I just wrote an essay in response to this, posted it… and my tumblr app ate it. I almost cried. Let’s try this again..
Ok, so, honestly… these films left out so much emotional weight, it is crazy. Now, I love me an HP film. Like, I really, really love them. But wow.
Reading Deathly Hallows was an experience I can’t even really properly describe. The missing!Ron section before The Silver Doe just about killed me. I literally felt like… a tightness in my chest, waiting for him to come back. It was actually physically difficult for me to concentrate and read the story in between his leaving and returning. “Are - you - mental?” was the greatest chunk of text I had ever seen. I literally started screaming and probably sobbing. It was all a blur.
Let me just tell you. That chapter DESTROYED me. Yes, the circumstances at the manor were terrifying. Yes, the bit where Draco gets wishy-washy on Harry’s identity was INTENSE. But then, Hermione is separated from them and Ron shouts (without stopping to think about it) to take her place. He knows she’s about to be in for some legit hell. He doesn’t give a shit. He’s ready to take it. By the time he gets to the dungeon (honestly, I think it’s even before she’s screaming), he’s basically lost all control. He gives exactly zero fucks who hears him sobbing her name. He doesn’t care about his safety, sanity, or even effing physics. He literally tries to teleport himself out of the room… without magic.
That is clearly the most badass, unbelievable, two-billion-teaspoon-range-of-emotion thing I’ve ever heard…
Not to mention how much he obviously loves her. And you know what I’ve just realized? Everybody who heard him screaming like that knows he loves her. He doesn’t even need to tell her that. Dude, I’ve actually got to stop writing about him saying it after the war, in fanfic, because if she heard him screaming, she knows.
But guys, breaking it down, I think anything said about Ron is too short. I could write a thesis paper on how I feel about him…
Rupert is amazing, and I love him so much, but somebody should have given him Ron to play. I don’t understand why someone didn’t pause and go “wait, we’ve left out ‘you can have me, keep me!’ and ‘I get it. You choose him.’ is way better dialogue and way less immature than ‘I saw you the other night’… and Harry’s got to say ‘I thought you knew,’ so that Ron will know!”
I know it’s a translation from page to screen, and of course you can’t expect a 2.5 hour film adaptation (or even two of them) to deliver the emotional heft of a 700 page novel. But I honestly feel like they could have added 60% more accurate Ron to Deathly Hallows by letting him scream, by making Harry assure him that the locket nightmare was bogus, and by letting him apparate away from the manor with Hermione… ALONE.
That last one is weird, but I have been thinking about it a lot. He finally gets to her, and she’s basically half-dead in his arms. Honestly? He’s getting the hell out of there. He’s not going to wait around. I understand they probably wanted Dobby to have a nice moment, in the film, but Ron and Hermione should have been gone for it. From the moment she left his sight, he had one goal in mind, and that was to get her out of there, at all costs. Not to mention the slight undermining I feel in the way Ron’s got to hold onto Dobby when they leave. Apparating is really hard, right? People splinch all the time and lose legs and shit. But Ron does it (successfully), with Hermione, WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S WAND, while he’s rolling at about 11/10 emotional distress.
Thinking on the books gets my heart racing, for real. It really, honestly, distresses me when people watch the films and haven’t read the books. They don’t know Ron. I wish they understood - I need them to understand.
There is a beautiful, whole person in those books, and he has my soul.
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