[HPforGrownups] Re: About Ron (not shipping)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 34534



Hi,

Saturday, February 02, 2002, 10:34:52 AM, lucky_kari wrote:

> As for Ron, not having any attention paid to him, I always thought 
> that was just his insecurity.

But it has to come from somewhere.

>  I doubt very much that the parents pay 
> way more attention to their older boys.

Maybe not more attention, but it sounds as if there
successes a talked about often.
It seems all the other boys have their *specialties*, and
Ginny is the only girl, which sets her apart.

Ron's *specialty* is his friends, particularly Harry, but it
isn't anything he has done himself.
At least that's what Ron seems to think, even though *I*
think he's done plenty <g>.

Ron doesn't seem to consider his chess ability important.

And looking at living with lots of siblings:
while Harry may think it would be wonderful to be surrounded
by all this love, it isn't always that way in reality.
There is lots of teasing (not always the nice and loving
kind, either) and competition.
I could see lots of *being made fun of* going on, especially
with Fred and George as older brothers.

I'll have to re-read the books, looking for more detail
about the Weasley's family life.

So, while Ron's childhood was certainly much better than Harry's,
it could have had it's own problems, too.
Insecurities don't usually come out of nowhere.

And concerning the wand issue, while it didn't cause any
disasters until it broke, I could still see it not being
helpful, either.

-- 
Best regards,
 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net