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== Prisoner of Azkaban ==
* When Harry realizes what his Patronus is.
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** Harry's learning of the Patronus (or rather, his initial struggle to do so) is sad in a way that's so obvious that it's almost subtle. Especially the film, where Harry fails the first time and Lupin asks him what happy memory he chose to try to power the Patronus. Harry responds with his first memory of riding a broomstick and Lupin says that it wasn't "nearly strong enough." But until Harry finds the loophole (the memory doesn't always have to be real - it can be a positive hope or dream or the like), that's literally the best he can come up with up to that point. :'(
* A rather subtle, but effective, moment comes in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when Harry catches himself half-hoping to be overwhelmed by a Dementor since, horrible as the experience is, it's the only time he's ever heard his parent's voices.
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* Harry thinking about his parents never hugging him like that when Molly hugged him.
** Not to mention that all the while, Harry was fighting back tears over {{spoiler|Cedric's death}}.
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** {{spoiler|Cedric's father, who acted like a pompous [[Jerkass]] towards Harry, won't take the Triwizard winnings and also lets him know that he doesn't blame him for Cedric's death.}}
* When {{spoiler|dead Cedric}} asks Harry to {{spoiler|take his body back to his parents.}}
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* Another subtle one this troper noticed from the film. Sirius Black's last words before he died were "Good Shot James!" {{spoiler|That moment brings tears to this tropers eyes, when she thinks of how that is all Sirius wanted, one last little scuffle with his best friend. It makes his death easier to accept, because he is going to see James soon.}}
* The scene where Dumbledore explains to Harry why he wasn't made a prefect:
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* Molly's personal [[Your Worst Nightmare|boggart]] of seeing her sons (and Harry) killed.
** That scene made her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in DH even more awesome.
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* I can't believe no one has mentioned the Order of the Phoenix film when Fred and George sit down to comfort a scared first year after he's been punished. They show him their hands and say, "See, it's not so bad. You can hardly see the scars." That one scene showed more about the true character of those young men than almost anything else in the movies. They aren't just good guys, they're good MEN, protecting AND comforting the weak when they need it.
* The scene in Dumbledore's office at the end of Order of the Phoenix. After everything that happens in the Department of Mysteries, Harry ''breaks''.
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'''Dumbledore''': You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. }}
** It's made even ''worse'' when coming back to Book 5 after finishing the series. Why is Dumbledore so calm and understanding? Because he went through the same thing.
* "Snape's Worst Memory" becomes this after you read ''Deathly Hallows'' and realize just how much that particular memory hurt for the poor guy.
* The "flaw" in Dumbledore's plan.
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** {{spoiler|This is basically Dumbledore admitting that, not only did he begin to love his most effective intended weapon against Voldemort the moment he saw how brave and selfless and good he (Harry) had become, he was probably trying to stop himself from caring about anyone this much after what happened to his sister.}}
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* In ''Half-Blood Prince'', when Slughorn {{spoiler|finally gives Harry his memory.}} His sad declaration that he's not proud of what he did, and the way he tremulously asks Harry not to think too badly of him after he sees it touchingly and completely removes all ill will we might feel towards the poor guy.
* In ''Half-Blood Prince'', when recruiting Slughorn to work at Hogwarts, Dumbledore told Harry that he wouldn't need to worry about being attacked, because "You (Harry) are with me (Dumbledore)". At the end of the book, after Dumbledore took all of the potion to get the {{spoiler|fake}} Horcrux, Harry is helping Dumbledore get out of the cave, leading to this [[Call Back|exchange]]:
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"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you." }}
* Snape's "Don't call me coward!" in book 6 becomes this when you realize how much he went through just to get to that moment.
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*** The most tearjerk-y thing about that scene isn't even that Hermione is getting tortured, it's that Ron is absolutely [[Berserk Button|losing it]] because he can't do anything.
** Everything about {{spoiler|Fred's death. Percy laying over his body to protect it, Ron trying to get Percy to move with tears streaking down his face, Harry and Percy moving the body away from the battle}}.
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** {{spoiler|I am about to die.}} This troper survived {{spoiler|Sirius, Dumbledore, Hedwig, Moody, Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Dobby}} without shedding a tear. That scene made her bawl like a baby.
** During the Battle of Hogwarts, when Harry sees that {{spoiler|Lupin and Tonks}} 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: {{spoiler|"Dumbledore"}}. The password works. [[Fridge Brilliance]] kicks in when you realize that {{spoiler|Snape}} set that password, meaning that despite everything, {{spoiler|he}} was just as dedicated to honoring the man's memory as Harry was.
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* 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 [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|happy moment]] for a young Snape with him excitedly telling Lily about Hogwarts until this happens:
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{{spoiler|"Normally," said Snape. "But you're Muggle-born, so someone from the school will have to come and explain to your parents."}}
{{spoiler|"Does it make a difference, being Muggle-born?"}}
{{spoiler|Snape hesitated. His black eyes, eager in the greenish gloom, moved over her pale face, her dark red hair.}}
{{spoiler|"No," he said. "It doesn't make any difference."}} }}
** "The Prince's Tale" as a whole is a ''massive'' [[Crowning Moment of Sadness]] for Snape. From {{spoiler|his childhood to being bullied at school, to pushing Lily away and his reaction to her death, culminating with the fact that [[The Atoner|he spent the rest of his life]] trying to make up for causing it...}} This chapter rivals {{spoiler|Dumbledore's funeral}} as the saddest one in the series.
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{{spoiler|Snape}}: Always. }}
* Hermione putting a memory charm on her parents to keep them safe:
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** This was one of the saddest parts of the film adaptation, where Hermione magically edits herself out of the seventeen years' worth of family photos sitting on the Grangers' mantle after she erases her family's memories.
* 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.
* In [[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]], when Lupin visits the Trio at Grimmauld Place and confesses to {{spoiler|leaving his pregnant wife}}. 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.
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** 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.'' {{spoiler|And considering Lupin's fate at the end of the book...}}
* Lupin died with a picture of his son in his pocket.
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* In the Order of the Phoenix, when {{spoiler|Harry is possessed by Voldemort}} and fights back by remembering everything which makes them different. {{spoiler|"You're the weak one. And you'll never know love. Or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."}}
* One of the most memorable parts of Order of The Phoenix is Harry and Luna in the forest with the Thestrals. If you've ever been ousted from peer groups for being odd or different, this scene hits very close to home.
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'''Harry''': Different. }}
** Made even sadder when the only reason that Harry and Luna can see the Thestrals, because Harry couldn't at first, is because they've ''seen death''. Insert flashback of the previous film's climactic scene and aftermath.
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** This troper cried only once during the course of all the films and that once was {{spoiler|Sirius's death.}}
** Three words:
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** Lupin's face as he is trying to hold back Harry from chasing after Lestrange; never has total despair ever been more present on a man's face.
* Also from ''Order of the Phoenix'', Hagrid's plea to Harry's trio to look after Grawp for him. Hagrid is such a big softy.
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* In place of Dumbledore's {{spoiler|funeral, the wand-lit memorial by teachers and students that disintegrates the Dark Mark}} is pretty moving.
** The look of ''utter devastation'' on McGonagall's face... and the scene afterwards.
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* Sixth movie, when Malfoy was in the Room of Requirement, {{spoiler|trying to get the Vanishing Cabinet to work}}, and the finch appears to have died. You can hear him crying and you can really feel how stressed and scared he is. Pushed even further when he's in the bathroom later, breaking down.
* This troper actually bawled like a baby in the cinema when Draco Malfoy was confronting Dumbledore in Half Blood Prince. Draco has few lines, but the ones he does are filled with so much emotion it hurts.
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** Moreso in the book than the movie, but that scene really foreshadows a fact that looms large in the seventh book - for all the Malfoys' pontificating about blood purity and parroting of the Death Eaters' ideals, their first loyalty is to ''each other'', not Voldemort. And it really goes to show how far Draco is willing to go in order to try to save his parents.
* In ''Half-Blood Prince'' Slughorn's story about the magical fish that Lily Evans gave him, and how, when he came downstairs and looked at it one day, it had vanished - and so he knew that she was dead, because a wizard's magic only stops when they do.
* The scene in the movie of [[Half Blood Prince]] where Hermione is crying in the abandoned room and Harry tries to comfort her, only to have the lovebirds interrupt and be driven off by the real lovebirds.
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(she drives off Ron and Lavender and collapses in tears)
'''Harry''': It feels like this. }}
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* As mentioned above, Hermione, at the beginning of the film. We see her in her room, being called down to tea. Then she enters the living room, and obliviates her parents. Her expression alone is enough to tear your heart out, and the slow fading of her from the photos... The more you think about what she'd need to do to make her parents not know they had a daughter, the more heart-wrenching it gets. And, yes, the more disturbing it gets.
* In a deleted scene for DH part 1, Aunt Petunia shows that she may not have been as cold of a bitch as she let on.
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** Which is most likely what she was going to say at the end of the chapter in the book.
* I cannot believe that no one has mentioned the scene after the trio escape from the Ministry. Ron {{spoiler|gets splinched, nearly severing his arm. Harry is in some sort of shock while Hermione is in tears barking orders at him. Ron, on the other hand, is portraying the pain he is in in the most gut-wrenching way possible}}. Already knowing the outcome of said situation didn't help this troper from bursting into tears for the '''THIRD''' time already in the movie.
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** Snape was a prime cause of tears in pretty much the entire movie. His death was even more horrifically violent than in the book, and the way he just sits there against the glass, bleeding to death, until Harry goes up to him...(and, it should be pointed out, vainly tries to save him by stopping the bleeding, even though he doesn't yet know the truth about his allegiance)
** This line they added to his death scene:
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** God, not just the line, but the ''way'' he says it: no malice, no anger, not even any bitterness, just calm and accepting and a little sad.
*** This troper was stunned by how almost ''loving'' it sounded, almost as if he was talking to Lily herself. (Not...[[Squick|not like that]]...shut up, you know what I mean.) Both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry read the lines as sort of a strangled whisper, but Rickman's version is possibly even better.
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