Another Ron Thought

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "andy_foltz" <andyfoltz at h...> wrote:
> 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.

I agree, except on Lockhart being given responsibility for returning 
Ginny.  My impression from both book and film was that the faculty a) 
kind of figured out that Lockhart was full of it (I'm sure Snape did, 
at the very least), and b) had given Ginny up for dead or worse 
already.  Sending him off on the "rescue mission" was pretty much an 
excuse to get him out of their hair, and little more than that.

~Christi