Somebody please save Ron!

[mitchbailey82]

No: HPFGUIDX 44739

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "dcyasser" <dcyasser at y...> wrote:
> 1) Harry.  I was reading PoA to my daughter last night, and was so 
> incensed with Harry at the end, in the hospital wing, when poor Ron 
> comes round, asks what happened, and Harry flippantly (I think) 
says 
> to Hermione "you tell him" while putting away more chocolate. (I do 
> not have the book handy.) Yeah, cute and all, but poor Ron! Poor 
> broken-legged, severely hexed, not- feeling-too-well Ron. As I read 
> this last night, I pictured him pushing Harry out of the way of the 
> attacking Padfoot; then gamely standing up on his broken leg and 
> vowing to protect Harry in the Shrieking Shack.   He wakes up after 
> it is all over, and Harry, flushed and tired from further 
adventures, 
> decides he's not in the mood to talk to him.  This really made me 
> angry, and I don't generally get angry with Harry. 

Now me:

I don't read this the same way as you. I don't have the book with me 
(I really should start bringing them into work!) but didn't Harry 
look at Hermione first before saying "You tell him" I got the feeling 
that Hermione wanted to be the one to tell him. After it was the time 
turner given to HER that allowed them to save Sirius, also she 
understands about it, she knew that you shouldn't really let your 
past self's see you etc. All-in-all Hermione understands the ins and 
outs of it better than Harry does (how do you explain to someone else 
something that you are bit confused/don't fully understand yourself). 
I get the feeling that Harry's allowing Hermione to tell Ron what 
Happened (and maybe giving her, her bit of credit at the same time 
after all she didn't help them at the end of COS because she was 
petrified) giving her, the chance she deserves to show off what she 
Helped him do.


Michelle