Comments on: Revisiting Harry Potter: Crying early and often https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/ before I read the middle Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1282 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:28:23 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1282 In reply to samantha1020.

THEN JOIN US COMRADE.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1281 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:27:40 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1281 In reply to Biblibio.

Absolutely agree. That’s a wonderful Neville moment and totally earned. And just, to see him come into his own and be even braver than we’ve seen him be all along, it’s wonderful.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1280 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:26:46 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1280 In reply to litlove.

Same here! He grows up so much as a character, and yet he’s always the same person he was in the first book. All brave and decent. Oh Neville.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1279 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:25:48 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1279 In reply to Alley.

Right? Right? How many relatives does Ron really need? I would be sad for Mrs. Weasley and everything, but not as sad as I am for Harry. 🙁

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1278 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:25:23 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1278 In reply to americanbookjunkie.

Oh, yes. Part of how great that first bit I quoted was exactly what you say, and I should have mentioned it. FANG. Of course he must protect Hagrid.

]]> By: J.G. https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1277 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:13:53 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1277 In reply to Jenny.

Okay, I will dip a toe in. Because you said so.

]]> By: samantha1020 https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1276 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:08:01 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1276 AAAAHHHH! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR POSTS MAKES ME WISH I’M READING HARRY POTTER TOO!!! And yes, I felt the need to capitalize all of it because I am way overdue on a Harry Potter reread. Enough is enough…I need to find my copy of the first book now! I cried when Sirius died too…and in the movie 🙂

]]> By: Biblibio https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1275 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:40:06 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1275 Back when I read the first book for the very first time, I remember thinking how wonderful it was that Neville was the one who won them the House Cup. It seemed so fitting that the boy everyone kept saying wasn’t brave enough – the one who himself kept claiming that he didn’t belong among the “brave” – was the ultimate hero. At that moment, I knew Neville was the best. And maybe it took until book five to really see all his bravery in full-force (and book seven until that thing that’s my favorite scene in all of the books probably maybe definitely), but… Neville, volunteering, facing his enemies, fighting even when he can’t fight anymore… rips my heart out every time. Neville owns this book.

]]> By: litlove https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1274 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:38:49 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1274 Just to say that Neville pretty much always makes me cry. He only has to walk along a corridor and I’m welling up. What is it about him? He is SO touching. I just want to take him home and hug him for a long, long time. Just as well he’s a fictional character as there’s probably a law against that.

]]> By: Alley https://readingtheend.com/2013/04/12/revisiting-harry-potter-crying-early-and-often/#comment-1273 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:39:58 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4288#comment-1273 I really wished Mr. Weasley had died in place in of Sirius (which isn’t a trade I would make except for the fact that JK said it was what she did). Because you’re right, Ron has 17 thousand family members to lean on and Harry has no one, and why can’t he just be a little happy, JK??

I’m a wreck going into the next book because I’m still angry at this death. Not fair.

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