Ron's stubbornness

firoza10 at yahoo.com firoza10 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 11 17:55:40 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 16399

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eggplant107 at h... wrote:
> firoza10 at y... wrote:
> 
> > Ron did TRY to make up with Harry before the first task. But 
Harry 
> > wasn't allowing him too. 
> 
> I don't believe that's true. The way to do it is to say "Harry I 
> believe you now and I'm sorry I called you a liar" but he didn't do 
> that until after the first task, about a month after the fight 
began. 
> At that point Harry was very gracious about it and didn't even make 
> Ron finish saying it.    
> 
> >JKR herself said that Harry's pride  was to blame for prolonging 
the 
> >fight in the Dec. Times article
> 
> Yes, I read that too, but if that was Rowling's intention then she 
> needs to rewrite the book because that's not what comes across on 
the 
> page. I doubt if there is one person in a thousand would be as easy 
> going about it as Harry was. Think about it, you're under enormous 
> stress and facing a potentially lethal situation and your best 
friend 
> just makes it worse. I said it before I'll say it again, I'd knock 
> Ron's block off.

Even before I read the Times article, I had come to the conclusion, 
that yeah Ron was an idiot to start the fight, but Harry was an idiot 
to prolong it. It came across pretty clear to me and the Times 
article just reaffirmed it for me:-)

I, like Harry, would be pretty tee-ed off at my best friend for 
calling me a liar and I probably wouldn't speak to him for a month 
for doubting me. Like Harry, I would rebuff attempts to reconcile 
just to make my best friend Ron pay for doubting me. But after facing 
a dragon and almost getting killed and seeing my best friends white 
face (which tells me that yeah he might have doubted me but he DOES 
care), I would know my friend well enough to accept his half-formed 
apology. I would recognize the sentiment behind it and accept that 
unspoken apology. I, like Harry, would realize that friendship is 
more important to me than my pride. Fights between friends DO happen. 
Whether or not the fights are resolved is what determines if the 
friendship remains intact or is broken. Harry and Ron had a fight but 
Harry and Ron resolved it. If Harry can forgive Ron, I can too. 
Whether YOU can forgive Ron is up to you :-)

Firoza 





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