Ron is an Inconsiderate Idiot (Re: Ebony's Essay)

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50175

Ebony wrote:

> >H/H shippers have repeatedly conceded both Harry 
> >*and* Hermione's personality flaws.  Rarely do we
> >receive reciprocation on Ron's part. 

Eileen wrote:
 
> Well, you have reciprocation here. In fact, I could
> talk on and on about Ron's bad points for a long time
> if I had the inclination, since I share (or as a
> schoolchild did share) most of them. 

Yeah, I don't have nearly such a jaundiced view of Harry and Ron as 
Eileen does, but I'll bite.

Ron can be:

stubborn (GF fight)

sharp-tongued (ditto, "photo call" comment)

disloyal/cowardly (not speaking up against "Potter Stinks")

hot-tempered (do I need to cite examples?)

slow on the uptake (the Watsonian-sidekick act in CS . . . <wince>)

conventional (flinching at entering a girls' bathroom)

vengeful (breaking off the Krum model's arm)

sulky (when upset about the leprecaun gold, he has to have the 
problem dragged out of him)

insensitive (going on about AK after "The Unforgivable Curses")

etc.

Of course, you could say a lot of the same things about Harry, as 
Eileen already did.  As a friend of mine said in exasperation after 
finishing GF, "They're so . . . so . . . 14!"  No doubt he found it 
far more excruciating than I did, having been a 14-year-old boy 
himself.  I have no problem laughing at them and shrugging most of it 
off with a "they're basically nice kids, they'll grow out of it."  
Hermione's know-it-all-ness, on the other hand, makes me cringe with 
a very personal shame . . .

But back to Ebony's point, the does-Hermione-reciprocate question is 
endlessly fascinating, but in the end, does it matter whether she 
does or not?  Ron has a crush on her, so in OP sparks will fly, one 
way or another.

Amy Z

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   "I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning 
 down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?"
   "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical
 whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign
 that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry. . . ."
                                  --HP and the Goblet of Fire 
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