Where's Strategist!Ron? was Re: Ron as prefect?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 105987

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" 
<dequardo at w...> wrote:
 >This was a perfect time for the emergence of strategist!Ron
 and instread of Ron shinning in any exceptional way, he is 
actually portrayed as being quite the dope.  <snip>, I think it's
 been five years now and unless there's another chess game of 
doom in store for them, I don't see Ron applying his chess skills 
to anything other than chess peices--big or small.  <

The fight at the MOM illustrates perfectly why they *need* 
strategist!Ron. Harry's a brilliant improviser, but that isn't 
everything, and Hermione, though a good planner, is worse than 
usual at analyzing her  plans for flaws. It would have been nice if 
Ron had applied his chess-playing skills to the MoM battle on 
the way to London--like, okay, suppose we do get there and find 
Voldemort and Sirius, *then* what are we going to do? And what 
if Hermione's right and this is some kind of trick? 

Fortunately Dumbledore is still around to save their bacon--but 
we're all anticipating that when the final showdown comes, that 
won't be the case. (I'm hoping for draught of living death rather 
than the final curtain, but you get the picture.)

Asking why, in five years, Strategist!Ron hasn't happened is like 
asking why R/H hasn't happened. It hasn't happened because 
when it does, the story will be over. The story with Ron isn't 
whether his strategic abilities at chess can save the day in other 
situations, or whether an R/H relationship would actually work. 
The story with Ron is whether he'll realize that the only way he 
can find out whether he has the potential to fulfill his dreams is 
to go after them. 

Pippin
who doesn't think Ron will die, but is expecting a touching 
funeral for Bill, Charlie, Fred and George