“Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
“Find my what?”
“—and take his Wheezy back from the merpeople!”
“What’s a Wheezy?”
“Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his jumper!” Dobby plucked at the shrunken maroon sweater he was now wearing over his shorts.
“What?” Harry gasped. “They’ve got… they’ve got Ron?” “The thing Harry Potter will miss the most, sir!”
I haven’t actually watched AVPM the whole way through just yet (haven’t found the time), but I’ll post my thoughts about it when I do.
So far, I like it, since it pokes fun at the way the fandom perceives him. Also, I like how many BROTP moments him and Harry get.
Thanks for the ask, anon!
Ron Weasley’s portrayal?
His b(romance) with Harry
Getting background music every time he came on stage.
His romance with Hermione.
His rivalry with Draco
His bromance with Snape.
Basically the entire, “Sidekick,” performance.
“That’s Lavender Brown! RACIST SISTER!”
“I see myself in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Hermione’s turning into a blueberry and I want to eat her.”
Just look at this…
Or maybe this?
Or how about this?
Just look at these cuties…
the love of my life with the love of his life…
This precious unicorn…
And this pretty much sums up Ron…
Joey Richter is an angel on planet earth and anything that he does is perfection. Therefore, his portrayal of Ron Weasley is perfection. Minus the casual sexism in Starkid, starkid!ron was perfect.
Was the casual sexism supposed to be ironic? Or was it just a product of the time it was made (the late 2000s/early 2010s)?
I’ll cast some spells with the flick of my wand. Defeat the Dark Arts, yeah, bring it on and do it all with my best friend, Ron. ‘Cause together we’re totally awesome. Yeah, ‘cause together we’re totally awesome!
when thesecond years were told to pick new subjects, never forget that harry potter picked the same new subjects as ron, “feeling that if he was lousy at them, at least he’d have someone friendly to help him.” this is so important to me because he could’ve easily thought, “i’ll just pick the same subjects as hermione. she’s super smart and she’ll help me,” but he picked his subjects while thinking about ron. ron weasley is so important to harry potter and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Ron and Harry: a BROTP for the ages.
Mind you, I bet actual money on Hermione having helped them with subjects that she never had and still getting both of them through the year. Cause she is Hermione fucking Granger
Oh, look. My old posts returning from the dead :’)
You’d lose the bet because apart from Muggle Studies, Divination was the only subject she didn’t take. Harry and Ron failed Divination though, and Hermione was awful at it. She did not help them at all with Divination. In fact, in GoF, Ron and Harry invented their dreams and predictions without Hermione’s help and they got good grades for that homework assignment. History of Magic was also a subject that she took, but Harry and Ron failed that subject as well (for their O.W.L. at least.)
Yes, she’s “Hermione Fucking Granger” but she’s not a good tutor. Simply having gifted students be your besties, will not get you to pass your exams. They can certainly help you with your schoolwork, and you might even borrow their notes, but at the end of the day, they won’t be writing your exams. Passing that subject is entirely on you. Harry and Ron might have received help from Hermione (because that’s what friends do) but they got good grades because they studied and worked hard, despite what some Hermione worshippers want you to believe. Harry got an “Outstanding” in his DADA O.W.L, a grade higher than Hermione, and I’m sure Ron could’ve gotten an O in a subject, if Rowling didn’t have a bias for him (that’s a talk for another time, though.)
Anyways, this post was about Harry preferring Ron to Hermione. For Harry, friendship, laughter, and fun, is more important than homework and being serious. In the future, refrain from ruining my Ron/Harry posts by commenting how awesome Hermione “Fucking” Granger is. This isn’t about her. Let Ron (and Harry) have something.
I swear, this happens on every post about Ron and Harry’s friendship.
when thesecond years were told to pick new subjects, never forget that harry potter picked the same new subjects as ron, “feeling that if he was lousy at them, at least he’d have someone friendly to help him.” this is so important to me because he could’ve easily thought, “i’ll just pick the same subjects as hermione. she’s super smart and she’ll help me,” but he picked his subjects while thinking about ron. ron weasley is so important to harry potter and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
I quite like it; I’m not really into musicals (don’t @ me, please), but I’ve enjoyed the segments that I’ve seen of it.
I think it’s definitely supposed to be in an ironic way, and pokes fun at the way the fandom views the character. Because, despite Ron’s flaws, he’s a genuinely good person who loves his friends so much.
And, like you say, they get the friendship between Harry and Ron far better than the films do (no disrespect to Rupert and Dan, of course; they just had lousy scripts).
AVPM is definitely made with more love than the film series was (although most of the film cast genuinely loved the series too). It’s poking fun at the expectations of the series (like when Ron briefly objects when Draco Malfoy calls Hermione the MB word, but then launches into a rendition of ‘Hermione can’t draw’), but it comes from a place of love.
They also seem to understand that Ron is genuinely terrified that he might end up as just a sidekick to the other two, and is desperate to avoid being that. I don’t think the films touched on it much because that is what Steve Kloves actually saw Ron as, although I think Rupert Grint understood that fear of being just a sidekick, and brought it across in his performance.
Thanks for the ask, anon!
AVPM is one of my favorite parts of the Potter fandom and I have watched the three of them more times than I’ve watched the actual films.
I personally think the Ron/Harry friendship in the musical is WAY better than the films. I recommend you watch all 3 at least once @headcanonsandmore
Thanks for the tip @weasleymama! Will put it on the list!
I would love to read about the Trio, or at least Harry and Hermione, taking the Grand Tour. Imagine how much we could learn about the magical communities worldwide…
Wow. Just leave Ron right on out huh smh?
Also, I hate to bring class into this buuuutttt….the grand tour was popular amongst the children of wealthy Brits (often upper class), and the confessor left out the only member of the golden trio who is explicitly coded as working class.
For the record, I think Harry and Hermione would last about one afternoon before they both sent letters to Ron pleading with him to come along too because the other was irritating them so much.
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