Ron/Harry fight

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 16546

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Arabella wrote:
> 
> > I think JKR gives us a clue that she *wants* us to sympathize 
with 
> > him, when she paints Ron as a pathetic figure ("But Ron just 
stood 
> > there in his too-small pajamas" and earlier on he comes 
downstairs 
> > with "several inches of bare ankle showing beneath his pajama 
> > trousers").  IMO: She's making that scene difficult on us.  She's 
> > making Ron pitiable there on purpose.  She's pointing out to us 
that 
> > Ron's got things going on there - that Ron's coming from a very 
> > particular place.  
> 
> Good point.  I think she is also letting us know that Harry notices 
> this; it's his POV that sees Ron this way, after all.  He lies 
awake 
> for so long not only because he's angry at Ron, worried about 
Sirius, 
> and terrified of the dragon, but because he feels sad and guilty 
that 
> at a moment that Ron was making an overture of reconciliation, he 
> (Harry) was in no shape to accept it, and blew the opportunity.  
This 
> is all speculation on my part, but that's how I would have been 
> feeling.  The "too-small pajamas," and even more, the "Ron just 
stood 
> there," awaken sympathy--Harry's as well as ours.
> 
> Amy Z
> 

I was re-reading those chapters last night. I can't cite chapter and 
verse, but in one of those chapters, Ron and Harry are in Divination 
class and Trelawney is lecturing on how people born in July suffer 
horrible deaths. Harry makes a sarcastic off-the -cuff comment. Ron 
begins to smile and Harry catches Ron's eye. But Harry turns away. 

Ron attempts to apologize after the first task, but Harry doesn't see 
the need and tells Ron to "forget it". I posted that section a couple 
of days ago. It could be because he's in no physical shape or maybe 
because he knows Ron is sorry?

:-)Milz