Adolescent Development in OOTP

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 101885

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Peter Shea <harp66 at y...> wrote:

Peter: 
> For example, are we supposed to believe than Ron Weasley, as a 
healthy, ordinary teenage male, has not yet consciously become aware 
of his attraction for Hermione Granger or indeed any young woman? Is 
Hermione supposed to be so unaffected by her "coming out" at the Yule 
Ball that she completely retreats into her academic studies and shows 
only occasional (and ambiguous) interest in matters of the heart (as 
she does when she advises Harry about his relationship with Cho)? Of 
the principal teenage characters in the novel, only Ginny Weasley 
appears to experiencing the normal dating game for young teenagers.
> 
> Comments?

Geoff:
Why shouldn't he have not become aware? We all develop at different 
speeds and at different ages.

To be quite frank, at that age I was probably Ron Weasley Mk.II and 
would have come within that delightful category defined by Hermione
(?) as having the emotional range of a teaspoon!