The Romance (was HBP: the Good, the Not So Good, and the Ridiculous (Spoile

[va32h]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Ron still needs to be a bit unsure of himself. Yes, he'll hug Hermione to comfort her now (DD's funeral in the HBP book) instead of pulling away in terror, and he holds her hand when they're at 12 GP in DH, but he's still afraid to kiss her, mostly because he's still insecure and still envious of Harry. 

<snipped book summary?

va32h:

Seriously, there's no need to summarize the entire book, Carol. We are all here because we are fans, we know what happened in the book. 

My point was that I thought what JKR did in the book was wrong.  Ron had ALREADY moved past all these insecurities and that I thought JK Rowling made a lousy and lazy choice in regressing Ron's character. He ALREADY worked out all his insecurities both about Harry (during the TriWizard Tournament in GoF) and about himself (during the endless Quidditch saga of OoTP).

To go back to that well in HBP, resolve it, and then go back AGAIN, is absolute character assasination on JKR's part.  

I hate pretty much every single word in Deathly Hallows but I particularly hate the way JKR destroyed Ron. She took too many cues from the screenwriters, I think.  Book Ron - the Ron we knew for 5 1/2 books at least, would NEVER have left Harry in the forest. 

That was such a stupid, lazy, choice of Rowling's --- I nearly flung my book across the room in disgust when I read it. 

Perhaps I am feeling especially tetchy today as I am watching the movie marathon on ABC Family and it has just struck me yet again what a wonderful series this was ONCE, and how Rowling destroyed it with the steaming pile of garbage known as Deathly Hallows. 

That is one book that can only be improved by the filmmakers, because God knows they couldn't possibly make it any worse. 

va32g