Actually, Homer Simpson was brilliant as a small child. He had the most beautiful and angelic voice of all the choir boys up until his voice broke. He was a star pupil. Apparently the Simpson males have a genetic predisposition to grow up to be losers. There's an entire episode revolving around it.
--> watched the show religiously as a child.
The point I was attempting to make, though, was not with regards to Ron's talents, but his personality, his laziness in non life-threatening situations, his general immaturity, his irrationality, his short temper, etc. When it comes to marriage and fatherhood, maturity carries a great deal more weight than brilliance. Ron certainly wasn't behaving as a master strategist when he was congratulating himself for cheating on a driving test and getting away with it.
As for Hermione, her boggart is failure, and in fact it's the one test she completely fails to pass in defence class, which would very strongly imply that self-improvement is not her main motivation for studying, but fear of failure. The one time she does something with all her studying where the end goal isn't either helping The Cause or getting A's, JKR equates her with a PETA fanatic, so. Make of that what you will.
I think Fred and George are the freaks of the Weasley family. They are the only ones not to finish school. They are the entrepreneurs. They are a single entity. FredandGeorge. They're also assholes, but that's besides the point. I think killing one half of them is in a sense killing everything that made FredandGeorge a force to be reckoned with at their tender ages.
I'm sure I could have worded that section of my post better, but well, I wasn't exactly trying to convince anyone of anything, just get some things off my chest.
And you are of course free to tell me I am full of crap. I'm not trying to tell you I'm not full of crap, as I may very well be, merely that I have thought this through further than this single ranty post might imply.
If I had intended a professional quality criticism, this post would have been about three to four thousands words longer. I'd like to think if I'd written such a post, it would have been better argued, but maybe it would just have been even more full of crap.
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Date: 2007-07-30 08:28 pm (UTC)--> watched the show religiously as a child.
The point I was attempting to make, though, was not with regards to Ron's talents, but his personality, his laziness in non life-threatening situations, his general immaturity, his irrationality, his short temper, etc. When it comes to marriage and fatherhood, maturity carries a great deal more weight than brilliance. Ron certainly wasn't behaving as a master strategist when he was congratulating himself for cheating on a driving test and getting away with it.
As for Hermione, her boggart is failure, and in fact it's the one test she completely fails to pass in defence class, which would very strongly imply that self-improvement is not her main motivation for studying, but fear of failure. The one time she does something with all her studying where the end goal isn't either helping The Cause or getting A's, JKR equates her with a PETA fanatic, so. Make of that what you will.
I think Fred and George are the freaks of the Weasley family. They are the only ones not to finish school. They are the entrepreneurs. They are a single entity. FredandGeorge. They're also assholes, but that's besides the point. I think killing one half of them is in a sense killing everything that made FredandGeorge a force to be reckoned with at their tender ages.
I'm sure I could have worded that section of my post better, but well, I wasn't exactly trying to convince anyone of anything, just get some things off my chest.
And you are of course free to tell me I am full of crap. I'm not trying to tell you I'm not full of crap, as I may very well be, merely that I have thought this through further than this single ranty post might imply.
If I had intended a professional quality criticism, this post would have been about three to four thousands words longer. I'd like to think if I'd written such a post, it would have been better argued, but maybe it would just have been even more full of crap.