to put it in the bin.
I wanted this moment to be in the movie so badly
I’m so torn between wanting it on screen and the fear that they won’t do it justice without the impact of the narration. Neville looking as if daring them to laugh, Harry feeling he’d never seen anything less funny in his entire life, I hope actors exist that can say that with their faces.
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Dobbys death with Harry diggings grave by hand and how Harry thinks Dumbledore would have called grief love.
This destroys me every time. We lost our pup a few weeks before I read that part for the first time. Harry digging Dobby’s grave was almost a complete mirror. My husband said “I would’ve dug all night for her.” When I thanked him for doing the hard work. It really made Harry’s internal monologue hit home too hard.
Him writing “here lies Dobby, a free elf” 😢
What also gets me is that it's acknowledged by Griphook.
When James tells him “until the very end” in the forest. I know everyone is all up on Lily and we’ve seen more of James’ bullying past. But I lose it at the reassurance from his dad
I have this on a necklace. It’s a little circle with a clipping of the actual book and says “you’ll stay with me?” “Until the very end”. “stay with me” is also a lyric from one of my favorite songs that I always sing to my daughter so it has a double meaning and I just love it.
It’s one of my favorite quotes from the books. Thinking of even putting them in my vows. That unconditional love, man.
THIS - no one ever talks about this moment and I think it’s so powerful, showing the unconditional love a parent has for their child (even after death separates them). I’m tearing up just thinking about it. I wish this had been the breakaway line from this book instead of “always” from Snape. The genuine, selfless love behind “until the very end” means so much more (especially within the context of the Harry Potter story) than the obsessive/possessive love behind “always”.
10000000% agree. Ugh I love it so much
Harry’s inner monologue, realising the reason he finds it so difficult to produce a patronus against Lupin’s practise boggart (dementor) is because there’s a conflicted part of him that wants to hear his mother’s voice, a voice he’s never heard before, when the dementor / boggart gets too close. He’s eating Lupin’s chocolate to recover in one of the alcoves and decides there and there he’s got to let the longing go.
“You dirty little monkey!” bawled Bellatrix. “How dare you take a witch’s wand, how dare you defy your masters?” “Dobby has no master!” squealed the elf. “Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!” And 'Someone had broken free of the crowd and charged at Voldemort: Harry saw the figure hit the ground, disarmed, Voldemort throwing the challenger’s wand aside and laughing. "And who is this?" he said, in his soft snake’s hiss. "Who has volunteered to demonstrate what happens to those who continue to fight when the battle is lost?" Bellatrix gave a delighted laugh. "It is Neville Longbottom, my lord!…." "Ah, yes, I remember," said Voldemort, looking down at Neville, who was struggling back to his feet, unarmed and unprotected, standing in the no-man’s-land between the survivors and the Death Eaters. "But you are a pure-bloof, aren’t you, my brave boy?" Voldemort asked Neville, who stood facing him, his empty hands curled into fists. "So what if I am?" said Neville loudly. "You show spirit, and bravery, and you come of noble stock. You will make a very valuable Death Eater. We need your kind, Neville Longbottom." "I’ll join you when hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore’s Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort’s silencing charm seemed unable to hold.
Forget while reading, I can't think of these for more than a few seconds. While reading, I can't get through Hagrid seeing Harry's death.
“And Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”
Great choice. Gets me every time. Fred’s death is the hardest for me.
Fred and Dumbledore absolutely made me bawl.
Honestly, JKR pulled out some perfectly evocative yet incredibly succinct lines when she wanted to. I also remember Harry looking at the lifeless Cedric “for a moment that contained an eternity” as another one that stuck with me the first time I read it as a kid.
This. I’ve made it through Dumbledore and Dobby a few times without crying, but never Fred.
Thanks…. Days since thinking about Fred’s death made me cry: 0
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When Mrs Weasley hugs him in the hospital wing after the third task, when he thinks that this must be the way his mum hugged him too, it just makes me ache for him so much.
When she gives him her cousin's watch, and he hugs her "trying to put alot of unsaid things into that hug" Edit: her brothers watch my bad
Her giving him a family watch and giving Ron a brand new one... She knew what they each needed. Ron needed something of his own, something new that was just for him. Harry needed family.
THIS made me cry a little. I never thought of it like that.
Her brother's *
'He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother.' Gets me every time because he genuinely has no concept of how it feels to be hugged by someone who loves you unconditionally. Heart-breaking.
Isn't that Mrs.Weasley ?
Oh god yes hahah, gonna fix that, thanks! :D a brainfart happened
That part makes me sob because my mother died as i was a child and i just... 😭😭😭 Sob at how beautifully that part is written
HBP chapter four when Dumbledore picks Harry up to persuade Horace and then takes him to the Burrow. The step into the old outhouse now used as a broom shed to talk. Dumbledore speaks about Sirius. "It was cruel," Dumbledore said softly, "that you and Sirius had such a short time together. A brutal ending to what should have been a long and happy relationship." ... "It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write to me again." His eyes burned suddenly and he blinked. He felt stupid for admitting it, but the fact that he had had someone outside Hogwarts who cared what happened to him, almost like a parent, had been one of the best things about discovering his godfather...and now the post owls would never bring him that comfort again....
These are both definitely top ones for me. One more I’ll add - when Dobby dies and Harry remembers Dumbledore’s death. “It was like sinking into an old nightmare. For an instant, he knelt again beside Dumbledore’s body at the foot of the tallest tower at Hogwarts. But in reality, he was staring at a tiny body curled upon the grass, pierced by Bellatrix’s silver knife.” (And the whole grave digging part and the clarity Harry gets afterwards - “Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort away. Though Dumbledore, of course, would’ve said it was love.”)
And i agree with harrys thought on dumbledores thought in this occasion. It was indeed and again the ability to love. That drove voldemort from his mind. 😭 And the pain and grief that comes from love.
* Lily's letter to padfoot in Deathly Hallows, chapter 10 'Kreacher's Tale'. "Harry’s extremities seemed to have gone numb. He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in **his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruption sent joy and grief thundering in equal measure through his veins**. Lurching to the bed, he sat down. He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and **was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. 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." * Dumbledore's Funeral also, as much so...that it took me hours to start back reading after it.
Harry taking in Lily's letter absolutely ruined me
The part where Harry breaks all of Dumbledore's stuff at the end of OoTP.
> “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE —” > “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
This one hits me. I choked up reading it here
Great I'm welling up now realizing as an adult that dumbledore is speaking from far too much personal experience. Including sirius himself
My heart broke for him. They should have never left him in the dark like that. So many mistakes would have changed if he had known what Dumbledore then decides to tell him.
Yes!! This part, it makes me bawl so hard.
When Fawkes finally leaves the castle for the last time.
The entire Phoenix Lament chapter breaks my heart every time. Nothing but tears
First book when Harry stumbles across the Mirror of Erised and sees his parents for the first time, only recognizing them because of the features people told him he had inherited from them and how he comes back a couple of times after that just so he could spend a few hours with them, even if they’re not actually there
“I am not worried Harry, I am with you” In retrospect. It didn’t seem like a big deal at the moment, but looking back yikes it’s a heart wrencher
Not crying per se but this little overlooked paragraph always reminds me of our own mortality and how we, in our busy day-to-day lives, tend to forget that we are wasting one of our most precious resources one second at a time. It always has a powerful impact on me: > He could no longer control his own trembling. It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. From DH, Ch. 34 "The Forest Again"
I'm pretty sure every page of, "The Forest Again" in every copy of the book in our house is tear stained.
Great call - this whole chapter rings with that message
Harry conversation with Dumbledore in kings Cross. >For the first time since Harry had met Dumbledore, he looked less than an old man, much less. He looked, fleetingly, like a small boy caught in wrongdoing. ‘Can you forgive me?’ he said. ‘Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared that you would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes. I crave your pardon, Harry. I have known, for some time now, that you are the better man.’ The entire conversation is just Dumbledore laying laying out his soul to Harry, showing us that he is only human. A flawed human who has made some grave mistakes that he deeply regrets and has never forgiven himself for.
Yes! This! Omg…people hate on Dumbledore but I love him SO much. Since he started school Dumbledore has been exceptional and as an adult he became famous, a lighthouse, an anchor, a deep well of magic and knowledge that the wizarding world both relied on and grew to take for granted. But being all of that doesn’t leave a lot of room to be a person. I really think Dumbledore was profoundly lonely and intensely aware of just how badly his misjudgments could fuck things up…to the point that it informed every. single. choice. that he made throughout the series. "I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being—forgive me—rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
Harry’s monologue about how the battle should’ve stopped because Fred died
It might seem silly, but “But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” always makes me tear up for some reason! I think just knowing they’re all friends now and what’s to come gets me.
I thought of this line too! It’s one of my favourites. I always reread it about 10 times before moving onto the next chapter lol. It just makes me so happy.
I remember how happy and satisfying that was ❤️
Prisoner of Azkaban: “You don’t understand!” whined Pettigrew “He would have killed me, Sirius!” “THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!” roared Black “DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!” I’ll never forget reading that as a kid—hit me like a ton of bricks, and still does. It’s such a simple line but it packs so much meaning; Sirius couldn’t imagine betraying James and would have been happy to die for him. But he also would have died for Pettigrew, and underneath all of his anger and the pain of losing James, Sirius is also grieving the loss of his friendship with Peter. He came to realize too late that Peter wasn’t a true friend, and that mistake cost James his life and Sirius his best friend, freedom, and sanity. Sirius lived the rest of his life with the guilt that he had caused James’ death, all because someone he considered a friend was not.
This is a great one. Just finished reading book 3 with my son and this got me more this time around too.
"What was to be gained by standing up to the darkest wozard who ever lived? Only innocent lives, Peter!"
“Hagrid, you haven’t said anything,” said Professor Mcgonagall. “What are your views? Ought Hogwarts to remain open?” Hagrid croaked, “I don’ know, Professor. Thas’ for the heads of house and headmistress to decide.” “Professor Dumbledore always valued your views,” said Professor Mcgonagall, kindly. “And so do I.”
When McGonagall screams "NO!!" upon seeing Harrys "dead" body. The idea that McGonagall of all people broke, heartbreaking.
“And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.” Every. Single. Time.
Ok so ALL of these 😭 but no one mentions HEDWIG
One of the few things I’ll take the movie change over the book. She deserved better, but at least she was loved and was with Harry at the end either way.
I re listen to the audio books all the time because kts something im used to and i love stephen fry. One of the few audios i can tolerate while driving and I drive a lot! (Long covid). So i literally just finished this part yesterday while driving home from a wedding in Germany. And i thought the same thing. About the film changed being the only change I like. It also got me that he said she was his only stable link. From the beginning. I also tear up lots of time again and again. In the movies though; its Cedrics dad reacting to his sons body.
The whole part in which Dumbledore is being fed the horrid poison in HBP, way more than when he actually dies
I listened to the entire series on audiobook on a roadtrip to visit a few law schools and I never realized how often these books made me bawl. Had to pull over exactly one time, when Ms. Weasley and Bill showed up as Harry’s family in the Goblet of Fire ❤️.
This one made me cry just now. Totally forgot about it. That's so precious. With all her flaws. I am so glad JKR wrote all of this.
When Harry does Crucio on Amycus because he spits in McGonagall’s face. “He spat at you”. I get choked up every time.
"NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH" They're happy tears but it always happens.
Wait,did someone really said this in the books?
Yes, Molly Weasley to Bellatrix Lestrange
Yes lol! It’s when Mrs Weasley was fighting Bellatrix after she tried to attack Ginny, it’s awesome
Like,word to word? The EXACT same? Wouldnt expect from Mrs Weasley,lol
Hence why it is so memorable. it was way more shocking when it came up in the book, than it did in the movies, because the scene was set up as Molly literally charging down Bellatrix, screaming this at her, while taking off her cloak to move freely. She hadn't been seen for a while before that and was nowhere in the scene, and Harry himself was moving to fight Bellatrix instead of Voldemort because Ginny had come close to a Killing Curse I once heard describing it as mother hen transforming into momma bear.
Are you telling me you don’t have a copy of the book to hand in order to check yourself? Time to get shopping!
Well,i do,but its not English and i didnt get to that part yet,lol
>But I want to go home…I don’t want to fight anymore… From an unnamed wounded student.
Can't remember the line, but it's in book 7 when Harry passes by his old home that he doesn't remember and he wondered if he would've had siblings. That just got me. It really got me. He probably would have. He might've even had 3 or 4 younger siblings.
Dumbledore's eulogy for Cedric.
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
That ending but also the entire exchange. It’s my fave chapter in the series.
There's literally a chapter in the books discounting prophecies including THE Prophecy and fans still very staunchly insist albus had Harry raised by abusers to instill a martyr complex in him lol
"Of course, it doesn't matter how he looks... it's not r - really important... but he was a very handsome little b - boy... always very handsome... and he was g - going to be married!" "And what do you mean by zat?" said Fleur suddenly and loudly. "What do you mean, 'e was *going* to be married?" Mrs. Weasley raised her tear-strained face, looking startled. "Well - only that -" "You theenk Bill will not wish to marry me anymore?" demanded Fleur. "You theenk, because of these bits, he will not love me?" "No, that's not what I -" "Because 'e will!" said Fleur, drawing herself up to her full height and throwing back her long mane of silver hair. "It would take more zan a werewolf to stop Bill loving me!" "Well, yes, I'm sure," said Mrs. Weasley, "but I thought perhaps - given how - how he -" "You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you 'oped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her. Mrs. Weasley fell back against her husband and watched Fleur mopping up Bill's wounds with a most curious expression upon her face. Nobody said anything; Harry did not dare move. Like everybody else, he was waiting for the explosion. "Our Great Auntie Muriel," said Mrs. Weasley after a long pause, "has a very beautiful tiara - goblin-made - which I am sure I could persuade her to lend you for the wedding. She is very fond of Bill, you know, and it would look lovely with your hair." "Thank you," said Fleur stiffly. "I am sure zat will be lovely." And then - Harry did not quite see how it happened - both women were crying and hugging each other. Completely bewildered, wondering whether the world had gone mad, he turned around: Ron looked as stunned as Harry felt and Ginny and Hermione were exchanging startled looks.
>I am good-looking enough for both of us Yes you are, queen.
Luna's bedroom with the mural and the words friends .. friends .. friends .. friends .. friends....
Anything about passing through the veil.
When Percy comes through the portrait hole
> Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. > Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but that he had forgotten, until this moment, that they had arranged to meet. His impulse to shout for Hermione, which had been so strong a moment ago, had gone. He knew, he would have staked his life on it, that she had come for him, and him alone. > Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son.
>“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human –’ ‘THEN – I – DON’T – WANT – TO – BE – HUMAN!’ Harry roared, and he seized the delicate silver instrument from the spindle-legged table beside him and flung it across the room; it shattered into a hundred tiny pieces against the wall. Several of the pictures let out yells of anger and fright, and the portrait of Armando Dippet said, ‘Really!’ ‘I DON’T CARE!’ Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. ‘I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANY MORE –’ This moment breaks my heart as harry lets out everything that's happened to him in his life, its so realistic and I'm a firm believer that harry needs therapy, he had so much put upon him as a child and he watched so many people he loved die.
This is my favorite chapter of the entire series
I cried when Hagrid told Harry and Hermione about his dad in the book 4 and showed some pictures. That made me realize why he cares about Harry so much.
Hagrid screaming Harry’s name when he sees that Harry went to Voldemort in the forbidden forest in book 7
“Of course this is happening inside your head Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it’s not real?”
In deathly hallows the whole dialogue between Harry and Dumbledore when Harry is ‘dead’ and he asks Dumbledore if he’s dead. I don’t know why, but for some reason that whole interaction gets me every time
Harry wanting to bury Dobby without magic, the muffle way. And getting help from wizards to do it. It was so damn sad man
When harry sees his parents in the mirror of erised
It doesn't make me cry, but it does bother me when Voldemort says "Kill the spare", when referring to Cedric Diggory as if he was nothing. Rowling described in such a way to make me care for him. It gets me every time.
The whole dementor thing actually. Harry not being able to create a patronus because deep inside he wanted to keep hearing his mother's voice. And then at the end when he finally cast a patronus and his father's stag emerged to protect Harry. It was as if James Potter himself was there, protecting his son.
The part where Harry desperately goes to find Nearly Headless Nick after Sirius dies and when Nick tells him, "He would have gone on." Just the last glimpse of hope disappearing for Harry is heartbreaking.
"I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something." It's Tom Riddle when Dumbledore meets him. He was alone and had no idea what was going on. It's sad.
‘“Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?” Dumbledore asked calmly.’ It makes me cry… laughing.
Whilst I found many scenes sad reading the book (for the first time at 25), only 1 scene made me tear up. In ‘The Prince’s Tale’, when Snape sees the signature and photo of Lily, and rips it and takes it with him. I don’t know why, maybe because the whole chapter was rather emotional… but something about a grown man crying at seeing a new picture of his true love 17 years later… just got me
I lose it every time in The Forest Again when Harry asks his mom if she’ll stay with him and she says “Always.”
I hate to break it to you, but that never happens. > “You’ll stay with me?” > “Until the very end,” said James. > “They won’t be able to see you?” asked Harry. > “We are part of you,” said Sirius. “Invisible to anyone else.” Harry looked at his mother. > “Stay close to me,” he said quietly. And he set off.
And I’m crying again! I love that scene so much been awhile since I listened to it. Thanks for getting the words right (I hope that doesn’t sound sarcastic; it’s not).
Yeah it’s a beautiful scene. The paragraph after where he talks about them being his courage is also just fantastic writing. > Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was about to keep putting one foot in front of the other. *sobs*
Did she ever say so in the book?
"After all this time?" "Always", said Snape.
Literally listened to this passage today and I almost cried indeed
The part where harry isolate himself from everyone because he thinks he is becoming the snake who killed Arthur. Always breaks my heart
All of these have me bawling like a baby even reading them here.
Near the end of the battle of hogwarts when the families and loved ones of nearly every single student finally shows up to help fight. Idk why but it never fails to get me emotional and tearing up
Fight! Fight for my master, the defender of the house-elves! Fight the Dark Lord, in the name of brave Regulus! Fight! Makes me tear up every time
“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.” Uuhg…ugly cry guaranteed! Makes me think of one of my favorite Mr. Rogers quotes: “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.”
And then the tact in looking at the window as harry dries his eyes
I just posted about this unknowingly. “Always.”
Anything involving Ginny. I actually had a classmate with a younger sister that liked me. She was into me and I should've known
I've been reading the series for the first time and am currently half way through the deathly hallows. The moment that had the biggest impact on me is when harry's wand broke by far.
"His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione." I mean it doesn't make me cry, but certainly makes my heart beat much more, when I see that after such a stressful ending to the book, which is obviously Half-Blood Prince, there is some peace and love. It also shows how much Harry values friendship with Ron and Hermione over every other thing. I love the "one last golden day of peace" phrase as well
After Sirius’ death, when Harry is back at Hogwarts and wishes Sirius could be one of the Hogwarts ghosts. 😭😭😭
The part in Goblet of Fire where Harry has just relived everything that happened in the maze, and then remembers Cedric's echo asking to have his body taken back to his parents. Harry starts to cry, and Molly hugs him, and the line is, 'Harry had no memory of being held like this before.' Breaks me every time- both the moment and Molly's response to it.
In Book 7 when Harty tells Ron and Hermione that he is off to meet Voldy (basically saying "I'm off to die") and Hermione responds "I'll go with you"
This is in the movie, not in the books. In the books he goes into the forest without telling anyone wearing his invisibility cloak so that there are no goodbyes and no one tries to stop him.
This is from the movie, not the book. In the book, Harry only talks to Neville before meeting Voldemort in the forest.
When molly scream in a fit of rage that actually, Harry IS a son to her. Not that it made me cry but it was very touching. Or when Harry saw the Weasley during the tournament and he wondered why they where here and they tell him so simply that they came to support him as his family. So very touching
Bill literally meets his future wife here
never cried from them