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

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No: HPFGUIDX 105936

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "anasazi_pr" <srobles at c...> 
wrote:
 snipping the excellent post for details.


> Ouch. This actually made me cringe. Ron is always second best to 
> Harry? Well, it seems to me Ron has much more of what really counts 
> than Harry. 
> 
> True, Ron is poor... but he happens to have a good home where the 
> people that live there love him (and we all know that, even with 
all 
> the teasing, the twins love their little bro). He has a mother and 
a 
> father who love him. He has no money, but I doubt he's ever gone 
> hungry to bed. He's now able to play his 
> beloved Quidditch, and is enjoying the fame and attention that came 
> with it.
> 
> Now, let's compare what Ron has with Harry... Harry is an orphan, 
> both parents murdered by a powerhungry sociopath when he was only 
one 
> year old. Forced to live for 10 years with an abusive family that 
> regarded him as less valuable than the poo I stepped on last night 
> (and that's pretty low my friend). I mean, we can consider that 
Ron's 
> self-esteem might be a bit low due to the constant comparison with 
> his succesful older brothers... but what about Harry, who lived for 
> those 10 years in the shadow of Dudley? 


  snip.
 
> He's been close to death not once, not twice, but six times, and 
has 
> witnessed the people he cares about almost losing their lives 
because 
> of their relationship with him. He has gained, and LOST, the 
closest 
> thing he had to a paternal figure (Sirius). And now, he has that 
> godforsaken prophecy hanging over his head. Talk about pressure! I 
> would have broken down a long time ago.
> 
> So it seems to me that Harry was the one that drew the short straw 
> here.
> 

Alla:

Definitely. I stated before that in comparison to what Harry has to 
the looks of outsider Ron has a pretty good deal.

I was very happy that in OoP Rowling did not make Ron complain about 
his poverty, because if she did , I would want to scream "Shut up and 
grow up, already". (Or did he complain in OoP, I am too tired to look 
it up now)

I was raised with the idea that material things do not matter, unless 
of course you are hungry and don't have a roof over your head. It is 
what inside the person is the most important.
(I was raised in the communist country, so I understand that many 
people would not take well to that particular idea though ;o)

Now, I think that money is important part of life, but still they are 
only means to live , not the reason why I live.


So, yes, Ron's complaints sounded incredibly petty to me.


But I think that in OoP he did pretty well helping Harry whenever he 
could.