Ron's career choice

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I don't know if this has been talked about in earlier posts, but re-
reading the books with a focus on Ron's role, not just Harry's, I was 
struck with this:

I don't think that Ron really wants to be an Auror because he likes 
fighting Dark Arts, but mainly because it sounds "cool" to him.

I get the feeling that Jo is going to play a bit about Ron's career 
choice, and give it as an example of how sometimes kids get some skewed 
notion of a profession and idealize it.

In all honesty, I don't really think that Ron is cut out to be an 
Auror.  But disregarding this aspect, I believe that he has not thought 
about it as deeply as perhaps Harry or Hermione have.  Perhaps his line 
of thinking is that he wants to fit in, match up to his two best 
friends, and therefore he chooses same career as them (though we don't 
know about Hermione's yet.)  I gathered this from GoF, when fake Moody 
told both Harry and Hermione that they had good Auror thinking, and Ron 
tried to show him that he did too.
Jo has said that she'll write about 'growing-up' kids.  She cannot 
really do much with Harry's career path, she's got the prophecy to do 
that for him.  With Hermione, we know that she'll be able to choose 
whatever she wants, because her OWLs will be good enough.
But with Ron, she's created a subplot (as a debater friend from another 
site pointed this out to me) for him that follows the 'rights of 
passage' line.  She made Ron a Prefect and a Keeper, two things that he 
hoped for but never expected.  She made him realize that those not only 
came with rights and privileges but with responsibilities and hard work 
as well.  So it follows (IMO) that she'll probably make Ron go through 
the ordeal of having to decide which career path he really wants to 
chose from.
OTOH, this Auror career will be possible if Ron gets an O in Potions 
(or so it's what we are led to believe).  Perhaps Jo is building up for 
a Ron that doesn't qualify for Auror training, thus setting up the 
scenario of the typical case of 'not measuring up to the standards', 
which teenagers unfortunately have to go through at around this age...

I came to this when I connected that Jo let us (and Harry) know that 
Ron got the Prefect badge because of Dumbledore's decision to not give 
it to Harry... why would she let us know that?   Then she let Ron have 
an 'easy' year (on a personal level, of course, his family was going 
through tough times), pretty much everything went his way: Prefect 
badge, new broom, Keeper, Harry was not popular, Quidditch Cup.  She's 
probably setting up a difficult 6th. year for Ron...

What do you think?

Marcela