History TearJerker / WhiteNight

** Readers may also feel a lot of sympathy for Lash - including Fridge Sympathy for her actions in previous books - after Harry points out to her that she's ''not'' Lasciel, and that if she ever achieves her lifelong goal of convincing Harry to accept Lasciel's coin, she'll '''die'''. All these years, she'd been calmly and obediently working to engineer her own destruction, for the sake of a Fallen who'd sent her on a suicide mission and never even cared enough to notice it ''was'' one. Then at that, when she finally does defy that, gaining some of her own freewill and personhood, becoming "Lash" instead of just a shadow, wanting to be able to live...and dying in an act of platonic love, before she ever truly gets the chance to.

* ''White Night'', the scene where Harry soulgazes Ms. Demeter and he sees the moment when her daughter was shot years ago. The part that does it is when the daughter starts repeating "Mommy" over and over while she bleeds in her mother's arms.

** Readers may also feel some Fridge Sympathy for Lash after Harry points out to her that she's ''not'' Lasciel, and that if she ever achieves her lifelong goal of convincing Harry to accept Lasciel's coin, she'll '''die'''. All these years, she'd been calmly and obediently working to engineer her own destruction, for the sake of a Fallen who'd sent her on a suicide mission and never even cared enough to notice it ''was'' one.

* 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. [[spoiler: 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.]]

** Readers may also feel some Fridge Sympathy for Lash after Harry points out to her that she's ''not'' Lasciel, and that if she ever achieves her lifelong goal of convincing Harry to accept Lasciel's coin, she'll '''die'''. All these years, she'd been calmly and obediently working to engineer her own destruction, for the sake of a Fallen who'd sent her on a suicide mission and never even cared enough to notice it ''was'' one. Anyone else think there's some justifiable spite behind that "I... ''she''... doesn't deserve you"?
* ''White Night'', the scene where Harry soulgazes Ms. Demeter and [[spoiler: he sees the moment when her daughter was shot years ago.]] The part that does it is when [[spoiler: the daughter starts repeating "Mommy" over and over while she bleeds in her mother's arms.]]
** James Marsters' reading of that scene, especially [[spoiler: after "Persephone" gets shot, and starts saying "Owie" over and over.]]

-->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.

--> Bob paused, and his eyelights blinked. "Hey, Harry. Are you ''crying''?"
--> [[SandInMyEyes "No,"]] I snapped, and left the lab.
** Readers may also feel some Fridge Sympathy for Lash after Harry points out to her that she's ''not'' Lasciel, and that if she ever achieves her lifelong goal of convincing Harry to accept Lasciel's coin, she'll '''die'''. All these years, she'd been calmly and obediently working to engineer her own destruction, for the sake of a Fallen who'd sent her on a suicide mission and never even cared enough to notice it ''was'' one. Anyone else think there's some justifiable spite behind that "I... ''she'' doesn't deserve you"?

* 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.

** Readers may also feel some Fridge Sympathy for Lash after Harry points out to her that she's ''not'' Lasciel, and that if she ever achieves her lifelong goal of convincing Harry to accept Lasciel's coin, she'll '''die'''. All these years, she'd been calmly and obediently working to engineer her own destruction, for the sake of a Fallen who'd sent her on a suicide mission and never even cared enough to notice it ''was'' one. Little bit of ''spite'' in that "I... ''she'' doesn't deserve you", eh?

* ''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.]]
** James Marsters' reading of that scene, especially [[spoiler: after "Persephone" gets shot, and starts saying "Owie" over and over,]] had this troper tearing up.