Is Ron a Seer?

[torimarie_1216]

No: HPFGUIDX 33536

First, may I just say that this is my maiden post here and I am a 
wee bit nervous about it.  Also, I really enjoy this site and look 
forward to conversing with you all about these wonderful books.  The 
nuances and details are so great that I believe the conversations 
could go on forever--as this paragraph threatens to do if I don't 
get on with my post.  ;-)


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "david_p2002ca" <david_p at i...> wrote:
> Looking back at PoA and GoF, I've noticed that Ron's predictions 
have 
> an uncanny knack for coming true - even when he makes them up.  

I've noticed this too and I agree with you.  Ron could indeed 
have "the sight".  Now wouldn't *that* impress the girls--especially 
Parvati and Lavendar!  ;-)

> Harry will be stabbed in the back by someone he thought was a 
friend -
>  Harry and Ron have a fight after Harry is named to the Tri-wizard 
> tournament and barely speak for almost a month.

I agree with you that this prediction comes true.  But I thought it 
did so when Moody/Crouch, Jr. delivered him to Voldemort after Harry 
trusted him and thought he was helping him.  Moody/Crouch gave him 
those hints about the first task and covered up for him when he got 
stuck in the stairs between Snape and Filch.  Harry even trusted him 
to let him put the Imperius Curse on him in class!  

When Ron gets so angry at him over the tournament, Harry *feels* 
like he got stabbed in the back I think.  But IMO that was more of a 
rift between two young friends than real betrayal.

> Ron predicts his own drowning - he is taken underwater by the 
> merpeople for Harry to rescue in the second task.

Wow!  Good catch!  I hadn't noticed that one.

>  Better than Professor Trelawny, at any rate...

LOL!  Way better than her!

> I've lent out ms PS/SS and CoS - can someone else take a look for 
> more of Ron's predictions?  Perhaps he has The Sight - though I'm 
> sure he'd deny it.

Well, they don't start taking Divination lessons until the third 
year, so there wouldn't be any formal predictions.  But there may be 
some things he says in normal conversation that come true.  I'll be 
on the lookout for them!  :-)

And yes, I'm sure he'd deny it too--that is until he noticed how 
much feminine attention it got him!  ;-)

Tori Marie