OOP: Re: Ron and Hermione in OOTP

[hermys_quill]

No: HPFGUIDX 64204

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "J" <jdq53562 at a...> wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > I'm disappointed with the treatment of Ron and Hermione in OOTP.
> >  
> > I am glad Ron and Hermione were given prefect status (although 
why Ron 
> was made a prefect is anybody's guess). However, I would have 
preferred 
> that JKR had allowed some quality time for Ron and Hermione to 
develop. 
> > <snip> 
> > In OOTP, a year goes by without any sign of their complicated 
relationship 
> developing. It seems extremely implausible that everyone around 
them 
> (including Ron's younger sister) has discovered dating while the 
two of them 
> seem stuck in a pre-GoF mode, with Hermione talking like a pedant 
and Ron 
> solely preoccupied with Quidditch. >>>>>
> 
> That is why the book is Called "Harry Potter and the OotP" and 
not "Harry, his 
> Three Friends and the Plot Device that Killed Sirius".
> 
> 
> Arya

I am agree with 'Arya'. Whole HP Series is concerned with author's 
and Harry's point of view only. Harry has his great friends for last 
4 yrs but he is deprived of family. His friends have enough love and 
protection in their lives but Harry has not. Harry's aim is not 
limited to himself. He is neither carrier oriented nor praise seeker 
like Hermione and Ron respectively. Harry thinks big (not only about 
school but also about whole wizarding world). No doubt that Hermione 
is very clever and strated thinking big too. 
This series is not about trio, its about a wizard boy 'who lived' and 
slowly recognizing his fate , his responsibilities towards wizarding 
world.