[HPforGrownups] Poor Ron (was other stuff 3 times before!)/ Book 5 deaths

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44852

GulPlum wrote:

> I'm going to pick on only one sentence...

Only one? :)

> >Does Ron really
> >sit around worrying about his hand me downs as much as it seems he does?
>
> Ron's line that "everything I own is rubbish" is something I probably said
> every single day of my life until I was about 12, and by that stage I'd
> gone off to a boarding school (thanks to a scholarship, of course), at
> which stage I had not my family to compare to, but my schoolmates, most of
> whom were very, very comfortably well off. Boy, was I a jealous and
envious
> teenager! My clothes were rubbish and unfashionable (we didn't have a
> school uniform), all the kids walked around in jeans, except me of course,
> as my parents considered them too expensive (not to mention that neither
of
> my parents have the slightest sense of style).  :-)

It's like Harry and Ron are the complete opposites here.  Harry has all the
money he could possibly want, but no family at all.  Ron has all the family
he could possibly want, but no money at all.  When Harry first visits The
Burrow Ron nervously awaits his opinion.  Throws in a little "It's a bit
small.  Not like that room you had with the Muggles."  Yet Harry's first
(and only) response is a big grin, and "This is the best house I've ever
been in."  Of course, it was the first wizard house he'd ever been in, that
he could remember.  But what Harry liked most was "that everybody there
seemed to like him."  His month at the Burrow had been "the happiest of his
life."

Ron has the family Harry's always wanted. Harry has the gold Ron's always
wanted.

> bboy_mn wrote:
>
> > JKRowling does say that there will be more deaths, but did she
> > actually say there would be significant deaths in book 5?
>
> Now me:
>
> bboy, I'm sharing Eloise's angst with you about not reading our posts
> that reply to your questions!  I replied to your question on this in
> post #44107 and provided three JKR interview quotes in which she does
> not directly reference deaths in Book 5.
>
> ~Phyllis

Well, while I will admit that there is no direct reference to a death
specifically stating in book 5, since there are so many references to future
deaths they've got to start somewhere.  And since they have already started,
with Cedric (and Frank Bryce etc.), it would be inconsistent to suddenly
have an entire book (large one at that) with no deaths at all.  There's got
to be at least one.

Richelle (who will now go back to bed and listen to the wind and rain)