Ron's experience in MoM (WAS Ron's big moment?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 81478

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ffimiles" <ffionmiles at h...> 
wrote:
> > Geoff:
> > I don't follow your statement... According to my OOTP, Ron is 
> present when everybody uses the Reductor Curse to smash the 
shelves. When they get into the bell-jar room and seal the door, 
they then wonder where Ron, Luna and Ginny are.  We don't see Ron 
again until they are in the rotating room and the missing three come 
in through a different door and Ron is already confused.

> Ffi:
> I think tom was referring to Luna saying that she thought Ron had 
> been hit be a spell or something, as the DEs were hitting them 
left right 'n' cetnre with spells in the planets room, and blew up 
one of the planets.  So from her assumption, we can assume that he 
was hit by some sort of curse/charm - e.g confundus or a really 
powerful cheering charm.

Bookworm:
There isn't anything in the scene about planets - that was my 
interpretation based on Ron's joke. (US p787-796) When they use the 
Reductor Curse, they smashed the glass spheres holding the 
prophecies.  Then Harry, Hermione, and Neville run into the bell-jar 
room (with the time-turners), notice Ron, Ginny and Luna are 
missing, then fight their way into the rotating hallway.  Ron, Ginny 
and Luna rejoin the others in the hallway.  Luna tells Harry, "I 
don't know what they hit him with <snip> but's he's gone a bit 
funny, I could hardly get him along at all..."  From there they ran 
into the Brain Room.

It makes me wonder how Ron "saw Uranus", especially after reading 
Granny's post #81427 which reads in part: "This planet also
rules the breaking up of any established patterns or structures, 
creating sudden -- even radical change."  Which ties in *very* 
nicely with Pip!Squeak's excellent theory (post #81010) about 
Dumbledore's goals.

Ravenclaw Bookworm