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[reenka]

Ron is Dumbledore.

Holy crap, holy crap, holy -crap-!!

If he isn't, there had best be some fancy footwork by JKR, what with all this stacked up in the favor of that (admittedly nutty-sounding) idea. When I first saw the kicker in ixchelmala & lizardlaugh's theory, I was like, "!!! ...no" of course. But.

Now all I can think of is Ron's broken wand in CoS, and what a sadly underdeveloped unserious typical-boy wizard he is, and how quietly jealous he is of others' abilities and fame and so on, how overshadowed he feels by his brothers. Poor Ron, right, always in the sidelines.

It would be perfect. PERFECT. If Ron turned out to... well... be the greatest (and least serious!) wizard alive (even though the time-travel idea still hurts my head).

God, I love him. My mind is completely blown. Completely. I never read all the silly canon-predicting theories. I mean. Who cares, really. I'm not a plot-obsessed person, anyway, more into characterization. But. This has such -huge- consequences for characterization. It blows my mind.

Holy crap. Dumbledore really did refer to their relationship in the past tense in OoTP. "Had ever been", indeed. Gah. It was this that really clinched it for me. How else could you explain that? I just want to see someone explain that some other way, man. 'Cause otherwise-- DUDE. RON! If it's not true, it should be.

I always thought that Dumbledore's love for Harry was a little... much. Like. Why does he love him so much? Why? HOLY CRAP. And Dumbledore sees himself holding a pair of socks in Erised, and if socks symbolize mother-love, wah!! Omg. He-- omg, he must really have missed his mother. :((

Comments

[darklites.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, I think I have read waaay too many of these theories. (I remember reading one about how the 7 'challenges' the Trio faced in PS/SS symbolised each of the seven books, too!) But this one seems quite well-researched. Still...

I'm having trouble with Harry's "hesitation" after Ron says he has to sacrifice himself, that the essay seems to link to Harry's hesitation as it starts in fifth year. If this ("Harry's last move. We feel this move is symbolic of the last three books.") is true, why does Ron sacrificing himself & Hermione taking out the white bishop happen before it? There are a coule of links that seem a little shady to me as well (like the one about Ron's taking out two white pieces to Save H&Hr a reflection of the troll incident in PS/SS, which is really a team effort with him and Harry). Also, where is Snape?? He is a *very* important part of it all, but why does he not have a mentioned piece?

(Draco/Hermione is definitely not happening--although some kind of other connection isn't ruled out though--because I remember JKR's comment about not wanting to say because she "didn't want to ruin the fan sites" when someone asked her if there would be unusual pairings, specifically like D/Hr. And I always thought that it couldn't because due to POV issues it wouldn't have time to develop enough to be plausible.)

Ron=Dumbledore just hurts my brain (even without the time travel!). I agree with sistermagpie that it's depressing, and I like Ron too. But it feels like it's upending everything, and it just boggles the mind to the extent that it kind of alienates the reader. I am not sure if JKR will really go for this. Still, the thing that makes me hesitant is the interview where she said there was "one thing" that was "at the heart of it all" that no one had guessed yet (and would be a little annoyed if they did). I figured that had to do with the Prophecy and why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry and all, though. But this would be a big thing that nobody's guessed yet, hee. But yeah. I still don't really think so. I feel like this kind of thing will really take away from the whole point of the series, and shift the focus off of it too much. Right, I have talked myself out of believing it, lol. But it's a pretty good theory.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I really love it when people are more logical and deductive than me. I get to bask in the vicarious light of reason, eheheh. I liked what you said about the inconsistency in the chess-board timing, in other words. It's really weird that there's this much -room- for this sort of interpretation in the books to start with-- that there are these parallels, faulty as they are, everywhere. I think it's likely that JKR intended at least some of these things as Easter eggs or something, but probably she didn't seriously plot them out or anything. Heh.

And one would have to be almost insane to write Ron-as-Dumbledore, now that I think about it. Just. The whole idea. Yeah. It hurts my brain. Who'd write that? It's mad :>

I think the D/Hr idea was silly & there's clearly many other explanations possible there. To me, D/Hr is like... a reasoned-out "well, they have such-and-such conflicts that could be played on" ship. There's no active chemistry there, I guess, so it's all supposition and circumstantial evidence and over-interpreting of actions. Now I'm treading dangerously close to implying H/D is more canon, hehehe. ^^; I always thought that was silly. No slash is canon. Hmmm. But the relationship (of whatever sort) between H&D is more there in canon, I guess I mean. Heh. It wouldn't need the leap of sudden development to make happen. Well, it -would-, but of a different sort, not the getting-to-know-you sort. Eh. Whatever.

It's a pretty good theory, like a firework. But then it fizzles. For me, anyway :> Maybe I'm just easily bored...? :-?