Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)/Heartwarming
- Everyone will always be split over things they change in the movies, but you'd have to be The Stoic to not feel a tug at the heartstrings in this movie when, after Dumbledore dies and the Dark Mark is cast, Ginny is comforting a sobbing Harry and everyone, teachers and students, raise their wands and together vanquish the Dark Mark from their castle.
- The look on McGonagall's face really drove it home - I didn't expect to cry in the sixth movie, because we all know that it was all part of the plan, but seeing McGonagall reminded me that she doesn't know. To her... that was the ultimate betrayal.
- Horace Slughorn talking about the fish that Lily Potter gave him; again, both a heartwarming moment and a tearjerker, and also remarkably startling since the lead-in lines to this speech had been part of a Crowning Moment of Funny.
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It was a student who gave me Francis. One day I came down to my office, and there was a bowl with only a few inches of clear water in it... and there was a flower petal floating on the water. Before my eyes it started to sink, and just before it hit the bottom, it transformed into a wee fish. It was a beautiful piece of magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal was from a lily... the day Francis disappeared was the day your mother... |
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- After Dumbledore dies, and the whole class puts their wands up in the air to get rid of the Dark Mark in the sky, we cut to the next morning. The scene alone with McGonagall and Harry was very sad yet heartwarming, but what had this troper burst to tears was when The Trio went up to the astronomy tower, and discussed what their next move would be now that Dumbledore is dead, and now that they know that the Horcruxes are the key to defeating Voldemort. Harry is determined to find them all by himself, but Hermione quite funnily retorts to him that he couldn't do it alone, with Ron agreeing. They then all huddle up on the balcony of the astronomy tower as they watch Fawkes the phoenix fly away, across the black lake and into the morning sun. Not really heartwarming in description, but good lord. The way they did it... with the cinematography... and then when placed into the context of the events that had just occurred.... and when you put on top of that that this is basically signaling the beginning of the end of the series, I began to cry. For people like me, who've grown up with the films more so than the books, who've grown up with the actors and their characters (and for whom the viewer can genuinely see the camaraderie that they have for each other)... it just... ahhhhh. It was a poetic and heartwarming moment on the Power of Friendship and the loss of innocence.
- Harry comforting Hermione after Ron and Lavender get together.
- Ron and Hermione insisting that they will go with Harry on his Horcrux hunt, no matter what.