Ron and the Trouble with Veela

[ssk7882 <skelkins@attbi.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyofmisrule2000 
<lorischmidt1 at j...>" <lorischmidt1 at j...> wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> Does anyone have any theories as to why Ron seems to be affected to 
> a greater extent by the veela than Harry is?

Two possibilities leap to my mind.

First, Ron might be more vulnerable to mental magics in general 
than Harry is.  Harry has a freakish ability to resist the Imperius 
Curse, while we see Ron suffering from the lingering after-effects 
of one of Crouch/Moody's in-class demonstrations even after DADA 
class has ended.  Those tendencies could apply across the board to 
all magics of mental domination or influence.

Second, it could be because Ron is more physically mature than
Harry.  Harry *is* small for his age, and it seems to me that Ron 
started showing an interest in girls (and mildly dirty jokes) rather 
earlier than Harry did as well.  I see signs of Ron taking some
romantic interest in Hermione as early as CoS.  I don't see any signs 
of Harry taking the same sort of interest in a girl until PoA.  It 
seems possible to me that on the dead basic physical level, the two 
boys could just not be at quite the same stage of puberty, which I 
imagine might have rather a noticable effect on the extent to which 
lads of That Certain Age respond to the veela.


Elkins