Ron's Jealousy

[Sarah R. Pripas]

No: HPFGUIDX 16416

Hi-

I'm a lurker, and have never posted to this list
before.  I've found all the banter about Ron over the
past few days extremely interesting.  (Some of it
quite disturbing, I admit.  I love dear Ronniekins!) 
But when I saw this, I just had to comment:

eggplant107 at hotmail.com wrote:

That's  not clear to me at all. Ron was 100% in the
wrong Harry 100% 
in the right. 

I'm sorry, but I don't buy into that.  When dealing
with this kind of situation, it is impossible to be
100% in either the wrong or write.  It's unfair to put
all of the blame on Ron.  Sure, the cause of the fight
was his envy.  Sure, it was extended by his
stubbornness.  But I don't recall Harry bending over
backwards to talk with Ron after the night his name
was drawn from the Goblet.  ("I'm not running around
after him trying to make him grow up!", page 290)

While I'm not saying I condone Ron's reasons for being
cold to Harry, I understand them.  From his vantage
point, he was the one "in the right", just as Harry
was so sure that he was entirely right.  Ron was
certainly "in the wrong" in several ways, but giving
him the full blast of it is doing him a great
unjustice.

-Sarah, who is about to stop rambling 

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