Harry Potter/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

** Just like the scene in ''Goblet of Fire'' {{spoiler|where Dumbledore explains to Harry what happened to Frank and Alice, and Harry himself is ''so'' appalled that he thinks he was lucky to just have his parents dead, whereas Neville's parents still live but can't even recognize their child, so damaged they were.}}

** When Moody taught the Unforgivable Curses, it must have been having a hell of a moment for Harry and {{spoiler|Neville...}}

** It's actually both a [[Tear Jerker]] AND a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for {{spoiler|Fake Moody. Think about it. HE is the one responsible for Alice & Frank's demise, along with the Lestranges. Now look at that scene again. He is basically torturing Neville for: A) His own ends, just to get a chance to revive his Lord, and B) Because he KNOWS how Neville would react.}}

** Worse so in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]]'' when {{spoiler|Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and Ron actually see Neville with his parents at St. Mungo's. Neville's grandmother tells him to throw away the wrapper Alice has given her son, and he slips it into his pocket.}} Anything with Neville and his parents, really.

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

** 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.