Ron's stubbornness

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No: HPFGUIDX 16365

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eggplant107 at h... wrote:
>  linman6868 at a... wrote:
>  
> >because of the fight, Ron doesn't know what's coming in the 
> >first task,
> 
> He didn't know about dragons but he must have known it would be 
> something dangerous and he must have known half the school had 
Potter 
> Stinks" buttons, he must have know his best friend was miserable. 
> What did he do to help? Nothing.   
> 
Ron did TRY to make up with Harry before the first task. But Harry 
wasn't allowing him too. There have been some good posts regarding 
this exact same issue just recently that you might want to read :-)

> >so the sight of those dragons must have been a pretty 
> >potent cure for his case of envy. 
> 
> True
>  
> > It's pretty clear, even by looking solely through Ron's point of 
> > view, that Harry and Ron have *both* something to answer for 
> > concerning their protracted fight. 
> 
> That's  not clear to me at all. Ron was 100% in the wrong Harry 
100% 
> in the right. I think Harry was very restrained, I would have 
knocked 
> Ron's block off.

Yes, Ron was 100% wrong in STARTING the fight but not in extending it 
for the length of time it did. JKR herself said that Harry's pride 
was to blame for prolonging the fight in the Dec. Times article 
(there have been posts about that article a while back if you are 
interested), and as I have said before JKR IS the HP God :-)