Ron's Alleged Jealousy

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52877

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dicentra63 <dicentra at x>"
<dicentra at x> wrote:
> I said earlier:
> 
> Ron found "Harry's abandoned me" easier to believe than "Someone's
> after Harry" ...
> 
> And Melissa queried:
> 
> But why should thinking that Harry's abandoned him be easier for Ron
> to believe. H
> 
> So I (Dicentra) answer:
> 
> ...big edit...
> 
> The context of trying to figure out how to bypass the Age Line and
> get into the tournament contributes heavily to Ron's interpretation,
> too. Harry knew Ron wanted to find out how to get in, so when Harry 
> seems to have found a way to get in (as everyone but Dumbledore, 
> Hermione, Bagman, Imperioed!Crouch, and Hagrid believes), Ron's 
> worst fears seem to be coming true.
> 
> --Dicentra, who tends to fear broccoli more than anything

bboy_mn:

Once again your humble fan bows to your superior analysis.

Here is something to think about. Remember how Harry fantasizes and
visulaizes himself as champion with Cho admiring eyes wistfully gazing
up at him. It would seem reasonable that Ron was havign similar
fantasies. 

Ron never the hero, never rich, dreams the way boys dream. Standing
before the crowd his mother and his brother's (especially his oldest
brothers) admiring eyes looking up at him; Ron, the Tri-Wizard's
Champion. Now he can buy his Mum that new enchanted stove she's always
wanted, now his dad can have a proper car, Errol the owl can finally
retire, they can fix up their house, and they own it all to Ron, the
hero and champion.

Just like Harry, Ron knows this is just a fantasy, but, in a way, our
dreams are what will build our lives on. So Ron wants to have his
dream, he wants to believe in that fantasy even though a part of him
knows that it can never be. For Harry's name to come out, Harry's name
had to go in, and Ron knows Harry wanted to put his name in as
desparately as Ron did. Now it looks to Ron like Harry chose to live
the dream without him. Ron see this as very greedy on Harry's part,
this is the part of Ron that was truly betrayed. 

Ron didn't care if his own name came out, in fact it was virtually a
given that his name would never come out. The precious thing that was
taken from him was that chance to, for a few short days, believe that
maybe... just maybe... 

You can hurt a man in a lot of ways, but when you steal his hopes and
dreams, you cut him to the core.

I wish I could have explained this a little better, but I think you
get the point anyway.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn