GOF: Ron's a real twit (git)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
> I'm rereading GOF, and I've come to the conclusion that Ron is a real
> twit (read: git) in this book. I've also come to the conclusion that
Harry
> doesn't recognize his *real* best friend for who that is: Hermoine. And,
> thirdly, so far in GOF, Ron isn't good enough (or at least, not mature
> enough) for Hermoine. He's so self-involved and thoughtless--which I do 
> know is the definition of your average fourteen year old! Still, I'd
like to
> smack him upside the head (gently). (In GOF, I'm just getting to the
> third task)


First of all, I've been rereading GoF myself recently, and something
really stuck out to me: (in Ch. 19) "Harry liked Hermione very much
but she just wasn't the same as Ron.  There was much less laughter and
a lot more hanging around in the library when Hermione was your best
friend."  It seems to me that to be "more than friends" with someone
you would have to like hanging out with them at least *as much* as you
like hanging around with your best friend, if not a little more.  And
I'm not saying that Harry doesn't love Hermione in a strictly friends
sense, or that he doesn't enjoy hanging out with her at all--just that
chemistry between them is absolutely lacking.  Anyway, what I was
going to say is that I don't think Harry underappreciates his
relationship with Hermione, I simply think that he is correct in
recognizing that Ron is his *best* friend.  I really believe that the
relationship between Harry and Ron is more emotionally fullfilling for
Harry than the relationship between himself and Hermione--and I just
realized that that may sound like I'm trying to *ship* Ron and Harry,
so, to clarify, I'd like to say that I am *NOT* at all.  And now I
lost my train of thought...  That seems to be all I really wanted to
say anyways.

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