Prettyveela's Poll - long!

[sistermagpie]

prettyveela has put up a poll here asking people to pick a side in various HP canon conflicts. As usual I have trouble actually picking a side, but I did eventually vote in all of them. What I keep thinking about after doing it, though, is not which side I chose but exactly why I picked one or the other. All the situations are so different that although it

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[go_back_chief]

I think it's hard to judge the events/arguments we haven't seen for ourselves, ie the fight between Arthur and Percy and the prank. That said, I'm completely on Percy's side in that fight, because as you say, it seems clear to me that it's about so much more than just the promotion and what exactly Percy said to Arthur and vice versa (neither of which we can know). It wouldn't sdurpise me if Percy did say an awful lot of hurtful stuff to Arthur in that fight, things that he might even have known wasn't fair, and that were bound to hurt him, because he wanted to. This is really about the respect Percy never got from either Arthur or from his siblings, the fight was just his way of rebelling, protesting. And while we haven't seen the fight, we have seen how Percy was treated by everyone in his family save Molly, which makes it really easy for me to pick a side there.

I generally agree with what you're saying, except I would probably have voted Ron in the Ron/Ginny-fight. Not that I don't think Ginny took a cheap shot below the belt and was over the top bitchy (as in the entire HBP) but Ron, much as he may have "just been looking after her," was interfering with something that really was none of his business. It's not even the "almost using the word slut" I'm thinking about, but more that whether or not she was kissing her boyfriend and where wasn't anything he had anything to do with, and growing up in a family with traditional gender-roles may provide an explanation for his attitude, but it's not an excuse.

[sistermagpie]

The Ron/Ginny fight is so weird for me because obviously Ron starts it and there's really no defense for what he says. As you say, even if he's been raised to see girls as people who have honor to be protected, he's obviously just projecting his own screwed up issues. But Ginny's reaction still seems so over the top to me and so completely destroying him I don't really get it. Really it comes down to it being yet another Mary Sue moment for me. Ron's just set up to look dumb all the way around, especially since he is trying to do something nice on one level. (Not that I think that's really the case, actually. He may believe superficially he's protecting his sister, but really he's just freaked out seeing her snogging Dean, imo.)