OOP: Questions re Ron + general comment to the list

[Wendy St. John]

No: HPFGUIDX 63480

 
Fan wrote: 
 
> Since Ron's now a prefect & on the Quidditch team does that mean 
he 
> will also be head boy & Quidditch captain per his view into the 
> Mirror of Erised (SS pg. 211).
> 

and Helen replied:
> 
> 
> Yes, I think he will. As soon as I found out Ron being made 
Prefect AND
> Keeper, I was absolutely sure of it. If you haven't noticed, Ron 
seems
> to have quite a knack for predicting the future. How can he be made
> Captain? Pretty simple... the only ones left on the team next year 
will
> be Harry and Ron. I think Ron will actually be good (he was good 
at the
> end). I think Harry may be captain next year, but give the 
position up
> to Ron later. \

Now me (Wendy):

I think that Ron's vision in the mirror will come to pass as you 
say, and think Helen is spot on in her analysis of why Ron should be 
Quidditch captain (actually, I'd prefer to see Ron as captain in 
year 6, instead of Harry at all).

I do think that Ron needs to do quite a bit of maturing, though, 
before he'd meet my standard of what a "Head Boy" should be. I was 
disappointed with him in the way he performed his prefect duties in 
many cases (particularly in not challenging his brothers regarding 
their "tests" on the other students,and allowing Hermione to do 
handle that situation on her own). While I can understand his 
hesitation, he DID accept the post as prefect, and I think he owes 
it to everyone to do a proper job of it. I do have hope that he'll 
become a bit more responsible - after all, we've seen what a prat 
James was in 5th year, and he went on to be Head Boy. Ron doesn't 
have NEARLY as far to go, IMO. :-)

And, for the record, I haven't always liked Ron very much, but a 
combination of the fabulous thread a while back about how Ron is 
feeling hurt and not jealous of Harry in GoF, plus Ron's behaviour 
in OoP have really turned my feelings around, and I like him rather 
a lot, now.

I also have a comment regarding the list itself, which hopefully 
won't come across as too stroppy:

I've noticed a lot of duplicate posts coming through my mailbox 
today and suspect that some people, not satisfied with the 
responses - or lack thereof - to their posts are simply putting them 
through again. I can understand this - I've had no response to 
pretty much any of the posts I've made and have many of my points 
duplicated EXACTLY by later posters (who obviously didn't read far 
enough to see my comments before responding themselves). However 
(and I'm asking this without have any authority to do so whatsoever 
<g>) . . . PLEASE DON'T repost! I'm spending plenty of time going 
through posts the first time, and am finding it rather annoying to 
start reading something only to realise I already read it a few 
hours earlier, or the day before, or TWICE the day before, or 
whatever. I'd suggest that if you don't get a response, wait a week 
or so to repost. By then, perhaps the list will have quieted and 
people will be less overwhelmed and more able to respond. Please. 
The volume of traffic here is high enough without exact duplicates!
<g>

Cheers!
Wendy