Why are they even friends?

[distaiyi]

No: HPFGUIDX 154688

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amiabledorsai"
<amiabledorsai at ...> wrote:
>
> I've been reading, with some dismay, about how badly Hermione let down
> Harry, and about how Ron betrayed him, and I've been thinking about
> what a prick he was to both of them in "Order of the Phoenix", and I
> was wondering about why each of them considered the other two bastards
> friends.

I think it's quite simple. Because to be otherwise would be to allow
the Dark Lord to win. You see he is the one who has "friends" who
aren't stuck by through thick and thin... he's the one who curses his
friends who don't do what he wants.

JkR is writing a series where Love, unconditional Love even, is the
penultimate power (see LV and DD's discussion toward the end of the
book you're reading, or perhaps it's in book 6). And unconditional
love forgives errors... not punish them.

Distaiyi