Hermione and Ron battles/Who could betray Harry?/Hermione's name

Wed Apr 9 14:56:33 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 55008

I would like for us to look at these two topics and see if we can come to various  conclusions.  I don't think they have been brought up.  If they have, sorry!
Ethanol wrote:

Examps: in the classical Star Wars movies (Episode 4,5,6), Empire 
strike back is the low point for the hero: one hero is frozen in carbonite, 
the other severly injured, the empire is very strong and all looks 
bleak. In the last movie, the hero must face the villain alone while his 
friends fight their own fights elsewhere.

What could Hermione and Ron possibly fight on their own?  I thought of battling Malfoy because he's anti-Weasleys' due to the fact they are muggle-lovers and is a muggle-born (Hermione) haters.  But *IF* they fight their own battles it may be individual battles.  For some reason this idea popped up into my head:  They'll be battling their own fears. And now I wonder what would happen if the Dementors go to Voldemort's side and they have to fight against them?  Only Hermione knows how to conjure up a patronus because Harry taught her, although it wasn't really a good time to teach anything.  
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 Serena wrote
Oh--Colin is the wormtail?  Oh what an intriguing circumstance.  
However, part of the dynamic included that fact the wormtail was 
exactly stellar at his studies (near squib maybe).  We don't know how 
Colin is fairing in his studies?

Being that my mom and I think that history may repeat itself in the Potterverse, we feel Harry maybe betrayed by one of his bestfriends, just as James, as well as Lily, Sirius and Lupin were betrayed by Pettigrew.  We say it's Ron, but lately I just feel bad accusing Ron so I would like to look at some other possibilities, besides Ron, some acquaintances.

My list of potential Traitors:

Ron ~ The Rift in GoF was caused by feeling betrayed by Harry as Dicentra pointed out wonderfully in her post Anatomy of a Rift (mssgs. 52038-39), but behind that feeling of betrayal is also the feeling of jealousy.  Being that Harry and Ron did not talk about what caused this rift, it is still up in the air around them and it could become tense yet again, *perhaps* causing over-reactive Ron to do things against Harry.

Ginny ~ She was possessed by Tom Riddle/Voldemort.  In some way, Voldemort must have knowledge that Ginny wrote in his diary and will lure her back.  There maybe some Riddle Soul left in Ginny causing her to do things which she wouldn't normally do.  Then again, Ginny may have shown that she felt horrible about the whole incident, but we don't see Ginny's perspective do we?  We don't know what Ginny is thinking?  She may have acted as though she felt sorry, but was she really?

Neville ~ JKR gave us a description of Neville in PoA from Harry's perspective.  That was that Pettigrew was like Neville.  Now I can't remember if it was a physical comparison, but any comparison to that rat is not good.  I wouldn't think JKR would give us such an obvious clue because that's not her style, but could she be tricking us to think, "No!  It can't be Neville because she made it too obvious that he's like Pettigrew." when it really is a clue?  Yet, Neville doesn't have any reason to betray Harry.  He should be on Harry's side because the DE's made his parents "insane".  Could Voldemort trick Neville into think that his parents are in St. Mungo's because it is Harry's fault?  I wouldn't put it past him at all.

Percy ~ We continously hear from Ron that Percy could rat out his family members.  Granted, we shouldn't take any character's words to heart, but just what if Percy is more ambitious than we thought him to be and he's willing to do anything to get what he wants?  Why would Ron say it continuously throughout one book? Why does he doubt his brother so much?  Did something happen between them for him to think such a thing?

BTW, has anyone read The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare? JKR got Hermione's name from there and I wanted to know if there maybe a clue about Hermione.  I have it, but I just can't get into it.

So what do you guys think! Tear this post apart or add your own ideas! ;)

Greicy, who can never accuse Hermione of doing anything wrong and is worried at the fact that JKR said that why doesn't anyone worry about Hermione?  What is that supposed to mean!? 

Greicy

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