Magical notions of prejudice

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Amy Z said:

 Ron's "get away from me, werewolf!" in the Shrieking Shack is a very 
painful moment IMO.  He's in agony and he thinks Lupin has betrayed 
and is about to kill them all, so it's very understandable, but it 
shows a bigotry that is disturbing just the same.  (To his credit, he 
doesn't hold Hagrid's background against him at all.)


I think Ron's acceptance of Hagrid's giant heritage is an example of 
how he has matured in the year between the Shrieking Shack and the 
Skeeter tell-all article.  He learned that werewolves and escaped 
Azkaban prisoners were not the terrors he thought they were. Plus he 
had known Hagrid for a longer period of time, so the trust was 
already there.

Trina