Ron a seer?/Harry's tears

[deep_midnight337 <deep_midnight337@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49448

Hi everyone...I've been lurking on the lists for about a week,
and 
I'm finally making my first post! Thanks for all the thought-
provoking discussion.

Jim Ferer writes:

>Some people have speculated Ron could be a seer.  What if the 
>bullfeathers Ron comes up with to placate Trelawney start coming up 
>true?  He'd be the opposite of Trelawney - someone who doesn't 
>believe a word of what he's saying, but it turns out true.  It would 
>be sort of reverse Cassandra complex.

I have actually thought about this... in GoF, when Harry and Ron are 
making up predictions for their Divination homework, a few of
Ron's 
predictions actually do come true. (I'm sorry for the
paraphrasing, 
but I don't actually have the book right now. Maybe someone could 
check this for me?) He predicts, for Harry, that "someone he
thought 
was a friend would stab him in the back." which could be
Ron's 
jealousy after Harry's name comes out of the GoF. He also
predicts 
that he will get into a fight, and later he does get into a fight 
with Harry. Maybe this is just my Ron-Fan side coming out. I think 
that Ron must have *some* sort of undiscovered talent.

Richelle writes: 

>Yes, it is bad.  [Harry] was on edge before GoF, from hearing his 
>mother's screams and his father's voice.  Now with the events in the 
>graveyard in GoF he is teetering over the edge, so to speak.  One 
more >incident and he probably will break down.  But what will that 
incident >be?

I think that book five will be an extremely difficult time for Harry 
emotionally. The press and most of the WW probably will be against 
him
I really doubt that spending some time in a jar will reform
Rita 
Skeeter, and when Hermione lets her go, she will undoubtedly cause 
even more trouble. (Which brings me to the question, why would 
*Hermione* not turn in someone who was breaking the law in such a 
huge way, and who had attacked her personally? Why not just let the 
MoM deal with her?) Not to mention the fact that Harry will blame 
himself for Cedric's death...he's just that type of person.
If he 
does have a breakdown, it will be early in OotP. 

-Faith