Ron: GoF: Betrayed or Jealous? Revisited.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 43919

Thanks to everyone who replied. At least now, I know that I'm not
alone in thinking this, and it was nice that even the people who
disagreed with me, acknowledge that there was some element of betrayal. 

The people who spoke of a combination of betrayal and jealousy
(michelle_rave, bugaloo37) stimulated a new line of thought.

=Internal & External=

Hermione's conclusion-
Hermione seemed pretty set and sure in her conclusion that Ron was
jealous. Of course, we all know, with out a doubt, that Ron is jealous
in general, but let's keep our focus on this one event and this one
point in time.

Hermione's conclusion came right after breakfast where we assume she
had breakfast and a conversation with Ron. Being a *boy* and not
talking about his inner feelings, I seriously doubt that Ron said the
words 'I' or 'ME' very many times in that conversation with Hermione.
Knowing how boys are, I can't hear Ron saying thinks like 'how could
Harry do this without ME?', 'I thought I was his best friend', 'How
could he betray ME like this?'. My guess is that the whole
conversation was made up of statements about Harry, containing little
or no 'I' or 'me'. 'Harry has all the luck', 'Harry has all the fun',
'Like Harry really needs another thousand galleons', 'Harry gets all
the glory', 'Harry doesn't have to take exams', blah, blah, blah,
Harry this and Harry that. I believe that the whole conversation was
made up of statements by Ron that could lead to no other conclusion
than Ron was jealous. But that doesn't mean that jealousy was at the
heart of it, only that jealousy and anger were the expression of what
was at the heart. 

The wound, the pain, in my opinion, were all inflicted by his
perceived betrayal, but Ron isn't going to talk about his deep
emotional wound, so externally it is expressed as statements of
jealously and anger. So, we have my theory of internal emotions and
external expression.

Internally, Ron is wounded by betrayal, but the only way he can
comfortable express this, is through external statements of jealousy.

And, again, I have to emphasize that, of course, Ron is jealous. Not
just expressing it, but feeling it too. How could he not be? Even I'm
jealous. But the wound that's cut the deepest, that aches the most is
the wound of betrayal.

Still just saying what I said before, so this is nothing new, but I
thought the internal/external idea added a nice twist.

Thanks to all for the replies.

Just a few more thoughts.

bboy_mn