Ron's odd violence

[Ellen & John Anglin]

I agree- I found that bit of so called "Humor" disturbing.  Whapping 
someone with a rock is <not> funny, and I hate to think of kids 
emulating this casual act.  

I'm not a big anti violence crusader, but when something like this 
is treated so casually, it bothers me- Ron and Gilderoy may be 
fictional, but they are not cartoon characters.

Ellen

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "frantyck" <frantyck at y...> wrote:
> Harry killing Quirrell in the first film, and Harry stabbing the 
> diary in this film are jarring acts of deliberate violence, as 
> various people pointed out. How about the bit in the CoS film, in 
> the tunnel just after the roof caves in, when Ron knocks Lockhart 
> unconscious with a blow to the back of the head with a chunk of 
> rock? This wasn't even necessary! What's doubly disturbing is that 
> Grint does it with such matter-of-fact dispatch. Yes, Ron's going 
to 
> be unable to get to his dead or dying sister because of Lockhart's 
> idiocy, but to bring oneself to pick up a rock and hit someone on 
> the head with it suggests more ill-suppressed anger and violence 
> than even a redhaired Ron is likely to have.
> 
> In small ways, Columbus and the actors are making the main 
> characters less comprehensible. They are deforming the link 
between 
> what we know of the characters, and the actions they take 
> (motivation vs. action). Or perhaps all of this is meant as early 
> intimation of the characters' "dark side." Either way, it's 
> significant.
> 
> Rrishi