DISCUSSION - PoA Ch 15: The Quidditch Final

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 21169


> >5) Ron predicts that he will get an owl since Scabbers is no longer 
around. 
> >  This means he is a Seer. Discuss.
> 
> We've had some interesting discussions in the past re:  Ron's 
prescience.  
> Many people like the idea of Ron Being a Seer, for obvious 
> balancing-the-Trio reasons... count me among the Committee for the 
Granting 
> of Special Psychic Powers to the Guy Sidekick.  I know I think that 
getting 
> clairvoyance would be a much better "consolation prize" for him than 
just 
> getting Hermione by default.  It would also serve several purposes: 
 a very 
> obvious one is that Ron will be less likely to be tricked by the 
Dark Side 
> if he sees them coming.  The more I think about this, the more I 
like it.
> 

Regarding Ron's possible Seer abilities, I've heard it argued 
(expect it was here, but not recently in any case) that he could in 
fact be the seventh son of Arthur and Molly if there was another 
between Charlie and Percy that died in childhood.  The only tenuous 
argument in favour of this is Ron's staement in PS "I'm the sixth in 
our family to go to Hogwarts" which is the kind of statement people 
who have lost children/siblings make when they don't want to deny the 
existance of another, but don't want to discuss them either.  As I 
understand it seventh sons are supposed to have prophetic or healing 
powers - more so if their father was also a seventh son.

I'm not sure I really buy into this argument myself.  It seems to me 
that JKR would have given us more hints/clues, but who knows?

Florence