[HPforGrownups] Re: About Ron ( was OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 115226



Hi,

Friday, October 8, 2004, 7:19:40 AM, delwynmarch wrote:

> Del replies :
> I personally don't believe in Jealous!Ron. Ron wasn't jealous in GoF,
> he was hurt, because he felt Harry had betrayed him by not sharing
> with him how to get past the age line.

> If you look all over the rest of the books, you'll see that jealousy
> is  most definitely *not* one of Ron's traits. A bit of envy
> sometimes, but never jealousy.

> And Ron would not have been jealous if Harry had been Prefect, because
> that's exactly what he was expecting.

This is what I've been thinking, too.

Ron was just as astonished as everyone else, when he
received the badge, so I don't think he would have been
eaten up with jealousy, had Harry been the one to get it.

Sure, he may have felt a little surge of envy (Harry did,
too), which is perfectly normal, or he may have been feeling
a bit left out, but nothing OVERWHELMING <g>.

I truly don't understand where this feeling that Ron is
partially defined by
>paul_terzis:
>  The obsessive although "UNDERCURRENT" pursuit
> of wealth and fame combine with the envy

The way I read it, Ron wants to be standing out so he is not
seen as just the brother of so-and-so, who did such and
such, or the friend of...

He wants to be recognized for his own accomplishments, but
he isn't doing this by steamrolling over others, and he is
definitely not obsessive about it.

He has started to work on this and his self esteem by trying
out for keeper, and having to find out it doesn't come as
easily for most as he may have thought.
After all, Harry just had to jump on a broom, and without
ever practicing, became the youngest seeker of the century.

I also agree with Del in that Ron was more hurt than jealous
in GoF. He thought Harry had found a way to enter the
tournament, but left Ron out (very much like the feeling
Harry had when Ron and Hermione were at Grimmauld Place
without being able to let him know anything about the
order).

Ron was wrong, of course, and unfriendly, and so was Harry
in similar circumstances.

If one instance of jealousy makes it your defining quality,
than we pretty much all have to stand with Ron.


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