Sundry responses on Ron

[linman6868 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16481

Amy Z wrote:
> 
> Lisa, all I can say is a big "me too!" to your "Ron's stubbornness" 
> post.  (I have more sympathy for Harry's nastiness in the 
> badge-chucking scene, though.  Yeah, he's being an utter jerk, but 
as 
> we know and Ron doesn't, he's been stressed to the breaking point.  
He 
> has good reason to think Ron's interruption may cost him his 
life.)  
> You really summed up a lot of my thoughts on Ron.  The Ron rhetoric 
> has been getting kind of extreme on both sides ("Ron's emotionally 
> abusive" on the one ridiculous extreme, "Ron's funny, brave, etc. 
and 
> therefore can't be jealous" on the other) and your post was so 
> balanced and reasonable.

Gee, I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked 
my new earmuffs!  However, my attempt to balance <grips her long 
baton nervously as she crosses the wire> has led you to believe I 
didn't feel any sympathy for Harry in that scene!  I was taking 
Harry's being-deserving-of-sympathy as a given and trying to add 
Ron's to the scene as well.  I agree with whoever said that the Fight 
and its resolution after the First Task are very poignant and moving 
precisely because they are so taut with unspeakable emotion.

And speaking of unspeakable emotion, Mo credited my American 
sensibility with the hypothetical Ron-apology to Hermione that I 
concocted.  I hadn't thought of that, I admit, but I'll also say 
freely that even this American couldn't think of a believable way for 
Ron to actually say it without sounding pathetically stilted.  It's 
just the principle of the thing; and the fact that Ron tested Pig on 
Crookshanks at the end of PoA just goes to show that JKR knows how to 
paint Ron better than I do--go fig.  <g>

--Lisa, who liked Amanda's post on reading fanfic and forming images 
(hearty "me toos" amongst all my personalities <eg>), and who is 
still eager to see somebody write fight songs for Hufflepuff and 
Ravenclaw.  I've run out of tunes I can put names to.  :)