History Heartwarming / HonorHarrington

* After Honor's injured stopping the attempted assassination of Protector Mayhew, most of those she interacts with - Grayson and Manticoran both - react with awkwardness or embarrassment at her scars. The one exception is the arch-reactionary Howard Clinkscales;

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* Honor's return from being believed dead for two years is a string of heartwarming moments one after another.

** "Merry Christmas, Wesley."

* When a battered ''Hexapuma'' and ''Warlock'' return to Manticore after saving the day, Home Fleet is awaiting for them... in a formation that puts the two of them exactly where the Queen's yacht is in similar formations, and they are hailed with the traditional salute to the Queen's yacht.

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

* Eloise Pritchart clinging to Tom Theisman's hand as she agonises over the decision to [[spoiler:launch Operation Beatrice]]. Given all the heartbreak both characters had been through up until that point -- and wound up going through in the future, despite the decision to launch being the least awful of a number of terrible options -- to see this friendship born in fire blossoming into something true and lovely and ''real'' is just gorgeous. For all that the Second Manticoran-Havenite War was something of a military holocaust, their relationship is proof positive that out of even the driest ashes, something beautiful can bloom.

%%[[AC:''Crown of Slaves'']]

* 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.

* As a result of the Battle of Monica, the HMS ''Warlock'' is placed on the List of Honor meaning that, even after the current ''Warlock'' is scrapped, the name will live on in another ship. The reason this is heartwarming is because ''Warlock'' was Pavel Young's ship up until he was discharged and, until that point, its reputation had been stained by its former captain's actions.

* Thomas Theisman firmly putting a stop to Honor's self-recrimination after she's forced to [[spoiler:utterly annihilate Filareta's command]]. He understands her ''so'' well, and after so long having to fight someone they each truly respect, to see them working together not just as comrades-in-arms but as ''friends'' is unbelievably beautiful.

* Thomas Theisman firmly putting a stop to Honor's self-pity party after she's forced to [[spoiler:utterly annihilate Filareta's command]]. He understands her ''so'' well, and after so long having to fight someone they each truly respect, to see them working together not just as comrades-in-arms but as ''friends'' is unbelievably beautiful.

%%[[AC:''The Shadow of Saganami'']]

* Aivars Terekhov getting the Parliamentary Medal of Valor for the Battle of Monica. Just... that whole chapter. But especially Baroness Medusa's speech.

** 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}}.

** Honor Harrington's reunion with her parents, and meeting her new siblings, after being 'unavailable' for the last two books, is 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...?"

%%[[AC:''Shadow of Freedom'']]

* Honor explaining her choice of her son's armsman. Her choice gets vindicated in ''Mission of Honor'' during [[spoiler:the Oyster Bay terrorist attack, in what serves as a DyingMomentOfAwesome for Andrew [=LaFollet]]].

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%%[[AC:''In Enemy Hands'']]

* Honor Harrington's reunion with her parents, and meeting her new siblings, 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...?"

* Nearly every interaction Honor has with Hamish and Emily Alexander after they ''finally'' get together, but one that stands out is the birth of [[spoiler:Honor's son]].

%%[[AC:''Mission of Honor'']]
%%[[AC:''A Rising Thunder'']]

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* Honor explaining her choice of her son's armsman.
** Her choice gets vindicated in ''Mission of Honor'' during [[spoiler: the Oyster Bay terrorist attack, in what serves as a DyingMomentOfAwesome for Andrew Lafollett]].
* In ''Honor Among Enemies'', the PNS ''Vaubon'', commanded by Citizen Commander Caslet, does some truly epic and heartwarming stuff.
** Totally ''annihilate'' a brutal pirate ship and [[spoiler:rescue the two Manticoran {{MauveShirt}}s that appear at the beginning of the book]].
** 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.]]]]
*** And at the very end of the book [[spoiler: she gives them a cover story to explain why they did it]].

* Thomas Theisman firmly putting a stop to Honor's self-pity party after she's forced to [[spoiler:utterly annihilate Filareta's command]]. He understands her ''so'' well, and after so long having to fight someone they each truly respect, to see them working together not just as comrades-in-arms but as ''friends'' is unbelievably beautiful.
** 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.

* 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.
* The first reunion between Honor and [[spoiler:Andrew [=LaFollet=]]], when she hugs him for the first time in the series, at the end of ''In Enemy Hands'' is beautiful:
-->...she stumbled forward as he freed one hand from the gun and held it out to her. Her working eye misted, making it hard to see, but his hand was warm and firm as it closed on her too-thin fingers. He squeezed hard, and Honor dragged in a deep, shuddery breath and put her arms around him, hugging him fiercely.
** But the second is, quite simply, ''incandescent''.
-->"He did [save your life], My Lady," another voice said, and Honor gasped. She tried to sit up, but her right hand still held Montoya's, and she hissed in sudden pain as she tried to rise on the left hand she no longer had and the bandaged stump pressed into the firm softness on which she lay.\\
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.

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