Hermione's Reaction to... Was: Re: Harry's first Kiss (is it a smoke screen?)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 105813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> What I meant was that Ron is always second-best to Harry :

GEO: Don't forget that Harry still can't beat Ron at chess.

> Harry's got the money, the fame (even if he doesn't want it), the
> talent, the better looks, 

GEO: What better looks? According to the books, fellow has knobby 
knees and crappy hair and wears glasses.

> and he was supposed to get the Prefect
> badge.  

GEO: And you're conveniently ignoring the fact that in the end it 
was Ron that got the badge not Harry. Besides Ron is the one that 
has the loving family, probably the friendlier attitude and less of 
a dark history compared to Harry. 

> He would hurt a lot and I feel it wouldn't be
> fair on JKR's part to put Ron through *that*. But that's her
> characters, she can do with them as she wants. And it's not like 
those
> things never happen in RL either.

GEO: As something pointed out once, to understand and develop these 
characters you have to put the characters through challenges, 
difficulties and heartbreaks. 

> As for the "ordinary guy" bit, it makes me cringe badly. First 
because
> I strongly believe that *nobody* is ordinary : everybody is the 
hero
> of their own life, which by definition makes them extraordinary.

GEO: The fact remains that in the story Harry is the hero. 

> And anyway Ron has
> already shown that he does *not* want an "ordinary life"

GEO: He's still a kid. So far most kids start off all wanting to be 
status symbols of society. No doubt that applies to wizard children. 


> : he stayed
> with Harry when things got rough, 

GEO: It's a rare quality called loyality.

> and he applied for the place of
> Keeper on the Quidditch team.

GEO: That might be because a good number of his brothers have been 
on the qudditch team, that he's actually a decent Keeper and that 
there hasn't been a position open on the team since their first year.