Ron & Jealousy(was:Re: OK, this rumor is going to die right here)

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/25/2003 7:05:45 AM Central Standard Time, 
> On another note, I did find a comment from JKR in a BBC transcript 
from fall 
> 2000 where she specifically mentioned Ron's jealousy:
> 
> Why was it important to show some of the strained friendships 
developing in 
> this book?
> 
> Well in Book Four for me, Harry, Ron and Hermione are all starting 
to find 
> their own identities - that means, in their various ways, facing 
up to what 
> their parents have imposed on them, or the school. For Harry, 
that's facing 
> up to fame, really facing up to it for the first time. He's been 
put into a 
> situation where for the first time he'll get the weight of outside 
interest. 
> So that's scary. Ron has to deal with his jealousy. He's made 
friends with 
> the most famous boy in the year and that's not easy. And Hermione 
gets a 
> political conscience. Yeah! 


I saw that quote too, and thought it might pop up soon ;->.
I don't think that anyone has said that Ron *never* experiences 
jealous feelings.  The perception that Dicentra debunked (IMO) in 
her "Rift" posts was that Ron's character is defined by jealousy 
demonstrated in the R/H fight in GoF.  I can see all 3 members of 
the trio exhibit jealousy in this book, but none of them suffer 
from  the "soul destroying, deadly-sin" sort of jealousy Ron has 
been accused of in the past.  I really don't think that JKR was 
indicating that sort of character flaw in the above quote.

I know you didn't say that it did in your post above, but I thought 
that I'd point this out for the sake of clarity.

Jo Serenadust