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

[Charles Engle]

No: HPFGUIDX 39386

 
  Laura Ingalls Huntley <huntleyl at mssm.org> wrote: 

>I guess I don't feel that the *extent* of his "feelings" (read: blind >hatred) are appropriate, given the situation.  Really, it disturbs >me.  I've seen allot of similar situations amongst my friends..and >none of them got quite so -- vicious about it as Ron did..


I don't see it as blind hatred.  More like a jealous rage.  Temporary insanity, if you will.

>I mean, imagine Ron..up in the dormitory all alone..slowly ripping the >arms off the little Krum figure, watching its face while its limb was >pulled from its socket...*shivers*   


Why do you think it was slowly?  Having been a fourteen-year-old boy, I don't remember anything being slow at that age.  Emotions come swift, and furious.  I imagine he got up to his room, after the fight with Hermione, and saw his Krum figure.  He remembered Hermione's quip about "Who's got a model of him up in their dormitory?" GoF23.  He did what any jealous, hormone-raging, just-got-out-of-a-fight fourteen-year-old boy would do, he smashed it in one quick blow (or threw it against the wall), scattering pieces all over the room (including under Harry's bed).

If Ron was in college, I'd agree that his actions were disturbing.  But he's not.  He's a fourteen-year-old (read volitile, unpredictable, moody...) adolescent.  Hardly the image of mental stability.

The tone of this, on re-reading, is much harsher than intended.  Please do not take offense.  I just really had no trouble seeing this scene play out.

 

ish (who really hopes Laura might still talk to him after this)






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