Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

[Chys Sage Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 126140




> 
> Because Ron most definitely HAS NOT earned it.  Dumbledore himself
> admitted that Harry was the one who deserved the badge.  Ron 
receiving
> it as he did represents extremely poor writing on JKR's part, an
> attempt to fulfill a foreshadowing that we were told wasn't a
> foreshadowing (i.e. that the mirror does not predict the future).
> > 
> Because Draco is dangerous, malicious, and tyrannical.  That is most
> definitely NOT a person who has earned a position of authority, or 
who
> should be given it even if he has.
> 


Ah, that's cool. I agree with you on Draco, actually, but IRL I've 
seen people like that, who just through their tyrrany seem to have 
earned it for all their malicious efforts. (Mal-foy Mal-icious? 
NO! ...Yes. Yes. Yes.)

If you were to compare Harry to Ron, Harry would deserve the badge 
absolutely (if for all the crap they've been through and what Harry's 
been getting them out of, he's developed more than Ron has over a 
short span of time.) 

If Harry were never around, Ron would probably get it on his own 
merits, which seem to fall to the background where Harry's concerned. 
It's like someone might compare and think that girls aren't strong 
just because the boys around them lift weights and have tons of 
muscles. It gets overlooked, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just noticing 
something that not many others have, but I can easily compare Ron to 
one of the persons I attented school with a long time ago, and just 
like that person, he should have gotten it for his own strength of 
character, even if he wasn't truly the better choice.

There's also the fact that DD is all protective, and he believed that 
the responsibility would be too much for Harry while he was 
attempting to deal with everything horrid around him as an adult 
might, while everyone else was still concerned with the troubles of 
adolescence. In that, I think it helps Ron too, even if it does hurt 
Harry's feelings.

I think we're going to disagree on this one, but that's fine, we have 
our own opinions.

Chys