Killing Ron? Why?

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

http://leakynews.com/j-k-rowling-might-have-killed-ron-in-harry-potter/

Ooh, that would have been a shocker, right? I wonder when she thought of it. Maybe while writing TOOTP? Which in my opinion is the most gloomy of the entire series.

I don't know wether or not I would have appreciated it. I mean, I like the death of a central character like the next person, but Ron? Come off it.

defcon6000 · Nov 1, 2011

Eh, I never cared for Ron, so I wouldn't have cared. Sooner or later his number had to come up. Oddly though, I wanted Harry to die, or at least stay dead. Become a martyr, which he'd sorta always been.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

defcon6000 said:
Oddly though, I wanted Harry to die, or at least stay dead. Become a martyr, which he'd sorta always been.

Yeah, Harry dying would have made the most sense. But she went to great lengths to prevent that.

AlienGirl · Nov 1, 2011

It's strange but I think I was sadder about Dumbledore than I would've been about Ron.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

AlienGirl said:
It's strange but I think I was sadder about Dumbledore than I would've been about Ron.

Me too, definitely.

megan_d · Nov 1, 2011

I think killing Ron would have made for some very interesting reading.

CobraMisfit · Nov 1, 2011

megan_d said:
I think killing Ron would have made for some very interesting reading.

You know, I was actually surprised she didn't whack him. Having spent so many books proving how "mediocre" he was as a wizard, I was expecting it.

Then again, Neville turned out to be my favorite secondary-character-turned-hero. Talk about growth!

whistlelock · Nov 1, 2011

Dumbledoor needed to die about 2 books sooner than he did.

scarletpeaches · Nov 1, 2011

I wish she had. The idiot who plays him in the films can't act for toffee. Two bloody hours or more of him girning at the camera like Harry's just stuck his magic wand up his arse...

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

whistlelock said:
Dumbledoor needed to die about 2 books sooner than he did.

Yeah? Why do you think so?

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

scarletpeaches said:
I wish she had. The idiot who plays him in the films can't act for toffee. Two bloody hours or more of him girning at the camera like Harry's just stuck his magic wand up his arse...

I have a friend who thinks he's hot. But that's another matter.

scarletpeaches · Nov 1, 2011

I have a friend who fancies him, too. Still doesn't mean he can act.

Ardent Kat · Nov 1, 2011

Ron always did strike me as a superfluous character. Not particularly talented, noble, kind, brave, or interesting. I'm glad she didn't kill him off because I think it wouldn't have as much of an emotional impact as she would have hoped.

But I wasn't wildly smitten with any of the characters she DID kill off, either. I would have cried for McGonagall, but not Dumbledore.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

scarletpeaches said:
I have a friend who fancies him, too. Still doesn't mean he can act.

True.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

Ardent Kat said:
Ron always did strike me as a superfluous character. Not particularly talented, noble, kind, brave, or interesting. I'm glad she didn't kill him off because I think it wouldn't have as much of an emotional impact as she would have hoped.

But I wasn't wildly smitten with any of the characters she DID kill off, either. I would have cried for McGonagall, but not Dumbledore.

Indeed, Harry was the heart, Hermione the brains, Ron was...?

The death of Dumbledore certainly made my eyes prickle. I remember avoiding reading the chapter in which he is buried, for a few days. I wouldn't have any of it.

Gale Haut · Nov 1, 2011

I thought the books were going in that direction, and was a little confused when they didn't.

scarletpeaches · Nov 1, 2011

Ron's there so Hermione doesn't die a virgin.

Amadan · Nov 1, 2011

She should have killed Harry.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

scarletpeaches said:
Ron's there so Hermione doesn't die a virgin.

Isn't there a spell for that?

"Defloweranicum!" and than some fancy wandwaving...

Job done.

Teinz · Nov 1, 2011

Gale Haut said:
I thought the books were going in that direction, and was a little confused when they didn't.

I had the same thoughts.

Jersey · Nov 1, 2011

Ron is a sidekick, a foil. So he gives us his big, magical family in contrast to Harry's muggles who hate magic and Hermione's magic world/muggle parents thing, in-between Ron's experience and Harry's experience.

I know I'm Captain Obvious here, but I'm saying that I don't think Ron should have been more. We had lots of flamboyant magic people who would have been too much as main characters.

Ron is counterpoint.

lastlittlebird · Nov 1, 2011

Teinz said:
Indeed, Harry was the heart, Hermione the brains, Ron was...?

I always thought of Ron as the ordinary guy, who stepped up when the people he loved needed him.

Bartholomew · Nov 1, 2011

Teinz said:
Isn't there a spell for that?

"Defloweranicum!" and than some fancy wandwaving...

Job done.

Why have a spell for what a broom handle would easily accomplish?

ajkjd01 · Nov 1, 2011

Okay, so maybe I'm weird, but I loved Ron. And I really enjoyed him in the movies, too.

That said, I was also a big fan of Xander Harris in Buffy and Wash in Firefly. I like me those beta guys, especially those who have a tendency to rise to the occasion when they're a bit outclassed.

Maybe that explains why I have a tendency to write guys like that into books from time to time.

I'm more impressed with the regular guys who step up than the big powerful guys who do big powerful stuff.

And yet...I thought she should have killed off Ron. I felt like the ending was a bit of a let down after all the buildup...there needed to be more at stake in the end to really tie it all up.

Laura J · Nov 1, 2011

lastlittlebird said:
I always thought of Ron as the ordinary guy, who stepped up when the people he loved needed him.

Ron was the third person in the hero triad. He can't die.

I was pretty upset about Hedwig, Colin Crevey and one of the twins (can't ever remember which one) I thought it would be sad to lose a twin. And poor little Colin Crevey, okay, he was like 16, but he still seems like little Colin Crevey.

Oh, Dobby. My son was distraught that Dobby died.

And, Dumbledore. I thought that was sad but inevitable.

And Hermione doesn't 'ride' brooms.

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