History TearJerker / TheDresdenfiles

-->[[spoiler:God forgive me.]]
** What makes it extra powerful is that for the majority of the reading, Marsters has been fairly calm. Sure, there are scenes where he tinges his reading with the anger, disbelief, weariness, pain, and fear that Harry has to be feeling, but when he gets to "God forgive me," the line is delivered with a heartbreaking half-sob. It almost sounds like Marsters ''himself'' was breaking down crying while reading that chapter.

* YourMileageMayVary, considering what an AxCrazy mastermind she was, but [[spoiler: Aurora's death at the end of Summer Knight can definitely bring a tear to the eye:]]

* The end of the short story 'Love Hurts", when Harry and Murphy realize they have to end the spell and go back to the way things were.

** The shadow of the fallen angel Lasciel spent multiple books living in Harry's head, alternating between being a dangerous annoyance and really helpful when things get desperate. Then Harry starts treating her like her own person. He gives her a nickname and, like Ivy and Bob, it changes her. And then in ''White Night'' she shields him from a psychic attack and it burns out the parts of his brain where she lives... except for the part of her that helped him play the guitar better.

* Grave Peril. "She only wrote three words in the card. I'll let you guess what they were."

* In ''Small Favor'' there's a moment near the end [[spoiler: after Michael has been badly wounded and is in the hospital, Harry tries to leave Charity and Molly to wait for news without him, given that he thought they would be mad at him. Charity grabs him and tells him that "family stays." Given Harry's relationship with Charity (one of unmitigated anger from her towards him) its pretty touching.]]
** The line that always gets me is [[spoiler:Molly going, "They hurt his heart." She's lived her whole life with her father as this invincible KnightInShiningArmor, and the realization that he's really, truly mortal is just shattering to the young girl.]]
* The closing paragraph of Death Masks. For two entire books, Harry's been obsessed with researching a way to save his ex-girlfriend Susan, who was half-turned into a vampire. It's gotten to the point where he's almost been evicted from his office and home in his desperation to find a cure. At the end of the book, Harry finally lets go. He takes down her picture and the engagement ring he offered her from his mantle, and instead puts up the holy blade Fidelacchius, given to him by a man who surrendered himself to torture to give Harry a chance to live. The final lines, "Maybe some things just weren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water, orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan. But tomorrow was another day", always choke me up.
* In Small Favor, [[spoiler:Michael]] has been terribly injured and is on life support in the hospital. Harry and the patient's family are waiting for news, and the doctor comes to say they're bringing him in. And Harry and [[spoiler:Molly, Michael's ''daughter'']] have to leave the room because just their being there could mess up the equipment and kill him. Ouch.
** Right before that, when [[spoiler:Tessa takes the machine gun from Harry, and shoots Michael with it. He goes limp, hanging from the underside of a helicopter.]]
*** [[spoiler:Which is what makes Harry's retaliation a CMOA. He knows that using fire, especially without the blasting rod, will be like a signal fire to Summer. Fuck that shit. A bar of white hot fire, straight through Tessa's buglike chest. Hell yeah.]]
** The Denarians [[spoiler: torturing Ivy.]]



* The majority of [[TraumaCongaLine ''Changes''.]]

* The end of the short story 'Love Hurts", when Harry and Murphy realize they have to end the spell and go back to the way things were.

* ''White Night'', the scene where Harry soulgazes Ms. Demeter and [[spoiler: he sees the moment when her daughter was shot years ago.]] This troper has ''never'' cried at anything in any form of fiction he has ever seen. But ''this scene'' made me start to tear up. In public, with literally hundreds of people around. The part that did it was when [[spoiler: the daughter starts repeating "Mommy" over and over while she bleeds in her mother's arms.]]

** [[spoiler:Michael]] has been terribly injured and is on life support in the hospital. Harry and the patient's family are waiting for news, and the doctor comes to say they're bringing him in. And Harry and [[spoiler:Molly, Michael's ''daughter'']] have to leave the room because just their being there could mess up the equipment and kill him. Ouch.
*** Right before that, when [[spoiler:Tessa takes the machine gun from Harry, and shoots Michael with it. He goes limp, hanging from the underside of a helicopter.]]
**** [[spoiler:Which is what makes Harry's retaliation a CMOA. He knows that using fire, especially without the blasting rod, will be like a signal fire to Summer. Fuck that shit. A bar of white hot fire, straight through Tessa's buglike chest. Hell yeah.]]
*** The Denarians [[spoiler: torturing Ivy.]]

[[spoiler: -> 'Wait,' she said, her voice weak and somehow very young. She didn't look like a mad faerie sorceress now. She looked like a frightened girl. 'Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop.']]
[[spoiler: -> I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as i said, 'The only people who never hurt are dead.']]
[[spoiler: -> The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, 'I don't understand.']]
[[spoiler: -> I answered, 'I don't either.']]
[[spoiler: -> A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.]]
[[spoiler: -> Then she died.]]

[[spoiler: ->'Wait,' she said, her voice weak and somehow very young. She didn't look like a mad faerie sorceress now. She looked like a frightened girl. 'Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop.']]
[[spoiler: ->I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as i said, 'The only people who never hurt are dead.']]
[[spoiler: ->The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, 'I don't understand.']]
[[spoiler: ->I answered, 'I don't either.']]
[[spoiler: ->A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.]]
[[spoiler: ->Then she died.]]

[[spoiler: -->'Wait,' she said, her voice weak and somehow very young. She didn't look like a mad faerie sorceress now. She looked like a frightened girl. 'Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop.']]
[[spoiler: -->I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as i said, 'The only people who never hurt are dead.']]
[[spoiler: -->The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, 'I don't understand.']]
[[spolier: -->I answered, 'I don't either.']]
[[spoiler: -->A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.]]
[[spoiler: -->Then she died.]]

* Pray to God nothing ever comes along to top the tear jerkers in ''Changes''. TraumaCongaLine doesn't even come close.
* Even if you know it's coming, even if you are prepared for it, if you do not cry when JamesMarsters reads the below line, you have no soul.
-->"God forgive me."
** What makes it extra powerful is that for the majority of the reading, Marsters has been fairly calm. Sure, there are scenes where he tinges his reading with the anger, disbelief, weariness, pain, and fear that Harry has to be feeling, but when he gets to "God forgive me," the line is delivered with a heartbreaking half-sob. It almost sounds like Marsters ''himself'' was breaking down crying while reading that chapter...not that you could blame him for it.
* Hell, Marsters' reading the entire last chapter. Especially when Harry [[spoiler: asks Murphy to take Maggie to Father Forthill and put her someplace safe, and that he doesn't need to know.]]
* There's also a part of Harry's conversation with Ebenezar in the last chapter of ''Changes''.
-->[[spoiler: "Hell of a hard thing to do."]]
-->[[spoiler: "It wasn't hard," I said quietly. "Just cold."]]
-->[[spoiler: "Oh, Hoss," he said. There was more compassion in the words than you'd think would fit there.]]
* The end of the short story 'Love Hurts", when Harry and Murphy realize they have to end the spell and go back to the way things were.
* Lash's final gift to Harry.
* Grave Peril. "She only wrote three words in the card. I'll let you guess what they were."
* ''White Night'' has a moment between Thomas and Justine that really hammers home how much he's given up because he loves her.
-->In Justine's arms he looked like a man in mourning. But he bent his whole body to her, every fiber and sinew, not merely his arm, and every line of his face became softer, somehow, gentler, as though he had been relieved of an intolerable agony I had never realized he felt - though I noticed that neither he nor Justine touched each other's skin.

* What happens to Kirby and Andie.
* This troper doesn't normally cry when reading. It's a rare book that can make me even come close. However, the closing paragraph of [[TheDresdenFiles the 5th Dresden Files book]], Death Masks, always makes him tear up. For two entire books, Harry's been obsessed with researching a way to save his ex-girlfriend Susan, who was half-turned into a vampire. It's gotten to the point where he's almost been evicted from his office and home in his desperation to find a cure. At the end of the book, Harry finally lets go. He takes down her picture and the engagement ring he offered her from his mantle, and instead puts up the holy blade Fidelacchius, given to him by a man who surrendered himself to torture to give Harry a chance to live. The final lines, "Maybe some things just weren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water, orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan. But tomorrow was another day", always choke me up.
** This troper's own choke-up moment from The Dresden Files: [[spoiler:Michael]] has been terribly injured and is on life support in the hospital. Harry and the patient's family are waiting for news, and the doctor comes to say they're bringing him in. And Harry and [[spoiler:Molly, Michael's ''daughter'']] have to leave the room because just their being there could mess up the equipment and kill him. Ouch.
*** For this troper, the tearjerker had a smaller one before that, when [[spoiler:Tessa takes the machine gun from Harry, and shoots Michael with it. He goes limp, hanging from the underside of a helicopter.]]

*** Not to mention what those bastard Denarians did to [[spoiler: Ivy.]]
** The end of Turn Coat. [[spoiler:Morgan dies after we finally start feeling sympathetic to him, and then The Gatekeeper tells Harry that his relationship with Luccio was partly the result of psychic manipulation]].
** On top of that, Morgan admitting that [[spoiler: he took the blame for the crime from Luccio, who had originally been set up, because he still loved her as his teacher.]]
** The final lines of Turn Coat always got [[DarcDiscordia me.]]
-->"See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: You can't win them all. But that doesn't mean you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part- he was too busy living it."
-->"I closed the door behind me, and life went on."
** The shadow of the fallen angel Lasciel spent multiple books living in Harry's head, alternating between being a dangerous annoyance and really helpful when things get desperate. Then Harry starts treating her like her own person. He gives her a nickname and, like Ivy and Bob, it changes her. And then in ''White Night'' she shields him from a psychic attack and it burns out the parts of his brain where she lives... except for the part of her that helped him play the guitar better.

** When Harry that he has to [[spoiler: kill Susan]] to win the day at the end of ''Changes'', Butcher makes clear how horrible it is for him. PyrrhicVictory indeed.

** When JamesMarsters is reading the above line, he actually sounds like he's about to ''break down crying.''

** Hell, JamesMarsters' reading of that one line at the end of chapter 48, and in the last chapter, when Harry [[spoiler:asks Murphy to take his daughter to Father Forthill and have him send Maggie somewhere safe...the sheer emotion he puts in those lines makes this troper cry.]]

* Throughout the whole story of ''Death Masks'', [[spoiler: Marcone went through a lot of trouble to secure the Shroud of Turin. Enlisting the Churchmice, getting extorted into paying millions more for it by Valmont to make sure it's safe, even personally risking his life with Harry, Michael and Sanya to fight Nicodemus, pulling off incredible shots just so he wouldn't harm it. Near the end of the story, we learn why he went through so much trouble: he wanted it to heal a girl in a private hospital in Wisconsin. The real Tearjerker part was Gentleman Johnny Marcone, AffablyEvil criminal mastermind, head of the biggest criminal empire in the country, putting a teddy bear in her arms, reading her a story out loud for an hour, laying the Shroud on her, and ''praying''.]]
-->[[spoiler: ''I hadn't ever pictured John Marcone praying. But I saw him forming the word please, over and over.'']]
* ''Turn Coat'' has a small but poignant scene toward the end when Harry is talking with Luccio, after they both realized that [[spoiler: she had been mind-controlled into being attracted to him.]] They both realize that the relationship, which had made them both happy and content, was now broken off, likely for good. It's especially bad for Luccio, as she's both confused and angry, and is crying. It's quite clear that this scene is very painful for both of them.

-->[[spoiler: ''I hadn't ever pictured John Marcone praying. But I saw him forming the word please, over and over.'']]

** This troper is unsure how the heck this got left out, but when Harry that he has to [[spoiler: kill Susan]] to win the day at the end of ''Changes'', Butcher makes clear how horrible it is for him. PyrrhicVictory indeed.

*** Hell, James Marsters' reading of that one line at the end of chapter 48, and in the last chapter, when Harry [[spoiler:asks Murphy to take his daughter to Father Forthill and have him send Maggie somewhere safe...the sheer emotion he puts in those lines makes this troper cry.]]

* What happens to Kirby and Andie.* This troper doesn't normally cry when reading. It's a rare book that can make me even come close. However, the closing paragraph of [[TheDresdenFiles the 5th Dresden Files book]], Death Masks, always makes him tear up. For two entire books, Harry's been obsessed with researching a way to save his ex-girlfriend Susan, who was half-turned into a vampire. It's gotten to the point where he's almost been evicted from his office and home in his desperation to find a cure. At the end of the book, Harry finally lets go. He takes down her picture and the engagement ring he offered her from his mantle, and instead puts up the holy blade Fidelacchius, given to him by a man who surrendered himself to torture to give Harry a chance to live. The final lines, "Maybe some things just weren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water, orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan. But tomorrow was another day", always choke me up.

* What happens to Kirby and Andie.

** What makes it extra powerful is that for the majority of the reading, Marsters has been fairly calm. Sure, there are scenes where he tinges his reading with the anger, disbelief, weariness, pain, and fear that Harry has to be feeling, but when he gets to "God forgive me," the line is delivered with a heartbreaking half-sob. It almost sounds like Marsters ''himself'' was breaking down crying while reading that chapter.

* Even if you know it's coming, even if you are prepared for it, if you do not cry when James Marsters reads the below line, you have no soul.

** The line that always gets me is [[spoiler:Molly going, "They hurt his heart." She's lived her whole life with her father as this invincible KnightInShiningArmor, and the realization that he's really, truly mortal is just shattering to the young girl.]]

* In ''Small Favor'' there's a moment near the end [[spoiler: after Michael has been badly wounded and is in the hospital, Harry tries to leave Charity and Molly to wait for news without him, given that he thought they would be mad at him. Charity grabs him and tells him that "family stays." Given Harry's relationship with Charity (one of unmitigated anger from her towards him) its pretty touching.]]

-->In Justine's arms he looked like a man in mourning. But he bent his whole body to her, every fiber and sinew, not merely his arm, and every line of his face became softer, somehow, gentler, as though he had been relieved of an intolerable agony I had never realized he felt - though I noticed that neither he nor Justine touched each other's skin.

* Grave Peril. "She only wrote three words in the card. I'll let you guess what they were."

* Lash's final gift to Harry.

* The end of the short story 'Love Hurts", when Harry and Murphy realize they have to end the spell and go back to the way things were.

* The end of the short story 'Love Hurts", when Harry and Murphy realize they have to end the spell and go back to the way thimgs were.

* Hell, Marsters' reading the entire last chapter. Especially when Harry [[spoiler: asks Murphy to take Maggie to Father Forthill and put her someplace safe, and that he doesn't need to know.]]