Another Ron Thought

[andy_foltz]

I'm with Illyana on this one. Throughout the entire book, Ron 
harbors a deep jealousy and resentment towards Lockhart, and during 
the duel openly expresses a wish for harm to come to Lockhart. 
Furthermore, Lockhart was given sole responsibility for the safe 
return of Ron's sister (a bad move by the faculty . . .) and 
Lockhart totally betrayed her making every effort to leave Ginny 
dead in the CoS. Then, there's the overt textual issues Illyana 
brought up, regarding the thumps and "ow!" from behind the pile of 
rocks. So I was pleased to see Ron hit Lockhart in the movie because 
I was assuming the directors and producers would be too gutless to 
show how Ron really felt about Lockhart. This WAS true to Ron's 
character. Really, I think any of the Weasley's except perhaps for 
Mrs. Weasley, would have done the same.