[HPforGrownups] Re: In defense of Ron

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 4864

Hi --

faerysneezes at yahoo.com wrote:

> If not speaking to eachother is equivalent to being obnoxious then
> Harry has had his moments too. How about that whole fiasco with
> Crookshanks. Although the fight was primarily between Ron and
> Hermione Harry totally sided with Ron. I didn't see Harry trying to
> get the two of them to reconcile (like Hermione does in GoF by trying
> to get the two of them to talk to eachother).

Am I the only one who's noticed this?  <g>

PoA -- Chapter 13 (pages 264-65 in US version):

"Only one person wasn't joining in the festivities.  ....  Harry broke
away from the table where Fred and George had started juggling
butterbeer bottles and went over to her.

.....  'Come on, Hermione, come and have some food,' Harry said, looking
over at Ron and wondering whether he was in a good enough mood to bury
the hatchet.

.....  She glanced over at Ron too.  'He doesn't want me to join in.'

There was no arguing with htis, as Ron chose that moment to say loudly,
'If Scabbers hadn't just been eaten, he could have had some of those
Fudge Flies.  He used to really like them ---'

Hermione burst into tears.  Before Harry could say or do anything, she
tucked the enormous book under her arm, and still sobbing, ran toward
the staircase to the girls' dormitories and out of sight.

'Can't you give her a break?' Harry asked Ron quietly.

'No,' said Ron flatly.  'If she just acted like she's sorry ....'

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Don't know about you, but that's pretty clear evidence to me that Harry
no longer held any grudge against Hermione, he wanted her friendship
back & he was actively trying to make the two of them make up.  Ron is
stubborn in this case too.


> To tell you the truth I'm pretty surprised that its taken four years
> for them to have an actual fight. Its quite a natural thing to
> happen. Friends are allowed to have squabbles. And most times these
> squabbles are a result of one person being obnoxious or totally
> ignorant. It happens.

I agree completely with this!  I'd been thinking to myself that it was
completely unrealistic that they'd never had a squabble of any sort.
The fight in GoF lasted longer than it shold have & was really largely
unnecessary but . . . on the whole, I thought it was about time really.

Penny


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