Ron on teams - why did Harry do that?

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 25876

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> 
> Also, you need money to play Quidditch--unfair, but true

This strikes me as being a very likely reason why Ron isn't on the 
house team. My own kids run into the same thing. I teach at a small 
Christian school, which means my pay is signigicantly less than that 
of my public school counterparts. Significantly. We get no reduction 
in tuition, either, so we shell out the 9000 per year to send the two 
kids to the school I teach at. That means that my 13-year-old 
daughter doesn't own twelve Old Navy/Abercrombie/whatever shirts, she 
owns one and then a few not-so-prestigious alternatives. It means 
that my son doesn't take karate even though he wants to because his 
sister dances on a competition team. It means that my daughter, the 
dancing one, works several hours a week at the dance studio to help 
defray expenses. And if my kids each needed an expensive broom to 
play Quidditch, well, one of them wouldn't play. That's just the way 
it is. 

So why haven't we heard about it in Ron's case? Think about it. Do 
you think my kids blather on to anyone who'd listen that they don't 
have six pairs of the coolest jeans in various shades of blue? No 
way. They just don't talk about it. They understand and they accept 
and they just don't talk about it. I'm sure my daughter discusses it 
with her best friend, of course, and we do hear Ron do that 
occasionally too, but more often than not, they just don't talk about 
it.

Now if I could just find a way to make MONEY with the Lexicon, I'd be 
all set...Hmmm...


> 
> Cindy says:
> 
> >Then there was Harry's failure to
> >use a Summoning charm to obtain the Marauder's Map when his leg was
> >stuck in the stair.  I would have liked to see him mentally 
chastise
> >himself for not thinking of this faster.


There's actually a short essay in the Lexicon about this sort of 
thing called "Why Did Harry Do That." You'll find it here:

http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/why_did.html

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon