[HPforGrownups] re: In response to a big prediction for OotP

[yellows at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59908

In a message dated 6/10/2003 12:07:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tammy at mauswerks.net writes:

> Ron confides his feelings for Hermione to Harry.  Harry is torn
> between Ginny and Cho, and seeks out Hermione, privately, for some
> female advice. Ron gets wind of the private chat, and interprets it
> the wrong way.  His jealousy explodes, and he accuses Harry of
> betraying him, and LEAVES THE TRIO.  Colin, seeing the split, horns in
> on Ron's place, and becomes Harry's new best buddy.  On the fateful
> night, toward the end of the year, when Voldemort makes his
> appearance, the Trio is faced with a chilling, sadistic choice. 
> Voldemort has two hostages, and there's only a chance to save ONE of
> them.  Harry has to choose between saving Ron and saving Dennis
> Creevey. Ron, who had deserted him, or poor, innocent, baby-brother to
> new best buddy, and too cute, to boot, Dennis Creevey.
> 
> Harry chooses to save Ron, of course, and too cute to live Dennis
> dies. Colin, outraged at the betrayal by his hero, secretly meets with
> Draco, and subsequently becomes the first Muggle-born junior Death
> Eater.

I love this prediction.  :)  In fact, I love all of the predictions -- they 
are *so* much fun to read! 

This one I think will come at least partly true. I say "partly" because:

I really can see this thing with HRH happening. First, I expect Ron to come 
to terms relatively soon with his feelins for Hermione. They're getting a bit 
obvious and it's going to look odd if he can't accept it before long. And, of 
course, one of the first (if not the first and only) people he'll confide in 
will be Harry.

I can also see Harry and Hermione's friendship looking sketchy again to a few 
other people, perhaps including Ron, as it did to Krum and Rita Skeeter in 
GoF. That all sounds very plausible to me.

But the rest of it I disagree with, and I'll tell you why so maybe you can 
change my mind for me.  :)

I don't think Ron will leave the trio. He's sort of done that already (when 
he and Harry weren't speaking in GoF) and it would make him look too much like 
a little whiner (no comments, please, those of you who want to prove Ron a 
huge crybaby! I love Ron! <g>). I just think JKR might let this go and have that 
be Ron and Harry's big fight for now. Maybe they'll part ways again for a bit, 
but the next time it will be over something much less petty.

Also, with all the stock that is placed in choices in the series, I wonder 
what it would mean for one of Harry's choices to be something like the book 
"Sophie's Choice." For Harry to *choose* that someone should die seems like a bad 
choice to me, no matter what. I could see him doing something like he did in 
the second task of GoF, where he frees Ron first, but also tries to save the 
Creevy brother. And there I can accept that the Creevy brother somehow doesn't 
make it and Colin ends up hating Harry for his mistake. But I can't see Harry 
doing *nothing* to save the other person, no matter who it is. 

What do you think?  :)

Brief Chronicles


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