"...You’re probably just gonna throw us all back inside."
He was literally the only one who believed in Ben.
Uma didn't believe they'd help at all, Evie and the VKs believed they needed Mal to be the voice of reason.
But, Harry, when he finds out the truth, he doesn't go after Mal. He doesn't rage that she should have stood for the Isle kids. He doesn't even rant about this being why he follows Uma's crew, or that she was the only chance they had of getting free.
No. He goes directly to Ben, AND BREAKS DOWN.
For just a moment, all of Harry's faith was put on Ben, believing that he might get a chance to be outside of the barrier and live that life he'd gotten a taste of:
-Be free to be something he wants.
It's easy to forget that Harry is the child of the one villain who's most nutritious quality is his loathing of children. One can only imagine how difficult being the son of James Hook must have been.
Yet Harry, who has known nothing but loyalty to his crew, trusted his future not in the hands of his Captain, not even in the hands of another child of the Isle;
But in Ben so deeply that instead of masking his upset with anger and violence, he lets his guard down to him. His walls drop like an anchor in the ocean. I wish I could express exactly how big this sort of thing is for a person who shows as much trauma and uses as many coping mechanisms as Harry Hook is depicted to.
Harry believed in stronger and had more faith in Ben and what he wanted to do/was doing than anyone else in the entire trilogy - even and ESPECIALLY more than Mal - and this scene and his disappointment show that perfectly. His loyalty, something that Harry never falters, is with Ben. It doesn't need to be, but it is.
That boy got ATTACHED and it shows. Ben is a whole other level of special to Harry.
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