[HPforGrownups] Ron's prejudices (Was: prejudice in the WW (was: If I had...

[Lanabana at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 38275

Penny says:

>  Ron is 
> easily influenced by others.  IOW, he is rather weak.  The fact that 
> he cannot fight the Imperius Curse is evidence of that to me. 

You are aware that Harry was the only one in the class who could fight the 
imperius curse correct?? And some of the best wizards apparently have been 
taken over by the Imperius Curse...So its not exactly fair to judge someone, 
particularly someone so young...as to whether they can fight it or not.

> He even holds 
>prejudices against girls who aren't pretty enough, like Eloise Midgen, 
>and instead gazes adoringly at the prettiest one around, even though 
>she may not be particularly nice, as apparently Fleur was not when Ron 
>asked her to the Yule Ball, or even when she snorted upon entering 
>Hogwarts.  He looks at things too much at face value.

Keep in mind this is a 14 year old boy we are talking about.....and my 
opinion on this is that Ron is immature!  Harry and Hermione are much more 
mature than him.  He says things a lot of times he probably doesn't 
mean....But we have seen Ron do a lot of brave things...a lot more than what 
would be expected of a boy his age...I don't think Ron will turn evil on us 
or anything....but he does have a lot of growing up to do.

"Lanabana"