JKR Cut Ron & Hermione Like a Movie Edit ...UNbelievable! ?

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 173262

Sara wrote:
> My criticism is that JKR should have placed some believable 
> storyline where Ron & Hermione were forced to allow Harry to go on 
> alone without any other choice or option they could have taken.  
> Even a physical barrier or blocking mechanism would have sufficed, 
> though a fully reasoned approach would have enhanced the story 
> wonderfully for many interpretive standpoints of why Harry had to go 
> on alone without them.  (Ron and Hermione could still have remained 
> behind with good reason to mourn the dead and comfort the living.)  
> The hero's journey would still have been fulfilled for Harry's 
> perfection without taking away from their shared hero's journey.  
> Why "movie edit" the fantastic bond & the hero & heroine everyone 
> loves and found in Ron and Hermione's hero's journey too ...to the 
> very end!  A missed opportunity to do justice to, and immortalize, 
> all three heroes ...it had to be 3!
> 
> It had to be believable why Ron & Hermione were no longer at Harry's
> side.  Does JKR separate them like a movie edit pg.661 & reunite 
> them on pg.746 without "good reason" or concluding fulfillment of 
> the hero & heroine in Ron & Hermione?




KathyK:

I'm sorry but I'm quite certain that it was *Harry* who slipped off
and "abandoned" Ron and Hermione (if you want to look at things that
way).  And Harry going it alone is not at all out of character, IMO. 

There was not much conversation between the three of them as they
returned to the castle from the Shrieking Shack.  Harry shared no plan
to immediately find Dumbledore's portrait or the Pensieve .  Instead,
the three all went to the Great Hall, where everyone else was
gathering and met with their loved ones mourning some more loved ones.
 Understandably, IMO, Ron and Hermione joined the Weasley family.  

Harry, who "could not bear to join the Weasleys, could not look into
their eyes, when if he had given himself up in the first place, Fred
might never have died," was the one who left Ron and Hermione and the
Great Hall behind without a word as to where he would go or what he
would do.*  At that point, he just wanted to escape from those whose
suffering he felt responsible for.  Harry wanted to be alone, away
from even his own thoughts.  He went to the Headmaster's office and
plunged into Snape's memories.  

Once Harry learned what he had to do, allow Lord Voldemort to kill
him, he was certain this was something he had to do alone.  He made no
attempt whatsoever to find Ron or Hermione.  In fact, he was
determined not to see them or discuss this with them, using the
Invisibility Cloak to move through the castle unseen.  Harry made the
choice to go it alone.  Even if Ron and Hermione *did* want to find
him (which we would not see, anyhow), they would not be able to.  

Sara says above, "...storyline where Ron & Hermione were forced to
allow Harry to go on alone without any other choice or option they
could have taken."  I believe that is exactly what JKR accomplished by
keeping Harry, Hermione and Ron completely in character.  Harry
decided for Hermione and Ron that they could no longer accompany him
on this journey.  

Sara, I'm curious what you mean by a "fully reasoned approach" to this
flaw you perceive?  I am having difficulty thinking of another way
Harry going it alone could have been handled.  Because this bit as JKR
wrote it really works for me. 

KathyK


*(DH, Ch 33, Scholastic p 662)