Ron and Percy (was Re: The OOTP Gripe List, v. 5,432)

[Chys Sage Lattes]

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jones.r.h.j wrote:
>>> I think the posters are incorrect about Hermione always being right in OOTP.>>>


Chys:
I think it just proves that Hermione is human, and is not above
making mistakes. Perhaps JKR didn't want her to appear to be as much
of a self-insert who it always correct and does the right thing, and
managed her more as a true person in her own right, who is faulty
like the rest of them?



 Inkling said:
>>>Should Ron truly become his own man in book 6 it he 
may be able to see that Percy is not just a one-dimensional "git" but a complex 
person shaped by the same family pressures as Ron, and with the 
same need to prove himself.  And that Percy, despite his overweening pride, has the same underlying love for family that all the Weasleys have.>>>



Chys:
I think Ron's main problem, aside from living in everyone else's 
shadow, is that he's lacking in Self Esteem; he thinks he's not good 
enough, little Ron, the runt of the litter. (Ginny doesn't count 
because she's a girl and so she has her own set of problems she's 
working her way steadily through as the books progress.) So perhaps 
DD was trying to help Ron along with assigning him the prefect 
position, or perhaps his HOH saw he had such potential for 
improvement and suggested it herself. The Prefect badge I do think he 
earned, but it could teach him some responsibility, and in 
accomplishing tasks that are important, give him some importance of 
self.




Chys