History Heartwarming / HonorHarrington

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%%[[AC:''Flag in Exile'']]
%%[[AC:''Honor Among Enemies'']]

%%[[AC:''At All Costs'']]

* In ''At All Costs'', [[spoiler:Howard Clinkscale's funeral and the aftermath, when Honor creates the legal equivalent of blood bonds between her family and the Clinkscales family.]]
** Also in that story the epilogue has [[spoiler:the story David and the Phoenix being read to by Honor to her young siblings and her own child. The story is not only beautiful, but a ready made allusion to the state of the empire]].
*** ''David and the Phoenix'' is a [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27922 real book]], as it happens.
* Pretty much every single time with Graysons and Honor, but especially in ''Flag in Exile'' when Harrington steaders take down Father Marchant and later, the sermon Reverend Hanks gave in Harrington Cathedral.
** Andrew [=LaFollet=]'s first conversation with Tomas Ramirez.
* Honor giving her approval to a naval rating choosing to exercise with marines, with all the subtext it includes.
* A bit more violent than your typical Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but in ''Field of Dishonor'', when Honor's lover had been killed, her friends in the Manticoran Navy -- including an ''Admiral'', of all people, Admiral Mark Sarnow, Honor's CO at Hancock, who instigates the whole thing -- conceive and perform an op disguised as a training exercise for the sole purpose of tracking down the killer. This move was highly illegal and would have cost everyone involved their careers if found out. They did it anyway.
* Nearly every interaction Honor has with Hamish and Emily Alexander after they ''finally'' get together.
** Okay, in particular, one that stands out is the birth of Honor's son.

--->'''Honor Harrington''': "We're home, System Command. It took us awhile, but we're home."

%%[[AC:''Ashes of Victory'']]

* Honor Harrington's reunion with her parents, and meeting her new siblings, in ''Ashes of Victory'' after being 'unavailable' for the last two books.
** Made especially effective by Honor's words when she first sees them. Nearly ''all'' of David Weber's dialogue is very formal, with characters very carefully enunciating and bordering on purple prose at times, even when the characters are explicitly being casual with one another. When Honor finally sees her parents, all of that goes right out the window, and she can only say, "Momma...? Daddy...?"
* From ''Echoes of Honor'':
--->'''Honor Harrington''': "We're home, System Command. It took us awhile, but we're home."
** And pretty much everything between those two examples. Honor's return from being believed dead for two years is a string of heartwarming moments one after another.
** Honor's reunion with Protector Benjamin, who gives the metaphorical finger to a thousand years of Grayson protocol and greets Honor with nothing short of a {{bear hug}} and {{tears of joy}}.

* The entirety of the relationship between Eloise Pritchart and Javier Giscard. The series has surprisingly few prominent romances, and this one in particular is a shining example of two people finding love in darkness and using it to accomplish an extraordinary end.
* In ''At All Costs'', Honor explicitly and instantly rejecting the idea of "dealing with" her inconvenient pregnancy via abortion.
** Also, learning in the same scene that the Beowoulfers reject abortion just as firmly as they do genetic slavery and other such evils.

* The entirety of the relationship between Eloise Pritchart and Javier Giscard. The series has surprisingly few prominent romances, and this one in particular is a shining example of two people finding love in darkness and using it to accomplish an extraordinary end.

Montoya started to stand, his face distressed, but someone else's arms reached out to support her. Nimitz spilled from her chest, lying beside her, and she pulled her right hand from Montoya's. Her arm went out, and the pain still rippling through her meant nothing at all as she hugged [[spoiler:Andrew [=LaFollet=]]] with all the fierce strength in her wasted frame.

-->'''Oversteegen''': Some of my compatriots have seen fit t' express contempt for Grayson. They seem t' feel that such a primitive and backward planet can't possibly have anythin' t' offer a star nation so sophisticated and advanced as our own. I never happened t' agree with that position, and if I ever had, I certainly wouldn't now. Especially not after havin' the honor and considerable privilege of seein' firsthand just what sort of young women Grayson will be calling t' the service of the Sword. And havin' seen it, I intend t' be there when the first of them receives the recognition she so richly deserves.

* From the very end of ''Mission of Honor'', [[spoiler:Eloise Pritchart and Elizabeth Winton thrashing out twelve books' worth of issues between the Republic and the Star Kingdom, then committing to a military alliance]]. Twenty years and a dozen novels had been leading up to that moment, and to see the payoff, after all the heartache ''both'' sides have been through, was astoundingly beautiful.

* From the very end of ''Mission of Honor'', [[spoiler:Eloise Pritchart and Elizabeth Winton thrashing out twelve books' worth of issues between the Republic and the Star Kingdom, the committing to a military alliance]]. Twenty years and a dozen novels had been leading up to that moment, and to see the payoff, after all the heartache ''both'' sides have been through, was astoundingly beautiful.

* From the very end of ''Mission of Honor'', [[spoiler:Eloise Pritchart thrashing out twelve books' worth of issues between the Republic and the Star Kingdom, the committing to a military alliance]]. Twenty years and a dozen novels had been leading up to that moment, and to see the payoff, after all the heartache ''both'' sides have been through, was astoundingly beautiful.

-->'''Oversteegen''': Some of my compatriots have seen fit t' express contempt for Grayson. They seem t' feel that such a primitive and backward planet can't possibly have anythin' t' offer a star nation so sophisticated and advanced as our own. I never happened t' agree with that position, and if I ever had, I certainly wouldn't now. Especially not after havin' the honor and considerable privilege of seein' firsthand just what sort of young women Grayson will be calling t' the service of the Sword. And havin' seen it, I intend t' be there when the first of them receives the recognition she so richly deserves.

* Honor's reunion with Protector Benjamin, who gives the metaphorical finger to a thousand years of Grayson protocol and greets Honor with nothing short of a {{bear hug}} and {{tears of joy}}.

** Combine that with the friendship forming between Elizabeth and Eloise, and it's so desperately obvious that this is a group of people who would, now that they know each other, far rather be fighting ''beside'' each other than ''against'' each other. Now they finally have the chance.

** Honor's reunion with Protector Benjamin, who gives the metaphorical finger to a thousand years of Grayson protocol and greets Honor with nothing short of a {{bear hug}} and {{tears of joy}}.

** Also in that story the epilogue has [[spoiler:the story David and the Phoenix being read to by Honor to her young siblings and her own child. The story is not only beautiful, but a ready made allusion to the state of the empire.]]

*** And at the very end of the book [[spoiler: she gives them a cover story to explain why they did it.]]

--->'''Honor Harrington''': "We're home, System Command.... It took us awhile, but we're home."

* A bit more violent than your typical Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but in ''Field of Dishonor'', when Honor's lover had been killed, her friends in the Manticoran Navy conceive and perform an op disguised as a training exercise for the sole purpose of tracking down the killer. This move was highly illegal and would have cost everyone involved their careers if found out. They did it anyway.

* The end of ''I Will Build My House of Steel'' has [[TheHighQueen Queen Elizabeth]] being woken up by Sir Thomas Caparelli to inform her of Admiral White Haven's [[CurbStompBattle victory at Barnett.]] He opines that the Star Kingdom will be in a position to [[ForegoneConclusion dictate terms to Haven in the next four to six months.]] [[StiffUpperLip She thanks him levelly]], and allows him to return to work. Then, in the middle of the night, alone but for her treecat Ariel, the Queen of Manticore descends to her family crypt to visit her father's grave. She reflects on the sacrifices made and traces her fingers over his [[TitleDrop epitaph]], letting her tears finally fall free.

*** And at the very end of the book [[spoiler: she gives them a cover story to explain why they did it.]]

** Her choice gets vindicated in ''Mission of Honor'' during the Oyster Bay terrorist attack, in what serves as a DyingMomentOfAwesome for [[spoiler: Andrew Lafollett]].

** Attack three more pirate ships in order to save a Manticoran merchant vessel from them. [[spoiler:When it turns out that the merchant vessel is Honor's Q-ship, she captures the ''Vaubon'', but also extends her personal thanks and congratulations to its crew. [[PetTheDog Awwwww.]]]]

* Honor giving her approval to a naval ensign choosing to exercise with marines, with all the subtext it includes.

* HonorHarrington's reunion with her parents, and meeting her new siblings, in ''Ashes of Victory'' after being 'unavailable' for the last two books.

* In ''[[HonorHarrington At All Costs]]'', [[spoiler:Howard Clinkscale's funeral and the aftermath, when Honor creates the legal equivalent of blood bonds between her family and the Clinkscales family.]]

** Okay, in particular, one that stands out is the birth of Honor's son.

* From ''Echoes of Honor'':
--->'''Honor Harrington''': "We're home, System Command.... It took us awhile, but we're home."

* Pretty much every single time with Graysons and Honor, but especially in ''Flag in Exile'' when Harrington steaders' take down Father Marchant and later, the sermon Reverend Hanks gave in Harrington Cathedral.

* Pretty much every single time with Graysons and Honor, but especially in ''Flag in Exile'' when Harrington steaders' takedown of Father Marchand and later, the sermon Reverend Hanks gave in Harrington Cathedral.

* A bit more violent than your typical Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but in ''Field of Dishonor'', when Honor's lover had been killed, her friends in the Manticoran Navy conceive and perform an op disguised as a training exercise for the sole purpose of tracking down the killer. This move was highly illegal and would have cost everyone involved their careers if found out. They did it anyway.

* Honor giving her approval to a naval ensign choosing to exercise with marines, with all the subtext it includes.