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We are viewing the memory again.

PRESENT HARRY: I saw lots of painful memories in the Pensieve, but that one hit me harder than any of the others.

In the memory, Hagrid arrives on an obviously magical motorcycle, carrying the infant Harry wrapped in blankets. Dumbledore and McGonagall are still standing in front of the Dursley home, waiting for zir arrival. Hagrid is huge; ze looks fully twice as tall as either of the others, although ze's also closer to the viewpoint, so the effect is somewhat more exaggerated than the reality.

DUMBLEDORE: Hagrid. At last.

HAGRID: House was almost destroyed, but I got him out alright before the muggles started swarming around.

PRESENT HARRY: It was Hagrid. The same person who rescued me ten years later...

Hagrid reaches out zir hand, offering the infant Harry to Dumbledore. Harry is barely wider than Hagrid's hand. Ze is sleeping, apparently peacefully, although there is a jagged cut on zir forehead, where the scar will be. A trickle of blood touches one of zir eyes. Ze doesn't have a scar at the corner of zir mouth; this is the first time we've seen Harry without that scar.

PRESENT HARRY: He had no idea. He had no idea...

DUMBLEDORE: Well – give him here, Hagrid – we'd better get this over with.

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The dialogue in the memory is from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, pages 14-15.

I'm writing a fanfic of a fantasy series, and I have to draw a motorcycle? DAMN YOU, J.K. ROWLING!

On a more serious note, look at the way Hagrid refers to “muggles” as “swarming around” – I think it's rather dehumanizing. If I lived in this world, I'd probably be careful to use the phrase “non-magical people” instead, because “muggles” is used in a dehumanizing way so much.

I'd kind of like to have a different term to use in these annotations, too, because “witch/wizard” is gendered. (As a side note, I insist that in general usage, “wizard” is gender-neutral. The main reason I insist upon that is because I enjoy claiming to be a wizard even though I'm not male, but it does have the support of some existing authorities, such as Dungeons & Dragons. However, this is a Harry Potter fanfic, and in the Harry Potter universe, “wizard” is definitely gendered.)

Approximate readability: 7.25 (731 characters, 171 words, 10 sentences, 4.27 characters per word, 17.10 words per sentence)
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