Ron and Draco (was similar but divergent characters/Snape's love)

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 18517

Meril wrote: Ron's "mirror" is Draco. Both are from established 
wizarding families; both tend to feud with each other both with words 
and wands in much the same way. However, the main divergence is the 
amount of money each family has, and the boys' reactions to it."

And both boys serve a similar purpose for Harry (and to a lesser 
extent, Hermione): giving insight into the wizarding world. Ron and 
Draco both take utterly for granted many small details and larger 
social mores that Harry (and we readers as well) simply haven't 
encountered before. Despite their economic (and moral?) differences, 
Ron and Draco are both relatively unquestioning about standard 
wizarding schools of thought. It's Harry's job, as the outsider (and 
hero) and Hermione's (as the resident skeptic-about-everything) to 
push back on those assumptions, which, IMO, is the "point" (if there 
is one) that JKR is trying to get across. 

~Rosmerta