Ron needs a niche: (was re: H/H and why it's just wrong)

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 2303

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dr M M wrote:
> 
> > I have to say I agree with a lot of the things you said.  One of 
the
> > things I've thought for quite a while now is that people 
underestimate
> > Ron.  Because he doesn't seem to have the "smarts" that Hermione 
does or
> > Harry's Quidditch skills and scar and isn't the focus of the 
books,
> > people always assume that he's weaker than either one of them.  
While I'm
> > not claiming that Ron's the most powerful wizard in existance, I 
do think
> > that he's quite powerful in his own way.
> 
> This is really an interesting thread.
> 
> One thing I've been wondering: could Ron have some kind of area 
where he
> could shine that he just hasn't discovered yet?  For example, how 
would he do
> at Quidditch if someone gave him a Firebolt?  Could he join the 
team next
> year?  The problem, as you point out, is that all the areas he can 
think of
> where he could shine, his brothers have gotten there first, and the 
best he
> might hope for is "you're a Quidditch star, just like Charlie" 
or "you're as
> good at curse-breaking as Bill" or "great job on the test, Ron--if 
you keep
> up the work, you'll shine at your studies as much as Percy did!"
> 
> What areas COULD he excel in that he hasn't tried yet?  I think it 
would
> really help if he could find something (the way that Neville, for 
example, in
> GoF realized that he is really is good at herbology--this discovery 
gave him
> a desperately needed boost.)  Or is Ron doomed to stay in the shadow
> forever?  He certainly has the thirst to distinguish himself 
(remember his
> vision in the mirror of Erised?), to the extent that I wonder 
whether the
> sorting hat might have offered him a place in Slytherin, too!
> 
> Wondering . . .
> Peg



Hmmmm...fascinating...

Remember that Ron is a chess player in the CoS that is his special 
strength...

Given that all the good wizards and witches are about to embark on a 
major struggle against Voldemort, Malfoy et aliae, perhaps Ron will
become the strategist/general of the effort?

Susan