Ron splitting with Harry and Hermione

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 38564

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Susanne <siskiou at e...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  reading the comments from several people who seem to feel
>  pretty strongly that Ron will betray Harry's trust in the
>  future and join the dark side, made me wonder.
> 
>  It sounds like some people would welcome this development,
>  and I'd like to find out why <g>.
> 
>  Is it, so Ron is out of the way and Harry and Hermione can
>  be "a couple"?

I'm guessing that's part of it.  For the H/H ship, he's rather 
inconvenient.

>  Is it because you really dislike Ron as a character?

This is also true for some folks.  Oddly enough, I just posted 
something about this on my list about my fanfic, but my post was 
actually harking back to canon, so here's part of that post with the 
stuff about fanfic deleted:

Remember, in the first book, he [Ron] was
the one with the strength to walk away from the Mirror
of Erised (which SHOWED him as Head Boy and Quidditch
captain), while Harry wanted to keep going back and
stare at his family. [snipped reference to fanfic] 
I think it also illustrated a good point about
Ron's personality; as much as folks say they fear him
going bad because of his ambition, while he likes to
grouse about being in his brothers' and Harry's
shadows, he also knows that friendship and doing
what's right are more important than being in the
spotlight (as in sacrificing himself for Harry and
Hermione to get across McGonagall's chess board) and I
believe this early clue to his personality is JKR's
way of showing that Ron will never be a
Peter-Pettigrew-style traitor. 
 
>  The story would be more interesting to see him bad or dead.

I certainly don't agree with this idea, but I've seen folks say it 
would be interesting to see Harry deal with the loss of 
Ron/Hermione/Hagrid/Dumbledore, etc., so this is hardly a new idea.

>  He doesn't deserve to be part of the trio because of his
>  flaws (temper, envy)?

>  He's the present day equivalent of Pettigrew and therefor
>  *has* to go bad?

I think my comments above are an adequate, if brief, rebuttal of 
these proposed ideas.

>  There are most likely a million reasons I haven't
>  considered, but I like all three of the kid main characters
>  and would truly hate this kind of development, so I'd like
>  to see some other opinions :)
 
Sorry I couldn't offer up other opinions!  Think of it more as 
getting in a couple of shots first before the Ron-bashers start 
sharpening their quills...

--Barb

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