I know this is a few days old, but I want to say I completely know what you are talking about. It's almost like with small children. They'll fall and bump their heads and they'll give you this look at first that is so blank and so unfazed before it hits them that they are hurt and they begin their wailing. But for that time period before they begin to cry there is almost a nothingness, a calmness.
I had a friend die a few years ago and when I got the call from one of our mutual friends I felt much like you did. "This can't be happening. It's not real." "I'll wake up in a few minutes and the phone will still just be ringing." I remember feeling this odd wash of calmness overcome me and thinking that couldn't be possible. I held the phone out to my mother and calmly told my friend to tell my mom what he'd just told me. It wasn't until she handed the phone back to me and asked me if I was going to be ok that I had a swell of emotions hit me hard. For the first few moments it was shock. Just like a child.
I think that if Harry had gone undetected for a bit longer then emotions would have taken over and his motor skills would have returned and there would have been a different ending to that scene between him and Draco. The emotions always come eventually. He was still in the middle of the nothingness. Unfortunately, we never got to see what would have happened if. But it's fun to speculate on!
Oh, you are incredibly lucky! That could have turned out so much worse than it did. Did the truck stop to see if you were ok or did the driver even realize what had happened?
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Date: 2006-12-10 09:46 am (UTC)I had a friend die a few years ago and when I got the call from one of our mutual friends I felt much like you did. "This can't be happening. It's not real." "I'll wake up in a few minutes and the phone will still just be ringing." I remember feeling this odd wash of calmness overcome me and thinking that couldn't be possible. I held the phone out to my mother and calmly told my friend to tell my mom what he'd just told me. It wasn't until she handed the phone back to me and asked me if I was going to be ok that I had a swell of emotions hit me hard. For the first few moments it was shock. Just like a child.
I think that if Harry had gone undetected for a bit longer then emotions would have taken over and his motor skills would have returned and there would have been a different ending to that scene between him and Draco. The emotions always come eventually. He was still in the middle of the nothingness. Unfortunately, we never got to see what would have happened if. But it's fun to speculate on!
Oh, you are incredibly lucky! That could have turned out so much worse than it did. Did the truck stop to see if you were ok or did the driver even realize what had happened?