[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Ron

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 55124

At 14:50 10-04-03 -0400, Audra1976 at aol.com wrote:
>Troels Forchhammer
><t.forch at m...> wrote:
>   Who says Ron's good at strategy?
> ><snip>If being good at chess had
> > anything to do with a strategic talent one might wonder why
> > Kasparov wasn't leading the coalition forces.
> >
>Talkative_alien_4000 at yahoo.com writes:
>    I've always considered good chess players to be VERY strategically
>minded.

They are, generally, mathematically minded.

>Me:
>I agree with the Alien.
>And Ron is not only talented at wizards' chess, but he's very into
>professional Quidditch,

I know a lot of people who are very into professional football
(soccer to the westerners ;-) - a lot of them are beyond 200
pounds and couldn't run 20 yards without working up a sweat
(not talking about panting).
I have no doubt that if it fits Rowling's intentions to make
Ron an admirable Quidditch player, then he will - I just think
that it would be more consistent with his character as it has
been presented hitherto if he made a fool of himself on the
broom - and I like him for it. There is nothing extraordinary
about Ron - he is the very likable commoner with no special
talents like the huge majority of the readers. Harry and
Hermione are both presented as being almost greater than
life - they're admirable, but somehow unapproachable (IMO,
of course, and YMMV).

Troels