Ron Weasley

[Sean Dwyer]

Ron Weasley Report
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Initial Posts: 925 (after culling in other cats)
Final Posts:   683

I won't be going into Ron's many acronyms; we all know CRAB, and the posts
reflecting the others can practically be counted on one hand, SACRIFICE being
the most viable after CRAB. That says a lot when you compare Ron to Hermione;
Ron just doesn't inspire the same vitriol.

Most posts reflect the CRAB nature of Ron characterization. Very interested to
see how the List veers post-OotP particularly considering how much of List
opinion depended on Ron's not having achieved 2 of his 3 erised ambitions. So
the whole Ron betrayal thread still has life but must surely be taking a
battering these days... Just one person correctly predicted that ron and
hermione would become prefects and even accurately represented Harry's POV
(#27692); OTOH #35227 is also accurate. Honourable mentions go to #5502 for
some of the earliest GoF-based prediction, and #5590 which appears to be the
earliest poke at Ron the Seer, a thread which refuses to die.  And of course
all those bloody ships... there's no way in HELL H/H is convincing any more,
and the ambivalence of R/H drove many a nutty poster to tears. Sadly no ships
on the bizarre level of Hermione either.

I was able to cut out more of the absolute *profusion* of Weasley coding (Code
it! It's a Weasley!!!) in the process as well as help out with the Harry
Potter cat. Trio Dynamics once again played a major part (now 243 posts), as
does Friendship & Loyalty. Ron was frequently used to hang Molly with, but
that's a Molly subject not a Ron one.

On F & L, which I will be doing next: at this point, Trio Dynamics is looking
more and more like a special case of F & L. Trio SHIPping, when applied to
"outsiders" often overlaps also, but unless I'm mistaken, I think Hagrid will
be the only other major character outside the Trio to feature heavily in F &
L, notwithstanding the use of its subcategories for aspects of the Marauders
and Pettigrew. In fact, that argues more strongly for TD to be subsumed into F
& L, considering the large number of posts concerning parallels between them.
Think upon it as I delve into its mysteries....

Sean (penguin of mystery wooooo)

-- 
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.