More about Ron, was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Hurt-Comfort and reader crushes

[Susanne]

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Hi,

Sunday, June 02, 2002, 8:29:51 PM, Laura wrote:

> Plus, it doesn't beginning to make up the whole thing with the Krum
> doll for me...that part always made me feel *very* uneasy.. 

Why is that?

What would have been an appropriate way of dealing with his
feelings in your opinion?

I'd rather have someone vent their feelings in this way than
actually going and hurting the real person.

Or do you think Ron should not feel jealous at all?
Swallow it all down and pretend he's perfectly alright with
everything?

It seems, no matter what Ron does, it gets somehow turned
against him :}

To me he seems perfectly likeable, despite his faults, just
like Hermione and Harry (though he has too few faults for me
to see him as real, unless his emotions get completely out
of control in a future book).

I guess that's what makes lists so interesting.
Seeing all the different views readers can get from reading
the same books.

I'm not at all like Hermione, Ron or Harry and identify with
none of them fully.

Looking at the Scabbers/Crookshanks debacle, I feel for Ron
*and* Hermione, but admittedly just a bit more for Ron.

Hermione just doesn't seem to care at all about Crookshanks
constantly attacking Scabbers, despite overwhelming evidence
that he *is* after Scabbers.

But I've seen quite a few people claim that Ron doesn't care
about Scabbers at all, and only makes a fuss to pester
Hermione (I don't see it this way at all).

And I realize nobody will change their opinion of the
characters because of the way *I* feel, and nobody can
convince me that Ron is a unlikeable, useless, clueless, lazy
looser with mean tendencies and Harry and Hermione would be
better off without him (I'm probably exaggerating, but
that's how it sounds in some posts about Ron's
characteristics).

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Best regards,
 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net