Harry Potter has made me cry a few times. Before you laugh at some of the little things I've cryed at, keep it ming that I'm senstive. The first it did was a little bit in the 4th book, when the Weasleys were waiting for Harry, instead of Dursleys, them being like his family's. And of course in the 5th book when Sirius dies ::sigh::, and when Ron is telling them about him winning the Cup, and all the saves he made when he ruffed his hair like James. And Harry was looking at Ron And he asked "What" and Harry said "Nothing" I just found it so moving. And in the thrid movie Harry was talking about how him and Sirius should live in the country I was thinking "he'll never get to do it and it sucks". But I just finished reading the 5th book that morning, and the sadness of his death was still with me.

I cried when Sirius went bye-bye . Well, not quite. I got teary-eyed. We always read the books out loud in my family, so I diddn't actually cry...
Oh yeah, when I thought Arthur was deas I got teary eyed also, and when Harry was always screaming at his friends

And when Cedric died and when Hagrid got rid of Norbert

I cried just a bit when Ron messed up his hair after the quidditch game and harry smiled to himself about it.

For some reason, though, the movie or POA has had a really strong effect on me. I am Mom and maybe I am responding to the sadness that is Harry's life and I think it really hit me during PoA more than ever. I know that this site isn't supposed to be really about the movies per se or the actors, but I bring this up because, if not for seeing the 3rd movie a few times, I would never have gotten really into the HP stories again. I had read them with my kids, but while I enjoyed them, I just didn't get too deep into them.

I truly think that Daniel Radcliffe did such an amazing job (in my opinion) of showing this ongoing inner sadness and loss that the character or Harry will live with forever. I am sure that Cuaron and his direction and vision of the film made this possible as well. While I find many faults with the storytelling of the film, I love the film on a very emotional level. The scenes with Lupin were particulary poignant. I think I respond to this film from a maternal way. I want to give Harry the chance to know his parents. I also probably respond to it in a personal way since I lost my father to cancer when I was a young child and I myself had cancer when my first child was only 3 months old. Losing a parent and then possibly having a disease that would take me away from my child were of course powerful experiences in my life.

For some reason the sadness of Harry's life escaped me a bit in the first 2 books. I think it is because the whimsy of the him learning about his magical life was so charming and fun. But in PoA, the magical stuff is no longer the center stage. We have come to accept it and so has Harry, but the emotional stuff is just starting. Harry is sad, is grieving and yet is also has a very definite spirit of life and hope.

I sort of wish that Cuaron could continue with the films in some way because I think he does great as a director when it comes to mood, feelings emotion. The actors really seemed to give their best performances when working with him. But I also like the way Columbus told a more linear story based more closely on the books. I would be nice if there was a way to have them co-direct. I don't know what to expect of Newell.

I went off the question, but my answer in summary is the books have made me teary at times. I probably react more strongly to them each time I read them.

Good I'm not the one who cryed at the part where Ron messed up his hair. I also think that in the first two books, there aren't that emotional. It's establishing the story and the characters, and the "magic" of the serious. But when Harry learns that his parents died because of betraly, that must be a horriable thing to feel. Or wtih Ron's jealousy, the pain the characters become, the more real they get. And somethings we get moved to tears because of it.

i have actally never cryed reading H.p books, or at the movies, but i can see why some would, i guess i just find it hard to cry...but like some bits make me think if you get what i mean?.

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Well people react the story in differnt ways.

I cried when Sirius died. I was so depressed that I actually didn't pick the book back up for two days! lol! I got kinda teary eyed after Harry saw Mr. Weasley attacked and Fred and George were like yelling that they wanted to see him and they didn't care if it got the order into trouble. I don't know why that really got to me. I think it was because Fred and George are usually all jokes, but they were so serious and angry in that moment and that's a side to them that you don't usually see.

Yeah they're a bit like Xander where the joking person does something serious it's more powerful beacause you don't exepect them to act that way.

i have never cryed while reading the books but i have allmost cryed

Hmm, yeah, I have shed my share of HP tears. Let's see:
When Sirius died - I like him before PoA, in SS when Hagrid says that he borrowed the motorcycle from Sirius Black I was like AWESOME a flying motorcycle, now he must be cool
When Cedric died- Not the first time I read it, but after a couple of rereadings
When Ginny was taken into the Chamber- same as above.
When we finally meet Neville's parents- Again, after a few rereadings.
Random parts (which actually deserve crying over) after a few rereadings.

And one really good fanfic made me cry (which is really new to me) it was of PoA through Lupin's eyes and all, it was really touching.
Those are all I can think of..

I cried so much when SIRIUS DIED! waaaaaaaaah
i criued from laughter too when Fred and george left.

I LOVE OOTP

Not really but close to it. My eyes started to water at the end of OotP. Sirius was my favorite character. I have a feeling by the end of the series I'll have cried enough.

Well, let's see.... heh heh. I'm a very sensitive girl and when it comes to crying, I'm like the expert.

Anywho, here's my list:

SS/PS: When Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised and sees his parents beside him, only to come to later realization that they weren't actually there... that moved me so much because he's so young and doesn't have parents.. it's so tragic.
CoS: When Hermione was petrified... oohh, I cried a little... it's just that both Harry and Ron are so used to having Hermione there with them, almost all the time.. and at that time, she couldn't and it felt like the trio was somehow broken apart.
GoF: Harry gives his TriWizard earnings to Fred and George...they were happy tears!!
OotP: Of course, when Sirius ----. I'm still very sad about it. Verrry.

It's funny about the OotP thing because I while I was reading... I was crying like crazy and my mom goes "What's wrong?" and I couldn't speak and she was all like "Give me the book, you're getting too emotional"...and I was like "NOOOO! *sobs* It's just he ----. I don't want him to!"... sad, but funny if you really think about it.

I have cried while reading 2 of the HP books: the 4th and 5th one.

Thankfully I was at home when I was reading the 4th book, and I started crying when Cedric died and then again when the dead people came out of Voldy's wand. (I'm very emotional)

Unfortunately, I wasn't at home when I read the part of the 5th book that Sirius died in. I was at school in my 6th period class. I cried for the rest of that class and the next one and even when I got home. It was terrible.

I still cry each time I read the 4th and 5th one and I know for a fact that I'm going to be crying like a baby in the last two books. lol.

i di cry over a another book in study hall i was reading black hawk down theguy was in itesen pian and was about to die after hours of pain i just started busted up cry

..................back to topic when i was read OOTP in stury hall when sirius died i could feel tears

I cried when Sirius died of course... I mean, I got tears in my eyes, but I wasn't like, sobbing!

And it isn't a book but for some weird wimpy reason I cried at the end of COS movie, because it was so happy!

I was alone when I read the 5th book, but not the 4th, my mom was like "why are you crying?".

I read them in my room or in our basement, so no one knows that I'm crying. In Elementary School if I checked out a sad book the libraiain would let me sit in the back office and read it if I cried...

Boy, Harry Potter sure does make people cry a lot for a "kids'" book!

Someone already said this but it reminded me that I got teary when they went to St Mungo's and ran into Neville and saw his parents. When Neville's mom gave him a wrapper and Harry saw him put it into his pocket instead of throwing it away, I was very sad.

Me too, that was one of the most touching things in the book, and it was such a small gesture. And Harry Potter is not a "kids" book, it's an "everyone" book.

I think I mentioned that somewhere.
That was really sad. tears all over the place/

Aww, I wonder how much the 6th will make me cry.

Well I would have to say that I too got tear-ie eyed when Sirius died/whatever. (I dont really think he died...but that is character adoration causing a bias opinion.) Other then that I have not cryed. I have felt sad about stuff that happens, but that is different.

My gosh!!! Every time i read from those pages (you know the ones) i always get teary eyed...and say no this can't happen...why? why? why? I haven't gotten over it since!

No I haven´t cry in none of the books, I do not know why many guys have cry, its just a story, but a really interesting storie,and there´s no reason to cry, you can get over it really fast, well at least me, I do not take things like that too serious!

You've never allowed a book to touch you?! Haven't you ever been so entranced by a book that you really feel what that character is feeling? Their pain/worry/happiness/fear?

Yes, of course they're just stories, but I have to say that I think you're missing out on something wonderful if you've never read a book that's moved you, whether it be to tears or joy.

The first time I read 'The Shawshank Redemption', I felt wonderful all day...the first time I read about Sirius' death, I felt a lump in my throat....when I re-read PoA and read about Lupin's reaction to Ron's 'Get away from me, werewolf!', I teared up and when Harry threw that badge at Ron in GoF and Ron just stood there, weathering the storm, I cried.......

I feel sorry for anyone who has never allowed themselves to be touched by someone's writing.....you have no idea what you're missing out on. That's the whole point....escapism. If you can't connect to the story/characters, then the author has failed dismally in their work.

I didn't actually cry but I was on the verge of crying when Sirius, one of my favourite characters, died in the 5th book and when Harry learns that the cause of his parents death was betrayal.

I agree Dana, I cry every time I wacth Buffy killing Angel in Becomeing. I get moved so easily by artistic forms.

Oh! The 5th book made me cry a lot! Like others have said Neville, and when Sirius died. He was one of my favorite characters! And Just so many times. At the end, when they were all fighting and everything I was so upset. Just seeing them come together, in that moment for one another, but also having this heavy feeling that something was going to happen. Other books too, but I think that a lot just happened in that one.

And it doesn't bother me to do that. You don't have to have a love of books in order to feel those emotions, and they aren't just stories. Books are just reflections of our own society; thoughts and ideals and hopes and dreams that we think about for our owns lives. Think about all the underlying morals, conflictions, emotions that lie in every book - those are the same ones in our own lives whether we are living them truly or just want to be.

*sigh* or I just could be a silly girl who loves books too much, lol.

The first few times I read the fifth book, in the part where Sirius died, I really, really cried a lot. It was so sad, how Harry wouldn't believe it and all. I felt terrible for him.

I didn't really cry until OotP, when I grew really attached to the characters.

I was fine when Sirius went through the veil, I guess I was in shock or something. It wasn't until Harry and Dumbledore started talking about it that I just lost it. The funny thing was, I was reading to my younger brother and had to stop every few sentences because my eyes were so teared up.

I've never cried any other times, but Umbridge did make me so mad. I wanted to scream or something....

the only time i cried was when sirius died....
i still dont like to read that part.

i didnt cry. i cant cry reading things or watching movies, it just isnt me. my friends tell me i have a stone for a heart...maybe it is true lol...

Well, maybe it will melt later, and Eve, you're not a silly girl at all.

Oh, many times. I find in every book something to cry about. One thing that really made me cry was in book IV when Harry was fighting Voldemort and he saw those shadows of his parents.

And of course when Sirius died I almost cried my eyes out.

yeah, I cried a LOT at the end of the 5th book. After I finished reading about the death of Sirius, I grabbed my third book and started reading almost all of the parts of the book with Sirius in it. It was so sad!

Yeah, that was me as well. I saw PoA like right after I finished reading OoP for the first time. And I started crying when Harry said that he would like to live with Sirius in the country and I though "He'll never get to do that", and it just broke my heart, and my sister was like, why are you crying?

when i saw the POA movie i cried but not cuz it was sad but cuz it was bad. well in my opinion at least. i thought it was better the second time i saw it and i cry my eyes out every time i read OOTP. i cried of happiness when Fred and george left school and i cried of sadness when Sirius died.

I loved the thrid movie, I thought it was the best one.

The only time i cried was when Sirius Black died...
So sad...

Now when I wacth PoA I cry, I can't help but think when he says"It will be nice to do it as a free man." I think he never will.

Being a bloke, I won't admit to crying, but JK had me watery eyed and in stiches when at the end of OotP Ron makes clip clopping noises to startle Umbridge.

I cried the first 6 or 7 times I read the passage with Siriu's death. It made me so sad, I liked Sirius a lot even if he had quite a peculiar personality

I cried at a few parts in each of the books I think.

SS: I cried when Hagrid gave Harry the photo album. I was just overwhelmed how much love this young boy had that he had missed out on for nine years. (I cried at the end of the movie, too where this happens).

CoS: 1) The first time I read it I almost cried when they described Ron's reaction to Ginny being taken into the chamber. 2) i still cried when Dobby is freed. (The end of the movie always makes me cry).

PoA: I cried when Harry found out that Sirius was not only the person that "betrayed" his parents, but also his godfather.

GoF: 1) I cried when Cedric got killed. 2) When Harry's parents came out of the wand. 3) When Harry came back clutching Cedric's body for dear life.

OotP: (Sheesh where do I begin?) 1) I almost cried at Harry's blow up at Grimmauld Place. 2) I got misty eyed at Harry's trial. 3) I cried so hard I had to put the book down for a couple of days when Sirius died. 4) I cried when Harry blew up in DD's office after Sirius' death. 5) I cried when Harry tried to get a hold of Sirius through the mirror. 6) I got misty eyed at the end when Mad Eye, Tonks and Lupin introduced themselves to the Dursleys and told them they would be keeping an eye on things.

So it goes without saying that I will cry at some point in HBP.

I have only ever cried at one of the books and that was Goblet of Fire when Cedric was killed.

I don't know why but I still haven't cried when Sirius died even although he's my favourite character I think it's possibly because I'm still in shock that he's gone.

Well, hmm, I have to think now; when I first read the first four books I don’t remember crying. It was only when I went back and read them later.

I was a late comer to HP so I only had a chance to read them once before OotP (at least I didn’t have the long wait for OotP to come out, I believe I finished GoF a week before the release date ).

A lot of scenes have made me teary eyed...

Harry returning to the Mirror of Erised, just because I knew, especially after OotP, that Rons desires were achievable but Harry’s weren’t.

The way Harry practically jumps at the chance to live with Sirius, again I know he will never get the chance.

I got teary eyed all over the place in OotP. (Doesn’t help that I was reading it really late and therefore I was tired)

Mrs weasley and the boggart (I find it interesting that Remus said that the Order would hardly let her kids starve if they die, but they came close to doing that with Harry, not to mention the emotional abuse)

Nearly anytime Harry lost his temper, I felt for him so much. It amazed me that Hermione could seem to understand about Cho’s crying but not Harry’s anger. I suppose the main time was when he was shouting at them for laughing. I was the first major indication of how he had been affected by GoF, and the other books.

I didn’t cry or get teary eyed when Sirius died, it was like ‘oh he’s dead’ but when Harry is screaming for him thinking he was waiting behind the veil then thinks that ‘Sirius had never kept him waiting before’. Yep, all misty eyed then.

Now, scenes I have cried at, I don’t normally cry at books or even films. Don’t get me wrong, I get very attached to the world, and characters, but I am not normally a person that cries very much (teary and misty eyed yes but not outright crying).

The only recollection I have of crying at another book is in the Mallorean, when Garion’s wife is duped into thinking a pile of rags is her kidnapped baby son, and Garion has to dispose of the rags.

As for HP, I think JK deserves an award for getting me to cry more than once!

In GoF when Mrs Weasley hugs Harry, and Harry says something about ‘He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother’ and the ‘screwing up his face against the howl of misery.’ (Why oh why did she have to have Hermione catch the Skeeter woman just then) I get teary eyed just typing about it.

And numerous times after Harry is portkeyed to DD office, he has been threatening to finally crack all during OotP and this is where it finally happens, I just wanted to give him a big hug.

Also when Harry was saying that, when he was with people he wanted to be alone and when he was alone he wanted people to be there, and when he cried by the lake.

Well there we go, can’t think of any others.

I haven't actually cried yet, although I was moved by a lot of scenes.

I can't remember ever crying, while reading the Harry Potter series, but if I could steal a phrase from Cerussite, I definitely got teary eyed a few times.

The first one that comes to mind is when the Fred and George tell Mrs. Weasley about seeing Harry Potter on the train, outside the Hogwarts express. It’s at this point that I think it really hit me how alone Harry must have felt, and was at that particular moment.

He was entering a completely new world (which was so connected to his parents) and he had no one. Plus many of the people he has met, who belong to the magic world expect a lot from him i.e. Mr Olivanders, Prof. Quirrell etc. and Harry him self has such little belief in his own abilities at this point. I'd personally find this really hard to deal with. Then He makes his first ever friend, Ron, which is of course very good but it's still sad how Harry's never had any friend all the way through primary school.

Harry and Ron falling out in the Goblet of fire I thought was also very sad, because they both depended on each other so much and to go through a period of really disliking each other must have been very tough for both Harry and Ron.

For me Lupin’s words 'He's gone' brought on a very teary eyed moments for me as all through the books I was expecting nay waiting for someone to die and I was so sure it was going to be different people all through out the book (such as Ron, during Mrs' Weasley's boggart in 12 Grimmauld Place, Mr Weasley during Harrys 'vision' and so on) and I nearly forgot some one had to die until the above mentioned words from Lupin, which for me anyway brought some finality to the question of who was going to die, but not in a good way.


The following chapters where also in my opinion very sad and tear jerking moment, Harry clutching at straws in so many different ways for ways to bring back Sirius, his talk with Nearly-headless Nick, trying to contact Sirius through the two way mirror etc.

But the one particular moment which was defiantly a teary eyed moment for me, after Sirius's death had to be Harry's talk with Luna. I just remember thinking how cruel people can be, here’s a girl who has had a huge tragedy in her life (the loss of her Mother) and nobody seems to care instead they give her a nasty nickname and think its funny to hid her things the day before she is going home. Yet she isn't angry at them and doesn't judge, but instead just gets on with it.

Sorry this reminds me of another really sad moment in the book which is when we learn of the fate of Neville's parents and the scene where Alice give Neville the sweet wrapper which he pockets, actually this is probably the saddest moment in the books for me, I can't believe I almost forgot about it. Poor Neville.

I cried when Sirius died, I cried at Harry's pain when he went to Nearly Headless Nick and asked if he could come back as a ghost...
I cried when reading about Severus' pain and torment as a child and teenager.
All and all I'm a big sook