[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron's academic achivements in book 5

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 77622

vecseytj wrote:
> 
> Harry is a better student than Ron in a
> few ways.  We never here of Harry's handwriting getting progressively
> bigger the further he gets in his homework.  

That's because his handwriting started out big.

> Ron is forever crossing
> out things, I don't here of that from Harry.. 

That just shows that Ron is more conscientious; he is not satisfied 
with his first draft, but goes back and revises until he is satisfied 
with it.  Harry, on the other hand, just writes down the first thing 
that pops into his mind, and leaves it at that.

> and when Hermione
> corrects his homework, she says, thats fine Harry, I just had to
> correct mice to ice.  

That mistake shows that Harry does not really understand what he is 
writing, but has just memorized the lectures, in this particular 
instance incorrectly.

> Ron on the other hand had Hermione write an
> entire conclution for him.  

The conclusion of a school paper is really just a formality, a few 
lines or a paragraph hitting the main points.  Not a big deal.

> And that paper (if I'm not mistatken and I
> very well could be) was the paper that he got a failing grade on from
> Snape.  And Ron got a passing.  Harry didn't say anything because he
> didin't want to hear *again* how UNFAIR Snape is to him.  Harry didn't
> deserve a rotten grade from Snape, if he did Hermione would have told
> Harry what he had was rubish and re-written it, and had harry copy out
> what it should say.

No, that paper was for, I think, astronomy.  Hence the mice on 
Ganymede (or whichever moon it was).

[I hope it is obvious that, except for the last point and for the 
point about the mice, I am being partly facetious.  There is no 
evidence at all, one way or the other, for how big Harry's handwriting 
was.  I just want to show that the evidence is open to other 
interpretations.]