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title: 'Explaining what went weird with Ron Weasley'
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date: 2026-06-29
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# Explaining what went weird with Ron Weasley

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## Summary

This video analyzes how the character of Ron Weasley was altered in the Harry Potter film adaptations compared to the original books. It argues that the movies systematically reduced Ron's intelligence, bravery, and important moments to elevate Hermione and Harry, often by giving Ron's lines and skills to other characters or using him as comic relief.

### Key Points

- **Hermione's potion riddle cut from movie** [0:02] — In the book, Hermione solves a complex potion riddle to let Harry go forward, but the movie cuts this and gives her the Devil's Snare moment instead, which was a group effort in the book.
- **Thesis: Ron made silly or mean for jokes** [1:36] — The speaker argues that the movies consistently make Ron look foolish, silly, or mean just for a laugh, which damages his character. Hermione becomes the smart proactive one, and Ron loses his distinct skills.
- **Ron's cultural ambassador role removed** [3:02] — In the book, Ron explains 'Mudblood' to Harry and Hermione, using his pureblood background. In the movie, he only vomits slugs, and Hermione (or someone else) gives the explanation, stripping Ron of a meaningful character moment.
- **Ron's repressed reaction to Hermione's torture** [8:32] — In the book, Ron is distraught when Hermione is tortured; in the movie, his reaction is underplayed, making it seem like he doesn't care. This reduces the emotional weight and his character's depth.
- **Less emphasis on Hermione's flaws in fights** [12:29] — The movie downplays Hermione's role in the Scabbers/Crookshanks fight, making her seem less flawed. The book highlights her refusal to admit fault, while the movie makes the conflict feel minor.
- **Harry's internal narration removed, making him smoother** [17:41] — The book reveals Harry's unflattering thoughts about Hermione (calling her bossy, shrill). Without this internal narration, movie Harry seems less judgmental and more supportive of Hermione, which shifts the friendship dynamics.
- **Ron's competence reduced in action scenes** [21:11] — In the Aragog scene, book Ron is brave and cooperative; movie Ron whines, freezes, and needs Harry to save him. This pattern repeats, making Harry look more heroic at Ron's expense.
- **Dumb joke about Ron's ignorance backfiring** [23:43] — A joke where Ron asks if Harry's muggle relatives know 'Beedle the Bard' is character-breaking because he knows they abused Harry and wouldn't read him magical stories. The joke prioritizes humor over consistency.
- **Ron's injury and recovery downplayed** [25:15] — The book stresses Ron's severe injury (near-amputation) and the lack of proper food/healing, leading to real suffering. The movie glosses over the injury's severity and the difficult living conditions that fuel Ron's later anger.
- **Ron's departure scene softened** [27:33] — In the movie, Ron's cruel 'your parents are dead' line is added, and he seems to reject Harry as family. The book's fight is more about Ron's pain and fear for his family; the movie exaggerates his jealousy and selfishness.

### Conclusion

The movie adaptations consistently diminished Ron's character by giving his moments to Hermione, making him comic relief, and softening his more complex traits, often to make the other protagonists look better. This systematic drift, driven by the screenwriter's preference for Hermione, led to a fundamentally different, less beloved Ron.

## Transcript

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