Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)/Tear Jerker

""Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know they have a daughter, see.""
 * Hermione putting a memory charm on her parents to keep them safe.

"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"
 * The Deathly Hallows, has this in bucketloads, including, but not limited to:, , the , , Dumbledore's past, especially when , the scene where ,.
 * His last words: "Look... at... me..."
 * Snape's death in the film.
 * There was a new scene added to And if that isn't bad enough, we see
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 * The scene that.
 * The scene where Hermione is being tortured, while Harry and Ron listen, trapped in the basement of the Malfoy house.
 * The most tearjerk-y thing about that scene isn't even that Hermione is getting tortured, it's that Ron is absolutely losing it because he can't do anything.
 * Everything about.
 * The scene where Hermione is being tortured, while Harry and Ron listen, trapped in the basement of the Malfoy house.
 * The most tearjerk-y thing about that scene isn't even that Hermione is getting tortured, it's that Ron is absolutely losing it because he can't do anything.
 * Everything about.
 * The most tearjerk-y thing about that scene isn't even that Hermione is getting tortured, it's that Ron is absolutely losing it because he can't do anything.
 * Everything about.


 * This troper survived without shedding a tear. That scene made her bawl like a baby.
 * During the Battle of Hogwarts, when Harry sees that are dead, he pretty much shatters emotionally, running blindly toward the only place where he feels safe: Dumbledore's office. When the gargoyle guarding the staircase to the office asks for the password, Harry says the first thing that comes to mind: . The password works. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that  set that password, meaning that despite everything,  was just as dedicated to honoring the man's memory as Harry was.
 * Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and McGonagall's reaction to
 * This troper didn't cry until she read Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness. It turned all the people who died in the final battle from a Redshirt Army of background characters into people with hopes and dreams, families and best friends, people she'd gotten familiar with, people whose jokes and little quirks she'd laughed at, just all around people.
 * A comparatively minor one, but the habit Harry develops of taking out the Marauder's Map just to look at Ginny's dot because that's the closest he can be to her.
 * When Harry finds a letter wrote to Sirius.
 * Kreacher's Tale. That is all.
 * Godric's Hollow. Everything: The grave scene, seeing his house with all the encouraging notes, and the statue commemorating the Potter family, all together.
 * The Prince's Tale was actually a refreshing happy moment for a young Snape with him excitedly telling Lily about Hogwarts until this happens:

": After all this time?
 * "The Prince's Tale" as a whole is a massive Crowning Moment of Sadness for Snape. From This chapter rivals  as the saddest one in the series.
 * Always."

""Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless -- unless they've got to.""
 * Narcissa asking Harry whether Draco was alive. And then betraying Voldemort himself.
 * Then immediately afterwards, when the fighting breaks out again, her and Lucius running through the battle, not lifting a finger to help Voldemort's side, screaming for Draco. Two of the most devout Death Eaters in the series no longer care about Voldemort's war or blood purity or anything else and are simply reduced to two frantic parents desperately searching for their son. It was a moment that made two of the most unsympathetic characters in the books very human.
 * When Lupin visits the Trio at Grimmauld Place and confesses to . While it's a painful moment for Lupin, so full of guilt and self-loathing, it's actually even worse for Harry, who has just seen his very last "father figure" knocked off a pedestal.


 * The way Harry hesitates during the sentence says all too clearly that he's thinking about his own situation - and possibly Tom Riddle's as well. As a result of their parents not being there (Tom Riddle the elder is implied to have abandoned Merope shortly after finding out she was pregnant), both of them were brought up in home situations where they were misunderstood, persecuted, and feared. What Harry really means to say is that the only good excuse for a parent not to be there for their child is if that parent dies.
 * Lupin died with a picture of his son in his pocket.
 * 's death..

"Harry: "Why are you here? All of you?"
 * The Resurrection Stone scene. All of it.
 * "We never left.""


 * Any moment between Narcissa's betrayal of Voldemort and Voldemort's death. The two that give me the worst case of tears are Slughorn (who has always been shown as a bit of a coward) leading the reinforcements for the Battle of Hogwarts and Molly Weasley fighting with Bellatrix Lestrange.
 * The realisation that Andromeda Tonks lost her husband and her daughter's husband walked out on them. Then, he comes back, her grandson is named after her dead husband, and it seems okay. But then there's the battle at Hogwarts. Lupin leaves, and then so does her daughter, and neither of them come back, leaving her with her grandson, named for her husband, and with the same morphing abilities as her dead daughter. The woman barely appears in the book, but experiences as much loss as so many others. (Also, Sirius had died nearly two years beforehand, and a comment Sirius makes in Book 5 implies that they were closest to each other among their family members.)
 * Not to mention the fact that she's the sister of Voldemort's right-hand woman. You see Harry's reaction to her when he doesn't initially realize who she is (or rather, who she isn't), and wonder if other strangers had given her that same reaction. And then you wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that she and her husband live in a secluded location, away from other wizards and witches.