Did anyone-else notice how Ron and Hermione are in the places of Lily and James? Adds more to the idea that they basically co-parent Harry.
Steve Kloves: NO! That’s not what I meant at all! Can’t you see that Harry and Hermione are closer? Damn it, this is all Chris’s fault!
Really? Cause it seems more like Hermione’s taking on the role of Harry’s dad, whereas Ron’s taking on the role of Harry’s mum (I mean, they are both redheads who offered their own lives in exchange for Harry’s, not to mention Lily and Ron having the same wand core).
Oh, Steve, you joker…
Did anyone-else notice how Ron and Hermione are in the places of Lily and James? Adds more to the idea that they basically co-parent Harry.
Ok, so, I’ve wanted to bring this up every time a post with Ron wearing a Weasley sweater/jumper pops up on my dash.
“Hey, look — Harry’s got a Weasley sweater, too!”
Fred and George were wearing blue sweaters, one with a large yellow F on it, the other a G.
“Harry’s is better than ours, though,” said Fred, holding up Harry’s sweater.
“She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.”
“Why aren’t you wearing yours, Ron?” George demanded. “Come on, get it on, they’re lovely and warm.”
“I hate maroon,” Ron moaned halfheartedly as he pulled it over his head.
“You haven’t got a letter on yours,” George observed. “I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. But we’re not stupid — we know we’re called Gred and Forge.”
“What’s all this noise?”
Percy Weasley stuck his head through the door, looking disapproving. He had clearly gotten halfway through unwrapping his presents as he, too, carried a lumpy sweater over his arm, which Fred seized.
“P for prefect! Get it on, Percy, come on, we’re all wearing ours, even Harry got one.”
It always made me sad that Ron didn’t get a letter on his sweater/jumper and everyone else did.
Did Mrs. Weasley not take the time to add the “R” so she could make one for Harry? If so that’s fucked up.
I love Mrs. Weasley, I really do, and I think she did the best she could in her situation, but at times like this I can’t help but think “God damn it, Molly! You really make it hard sometimes,”
wait what.
at first i thought this was referring to harry.
who do i trust, molly weasley
Wait, can it be referring to Harry’s?
I always assumed
George
was reffering to Ron’s since he said that right after telling Ron to put his on and figured he was still taking to him, not Harry.
Oh wow! Who does the letterless swearter/jumper belong to?
I thought they meant Harry too. Good grief, Molly….
On Halloween night in PS, Hermione lies to McGonagall, telling her that had purposely sought out the troll. It’s obviously the pivotal moment in Ron/Hermione/Harry’s friendship, but I’ve seen a few people ask why Hermione lied in the first place. And I have to admit that it’s not something I fully understood the first time I read the books.
So I wanted to take a minute to explain why Hermione chose to lie, and why her lie was such a massive step in solidifying their friendship.
First of all, remember that Hermione’s characterization in the movie version of that scene is hugely different from what it was in the books. In the movies, Hermione is right there
fighting the troll along with Harry/Ron and actually giving Ron
pronunciation tips. In the books, Hermione is frozen with fear. She doesn’t even speak until after the troll is knocked out.
“Come on, run, run!” Harry yelled at Hermione, trying to pull her
toward the door, but she couldn’t move, she was still flat against the
wall, her mouth open with terror.
Until this point in PS, Hermione had made it quite plain that she
thought Harry and Ron were childish rude reckless idiots, and that she was not
going to allow herself to be tarred with the same brush. If they were
caught, she wasn’t going to feel sorry for them or do a damn thing.
And then she’s standing there frozen in fear against a bathroom wall when Harry and Ron burst in and start throwing things at a mountain troll. And it’s very clear in that scene that Hermione is their first priority, they’re not just there to have for a fun adventure with a troll.
Ron then uses the Wingardium Leviosa spell to knock the troll out,
which is the exact spell that Hermione corrected him on that very
morning.
Harry and Ron’s actions are humbling because they force her to
acknowledge that it doesn’t matter if she can levitate a feather in a
charms class if Ron’s the one who can use Wingardium Leviosa in
a life-threatening situation.
She’s also humbled by the realization that she severely
underestimated both boys. She saw them as acting frivolously, and they
just put their lives on the line for her. Harry and Ron aren’t her friends,
they don’t owe it to her to be shouting at a mountain troll on her behalf in a
claustrophobic girl’s toilet. And yet, there they were.
When the teachers arrive, McGonagall (correctly) deduces that Hermione was
an involuntary participant. Hermione realizes that she’s about to get
off without being punished, and that Ron and Harry are the ones who are
going to get reprimanded. So she tells McGonagall that Harry/Ron acted
selflessly and bravely to rescue Hermione from her own hubris. And in a
way, that’s what it was.
By shifting some of the blame to herself, she’s reversing her
previous position and throwing her lot in with Harry/Ron. Their problem
with McGonagall is now her problem, just as they made her problem with
the troll their problem.
“And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death.“
Harry laughed, but he was one of the few who did.
Can you imagine how this would have looked to other students?
Dumbledore tells the students that visiting the third floor corridor will lead to a most painful death, and what does the famous and mysterious boy-who-lived do? He laughs.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
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