History TearJerker / HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix

** Hermonie's reaction. She always seemed ''indifferent'' about Trelawney, not really taking her seriously. But like Harry, she actually feels bad for the woman.

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[[caption-width-right:350:(Note: This scream is so painful that it doesn't even make it into the movie.)]]

-->'''Dumbledore''': Harry... Harry. It's not the ways that you are alike that matter. It is the ways you are not.

--->'''Harry:''' You're the weak one. And you'll never know love. Or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

** Harry's HairTriggerTemper in general. Hermoine and Ron quickly learn to walk on eggshells around Harry, since they're never quite sure if anything they might say will send him flying into another rage. And despite this, they still need to tell him some hard truths and start prefacing their sentences with variations on "Now, please don't start yelling at us again, but." [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Lesser friends would have fled from someone so unpredictable.]]

* The fact that ThereAreNoTherapists is something of a TearJerker, but it hits ''really hard'' here. Harry (as-of-yet-unrevealed Horcrux problem notwithstanding) is not only dealing with usual adolescent hormones, which is scary enough, but bore witness to a terrifying series of events at the end of ''Goblet of Fire'' and was on the train to his so-called "home" before he even had a chance to process everything. No wonder he completely breaks at the end of the book and actually implies [[DeathSeeker a desire to die]] at least twice.

*** "Harry did not think he'd found anything less funny in his life."
** Everyone bar Harry (who already knew) then starts crying after Neville leaves.
* A subtle one with Lupin when Sirius dies -- he's just lost the last of his best friends, but instead of breaking down, he's trying to comfort Harry.
* The scene where Dumbledore explains to Harry why he wasn't made a prefect (and starts shedding a few tears himself):
-->"I must confess... that I rather thought... you had enough responsibility to be going on with."
* Molly's personal [[YourWorstNightmare boggart]] of seeing her husband and sons (and Harry) killed. It doubles as a dark SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} of sorts, as it's clear she thinks of Harry as her son, too. Afterwards when Harry goes upstairs and can't believe that less than an hour ago he was worrying about who had become prefect. That he had 'never felt more grown-up in his life', it's like it's just dawning on him how real the situation is and that people he cares about could die. Also, with some FridgeBrilliance: throughout the books (and especially in book 7), we see that Ron feels inadequate and unloved compared to his siblings and friends. But his is the first body that we see Molly's boggart turn into. Also, not even in her absolute worst nightmare could Mrs. Weasley imagine Fred and George being apart, even in death. J.K. Rowling, why couldn't you as well?
* Bellatrix [[KickTheDog taunting Neville about his parents]] ("Longbottom? Why, I've had the pleasure of meeting your parents, boy!"). It's made all the worse by the fact that we've ''seen'' them now. The tear jerker is his furious, heartbroken "I KNOW YOU HAVE!"

-->'''Harry:''' I DON'T CARE! I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANY MORE--\\

:: [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Later in the series]], we discover that Dumbledore's sympathy is born of his own experience.
* The final book reveals it to be a TearJerker for another reason, but in Order, Harry's BrokenPedestal moment with his father as a teenager is really sad. Throughout the book, he's full of emotional confusion and psychological trauma and feels that AdultsAreUseless and to see that his ideal image of his father is not true wounds him in a real way. Especially when he wonders if he really wanted to be like his father anymore, after being told by everyone who knew James. He eventually accepts it, much like people in life come to terms with flaws in their heroes or people who they look up to, but it's only salt in the wounds he already had.

-->"I cared about you too much. I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. Is there a defence? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have -- and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined -- not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, well and happy? I never imagined I would have such a person on my hands."

* When Harry encounters Luna putting up signs asking for her stuff back. She acts so heartbreakingly nonchalant about the fact that people treat her this way because she's different, and Harry finally begins to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments understand her in a way he never has before.]]
* The scene where Moody shows Harry a photo of the original Order of the Phoenix. Not only did many of them end up suffering cruel and horrible fates during the war against Voldemort, but they are all [[StepfordSmiler smiling and waving at the viewer,]] despite knowing they probably weren't going to make it.
* The fact that ThereAreNoTherapists is something of a TearJerker, but it hits ''really hard'' in Book 5. Harry (As-of-yet-unrevealed Horcrux problem notwithstanding) is not only dealing with usual adolescent hormones, which is scary enough, but bore witness to a terrifying series of events at the end of book 4 and was on the train to his so-called 'home' before he even had a chance to process everything. No wonder he completely breaks at the end of the book and actually implies [[DeathSeeker a desire to die]] at least twice.
* Harry's reaction to Percy's letter, where he advises Ron to stop being friends with him. It's particularly sad considering Harry thought he knew Percy well enough that he'd never do something like this. It also makes him understand how bad the rumors are about him, making him understand how Sirius must feel about being called a murderer.
--> He had known Percy for four years, stayed in his house during the summers, shared a tent with him during the Quidditch World Cup, even been awarded full marks by him in the second task of the Triwizard Tournament last year, yet now, Percy thought him unstable and possibly violent.
* Harry's outburst at Ron and Hermoine when they suggest that he teach them Defense Against the Dark Arts. It starts with him thinking it's a joke, but he gets increasingly angry as they smirk at him when he honestly admits that a large measure of luck and help were necessary for him to prevail. It finally culminates in Harry flat out shouting at both his friends that they have no idea what it's like to be in his position, to have to face the horrors he's faced ''alone'' in most cases, moments away from being murdered, tortured or witnessing someone's death, and often suffering moderate (and in one case nearly fatal) injuries and barely escaping with his life- and in the middle of it all, he mentions Cedric Diggory (Voldemort's last victim) and how it could just as easily have been Harry instead. It speaks volumes to the regret, sorrow and hardship he's undergoing and his overall reluctance to meet such unfair challenges.
** Harry's HairTriggerTemper in general. Hermoine and Ron quickly learn to walk on eggshells around Harry, since they're never quite sure if anything they might say will send him flying into another rage. And despite this, they still need to tell him some hard truths, and start prefacing their sentences with variations on "Now, please don't start yelling at us again, but." [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Lesser friends would have fled from someone so unpredictable.]]
* A HarsherInHindsight moment, when re-reading the book and Sirius scolds the twins and says "This is why you are not in the Order! You don't understand! There are things worth ''dying'' for!", a slap in the face considering he dies later on, trying to help his god-son.

* The uneasiness and paranoia Harry develops for a bit in the book, worried that he was an easily possessible person for Voldemort and could end up hurting his friends at any moment. So paranoid and scared is he that he doesn't think of the obvious until Ginny points it out when his friends talk to him: That he had Ginny in the vicinity all along, someone who he knows had first-hand experience with being possessed by Voldemort, and could have asked about her experience to see if it really fits his. Granted he most probably didn't want to open wounds but given how relieved he is when they do talk (he feels like singing Christmas songs with the elated Sirius) much of his fear and doubt could have been avoided by an earlier heart-to-heart.
* A small one, but Hermione mentions writing to her parents when she's made a prefect because "it's something they can understand." She probably doesn't have much contact with them because they can understand so little about her life.
** At this point in the series, who's to say she even ''wants'' to tell them anything? No doubt her parents have asked her how things were and she can't explain, among other things, that there's an uber-powerful dark wizard on the loose that wants her best friend dead.
* Following Sirius' death, Harry briefly considers that he may have come back as a ghost, and seeks out Nearly-Headless Nick to try and find out. Nick says he's been expecting Harry to approach him, as students who have experienced the death of a loved one often come to talk to him about it. Unfortunately, Nick is only a ghost and ultimately knows nothing more about death than he did when he was alive, knowing only that Sirius did not choose to become a ghost and instead passed on. While Harry's brief hope that he might see a form of Sirius again being quickly crushed is sad, the real sorrow comes from the great melancholy in Nick's lamentation of the feeble imitation of life he chose because he was afraid of death, and how he sometimes wishes he had chosen to move on. It's a poignant insight into a normally comedic side character, and the lonely nature of the ghosts in general.
* Harry essentially having suicidal thoughts, when he wants Dumbledore to kill him so the pain of being possessed by Voldemort will fade, and he can be reunited with his godfather.

* At the age of nine, Luna watched her mother ''be killed by a spell of her own making.''[[note]] "Yes," said Luna simply, "my mother. She was a quite extraordinary witch, you know, but she did like to experiment and one of her spells went rather badly wrong one day. [...] Yes, it was rather horrible," said Luna conversationally.[[/note]]; she's said to be "conversational" about it. So either she's accepted it so easily that she can talk about it... or her weirdness is her coping method.

* The scene in Order Of The Phoenix where [[JerkAss Dolores Umbridge]] fires Professor Trelawney. "Hogwarts is my home!" It's even sadder when the poor woman breaks down while most of the students and a few teachers are looking in on the scene. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Good thing McGonagall and Dumbledore were there to stop Umbridge]].

** Hermonie's reaction. She always seemed ''indifferent'' about Trelawny, not really taking her seriously. But like Harry, she actually feels bad for the woman.
* One of the most memorable parts of Order of The Phoenix is Harry and Luna in the forest with the Thestrals. If you've ever been ousted from peer groups for being odd or different, this scene hits very close to home.
-->'''Luna''': They're called Thestrals. They're quite gentle, really, but people avoid them, because they're a bit...
-->'''Harry''': Different.

** Sirius showing his spot of the Black Family Tree that his own mother burned off after he ran away from home("Charming woman.") Then he tells him he went to stay at James Potter's family. ("I was always welcome at the Potters.")

** When Sirius tells Harry that when the war is over, they can finally be a proper family. A SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, yes, but also a tear jerker because Sirius dies before they can. The next time they meet, in fact.

-->'''Sirius:''' Nice one, James!
* Also from ''Order of the Phoenix'', Hagrid's plea to Harry's trio to look after Grawp for him. Hagrid is such a big softy.
** Grawp's face after Hermoine demands to be put down, he looked hurt.
* The scene where Fred and George sit down to comfort a crying first year after he's been punished. They show him their hands and say, "See, it's not so bad. You can hardly see the scars." Despite being comedic characters, they're also good men, protecting ''and'' comforting the weak when they need it. And ''that's'' why the two slacker jokesters are Gryffindors.

*** And the worst part was that Creator/DanielRadcliffe wasn't miming that scream. The reason you don't hear any audio at that moment was because they ''cut it'' during post-production. Apparently, it was '''too agonising'''.

** When Harry is possessed by Voldemort and fights back by remembering everything which makes them different. "You're the weak one. And you'll never know love. Or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
* The trio first trying to recruit students to train against the Dark Arts. Everyone there still doesn't believe Harry about Voldemort's return, so Hermoine and Ron start [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpTheSun gloating about Harry's accomplishments]], but Harry points out that [[DontDoThisCoolThing he did all those things when he was about to die, and that he doesn't want anyone going through that]]. His candor about danger is what convinces everyone he's telling the truth.
* The flashback reveal that Snape was bullied.
* Nevelle's backstory reveal.
--> Bellarix: How's your parents?

* While in the movie, the love that drives Voldemort out of Harry's mind is the connection he made with all his friends, in the book? It's the thought of being with Sirius again. Harry Potter wants Dumbledore to kill him so the pain of being possessed by Voldemort will fade, and he can be reunited with his godfather. Harry Potter is essentially suicidal.

* The scene where Fred and George sit down to comfort a crying first year after he's been punished. They show him their hands and say, "See, it's not so bad. You can hardly see the scars." Despite being used as comedic characters in the past, they aren't just good guys, they're good ''men'', protecting ''and'' comforting the weak when they need it. And ''that's'' why the two slacker jokesters are Gryffindors.

* The scene in Order Of The Phoenix where [[JerkAss Dolores Umbridge]] fires Professor Trelawney. "Hogwarts is my home!" It's even sadder when the poor woman breaks down while most of the students and a few teachers are looking in on the scene. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Good thing McGonagal and Dumbledore were there to stop Umbridge]].

* Molly's personal [[YourWorstNightmare boggart]] of seeing her husband and sons (and Harry) killed. It doubles as a dark CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming of sorts, as it's clear she thinks of Harry as her son, too. Afterwards when Harry goes upstairs and can't believe that less than an hour ago he was worrying about who had become prefect. That he had 'never felt more grown-up in his life', it's like it's just dawning on him how real the situation is and that people he cares about could die. Also, with some FridgeBrilliance: throughout the books (and especially in book 7), we see that Ron feels inadequate and unloved compared to his siblings and friends. But his is the first body that we see Molly's boggart turn into. Also, not even in her absolute worst nightmare could Mrs. Weasley imagine Fred and George being apart, even in death. J.K. Rowling, why couldn't you as well?

* When Harry encounters Luna putting up signs asking for her stuff back. She acts so heartbreakingly nonchalant about the fact that people treat her this way because she's different, and Harry finally begins to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming understand her in a way he never has before.]]

** Harry's HairTriggerTemper in general. Hermoine and Ron quickly learn to walk on eggshells around Harry, since they're never quite sure if anything they might say will send him flying into another rage. And despite this, they still need to tell him some hard truths, and start prefacing their sentences with variations on "Now, please don't start yelling at us again, but." [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Lesser friends would have fled from someone so unpredictable.]]

* The scene in Order Of The Phoenix where [[JerkAss Dolores Umbridge]] fires Professor Trelawney. "Hogwarts is my home!" It's even sadder when the poor woman breaks down while most of the students and a few teachers are looking in on the scene. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Good thing McGonagal and Dumbledore were there to stop Umbridge]].

** When Sirius tells Harry that when the war is over, they can finally be a proper family. A CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, yes, but also a tear jerker because Sirius dies before they can. The next time they meet, in fact.

*** Previously, we had only seen bits of Sirius' damage from his stay in Azkaban, and that was mostly the screaming newspaper photo and how he acted after he met up with his old friends in the Shrieking Shack. This shows that the scars and damage are much deeper.

* Neville's friends walking in on him and his grandmother Augusta at the hospital.

* Neville's friends walking in on him and his grandmother Augusta at the hospital.
** Neville is unable to look his friends in the eye as a sympathetic Harry is helpless to stop it, all the while Augusta is being very harsh, telling his friends that "he hasn't got his father's talents". She then scolds Neville for not telling them about the fate of his parents ("tortured into insanity", as she puts it), saying he should be proud and not mistaking the pain and trauma for shame.
** Neville's poor mother not recognizing him. She always gives him a gum wrapper whenever he visits, and Neville keeps them instead of throwing them away. When she hands him the wrapper, Neville finally stares at his friends expecting them to laugh, but they all look on in horror.
*** "Harry did not think he'd found anything less funny in his life."
** Everyone bar Harry (who already knew) then starts crying after Neville leaves.

* The scene where Fred and George sit down to comfort a crying first year after he's been punished. They show him their hands and say, "See, it's not so bad. You can hardly see the scars." Despite being used as comedic characters in the past, they aren't just good guys, they're good ''men'', protecting ''and'' comforting the weak when they need it.

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** Neville is unable to look his friends in the eye as a sympathetic Harry is helpless to stop it, all the while Augusta is being very harsh, telling his friends that "he hasn't got his father's talents". She then scolds Neville for not them about the fate of his parents ("tortured into insanity", as she puts it), saying he should be proud and not mistaking the pain and trauma for shame.

* The scene in Dumbledore's office at the end is this when Harry learns about the prophecy.
-->'''Harry:''' I DON'T CARE! I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE--\\

* When Neville's friends walk in on and his grandmother Augusta at the hospital.

* The scene with Neville's parents. Not only is it shown exactly what's become of them but, also we see Augusta being very harsh, telling people "He hasn't got his father's talents", and scolding him for not telling his friends about his parents, saying he should be proud, mistaking the pain and trauma for shame.
** Neville's poor mother not recognizing him but always giving him a gum wrapper whenever he visits and that Neville keeps them instead of throwing them away.

* A subtle one with Lupin when [[spoiler:Sirius dies -- he's just lost the last of his best friends]], but instead of breaking down, he's trying to comfort Harry.

* Molly's personal [[YourWorstNightmare boggart]] of seeing her husband and sons (and Harry) killed. It doubles as a dark CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming of sorts, as it's clear she thinks of Harry as her son, too. Afterwards when Harry goes upstairs and can't believe that less than an hour ago he was worrying about who had become prefect. That he had 'never felt more grown-up in his life', it's like it's just dawning on him how real the situation is and that people he cares about could die. Also, with some FridgeBrilliance: throughout the books (and especially in book 7), we see that Ron feels inadequate and unloved compared to his siblings and friends. But his is the first body that we see Molly's boggart turn into. Also, not even in her absolute worst nightmare could Mrs. Weasley imagine [[spoiler:Fred and George being apart, even in death.]] J.K. Rowling, why couldn't you as well?

-->[[spoiler: "I cared about you too much. I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. Is there a defence? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have -- and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined -- not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, well and happy? I never imagined I would have such a person on my hands."]]
** This is basically Dumbledore admitting that, not only did he begin to [[spoiler: love his most effective intended weapon against Voldemort]] the moment he saw how brave and selfless and good Harry had become, he was probably trying to stop himself from caring about anyone this much after [[spoiler: what happened to his sister.]]

* The fact that ThereAreNoTherapists is something of a TearJerker, but it hits ''really hard'' in Book 5. Harry [[spoiler: (As-of-yet-unrevealed Horcrux problem notwithstanding)]] is not only dealing with usual adolescent hormones, which is scary enough, but bore witness to a terrifying series of events at the end of book 4 and was on the train to his so-called 'home' before he even had a chance to process everything. No wonder he completely breaks at the end of the book and actually implies [[DeathSeeker a desire to die]] at least twice.

* A HarsherInHindsight moment, when re-reading the book and Sirius scolds the twins and says "This is why you are not in the Order! You don't understand! There are things worth ''dying'' for!", a slap in the face [[spoiler: considering he dies later on, trying to help his god-son]].
** One must wonder how much this line stuck with the twins, as they eventually ''do'' join the Order and [[spoiler: Fred indeed does die in the final battle.]]

* While in the movie, the love that drives Voldemort out of Harry's mind is the connection he made with all his friends, in the book? It's the thought of [[spoiler: being with Sirius again. Harry Potter wants Dumbledore to kill him so the pain of being possessed by Voldemort will fade, and he can be reunited with his godfather. Harry Potter is essentially suicidal.]]

** When Sirius tells Harry that when the war is over, they can finally be a proper family. A CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, yes, but also a tear jerker because [[spoiler:Sirius dies before they can. The next time they meet, in fact.]]
** [[spoiler:Sirius's death.]] Even for those who don't cry very often at films, this was absolutely devastating.

-->[[spoiler:'''Sirius:''' Nice one, James!]]

* The utter despondency and grief in Remus's face when [[spoiler: Sirius]] gets killed.
** And Harry's absolute ''anguish'' during this scene is heartbreaking. [[spoiler:After Sirius goes through the arch, the score starts playing over the scene so that you don't hear any of the character's voices. But then you see Harry stare at the arch in horror and say "No!" Then it cuts to him ''screaming'' in agony as Lupin tries to calm him down. You really do want to see Bellatrix get her comeuppance as she gleefully sings [[KickTheDog "I killed Sirius Black!"]]. It even provides the image [[TearJerker/HarryPotter for the main page]].]]
*** [[spoiler: And the worst part was that Creator/DanielRadcliffe wasn't miming that scream. The reason you don't hear any audio at that moment was because they ''cut it'' during post-production. Apparently, it was '''too agonising'''.]]

** When [[spoiler:Harry is possessed by Voldemort]] and fights back by remembering everything which makes them different. [[spoiler:"You're the weak one. And you'll never know love. Or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."]]

* The scene where Moody describes how many of the original Order of the Phoenix died. It's pretty sad because all of the subjects are [[StepfordSmiler smiling and waving at the viewer,]] likely knowing they weren't going to make it.