Ron is a wimp?

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 68750

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marosifig" <marosifig at y...>
wrote:
> Did anyone else had the feeling that Ron doesn´t stand up for 
> himself? On OOP, he seems always afraid of an angry Harry; he
doesn´t 
> react when Fred & George make fun of him for being a prefect, when 
> they are testing the Weasleys Wizading Wheezes on first years he 
> doesn´t do a thing to stop them, and he can only play Quiddich
well 
> when the twins drop out of school. What is that all about? Where is 
> the Ron that follows the spiders to the Forest, because Hermione is 
> petrified, and the Ron that yells to Sirius "If you want to kill 
> Harry, you will have to kill us too!", even though he has a broken 
> leg?
> Any thougths?

I think you're right saying he doesn't really know how to stand up
for himself, but on 
the other hand I just can't complain about it because I was just the
same at that age. 
It's just the Quidditch thing - I don't think it's because the twins
are gone that Ron 
can play better - when Ron displayed "a new optimism" at breakfast
that day, I was 
immediately thinking "YES!", cause success was obviously coming now
that he wasn't 
worried about failing anymore. And remember when he was telling Harry
and 
Hermione about his first save: "just out of nowhere, I thought - you
can do this!" He 
trusted himself at that moment, I think that is the key to his
improvement. (Without 
sounding to Lockhart-ish... see earlier posts)
evangelina