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[0:02] whatever just have a quiet cause did you
[0:07] know that in chapter 16 in the first
[0:09] book both of Harry's friends get a final
[0:11] time to show their unique skills however
[0:14] Hermione's final time to shine the
[0:15] potion riddle was cut from the movie
[0:17] adaptation originally Harry and Hermione
[0:19] leaved the wizard chess match after
[0:21] Ron's sacrifice and come across seven
[0:23] potions on a table three of the potions
[0:26] are poisoned two or wine one will allow
[0:28] Hermione to go back to Ron and the other
[0:30] will allow Harry to go forward when this
[0:32] was cut they changed her special moment
[0:34] to be the devil's snare trap where she
[0:35] can identify this strange plant
[0:37] strangling them and know what to do
[0:38] about it
[0:39] in the book the devil snare trap is a
[0:40] group effort where the disposition of
[0:42] each friend gets them closer to the
[0:43] solution Devil's snare Devils snare what
[0:46] did the professor say it likes the dark
[0:48] in the damp so light a fire Harry choked
[0:51] yes of course but there's no wood
[0:53] Hermione cried wringing her hands have
[0:55] you gone mad Ron bellowed are you a
[0:58] witch or not it's in character for
[1:00] Hermione to forget to use magic to solve
[1:02] this problem when she's panicked but
[1:04] it's better for the structure of the
[1:05] movies story if she gets to have her
[1:07] moment Ron will get his moment later
[1:09] when he beats the magical wizard
[1:10] chessboard despite the fact that he not
[1:12] only had to protect his king but his
[1:14] friends as well so maybe Ron didn't need
[1:16] to remind Hermione that she was a witch
[1:17] in that scene but you know what he
[1:19] really didn't need to do he really
[1:21] didn't need to do this there are a lot
[1:36] of people out there on the wild
[1:38] internets who believe that the movies
[1:40] made Ron a lame comic relief character
[1:42] or they made him too mean so they
[1:44] stopped liking him some go as far as to
[1:47] say that the movies ruined Ron Weasley
[1:49] and they dislike or hate one of the most
[1:52] important characters in a series they
[1:54] otherwise loved my thesis statement for
[1:57] this video is this in my opinion what's
[1:59] mangling Ron in the devil snare scene
[2:01] and most of the time throughout the
[2:02] series is the impulse to make Ron look
[2:04] oh fish silly or mean for a joke when it
[2:07] really wasn't necessary
[2:09] somewhere along the line Harry went from
[2:11] having two friends who were smart in
[2:12] different ways to having a smart
[2:14] and a lesser sidekick who is having his
[2:16] skills observations and lines absorbed
[2:19] by his best friends
[2:20] the main consensus of people I've talked
[2:22] to about this summarize the problem as
[2:24] they made Ron a goof to make Hermione a
[2:26] cool proactive role model for little
[2:28] girls to look up to
[2:29] that explains scenes like this where her
[2:31] mind he's taking a line from Ron he
[2:33] wants to kill Harry you'll have to kill
[2:35] us too but how do you explain stuff like
[2:37] this and dialogue changes as infamous as
[2:44] this your parents are dead you have no
[2:51] family I think it flies under the radar
[2:53] how often Ron's characterization has to
[2:55] bend to give Harry cool moments
[2:57] impactful moments or just softening up
[2:59] the text a little bit to make our
[3:01] protagonists less flawed
[3:02] so now begins our exploration of the two
[3:04] Ron's the Ron Weasley from the Harry
[3:06] Potter movie series and the Ron Weasley
[3:09] of the book series written by JK Rowling
[3:13] in book 2 chapter 7 Draco calls Hermione
[3:16] a mudblood it's a word both she and
[3:18] Harry have never heard before but they
[3:20] know it's nasty because immediately
[3:21] chaos erupts around them Ron tries to
[3:24] attack Draco but his spell backfires
[3:26] because his wand was broken in Chapter
[3:28] five later while vomiting up slugs Ron
[3:31] explains the general concept of pure
[3:33] blood supremacy and why he thinks it's
[3:34] wrong he concludes by pointing out that
[3:36] Neville Longbottom is a pureblood wizard
[3:39] and he's kind of garbage at magic
[3:41] currently in the movie Ron spends the
[3:44] scene vomiting slugs Steve clubs gets a
[3:48] lot of criticism for bias I do think
[3:50] some people go too far when they start
[3:51] psychoanalyzing him and concocting weird
[3:53] conspiracy theories but what is clear to
[3:56] me is that seven of the Harry Potter
[3:58] movies were written by a dude whose
[3:59] favorite character is Hermione and
[4:01] Hermione because she's so well-read is
[4:03] also his favorite vessel for giving
[4:05] exposition should Ron get this moment
[4:08] using his unique background to serve as
[4:10] a cultural ambassador hmm I don't know
[4:13] this seems kind of about Hermione right
[4:16] isn't it more sad if she explains it
[4:19] Ron's busy with his slug vomiting let's
[4:21] just use him as comic relief it's not a
[4:23] big deal Hermione probably read about it
[4:25] in a book
[4:26] here's a DVD extra from Chamber of
[4:28] Secrets steve hermione is a character
[4:31] who've said in the past is one of your
[4:33] favorites does that make her easier to
[4:34] write yeah I mean I like writing all
[4:37] three but I've always loved writing
[4:39] remaining because I just one she's she's
[4:42] she's a tremendous character for a lot
[4:44] of reasons for a writer which also she
[4:45] can carry exposition and in a wonderful
[4:47] way because you just assume she read it
[4:49] in a book my research tells me that long
[4:51] ago in the time between the first books
[4:53] release in the year of 1997 and the
[4:56] first movies release in the year of 2001
[4:59] Ron was actually a more popular
[5:03] character than Hermione
[5:04] in fact when Rowling met cloves for the
[5:07] first time she was really nervous about
[5:08] what this American was going to do to
[5:10] her baby but she felt more at ease when
[5:13] he told her that his favorite character
[5:15] was Hermione which was something Rowling
[5:17] very rarely heard from anyone cloves
[5:19] love for this little strong-willed
[5:20] bookworm got entwined with Emma Watson's
[5:23] growing passion for her role in the
[5:25] internal life of the character she was
[5:27] playing now I understand that Alfonso
[5:29] had they've changed and now into the
[5:54] third yeah I felt really so pleased with
[5:58] myself why am I in the next Lana comes
[6:04] in with all sixteen pages and clothes
[6:06] never stop loving Hermione she's still
[6:09] his favorite what I'm trying to say here
[6:10] is that there doesn't have to be a grand
[6:12] conspiracy for this to happen people
[6:14] working on the movie don't have to hate
[6:16] Ron to lose the threat of who he is they
[6:18] only have to consistently enough value
[6:20] other things over his characterization
[6:22] and development and well someone has to
[6:25] be your least favorite right it's
[6:26] natural that that which interests you
[6:28] the most draws your attention unless
[6:30] you're being very careful in any one
[6:33] scene changed there is almost always a
[6:35] logical explanation for why they changed
[6:37] it it's just one of those things where
[6:39] you don't know
[6:40] how far you've drifted until you take a
[6:42] step back so what you said you know who
[6:44] my favorite character isn't I thought it
[6:45] was gonna say mom yeah and I love wrong
[6:52] everyone loves who couldn't love wrong
[6:54] and I thought okay you love wrong okay
[6:58] and then you said Oh Hermione come up
[7:02] with another clever idea to get us
[7:04] killed or worse expelled she when I
[7:15] examine how Ron and Hermione changed
[7:17] through the adaptation I think about
[7:18] their friendship and eventual romance
[7:20] and marriage honestly I think Harry
[7:23] Potter doesn't have super strong writing
[7:25] behind it's romantic subplots but the
[7:28] movies could see ahead of time how
[7:30] people were reacting to the books so
[7:32] they had a chance to steer into the skid
[7:34] and try to make it better let's see how
[7:36] they did has one gone to bed oh yeah
[7:47] shoelace
[8:01] Merry Christmas re oops it's worse the
[8:04] only way to really explain it is that
[8:06] the movies have this strong aversion to
[8:09] Ron and Hermoine as a couple as well as
[8:11] Harry and Ginny especially Harry and
[8:13] Jenny the situation with Ginny and the
[8:16] beige dishrag off' occasion of her
[8:17] character is so bad it deserves its own
[8:20] video but trying to stay on topic it
[8:22] tells me something that Ron and Hermione
[8:24] moments that would take no extra time
[8:26] are still downplayed and underutilized
[8:32] when Ron hears the screams of Hermione
[8:35] being tortured he should be yelling like
[8:37] he did in the book repressed reactions
[8:40] can be cool you know shaking sweating
[8:42] but this ain't it chief this is way too
[8:44] repressed maybe he doesn't even care cuz
[8:46] it sounds like they only got a few
[8:47] seconds of Emma screaming and just
[8:49] played it on a loop
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[9:02] oh you can't fool me that's a bloody
[9:04] tape recorder throughout the series run
[9:06] and Hermoine bicker a lot but when I
[9:08] reread the books and remember all the
[9:10] random little things they started
[9:12] bickering about these exchanges don't
[9:14] come off to me as a failure in them
[9:16] being able to get along it comes off
[9:17] more like they're bored and that this is
[9:19] fun to them Hermione can be intolerant
[9:22] of certain personality types she also
[9:24] loves to debate she's argumentative Ron
[9:27] is one of the few people that Hermione
[9:29] can go fold the Bay Club on that will
[9:31] argue back and not get upset or take it
[9:33] personally Harry thinks they argue too
[9:35] much but considering that they can
[9:37] become offended by Harry interrupting
[9:38] them or telling them to stop hints that
[9:40] Harry is not experiencing their
[9:43] bickering the way they are what I liked
[9:45] about this dynamic was I never really
[9:46] had to question if Ron respected
[9:48] Hermione he is consistently on her side
[9:51] he knows she's a know-it-all he's aware
[9:52] of her flaws but he still likes her and
[9:54] he sees the strengths those flaws bring
[9:57] Ron will defend Hermione when people go
[9:59] too far five points from Gryffindor for
[10:02] being an insufferable know-it-all
[10:04] Hermione went very red put her hand down
[10:06] and stared at the floor with her eyes
[10:08] full of tears it was a mark of how much
[10:10] the class loathed Snape that they were
[10:12] all glaring at him because every one of
[10:13] them had called Hermione and know-it-all
[10:15] at least once and Ron who told Hermione
[10:17] she was a know-it-all at least twice a
[10:19] week said loudly you asked us a question
[10:21] and she knows the answer why ask if you
[10:24] don't want to be told
[10:25] movie ron has fewer opportunities to
[10:27] engage in this behavior as is the nature
[10:30] of an adaptation of a book but Ron does
[10:32] not always use his time well
[10:34] like what is this that is the second
[10:37] time you've spoken out of turn Miss
[10:38] Granger are you incapable of restraining
[10:40] yourself or do you take pride in being
[10:42] an insufferable know-it-all
[10:44] he's called point
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[10:48] I hate it I don't like it I'm not a fan
[10:54] of it but cron is aware past book one
[11:01] that Hermione is hyper competent in
[11:03] magic I've been emasculated by losing to
[11:06] a girl at something being a dude gave me
[11:08] no advantage in did you see me disarmed
[11:19] Hermione Harry only once said Hermione
[11:21] stung
[11:22] I got you loads more than you got me I
[11:24] did not only get you once I got you at
[11:27] least three times well if you're
[11:29] counting the one where you tripped over
[11:30] your own feet and knocked the wand out
[11:32] of my hand this is actually the movie
[11:34] Steve cloves didn't work on although I
[11:37] guess you could argue his
[11:38] characterization was already set in
[11:39] stone at this point book Hermione is
[11:42] pretty canonically the one who is the
[11:44] most skilled with magic on a technical
[11:46] sense she has by the book perfect form
[11:48] and she's the best at Wanless magic
[11:50] she's not really the best at fighting
[11:52] because she has a hard time functioning
[11:53] under the pressure of real danger
[11:55] but yeah anyway book ron is not
[11:57] threatened by her in this chapter ron is
[11:59] happy about being able to win a few
[12:01] rounds against Hermione because he knows
[12:03] she's talented and Hermione is being a
[12:06] sore loser about the few times she lost
[12:08] Ron Hermione get into a couple of
[12:10] notable fights throughout the series
[12:12] like their fight and Prisoner of Azkaban
[12:29] the Scabbers Crookshanks fight is a
[12:31] pretty solid example of Hermione not
[12:33] being able to people real well Hermione
[12:36] is in denial that Crookshanks probably
[12:38] ate Scabbers Ron is actually wrong
[12:40] because Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew but
[12:42] all he wanted was for her to take
[12:44] seriously that Crookshanks wanted to eat
[12:46] Scabbers and keep Crookshanks under
[12:48] control and after his rat disappears he
[12:51] just wants an apology he wants Hermione
[12:53] to admit that she was wrong they argued
[12:55] Hermione stormed off in tears to the
[12:57] girls dorm Harry thinks it's gonna be
[12:59] the end of their friendship
[13:01] Hermione went to Hagrid's hut to cry
[13:03] this was a big deal in the movie
[13:06] Hermione's a little indignant and Ron
[13:07] whines at her a few times about it maybe
[13:18] you should take better care of your pets
[13:20] your cat killed him so the conflict
[13:25] doesn't feel important it's kind of like
[13:26] a background argument you're seeing less
[13:29] of Hermione's flaws she's looking a
[13:31] little smooth
[13:33] she's an airbrushed Hermione the Yule
[13:35] Ball boy on the other hand highlights
[13:36] all aspects of Ron's awkward social and
[13:39] maturity as it should the night begins
[13:41] with Hermione having her Cinderella
[13:42] moment and ends in a fight with Ron it's
[14:01] not an exact recreation it doesn't
[14:03] happen in the Gryffindor common room but
[14:05] it's basically the same fight given the
[14:07] same way exposing the same flaws
[14:10] actually if anything I'd argue it's
[14:12] harsher and that feels out of place to
[14:14] me now because this was supposed to be a
[14:16] back and forth exchange last movie was
[14:18] Hermione's turned to be wrong and this
[14:20] is Ron's turn this is how they grow but
[14:23] I can't help but recognize the external
[14:25] factors to why this happened
[14:27] walking into the set of the Yule Ball
[14:30] was absolutely amazing everyone had to
[14:34] pretend they were in awe when they came
[14:35] in I think is really genuine actually
[14:37] it's the best that I've seen so far I
[14:40] think the description in the novel is
[14:42] that it's a kind of ice palace really
[14:44] there are icicles hanging from the magic
[14:46] ceiling so we've taken that maybe a step
[14:50] further when I went in I was absolutely
[14:54] gobsmacked I cannot tell you how
[14:56] beautiful everything looks you recognize
[14:59] it as exactly the same space but the
[15:00] transformation is nonetheless pretty
[15:02] complete
[15:05] the whole thing of course looked like
[15:08] Swarovski crystal
[15:09] and was stunning two people fighting
[15:12] about a rat and a cat is a very simple
[15:14] personality driven conflict it's not
[15:17] really as exciting as a winter ball at
[15:19] Hogwarts where everyone has to find a
[15:21] date Oh romance Oh coming-of-age stuff
[15:24] turning the Great Hall into a frozen
[15:26] Wonderland was a massive undertaking
[15:28] look at this set look at all this stuff
[15:31] look at all these costumes and all these
[15:33] people who have to learn to dance they
[15:36] wrote this scene to have some weight
[15:37] they were really proud of this they put
[15:39] a lot of work into this scene that is
[15:42] barely 10 minutes of the movie but then
[15:44] you have to take a step back this more
[15:46] perfect version of Hermione is not
[15:48] helping this dynamic it starts looking
[15:50] less and less like they're growing up
[15:52] and trying to become their best selves
[15:54] together and more and more like this
[15:56] smooth Hermione is either trying to fix
[15:58] Ron or is waiting for him to become a
[16:00] smooth Ron and that's kind of sad right
[16:03] vote for the characters and the fans but
[16:05] also for cloves he said one of the
[16:07] reasons that he was so drawn to Hermione
[16:09] was because he saw her as the outcast of
[16:12] the outcasts he thought she was
[16:19] complicated and hard to love and that
[16:21] makes it seem like he couldn't capture
[16:22] what he liked about her
[16:24] Hermione is not an effortless genius
[16:26] she's a genius through effort she
[16:28] studies hard no matter how boring the
[16:29] professor is the amount of time she
[16:31] sinks into this comes at the cost of
[16:33] other things movie Hermione has not
[16:36] completely lost her flaws I think that's
[16:37] an exaggeration but she's not nearly as
[16:40] flawed as she was in the books I can
[16:42] confidently say that book Hermione needs
[16:44] her friends just as much as they need
[16:46] her Harry headed straight back to
[16:48] Gryffindor common room where he found
[16:49] Ron and Hermione playing chess chess was
[16:51] the only thing Hermione ever lost at
[16:53] something Harry and Ron thought was very
[16:55] good for and it was true because
[16:57] Hermione was no character though and it
[16:59] stayed throughout because I think she'd
[17:02] such this huge intelligence but it was
[17:06] really a kind of exasperating
[17:08] frustrating character in a way though it
[17:10] was like the girl that bothers you in
[17:11] school thinking about her so not always
[17:15] the easiest to like
[17:17] I like that about that's what I liked
[17:19] about her I'm one by the way from
[17:23] Weasley
[17:24] I'm Harry Harry Potter as I said before
[17:27] it's not surprising to me that when
[17:29] discussing what happened to Ron everyone
[17:31] focuses on Hermione and Harry gets to
[17:33] fly under the radar if you go okay
[17:35] Hermione stolen Ron's lying here that's
[17:41] kind of easy to understand right how
[17:43] Harry warps Ron is more structural in
[17:45] fiction people often think it's a good
[17:47] idea to give your audience a blank slate
[17:48] character to attach themselves to so
[17:50] that they can learn about the world this
[17:52] character inhabits this character can
[17:54] ask questions that we would want to ask
[17:56] we're like alien parasites doing recon
[17:58] through an empty false vessel book Harry
[18:00] does contain details that make him not a
[18:03] total blank slate to me despite
[18:04] stereotypes about people with glasses on
[18:07] the nerd to jock false dichotomy Harry
[18:09] is more of a jock interested in sports
[18:11] sport teams and physical activities his
[18:14] grades are fine but he's not a very
[18:15] intellectually curious person
[18:17] he tends to only go out of his way to
[18:19] learn new spells if he needs it for
[18:20] class or just survive some trial like
[18:22] when he learned Akio for the first task
[18:24] in book 4 although he tries to be
[18:26] outwardly polite he can be judgmental
[18:28] and it takes a lot for him to change his
[18:29] mind about someone
[18:30] Harry struggles for a long time to see
[18:32] the adults in his life as complicated
[18:33] flawed people until their
[18:35] three-dimensional nasai min the face
[18:36] like a sweaty soggy slab a salami in
[18:39] fact his stubbornness is one of the main
[18:41] reasons many of the plot twists work
[18:43] Harry's personality is not as quirky as
[18:45] other characters who inhabit his world
[18:46] but you know it's hard to look unique
[18:48] when you have dragon loving half giant
[18:50] sand sock loving house elves running
[18:51] around you may have noticed a lot of
[18:53] this stuff I just listed has more to do
[18:54] with Harry's thoughts and opinions a
[18:56] thing the movie does not narrate to us
[18:58] these two characters make all the same
[19:00] decisions and yet they come off as
[19:01] really different it's kind of cool how
[19:03] important that internal narration is to
[19:05] the story's protagonist the way I would
[19:07] summarize the change between book Harry
[19:08] and movie Harry is the temperature has
[19:10] been lowered this isn't spicy Harry he's
[19:13] at most a little zesty he is overall a
[19:16] smooth Harry the removal of Harry's
[19:18] internal dialogue makes him seem less
[19:20] judgemental and angry when how much he
[19:22] resents or is disgusted by other people
[19:24] is left to your imagination his
[19:26] temptation to do bad things becomes a
[19:28] little more surprising as a result is a
[19:30] character whose
[19:31] kamar Meeker and has more of a sweetness
[19:33] about him here's a rude fact in the book
[19:36] very often Hermione was kind of the
[19:38] unfavorite friend Harry can be really
[19:40] rude about her in his internal narration
[19:42] calling her shrill bossy or hysterical
[19:44] I'd argue Harry grew a deeper
[19:46] appreciation for Hermione the older he
[19:48] got he loves her to death they have
[19:50] their own unique bond but in terms of
[19:52] just hanging out she's not the funnest
[19:53] person to be around so he kind of favors
[19:56] Ron you miss him Hermione said
[19:58] impatiently and I know he misses you
[20:00] miss him said Harry I don't miss him
[20:03] but this was a downright lie Harry liked
[20:05] Hermione very much but she just wasn't
[20:07] the same as Ron there was much less
[20:09] laughter and a lot more hanging out in
[20:11] the library when Hermione was your best
[20:13] friend and it comes up when Hermione
[20:15] fights with Ron she feels strongly that
[20:17] Harry favors Ron in that she's the more
[20:20] expendable friend she's not unaware that
[20:23] people see her as a buzzkill okay side
[20:25] with Ron I knew you would she said
[20:27] shrilly first the fireball
[20:29] now Scabbers everything's my fault isn't
[20:32] it movie Harry feels more like Hermione
[20:34] his best friend and I think it's because
[20:35] he's quiet and we're not privy to all
[20:37] his negative thoughts about her because
[20:39] of this I think the bond between movie
[20:41] Harry and movie Hermione gains a lot
[20:43] more chemistry and is drained of some of
[20:45] its more awkward elements because you
[20:46] can just kind of pretend that Harry
[20:48] always gets her and is always
[20:49] sympathetic to her Harry can still be
[20:51] immature and Ron is his best friend
[20:53] who's more on his level mentally that
[20:55] friendship is really important to Harry
[20:57] it's not an accident that ron was put on
[20:58] the bottom of the lake during the second
[21:00] task harry was really actively sad when
[21:03] Ron stopped talking to him in that book
[21:06] [Music]
[21:11] here's another thing to chew on the
[21:13] movie has to invent what Ron is doing in
[21:15] scenes where Harry is not describing
[21:17] what he's doing
[21:18] the Aragog seen from Chamber of Secrets
[21:20] uses Ron as comic relief having him make
[21:22] funny faces and whine at the sight of
[21:24] all the spooky spiders movie Ron does a
[21:26] lot of whining but book Ron agreed to go
[21:29] in when Harry asked him follow the
[21:35] spiders the dark forest
[21:40] why spiders what can follow the
[21:44] butterflies I don't like this something
[21:51] wet touched Harry's hand and he jumped
[21:53] backward crushing Ron's foot but it was
[21:55] only fangs nose why'd you reckon Harry
[21:57] said to Ron whose eyes he could just
[21:59] make out reflecting the light from his
[22:01] wand we've come this far said Ron but we
[22:05] don't actually know what ron was doing
[22:06] the whole time because harry isn't
[22:08] keeping track of him and describing his
[22:09] reactions then they made the scene of
[22:11] the boys getting away from Aragog more
[22:13] complex get fang harry yelled diving
[22:16] into the front seat ron sees the bore
[22:18] hound around the middle and through him
[22:20] yelping into the back of the car the
[22:22] doors slammed shut
[22:23] Ron didn't touch the accelerator but the
[22:25] car didn't need him the engine roared
[22:27] and they were off hitting more spiders
[22:29] in the movie the scene is turned into a
[22:31] full car chase the car is not driving
[22:33] itself so Ron stops the car before they
[22:34] get out of the Forbidden Forest and says
[22:38] club traveler only to get chomped on by
[22:42] a chill practical effect that just wants
[22:44] a hug and then Harry has to save them
[22:46] then Ron keeps freezing and failing to
[22:48] drive the car the car fails him and
[22:50] Harry has to help and protagonist it up
[22:52] this version has more tension in his
[22:54] thrilling and spooky but it makes Ron
[22:56] look a little foolish and as a result of
[22:58] this Harry our main character looks
[23:00] braver and more heroic in comparison
[23:05] before getting into the biggest example
[23:07] of a Ron change that flares up anger in
[23:10] people please allow me to obsess over an
[23:12] obscure example that I've never seen
[23:14] anyone get mad about but it kind of
[23:16] bothered me and it's sort of funny in
[23:18] the third book there's this hilarious
[23:19] moment where Ron calls Harry Harry's
[23:22] Uncle Vernon picks up the phone and Ron
[23:24] is screaming at the top of his lungs
[23:26] into the phone asking to talk to Harry
[23:28] ron has never used a telephone before
[23:30] and he doesn't know how they work it's
[23:32] an endearing in character example of
[23:35] Ron's ignorance of the muggle world
[23:36] would you like to see a dumb version of
[23:39] that
[23:43] in the hopping pop babbity rabbity in
[23:45] the cackling stump i was here ever see
[23:52] what okay assuming runs family had a
[23:57] different copy of the book with no runes
[23:58] on the cover because if they did Wow Ron
[24:01] you study ancient runes at your school
[24:03] for wizard craft and witchery the book
[24:05] is called Tales of Beedle the bard
[24:07] Beedle the bard was a wizard author I
[24:09] have a copy of the tales of Beedle the
[24:11] bard this book and all five of the
[24:13] stories in it couldn't be sold to a
[24:15] muggle population in this universe
[24:17] because every story exposes the
[24:19] existence of the magical world the
[24:21] wizard in the hopping pot is a story
[24:23] about a cruel son compelled to help
[24:24] muggles by his late father's enchanted
[24:27] cooking pot in babbity rabbity in the
[24:28] cackling stump a clever witch tricks a
[24:31] king in his brigade of witch hunters to
[24:33] stop hunting witches when she fakes her
[24:35] death and makes them think that she has
[24:36] cursed them from beyond the grave rod
[24:38] knows his best friends were raised by
[24:40] muggles
[24:41] he knows Harry's aunt and uncle abused
[24:43] him and wouldn't be reading him bedtime
[24:45] stories anyway why does he think they
[24:47] would know this book why his his IQ hit
[24:50] the floor like a sack of bricks well
[24:52] it's because it's a funny joke and even
[24:55] if it's not a joke that would make sense
[24:56] for his character it might slip by most
[24:59] people and if they notice they can just
[25:01] write it off as a lapse in judgment
[25:03] because after all Ron's not the smartest
[25:05] guy is he let's move on to the scene
[25:12] [Music]
[25:15] we'll start with Ron getting squinched
[25:17] when they make their escape and end up
[25:19] in the wilderness I actually love this I
[25:31] think it's sad I feel the urgency it
[25:33] makes me uncomfortable I think all three
[25:35] of them did a great job but Harry Potter
[25:37] and the Deathly Hallows Part one is a
[25:39] pg-13 movie so there isn't a lot of
[25:41] blood the injury isn't the nicest thing
[25:43] to look at but it's not the same thing
[25:45] as finding Ron unconscious soaked in his
[25:46] own blood
[25:47] the text describes that a chunk of his
[25:49] arm is just missing as if cut off by a
[25:51] knife harry has learned about squinching
[25:53] but he can only think of it as something
[25:55] comical the reality
[25:56] extremely grisly the Disney is all
[25:59] Hermione dares to do to heal Ron she's
[26:01] afraid that if she starts casting spells
[26:03] she might kill him The effect of dittany
[26:05] and what it does is not explained to the
[26:07] movies audience dittany accelerates the
[26:10] time on the wound it makes it several
[26:12] days older and that's all when I read
[26:14] Deathly Hallows I feel stressed about
[26:16] the fact that Ron never really recovered
[26:18] from his injuries here he seems sore and
[26:20] demoralized but I think that if you'd
[26:22] only seen the movies you wouldn't
[26:24] understand what if any limitations there
[26:26] were to how much Harry and Hermione
[26:27] could heal Ron the urgency of Ron's
[26:30] healing is heavily tied to the food
[26:32] issue Ron can't be healed by magic and
[26:34] he's not getting enough proper nutrition
[26:36] to heal naturally the trio is stealing
[26:38] eggs and bread from farmers they're
[26:40] foraging for mushrooms Harry caught the
[26:42] world's most pathetic fish apparently
[26:43] any food they get their hands on they
[26:45] have Hermione duplicate to make more but
[26:47] that lowers the quality of the food in
[26:49] terms of taste and nutrition for the
[26:50] sake of having more of it to fill their
[26:52] stomachs they live like this for a
[26:54] couple of months so Ron is festering
[26:56] right mentally and physically and maybe
[26:59] he could handle it until it's his turn
[27:01] to wear the Horcrux and that's when
[27:03] things get bad a detail left out of the
[27:05] movies argument is that they learn ginny
[27:07] neville and luna have been sent into the
[27:10] Forbidden Forest with Hagrid this is
[27:11] meant as a punishment but Harry is
[27:13] relieved he can't think of the Forbidden
[27:15] Forest as dangerous because he's locked
[27:17] out so many times this is some of the
[27:19] stuff that Harry is saying while ron is
[27:21] silently listening in and Snape must
[27:23] have thought that was a punishment said
[27:25] Harry but Ginny Neville and Luna
[27:27] probably had a good laugh with Hagrid
[27:29] the Forbidden Forest
[27:30] they faced plenty worse in the Forbidden
[27:33] Forest big deal so the original fight
[27:35] starts off almost word-for-word the same
[27:37] but then Harry has an I'm sorry thrown
[27:40] in I'm sorry
[27:42] then the word mummy is switched to mum
[27:44] dulling the humiliating sting of this
[27:47] comment so you'd be right with your mum
[27:48] by Christmas I just thought after all
[27:51] this time we would have actually
[27:52] achieved something
[27:53] Ron's line we thought you knew what you
[27:55] were doing as in he and Hermione turns
[27:57] into I thought you knew what you were
[27:59] doing I thought you knew what you were
[28:01] doing I thought Dumbledore would have
[28:02] told you something worthwhile after
[28:04] Ron's awful comment Harry tries to
[28:06] tackle him and then he tells him to
[28:08] leave which seems like a
[28:10] natural conclusion to this conversation
[28:11] because it's already escalated to
[28:13] violence book Harry tells Ron to go home
[28:15] three times during this argument and
[28:17] then there's the line that I keep
[28:19] mocking you think I don't know how this
[28:21] fail you don't know how it feels your
[28:23] parents are dead you have no family it's
[28:27] alright for you too isn't it with your
[28:29] parents safely out of the way my parents
[28:31] are dead Harry bellowed and mine could
[28:33] be going the same way yelled Ron
[28:35] insensitive but not mocking him for
[28:38] being an orphan also the line you have
[28:40] no family makes it seem like Ron doesn't
[28:42] think of Harry as his family and I
[28:44] honestly don't think that's true I think
[28:46] both Harry and Ron feel that Harry is an
[28:49] unofficial member of his family and that
[28:51] betrayal of his expectations for Harry
[28:53] is part of what's fueling his anger
[28:54] right now
[28:55] I think book Ron is offended because
[28:57] he's starting to feel alone in his
[28:58] paranoia and worried for the well-being
[29:00] of his family he thinks he's seeing a
[29:02] division in the priorities between
[29:04] himself and Harry it looks like movie
[29:05] ron has already come to the conclusion
[29:07] that harry is not his family without the
[29:09] whole element of him being insensitive
[29:11] to Ginny being in danger and that just
[29:14] kind of bums me out then there is the
[29:15] romantic jealousy
[29:16] I can understand reading this why Ron
[29:18] feels like Harry has without any plans
[29:21] brought Hermione who he loves into a
[29:23] very dangerous situation but because the
[29:26] movie has all of these scenes of Ron
[29:27] getting jealous of them being in
[29:29] proximity to each other or just getting
[29:31] along despite the high stress levels of
[29:33] the situation that makes me think that
[29:35] if Hermione was just giving this Ron
[29:37] kisses that would fix everything
[29:38] that's probably why years later people
[29:40] meme on this part of the movie they're
[29:42] watching this thinking that he looks
[29:43] like a guy who's having no fun on this
[29:45] camping trip there's something really
[29:47] ironic to me about Ron a character who's
[29:50] supposed to be overcoming these feelings
[29:52] of inadequacy because he's overshadowed
[29:54] in life by his exceptional brothers and
[29:56] by his exceptional friends being
[29:58] overshadowed by the movies writing
[30:02] anyway I'd like to announce my patreon
[30:04] which brings me to my second
[30:06] announcement a special thanks to Jake
[30:08] Colburn my first patron who found my
[30:10] patreon before I announced it I made my
[30:12] patreon when the website announced that
[30:14] if you wanted to get in on the whole
[30:15] founders fee rate you had to make an
[30:17] account that day
[30:18] so I was like oh I might need that
[30:20] someday I guess I should make one so
[30:22] then my first patron showed up and it
[30:23] was sort of like being attacked by a
[30:25] ninja but instead of hitting you the
[30:26] ninja wanted to be supportive have you
[30:28] guys ever gotten attacked by money
[30:29] ninjas if you joined my patreon as a
[30:31] reward you'll get behind-the-scenes
[30:33] stuff you'll find out what I'm working
[30:34] on before anyone else I upload videos of
[30:37] me playing video games unscripted just
[30:39] like you know chill bonus content
[30:40] basically I tried to think of the kind
[30:42] of stuff I would want from video si si
[30:44] like I have a Twitter Tumblr and
[30:46] Instagram linked below and that's it
[30:49] do you canoe