Ron's Alleged Jealousy (was: Draco vs. Ron)

[dicentra63 <dicentra@xmission.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gwendolyngrace
<gwendolyngrace at y...>" <gwendolyngrace at y...> wrote:

> Oh, no! I'm being sucked back into the HPfGU vortex!

Resistance is futile.  Might as well relax and enjoy it.  :D

Gwen said:
> Ron's behaviour is much less of a mystery. We are intimately familiar 
> with his jealousy, his resentment of his family's financial status, 
> and his sinking self-worth in the face of brothers who have all made 
> mammoth achievements at school. 

And then in a later post said:
> [I]f I were 
> portraying Ron, whether by playing him in a production or writing him 
> as a character, I would be sure to make him genuine, I would want to 
> bring out his intelligence within the wit, and I would be careful 
> about capturing his fierce loyalty. But, I would also include his 
> tendency to leap before he looks, his sarcasm, and the dark 
> undercurrent of his jealousy and low self-esteem. 

I can buy the sinking self-worth, low self-esteem, the tendency to
leap before he looks, the sarcasm, and the resentment of his family's
financial status, but I don't buy the jealousy.  

Can you (or anyone else) build a case for it?  REAL jealousy?  Not
wistful thinking and wishing things were different, but soul-eating,
deadly sin jealousy?

--Dicentra