The next Peter Pettigrew

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 71792

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
 
> Don't you think you're being a bit hard on Ron?  Maybe he did let 
the 
> Slytherin song get to him, but I am impressed by the fact that he 
> continued to go out there and play Quidditch, game after game, loss 
> after loss, song after song. 

Actually he only continued to play because Angelina refused his 
resignation and the fact that it took most of the school year for him 
to get a handle over his issues doesn't say much for his maturity.

> Plenty of other students would have quit 
> long before Ron did.  

He wanted to quit immediately after the first game. Again doesn't say 
much for his resolve. 

> I don't think Ron is so far behind Harry, Hermione or Neville; he 
is 
> simply different than they are.  He doesn't carry the burdens that 
> Harry or Neville do and he doesn't have the same academic interests 
as 
> Hermione does.  

It is exactly the burdens which Neville and Harry carry which I think 
have allowed them to mature so fast while Ron in a sense is still 
emotionally a kid.

>I can't say Hermione's constant "Ron!" every time

Many of these instances she had pretty good reason to shout at him.

-he calls the first years midgets
-he starts to attack her attempt at elf liberation
-when he says they couldn't have done anything to prevent Bode's 
death 

>She and Ron 
> are on equal footing when it comes to the constant bickering, but 
they 
> remain friends just the same,

They remain friends because of the fact that they have Harry standing 
in between them.

And most of the bickering is started by Ron or his immaturity which 
seems to get on Hermione's nerves

>He showed more tolerance and less resentments, which was 
> a welcome change.  

Again how so in terms of tolerance? He was still bearing many of the 
narrow minded beliefs that he had in GOF. 

>While I don't see him as the strongest of wizards, 
> I no longer think he may be one who will betray Harry or the Order, 
> either purposely or accidentally.  

I don't agree. That resentment we saw in GOF imo was just the first 
signs of a fracture between Harry and Ron.