Does Ron the Seer need glasses?

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 37340

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "flower_fairy12" <graceofmyheart at h...>
wrote:

> > As to Ron's overall ability to "see," let's not ignore the times 
> >when 
> > Ron has jumped to the WRONG conclusions.  True, some of his 
> >assertions 
> 
> Yes, but I think he has predicted it right, many more times than 
> wrong. So he may have jumped to conclusions on Snape and Draco 
> Malfoy, but then they are two very complex characters. Most readers 
> proably jumped to the same conclusions surrounding their behaviour 
> (eg. Snape trying to *kill* Harry). I know I did. Who would have 
> thought Snape the sarcastic, snide and horrible to Harry, guy would 
> actually try to save him? ;)

Well, a seer would have, presumably. :-)  That's what being a seer
means, after all -- being able to predict things that aren't
immediately obvious.

To me, Ron's supposed "predictions" don't look like predictions at
all.  He just throws out random thoughts and speculations, and some of
them hit the mark while others don't.  There's no indication of
anything mystical about the things he says; we've never seen him go
into a trance the way Trelawney did.  Might as well argue that
Hermione is a seer -- after all, she correctly "predicted" that Snape
wasn't a bad guy, and that Crookshanks didn't really kill Scabbers.

Marina
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