Jealous!Ron (was: Ron is a wimp?)

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 68882

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ken and Faith Wallace  
> > 
> 
> Actually, I took a different take on this - I felt that for the 
first time
> Ron was learning that it isn't so great being Harry - being in the
> spotlight, standing out of the crowd for something.  All along 
he's been
> plagued by jealousy - Harry has fame, Harry has money, and all 
these things
> happen to Harry - remember GOF.  I feel as though Ron was humbled 
a bit in
> this book.


I'm  afraid that I disagree with your assessment of Ron as being 
plagued by jealousy "all along".  We all know about his fight with 
Harry in GoF, when he thought that Harry had entered the triwizard 
tournament without telling him.  Although Hermione tells Harry that 
Ron's jealous of him, I've always believed that she was wrong.  Ron 
was upset because he thought that Harry had betrayed him, and had 
gone behind his back to enter the tournament.  There isn't *any* 
jealousy from Ron toward Harry in books 1 through 3, even when Harry 
is receiving brooms from anonymous benefactors, and Ron would be 
well justified in feeling jealous.  I highly recommend that anyone 
interested in Ron and Harry's relationship and particularly their 
fight in GoF read Dicentra's brilliant posts titled "Anatomy of a 
Roft" (HPfGU posts 52038 and 52039), and the thread that follows.

I believe that the whole "jealous Ron" notion is overblown at the 
very least, but it tends to hang on among the fans for some reason.  
Dicentra's careful analysis blows that notion out of the water IMO.

Jo Serenadust,who's been defending Ron since 2001