Quidditch (was: Ron, Hermione and insecurities

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 5041

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon J. Branford" wrote:

> This could be a case of a vicious cycle. Ron does not have a good
> enough broom so is not good enough to get onto the team. Because he
> is not good enough to get on the team he cannot justify asking his
> parents for a better broom. So he cannot get on the team. His pride
> would not allow him to ask to borrow a broom from one of the others
> - so he may never get on the team, even though he may be good
> enough.

Ron didn't let his ridiculous stubborn pride keep him from asking to 
try out the Firebolt (I don't remember if he tried out the Nimbus 
2000). I don't think it's his pride that keeps him from borrowing a 
broom for the try-outs. Maybe it is that he knows or believes that 
his parents don't have enough money to buy him a decent broom even if 
he did get on the team. That would be kind of humiliating: get on the 
team because of using a Firebolt in the try-outs (I am impressed that 
Draco would have caught that Snitch, not Harry, if Draco and Harry 
had both had the same kind of broom, both Firebolts or both Nimbus 
2001s) and then have to resign from the team at the first practise 
because of not having a broom at all!