Ron's bad behaviour. Was: Re: What should Harry REALLY feel sorry for?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 116943


Eggplant (I love that name!) wrote:
 Harry has forgiven him so I 
> guess I should too, but Ron should have the good grace to be 
> thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Ginger:
I agree with the whole gigantic part I snipped, although I am not 
nearly as bothered by Ron's behaviour as you are.  I see it more as a 
row between friends, albeit a really big row, and a badly timed one 
for Harry.  I think if Harry hadn't been stubborn, it would have been 
resolved sooner (thinking of the time when Ron interrupted Harry and 
Sirius by the fire), but the row itself is not in any way Harry's 
fault.  

Ron did try to apologize, but Harry wouldn't have it.  (US paperback 
ch.20, p. 358)  After the First Task, Ron and Hermione come to see 
Harry:  
   But Harry was looking at Ron, who was very white and staring at 
Harry as though he were a ghost.
   "Harry," he said seriously, "whoever put your name in that goblet-
I-I reckon they're trying to do you in!"
   It was as though the last few weeks had never happened-as though 
Harry were meeting Ron for the first time, right after he'd been made 
champion.
   "Caught on, have you?" Harry said coldly.  "Took you long enough."
   (snip text) Ron opened his mouth uncertainly.  Harry knew Ron was 
about to apologize and suddenly he found he didn't need to hear it.
End quoted section.

After that Ron does try, and Harry doesn't let him finish, and they 
both end up grinning at each other.

I quoted that whole thing because it has always wondered me about 
the "it was as though the last few weeks had never happened" part.  
Is this Harry's POV?  Ron's?  I really don't understand that part.
Any takers on de-confusing me?

Ginger, who survived spending Halloween working a graveyard shift 
alone in a store that is rumoured to be haunted by a guy named Bruce.