PoA-In defense of Gambon, forshadowing, etc. !!small spoilers!!

[serenadust]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Hewitt" <tahewitt at y...> 
wrote:

 
> On another topic:
> Another possible book 6-7 clue in the movie. In the scene where 
Harry is crying under his 
> invisibility cloak and Hermione comforts him, when Harry says 
somethig about Sirius 
> betraying his parents, you can see Ron in the background looking 
kind of dejected and left 
> out. Could this be forshadowing?
> My partner has been theorising that Ron will betray Harry in book 
6 or 7. Maybe not a 
> permanent or fatal betrayal, but a betrayal nonetheless. Jealousy, 
and a desire to break out 
> of his family's being poor will contribute to this. Percy succumbs 
to similar feelings, 
> combined with a drive for power, in book 5. Even the last name, 
Weasley, suggests this as 
> a possibility. The American Heritage dictionary tells us that 
to 'weasel out' is "to back out 
> of a situation or commitment in a sneaky or cowardly manner" (I 
must admit I've wondered 
> about the name Weasley for a long time, it seems at this point to 
run counter to much of 
> the name irony in the books. Maybe we just havent seen it become 
accurate yet). 


The trouble with this theory is that JKR seems to reject it outright 
on her website.  If you go to the "other stuff" section, click 
on "characters" and go to "Some random facts about the Weasley 
family", you'll see her say:

In Britain and Ireland the weasel has had a bad reputation as an 
unfortunate, even malevolent animal.  However, since childhood I 
have had a great fondness for the family mustelidae; not so much 
malignant as maligned, in my opinion.

She goes on to say that she's very fond of redheads as well as 
weasels, so while another author may very well choose a name 
like "Weasley" to indicate a "bad" character,  JKR has pretty much 
told us that she won't take that path.

Jo Serenadust, defending Weasleys since 2001