Amen, sister. That's my problem with Ron, too. He has so much to say about his circumstances but not an ounce of desire to do a damn thing to do about it. Ya know, JKR told us in the very first book about the way Ron was going to be. In PS/SS on that first train ride when he said something like he has all these brothers and so everybody will be expecting him to do as well as they did but if he does, it's no big deal because his brothers had already done it. We're shown that lazy, defeatist attitude right from the get-go. Perhaps the reason why Ron (and his bewildering defenders) gets on my nerves so much is because I never latched onto it as something that would continue for so long. I thought the kid would have shut the fuck up by now with the whole "Woe is me... I'm so poor and downtrodden..." crap. In OOTP, JKR even had Harry think that he was finding it hard to sympathize with Ron's whining about his position on the Quidditch team, because Harry himself would've given almost anything to actually be *on* the friggin' team. But Ron is on it and all he can do is bitch and moan about what he has to do? Pisshead.
And that comic by Nancy is bloody brilliant and so right on!
And that comic by Nancy is bloody brilliant and so right on!
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