Headmaster Ron

[mightymaus75]

No: HPFGUIDX 85941

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tem4w5" <tem4w5 at y...> wrote:
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> However, alas, I don't think I can jump on board.
> 
> I'm thinking of this from OotP:
> 
> "'I doubt it,' shouted tiny Professor Marchbanks, 'not if 
> Dumbledore doesn't want to be found! I should know
 examined him
> personally in Transfiguration and Charms when he did NEWTs
 did
> things with a wand I'd never seen before.'"
> 
> And then I start wondering how time travelling Ron shows up at the 
> Hogwarts of the past and presents himself for NEWTs even though
> he's never been a student there. Then on top of that the formerly
> average student Ron shows genius abilities that amaze the tester. I
> don't think Ron's stupid or untalented, but he would have a lot of
> catching up to do in the next two years to make that plausible, I'm
> afraid.
> 
> Sigh. I was all excited about it for about 10 minutes there. Maybe I
> should get a BB GUN instead.
>
> ~Teresa


Of course, the fact that Dumbledore did things with a wand the 
examiner never had seen before could also be seen as more evidence in 
favor of the Dumbledore is Ron theory. The examiner had never before 
seen the things Dumbledore!Ron did with his wand because Dumbledore!
Ron had been educated 150 years in the future. I'm sure there have 
been countless advances in magic over the past 150 years; Ron just 
inadvertently performed spells which at that time still hadn't been 
discovered.

As for why Ron would show up for NEWT exams 150 years ago: Ron might 
have travelled back in time right before his present-day NEWTs, not 
have realised this, and just have shown up for exams. For some reason 
plot intrigues always seem to happen right around exam time. (it's 
best not to ask why this is) 

Ron may also simply have decided that being stuck in the past with a 
qualification would be better than being stuck in the past without it.

-Maus