JKR and Jealous!Ron

[dicentra63 <dicentra@xmission.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52824

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:

> On another note, I did find a comment from JKR in a BBC transcript 
> from fall 2000 where she specifically mentioned Ron's jealousy:
> 
> Lizo: Why was it important to show some of the strained friendships 
> developing in this book?
> 
> JKR: ...Ron has to deal with his jealousy. He's made friends with 
> the most famous boy in the year and that's not easy.... 

I find it fascinating that she said this.  Because if I had an hour to
talk to JKR, I'd probably bring up The Rift and show her that she
wrote a FeelingBetrayedByHarry!Ron and a ScaredOfBeingLeftBehind!Ron
and a DisgruntledWithHisSituation!Ron and a Pessimist!Ron (thanks
Eileen!) but she most certainly did not write a JealousOfHarry!Ron.

And if I have the canon to prove it but she has only her intentions
and plans, I win.  Don't I, Elk?  Don't I?  What she *wrote* is the
final word, not what she tells Lizo, not what she has written down in
her notebooks, and not what she thought she did.  So ther.

--Dicentra, who won't deny that Ron is tweaked occasionally by the
disparity between him and Harry, but can't bring herself to call it
"jealousy"