Ron Going To The Dark Side

[gideoner4]

No: HPFGUIDX 35086

I'm also one of the believers that Ron could be good prey to 
Voldemort. I'm not saying that I think Ron would be evil. I like the 
Weasleys very much, and I hate to think that anyone could be 
potentially evil in the fmaily. However, I see Ron's character as a 
shadow to Harry's and Hemrione's. I suspect that JK enhances Ron's 
insecurities in preparation for Ron's temptation from Voldemort. JK 
seems to make Ron's low self-esteem stronge rin every book, the 
height of which of course comes in book 4. It's obvious from Book 
one, from the first day that Harry and Ron met, that Ron has a lot 
of frustrations in his life.

 *** "Five," said Ron. For some reason, he was looking gloomy. "I'm
the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got
a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left -- Bill
was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's
a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get
really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone
expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big
deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either,
with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand,
and Percy's old rat."

    Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat,
which was asleep.

    "His name's Scabbers and he's useless, he hardly ever wakes
up. Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a prefect, but they
couldn't aff -- I mean, I got Scabbers instead."

    Ron's ears went pink. He seemed to think he'd said too much,
because he went back to staring out of the window. ***

Right form the start, I kind of pitied Ron. It doesn't help to have 
a famous boy-who-lived and the-class-brains-who-dated-a-world-famous-
seeker as best friends. Sure, the three friends love each other 
deeply and are loyal to each other, but Ron is a human being, and 
his insecurity surfaced clearer in book 4. 

***   "Listen," said Harry, "I didn't put my name in that
goblet. Someone else must've done it."

    Ron raised his eyebrows.

    "What would they do that for?"

    "I dunno," said Harry. He felt it would sound very melodramatic
to say, "To kill me."

    Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of
disappearing into his hair.

    "It's okay, you know, you can tell me the truth," he said. "If
you don't want everyone else to know, fine, but I don't know why
you're bothering to lie, you didn't get into trouble for it, did
you? That friend of the Fat Lady's, that Violet, she's already told
us all Dumbledore's letting you enter. A thousand Galleons prize
money, eh? And you don't have to do end-of-year tests either. . ."
    "I didn't put my name in that goblet!" said Harry, starting to
feel angry.

    "Yeah, okay," said Ron, in exactly the same skeptical tone as
Cedric. "Only you said this morning you'd have done it last night,
and no one would've seen you.. . . I'm not stupid, you know."

    "You're doing a really good impression of it," Harry snapped.

    "Yeah?" said Ron, and there was no trace of a grin, forced or
otherwise, on his face now.

    "You want to get to bed, Harry. I expect you'll need to be up
early tomorrow for a photo-call or something."

    He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving
Harry standing there by the door, staring at the dark red velvet
curtains, now hiding one of the few people he had been sure would
believe him. ***

Harry insisted that he didn't have anything to do with the goblet's 
choice, but Ron didn't believe him. Ron only believed Harry when he 
saw how dangerous the first task was, and that Harry could really 
get killed, being an underage contestant.

Even Hermione explicitly and balatantly declared that Ron is jealous 
of Harry.
 
***  "Have you seen Ron?" Harry interrupted.

    Hermione hesitated.

    "Erm. . . yes. . . he was at breakfast," she said.

    "Does he still think I entered myself?"

    "Well. . . no, I don't think so . . . not really," said Hermione
awkwardly.

    "What's that supposed to mean, 'not really'?"

    "Oh Harry, isn't it obvious?" Hermione said despairingly. "He's
jealous!" ***

Hermione could not have said it better. Ron and Harry are friends, 
but Ron seriously doubted Harry's honesty. What I'm thinking is that 
Voldemort could brainwash Ron into believing that Harry gets all tye 
shots and that is unfair for Ron. I don't think that Ron will turn 
evil willingly. I think that he's a too loyal a friend. But if 
Voldemort lured Ron into believing that Ron is being shortchanged, 
Ron could be tempted. I dunno, this is just my two cents on the 
matter. :D

Ron has a fiery temper, and prone to oubursts, and excitable. I'm 
nervous about him. The fact that he's Harry's best friend make shim 
perfect prey for Voldemort. All Voldemort has to do is rub in Ron's 
feeling inferiority to Harry and everything could go chaotic. Human 
nature is dynamic; people change. I just hope that Ron will change 
for the better. 

There are a lot of things in the books that show Ron's insecurity, 
which I believe Voldemort could use. I think I'm going to point them 
out later in a separate post. I'm getting sleepy... :D Advanced 
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