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

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> 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

I think this is one of the most charming things about the books- 
Ron's simple assmptions of things that are to Harry(and us) utterly 
fantastic. Then we see how these same things are viewed by Draco, 
who,instead of the just "that's the way it is" attitude Ron has, adds 
his sneering commentary.
Hermione, however, you don't know with her, just how much to expect 
her to know. Sometimes she has more information, than you'd expect 
since she IS the information gatherer, and has the "why's" of the 
wizarding world. Then there's our hero, just taking it all in. ( 
again making us feel closer to him, since we're doing the same)
Funnily enough, as Harry has become more knowledgeable, he takes it 
all for granted too. Do the rest of you.?I sometimes find myself 
talking to a non - HP person, saying something, and they'll give me 
that "huh?" look, and I want to do a Hermione and say "HONESTLY, 
hasn't anyone around here read Hogwarts:A History? ( or some similar 
remark.)
~ Circe