[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron in Cos (was Ron and the Trouble with Veela)

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 50459

golden faile:
I was wondering, where in COS do we see evidence of
Ron having an interest
in Hermione?

Robert:
I always felt that Rons taking up for Hermione when
Malfoy called her a
Mudblood in CoS was indicative of his true feelings
for her.

Laila:
Could be... but let me ask you this. If someone
insults one of your best friends wouldn't you come
to their rescue?

Rebecca:
But this wasn't just one incident.  When Hermione
was
petrified and Malfoy made the comment about wishing
she'd been killed and the bet the next one would be
(pg 267 paperback US ed) he said he was going to
kill
Draco with his bare hands.  And, although Harry is
probably upset, the text gives no indication of
that. 
And Ron kept trying to get loose from Harry and Dean
for a while.

Harry didn't come to the rescue of one of his best
friends.  Actually, I take that back; he came to the
rescue of Ron.  Who knows what Snape would've done
to
him.

But Ron's action wasn't in defense of anyone.  It
couldn't help Hermione.  It was just an emotional
reaction.

Taryn:
Because Ron is extremely tempermental, whereas Harry
is /not/. Ron has to be held back MULTIPLE times.
But Harry is one who has lived a lifetime of
bottling up emotions and holding his temper. We
don't see it break nearly so much as Ron's.

Rebecca:
Actually, the first quote attributed to me is not
mine.

Me:
Terribly sorry about that! The name seemed to have gotten lost in the posts. Had to go search back and find the original author. Fixed it now.

Secondly, there was no indication that Harry was
upset.  He may have been.  But usually we know what's
going on in his head, and here we didn't.

Me:
Are you honestly going to try and say Harry wasn't upset by Draco, his arch-enemy, saying it was a pity one of his two /best friends/ hadn't died?

Rebecca:
Personally, I think it's R/H all the way.  I think
many of their actions can interpreted as friendship,
but that upon reading GoF that's thrown out the
window.

Me:
I never said I don't. ^_~ I'm a supporter of R/Hr. However, I don't see the support for it before GoF like others do. I'm more Alone!Harry than anything else, but R/Hr is second to that.

--Taryn

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