Ron's big moment? (WAS: Why Ron Loves Hermione)

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No: HPFGUIDX 81362

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jksunflower2002" 
<mkeller01 at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ravenclaw Bookworm said:
> > ><Snipped. Bigtime.>
 (Ch38, p847) "There were 
> > still deep welts on his forearms where the brain's tentacles had 
> > wrapped around him.  According to Madam Pomgrey, thoughts could 
> > leave deeper scarring than almost anything else, though since 
she 
> > had started applying copious amounts of Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious 
> > Unction, there seemed to be some improvement."  
> > 
> > Notice the qualifiers "according to" and "seemed to be."  And 
> > nothing was said about his episode of silliness.  This just 
> screams 
> > *important clue* to me.  Thoughts on what they mean?
> > 

Toad said:
> So, is that implying that M. Pomfrey has actually used the 
Obliviate on someone before?  Is JKR trying to tell us that people 
who have experienced the Obliviate seem to be improved but actually 
are not?  The entire morality of using the obliviate could come into 
play in a future book (perhaps having been used widely during the 
first war?) 

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
What I was pointing out is that few things in JKR's writing are what 
they *seem* to be.  In this case, Ron *seems* to be recovering - but 
is he really?  Just how deep will this scarring go?  And was he 
treated for whatever happened to him when he got so silly?  
Considering his joke about Uranus, did the room have something to do 
with planets?  What unknown effect will manifest itself in the next 
book?  

Just a hunch - the joke he told about Uranus was the same one he 
used during a divination class (GoF, US Ch13, p201) - will he 
develop his talent for prophecy? 

I don't think there is a connection between Obliviate and the 
Oblivious Unction.  One is a spell, the other is an ointment 
(potion) that is applied to the skin. 

Ravenclaw Bookworm (who stayed up much too late last night and is 
now going in search of coffee)