[HPforGrownups] Re: In defense of DD WAS musings on Dumbledore - Even Longer

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 158725

> Julie:
> Just to make it a clearer analogy, it would be like Ron going to jail 
> after
> Harry's death, with DD knowing that only a very *few* other people could
> have betrayed Harry, those being, say, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, or
> Luna. The only people Harry would have trusted implicitly enough to
> be his secret-keeper (and, yes, Harry might have more people than
> that, but it didn't seem James did). DD was told by Harry that Ron
> is his secret-keeper. Ron is found soon after Harry's demise, laughing
> maniacally over the dead body of Neville, and is carrying away in that
> crazed state.

Marion:
Ah, but if Ron and Harry had spent most of their Hogwarts years hexing other students for fun? What if Ron had run away from the Burrow when he was sixteen? What if Ron in particular was know for his rashness and lawlessness? What if that rashness had led him to nearly kill a fellow student, all in the name of 'fun'?

Sounds like a classic 'trouble' student to me.

And even Ron as we know it could be construed as a traitor to Harry. Ron after all is from a poor enough family to alway have to do with handmedowns and he is clearly resenting it. Harry is rich. Ron clearly feels himself to be the least of his family; Bill is the eldest, Charlie the most adventurous, Percy the bestbehaved, the Twins the worstbehaved and Ginny both the youngest and the only girl. Ron feels like he gets the least attention of all the Weasley brood. He feels like a nobody. Harry is famous. Harry is somebody.
Ron and Harry have had their falling-outs (think GoF)
It would not take to big a stretch of the imagination to believe - confronted with the statements of several eyewitnesses - that Ron was merely a friend to garner fame as 'Harry Potter's best friend' and to benefit of Harry's money, and that he turned traitor out of spite.

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