Ron WAS: Re: DH reread CH 4-5

[sistermagpie]

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> Alla:
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> I actually do see it that way, only I see it as Ron initially choosing easy, not right. I am not sure why you think that to apply it here will be stretching the term. 

Magpie:
So we're talking about Ron's decision to leave? Because like I said, for me right vs. easy needs to be heavy on the easy. Iow, the "easy" choice is just that. I don't think it was easy for Ron to leave Harry and Hermione. It was easier than fighting the Horcrux, maybe, but Ron Weasley is committed to his friends and fighting Voldemort. He's been doing it since he was 11. So I just can't see walking away from them as an easy choice for Ron. He did it in an angry moment and then wanted to go back. I don't consider "seems easier in the moment" to work--it has to really be easy. Which is why yeah, I can see how we can apply that to this situation, but it's not one that I think illustrates it very well. Saying it's about giving up or giving in to dark impulses or not fighting anymore--that works for me. But I don't see a tempting, easy path with no bad consequences waiting for Ron when he walks away so that the *only* reason for Ron to stick around is because it is right.

I know I'm taking a very narrow, strict view of that phrase, but I think that's necessary to really say we're illustrating it. Especially if Ron had been in his right mind, there would be a lot of things to make leaving Harry and Hermione a difficult choice. The way this story is set up there's not really a lot of places JKR can set that kind of choice up for the good guys to have to choose easy over right since so much is at stake for them.

-m