Explaining what went weird with Ron Weasley

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[00:02] whatever just have a quiet cause did you

[00:07] know that in chapter 16 in the first

[00:09] book both of Harry's friends get a final

[00:11] time to show their unique skills however

[00:14] Hermione's final time to shine the

[00:15] potion riddle was cut from the movie

[00:17] adaptation originally Harry and Hermione

[00:19] leaved the wizard chess match after

[00:21] Ron's sacrifice and come across seven

[00:23] potions on a table three of the potions

[00:26] are poisoned two or wine one will allow

[00:28] Hermione to go back to Ron and the other

[00:30] will allow Harry to go forward when this

[00:32] was cut they changed her special moment

[00:34] to be the devil's snare trap where she

[00:35] can identify this strange plant

[00:37] strangling them and know what to do

[00:38] about it

[00:39] in the book the devil snare trap is a

[00:40] group effort where the disposition of

[00:42] each friend gets them closer to the

[00:43] solution Devil's snare Devils snare what

[00:46] did the professor say it likes the dark

[00:48] in the damp so light a fire Harry choked

[00:51] yes of course but there's no wood

[00:53] Hermione cried wringing her hands have

[00:55] you gone mad Ron bellowed are you a

[00:58] witch or not it's in character for

[01:00] Hermione to forget to use magic to solve

[01:02] this problem when she's panicked but

[01:04] it's better for the structure of the

[01:05] movies story if she gets to have her

[01:07] moment Ron will get his moment later

[01:09] when he beats the magical wizard

[01:10] chessboard despite the fact that he not

[01:12] only had to protect his king but his

[01:14] friends as well so maybe Ron didn't need

[01:16] to remind Hermione that she was a witch

[01:17] in that scene but you know what he

[01:19] really didn't need to do he really

[01:21] didn't need to do this there are a lot

[01:36] of people out there on the wild

[01:38] internets who believe that the movies

[01:40] made Ron a lame comic relief character

[01:42] or they made him too mean so they

[01:44] stopped liking him some go as far as to

[01:47] say that the movies ruined Ron Weasley

[01:49] and they dislike or hate one of the most

[01:52] important characters in a series they

[01:54] otherwise loved my thesis statement for

[01:57] this video is this in my opinion what's

[01:59] mangling Ron in the devil snare scene

[02:01] and most of the time throughout the

[02:02] series is the impulse to make Ron look

[02:04] oh fish silly or mean for a joke when it

[02:07] really wasn't necessary

[02:09] somewhere along the line Harry went from

[02:11] having two friends who were smart in

[02:12] different ways to having a smart

[02:14] and a lesser sidekick who is having his

[02:16] skills observations and lines absorbed

[02:19] by his best friends

[02:20] the main consensus of people I've talked

[02:22] to about this summarize the problem as

[02:24] they made Ron a goof to make Hermione a

[02:26] cool proactive role model for little

[02:28] girls to look up to

[02:29] that explains scenes like this where her

[02:31] mind he's taking a line from Ron he

[02:33] wants to kill Harry you'll have to kill

[02:35] us too but how do you explain stuff like

[02:37] this and dialogue changes as infamous as

[02:44] this your parents are dead you have no

[02:51] family I think it flies under the radar

[02:53] how often Ron's characterization has to

[02:55] bend to give Harry cool moments

[02:57] impactful moments or just softening up

[02:59] the text a little bit to make our

[03:01] protagonists less flawed

[03:02] so now begins our exploration of the two

[03:04] Ron's the Ron Weasley from the Harry

[03:06] Potter movie series and the Ron Weasley

[03:09] of the book series written by JK Rowling

[03:13] in book 2 chapter 7 Draco calls Hermione

[03:16] a mudblood it's a word both she and

[03:18] Harry have never heard before but they

[03:20] know it's nasty because immediately

[03:21] chaos erupts around them Ron tries to

[03:24] attack Draco but his spell backfires

[03:26] because his wand was broken in Chapter

[03:28] five later while vomiting up slugs Ron

[03:31] explains the general concept of pure

[03:33] blood supremacy and why he thinks it's

[03:34] wrong he concludes by pointing out that

[03:36] Neville Longbottom is a pureblood wizard

[03:39] and he's kind of garbage at magic

[03:41] currently in the movie Ron spends the

[03:44] scene vomiting slugs Steve clubs gets a

[03:48] lot of criticism for bias I do think

[03:50] some people go too far when they start

[03:51] psychoanalyzing him and concocting weird

[03:53] conspiracy theories but what is clear to

[03:56] me is that seven of the Harry Potter

[03:58] movies were written by a dude whose

[03:59] favorite character is Hermione and

[04:01] Hermione because she's so well-read is

[04:03] also his favorite vessel for giving

[04:05] exposition should Ron get this moment

[04:08] using his unique background to serve as

[04:10] a cultural ambassador hmm I don't know

[04:13] this seems kind of about Hermione right

[04:16] isn't it more sad if she explains it

[04:19] Ron's busy with his slug vomiting let's

[04:21] just use him as comic relief it's not a

[04:23] big deal Hermione probably read about it

[04:25] in a book

[04:26] here's a DVD extra from Chamber of

[04:28] Secrets steve hermione is a character

[04:31] who've said in the past is one of your

[04:33] favorites does that make her easier to

[04:34] write yeah I mean I like writing all

[04:37] three but I've always loved writing

[04:39] remaining because I just one she's she's

[04:42] she's a tremendous character for a lot

[04:44] of reasons for a writer which also she

[04:45] can carry exposition and in a wonderful

[04:47] way because you just assume she read it

[04:49] in a book my research tells me that long

[04:51] ago in the time between the first books

[04:53] release in the year of 1997 and the

[04:56] first movies release in the year of 2001

[04:59] Ron was actually a more popular

[05:03] character than Hermione

[05:04] in fact when Rowling met cloves for the

[05:07] first time she was really nervous about

[05:08] what this American was going to do to

[05:10] her baby but she felt more at ease when

[05:13] he told her that his favorite character

[05:15] was Hermione which was something Rowling

[05:17] very rarely heard from anyone cloves

[05:19] love for this little strong-willed

[05:20] bookworm got entwined with Emma Watson's

[05:23] growing passion for her role in the

[05:25] internal life of the character she was

[05:27] playing now I understand that Alfonso

[05:29] had they've changed and now into the

[05:54] third yeah I felt really so pleased with

[05:58] myself why am I in the next Lana comes

[06:04] in with all sixteen pages and clothes

[06:06] never stop loving Hermione she's still

[06:09] his favorite what I'm trying to say here

[06:10] is that there doesn't have to be a grand

[06:12] conspiracy for this to happen people

[06:14] working on the movie don't have to hate

[06:16] Ron to lose the threat of who he is they

[06:18] only have to consistently enough value

[06:20] other things over his characterization

[06:22] and development and well someone has to

[06:25] be your least favorite right it's

[06:26] natural that that which interests you

[06:28] the most draws your attention unless

[06:30] you're being very careful in any one

[06:33] scene changed there is almost always a

[06:35] logical explanation for why they changed

[06:37] it it's just one of those things where

[06:39] you don't know

[06:40] how far you've drifted until you take a

[06:42] step back so what you said you know who

[06:44] my favorite character isn't I thought it

[06:45] was gonna say mom yeah and I love wrong

[06:52] everyone loves who couldn't love wrong

[06:54] and I thought okay you love wrong okay

[06:58] and then you said Oh Hermione come up

[07:02] with another clever idea to get us

[07:04] killed or worse expelled she when I

[07:15] examine how Ron and Hermione changed

[07:17] through the adaptation I think about

[07:18] their friendship and eventual romance

[07:20] and marriage honestly I think Harry

[07:23] Potter doesn't have super strong writing

[07:25] behind it's romantic subplots but the

[07:28] movies could see ahead of time how

[07:30] people were reacting to the books so

[07:32] they had a chance to steer into the skid

[07:34] and try to make it better let's see how

[07:36] they did has one gone to bed oh yeah

[07:47] shoelace

[08:01] Merry Christmas re oops it's worse the

[08:04] only way to really explain it is that

[08:06] the movies have this strong aversion to

[08:09] Ron and Hermoine as a couple as well as

[08:11] Harry and Ginny especially Harry and

[08:13] Jenny the situation with Ginny and the

[08:16] beige dishrag off' occasion of her

[08:17] character is so bad it deserves its own

[08:20] video but trying to stay on topic it

[08:22] tells me something that Ron and Hermione

[08:24] moments that would take no extra time

[08:26] are still downplayed and underutilized

[08:32] when Ron hears the screams of Hermione

[08:35] being tortured he should be yelling like

[08:37] he did in the book repressed reactions

[08:40] can be cool you know shaking sweating

[08:42] but this ain't it chief this is way too

[08:44] repressed maybe he doesn't even care cuz

[08:46] it sounds like they only got a few

[08:47] seconds of Emma screaming and just

[08:49] played it on a loop

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[09:02] oh you can't fool me that's a bloody

[09:04] tape recorder throughout the series run

[09:06] and Hermoine bicker a lot but when I

[09:08] reread the books and remember all the

[09:10] random little things they started

[09:12] bickering about these exchanges don't

[09:14] come off to me as a failure in them

[09:16] being able to get along it comes off

[09:17] more like they're bored and that this is

[09:19] fun to them Hermione can be intolerant

[09:22] of certain personality types she also

[09:24] loves to debate she's argumentative Ron

[09:27] is one of the few people that Hermione

[09:29] can go fold the Bay Club on that will

[09:31] argue back and not get upset or take it

[09:33] personally Harry thinks they argue too

[09:35] much but considering that they can

[09:37] become offended by Harry interrupting

[09:38] them or telling them to stop hints that

[09:40] Harry is not experiencing their

[09:43] bickering the way they are what I liked

[09:45] about this dynamic was I never really

[09:46] had to question if Ron respected

[09:48] Hermione he is consistently on her side

[09:51] he knows she's a know-it-all he's aware

[09:52] of her flaws but he still likes her and

[09:54] he sees the strengths those flaws bring

[09:57] Ron will defend Hermione when people go

[09:59] 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

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[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