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ladyofmisrule2000 wrote:
Hi, all!
Does anyone have any theories as to why Ron seems to be affected to a greater extent by the veela than Harry is?
Two possibilities leap to my mind.
First, Ron might be more vulnerable to mental magics in general than Harry is. Harry has a freakish ability to resist the Imperius Curse, while we see Ron suffering from the lingering after-effects of one of Crouch/Moody's in-class demonstrations even after DADA class has ended. Those tendencies could apply across the board to all magics of mental domination or influence.
Second, it could be because Ron is more physically mature than Harry. Harry is small for his age, and it seems to me that Ron started showing an interest in girls (and mildly dirty jokes) rather earlier than Harry did as well. I see signs of Ron taking some romantic interest in Hermione as early as CoS. I don't see any signs of Harry taking the same sort of interest in a girl until PoA. It seems possible to me that on the dead basic physical level, the two boys could just not be at quite the same stage of puberty, which I imagine might have rather a noticable effect on the extent to which lads of That Certain Age respond to the veela.
—Elkins
Posted to HPfGU by Elkins on January 22, 2003 7:36 PM
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