Ron's parallel (Was: Re: Ron splitting with Harry and Hermione)

[booklovinggirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 38681

Jarrod:
>I like this theory, "Actually, wouldn't the most 
accurate parallel for Ron, as a potential bad guy, be Sirius?  Ron 
may do something wrong, but usually he is a good kid just screwing 
around, I don't think he would intentionally hurt someone, well maybe 
Malfoy, but that is something totally different.<

YES! Thank-you.

When did people start believing that Ron = Pettigrew? It disturbs me. 
Very deeply. Ron isn't an evil person at all; he's not a saint, but 
neither is anyone else. You can argue that Wormtail was a good friend 
and decent person before a certain point, and I'll have to agree with 
you, but I just cannot see Ron as anyone except for Sirius. Two 
reasons why:

Point 1: He's Harry's best friend.

The Marauder Parallel ideas, in all the places/forms I've seen them 
in, show Harry as James. It's so simple that you almost doubt it. The 
easiest way of saying that Ron = Sirius is to point out that they are 
Harry and James's best friends.

Point 2: He's Malfoy's worst enemy.

Here we reach the second most moronically easy Marauder Parallel. 
Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape. It works; they're both Slytherins; 
they both take on grudges against pureblooded Gryffindors who are 
parallel's, and if we go for Sirius is Ron, it works on yet another 
level. Malfoy and Harry are rivals; I can't say that they're total 
enemies. We don't know enough about Snape and James, but I'd be 
willing to say the same.

Sirius and Snape, Ron and Malfoy...they're something else altogether.

I don't think Sirius ever meant to try to kill Snape. At very worst 
he might have been hoping Snape would be bitten. I don't think that's 
what was on his mind when he told Snape the way into the Willow, but 
*at worst* he might have fantasized about it. But, what I hold more 
important, is the fact that James was the one who went after Snape. 
This, next to Wormtail's Betrayal, is the most important plot 
development in Marauder times that we know of. It sets up most of the 
hostile feelings between Snape, Sirius, and Remus, it sets up the 
ever-important live-debt, it certainly helps set up Snape's entrance 
in PoA; I don't think the way into the Shack was just distributed to 
all of the staff and teachers. It's possible, yeah, but not that 
likely, IMHO.

Anyway. It also illustrates just how much Sirius must have hated 
Snape to not go after him. The Prank was not the beginning. It's 
simply an event that sticks out in particular.

I think that Ron and Malfoy hate one another more than Malfoy and 
Harry. Malfoy fears poverty, and this is not entirely his fault-
had I been raised the way he was, I probably would fear poverty to 
unreasonable extents as well. Ron, meanwhile, hates Malroy's slurs on 
his family and on muggle-borns-really all because of their 
upbringing. If you just tweaked a few details on their backgrounds, 
the right details, they could easily become the best of friends. But 
it's really too late, isn't it? If Dumbledore's going to get 
Slytherins on his side, he's going to have to move quickly.

Anyway, on a side mention, that I'll throw in here as a bonus, has 
anyone else noticed a pattern on how Harry faced the climax of each 
book? In SS, he went through the challenges with Ron and Hermione, 
for the most part. In CoS he went down into the Chamber with Ron. In 
PoA, he traveled using the Time Turner with Hermione. In GoF, he was 
essentially alone. Do you see any significance?

-Katherine