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Tear Jerkers in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) include:

• The addition made after Dumbledore's death, when first McGonagall, then Luna and Neville, and eventually everyone raises their wands lit by Lumos in silent honor of their fallen headmaster.
  • Dear lord, the scene where Dumbledore leads Harry to get the Horcrux, and Harry must feed him the potion, even after he cannot tolerate it, and he gets all frail and pale. Completely lost it there.
• In place of Dumbledore's 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.

McGonagall: You meant a great deal to him.

• When Malfoy was in the Room of Requirement, 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. Draco has few lines, but the ones he does are filled with so much emotion it hurts.

Draco: I have to do this. I have to kill you. Or he's gonna kill me.

• • 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.
• 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 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.

Hermione: (tearfully) How does it feel, Harry? When you see Dean with Ginny? I know. I see the way you look at her. You're my best friend. (she drives off Ron and Lavender and collapses in tears) Harry: It feels like this.

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