Ron Week: Prejudices - a question

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 16211

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> I'm just wondering something....
> 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?
> 


Now, Heidi dear, you should know that what's good for Ron isn't 
necessarily good for poor ickle misunderstood Draco.  ;-)  (j/k)

I can say one thing about Ron, though... he tends to give people the 
benefit of the doubt once he knows them.  He was a bit repulsed by 
the idea of Lupin as a werewolf at first, but after a while, gets 
over it.  He may have had the same "moment" with Hagrid once he 
learns he's half-Giant.

Draco, on the other hand, can't see past the surface.  That is, he 
can't get past the "otherness" of the person or creature he's been 
bred to hate.  Which, when you think about it, makes Draco a much 
more tragic kid than Ron.

I just thought of something else.  Ron may have grown up in a 
wizarding family, but that wizarding family is the Weasleys (I *love* 
that family!).  I wonder what Arthur and Molly's attitude towards 
werewolves and giants is?

--Ebony AKA AngieJ