[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron Week: Prejudices - a question

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 16210

heidi wrote:

> Just a question I'm tossing out here:
> How many of you who forgive Ron's prejudices about giants and house
> elves because "he grew up in a wizarding family" would be willing to
> (a) consider the genesis of Draco's seeming prejudices against
> muggle-born witches & wizards, and (b)forgive him those?

Big ol', BIG ol' difference between explaining something and excusing
it. Showing the basis for the belief does not necessarily forgive it.

Ron handily overcame the "giant" and "werewolf" conditioning, and I'd
bet he'd listen to the "house-elf" stuff more if they themselves weren't
their own worst advocates. Draco's taking his prejudices and running
with them.

--Amanda, who thinks all the talk of Ron being impulsive and acting
before he thinks reminds her of what Sirius must have been like as a
teenager.....


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