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[ SECRET POST #1751 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1751 ⌋

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[Skins Gen 2]

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[Resident Evil]

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[Wiglaf and Mordred]

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[Magic by the Lake]

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[Team NChick]

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[Sanctuary]

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[HP]

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[Nick Frost, Simon Pegg]

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It was an easter egg, so sometime in the spring (not sure when easter was that year)

Now we just need to figure out when the first trial was... >_>

Though I'm seriously not sure if my idea has any merit or not. :)

First Task was on the 24th of November, Second was on the 24th of February, Easter was in April, and then the Third Task (a day or so before being when Molly learned that Hermione wasn't messing Ron and Harry around and was embarassed) was on the 24th of June.

So, still on the "giving Molly the benefit of doubt" train of thought, we could assume that, thanks to Ron's poor letter sending habits, Molly hadn't kept up properly with the news of the state of the trio's friendship and only really had Skeeter's article to go by.

Well, considering Molly also believed everything Rita Skeeter wrote about HARRY, even though she knew him pretty well at that point, the whole issue was that Molly was very susceptible to the press. A lot of people were, apparently.

Thanks. Theory- BUSTED. :D

(Unless her son's really just don't talk to her during the school year, lol, but that's reaching.) <3

I believe that might be the case. I can totally see Ron sitting down to write:

"Dear Mum, how are you? I've been having a good time this year at Hogwarts."

*thinks what else to write*

"Quidditch was cancelled! And I had been training so hard to make the team."

*thinks some more*

"Classes are getting harder, too. Yes, Mum, I am doing my homework!"

*thinks some more*

"Love you lots,

-Ron"

...Yeah, that should be enough! *sends letter*

He just doesn't strike me as the sort to keep his parents well informed through the year. XD

That... Actually makes a lot of sense. :D

And then Percy's graduated by now, right? So I doubt he'd be able to write his Mum about what happened. But then Fred and George are there, so... Nah, they woudn't write either.

But Ginny's also there, right? What does she do in the forth book again? O.o

Ginny doesn't have much interaction with the Trio until OotP really.

I agree that I doubt the Weasley boys (and probably Ginny to a lesser extent) are great letter writers. I've seen several fanfics where Harry is astonished by how little Ron writes home, because if he had a home to write to, he'd do it as often as possible. But with the Weasleys, it probably feels like there's no need to write unless there's something to tell. This was before Voldemort rose again, so it's not like he was worried for their safety or anything. Especially Ron would just get caught up in the regular dramas of school life, and the massive dramas that come with being best friends with Harry. I know that when I was a kid going away on week/fortnight long school trips, writing home always seemed like a chore, because I'd think, "Well, I'm going to see them soon and I can tell them all about it when I get back." It felt like homework.

Wow, that got long.

Also, I'm not sure Ron even noticed about the egg. I know Harry did (else the readers wouldn't have been told) but I'm fairly certain Ron just breezed past it with all the unintentional callousness of a fifteen-year-old boy.

Right, thank you!

...Wow, I really need to re-read the earlier books, don't I? :D (read 1, and 7 recently, but not 2-6).

It got long, but it was awesome, and explained everything way better than I ever could. :)

but I'm fairly certain Ron just breezed past it with all the unintentional callousness of a fifteen-year-old boy.

THIS. Why don't people realize that nobody's perfect, teens less so because they haven't had as much pracise? >_>

Completely. I mean, even the nicest of teenagers can be really horrible, even if they don't mean to; being really self-involved is just part and parcel of adolescence. Your own problems, petty as they might seem to someone with more maturity, are just these huge tragedies. You're too busy dealing with your own drama, that quite often you're oblivious to everyone else's, and I think Ron was very much like that, in a way Harry wasn't because of the way he grew up, and Hermione wasn't because she was just a lot more mature.

Plus, while Harry had a horrible upbringing, he never had the same feeling of being overshadowed that Ron did, I think. Dudley was spoiled, to be true, but it wasn't the same as having six older brothers and a younger sister.

There have even been studies into the way the brains of teens work, and they've proven that brains do not work the same way at 15 and 35, so why would we expect characters to act like adults when they're not?

I--

Okay I don't know, you stumped me with Ginny. Hmm, I imagine she would still be struggling a little to be her own person and find herself. She was in third year in that book, right? So she suddenly has at least two more classes to struggle with, and she's probably trying to interact more with others and make friends after the fiasco with the Chamber of Secrets that most likely alienated her in her first year.

If she writes, it's probably to complain about Ron and the twins. XD I also imagine that she was trying to distance herself a little from her crush on Harry, you know, just being there if he ever needed her, but not shadowing his every move, so she probably didn't know much besides "Ron is being a prat to Harry" and "Ron is not being a prat to Harry anymore", and she might have missed everything in the trio more elaborated than that.

That makes a lot of sense, actually. Especially because in five I got the feeling that Ginny *had* made her own friends, which could have happened the year before.

Yeah, that's pretty funny, actually. Plus, since she's not with the trio yet, you're right- would she really know the group dynamics that well?

The other problem, though, is the timing. If the above timeline is correct, and the first task (wherein Ron forgave Harry) was on November 24th, and April was in Easter, what happened during the Christmas holiday? /can't remember that either. (Did Ron and Harry stay at Hogwarts that year?) O_o

Yeah, I got the feeling that Ginny already had friends her own age, but we didn't get to see them because they weren't relevant to the main story.

I have no idea either. o_o I really need to pick up the books again.

Exactly! <3

Me too~ ^^;

Eeeeeveryone stayed! Fourth year was the fiasco that was the Yule Ball. Percy was there in an official capacity, too.

Ha, right! So, theoretically we have,

1. Harry and Ron having a tiff.
-- Possibility of Mrs. Weasley finding out.

2. Harry and Ron un-tiffing.
-- No one going home during Winter Vacation
-- The possibility that none of the Weasley boys [at school] are good letter writers.
-- Ginny off making her own friends.

3. The rumors that Hermione is flirting with both Viktor and Rob
-- No way for Mrs. Weasley to really know that Ron and Harry made up.

4. Easter, the tiny egg.

5. Mrs. Weasley meeting up with everyone in person, and finding out the truth.

I think it's a workable possibility. It still doesn't excuse Mrs. W., but if there is any way that this is possibly what might have happened maybe, it would explain a lot...

That sounds about right!

The only thing is... It's not actually canon. It's all maybes and theories and possibilies, but there's no actually evidence to back it up. ^_^;

Though I do know that, when I re-read the books, I'm going to be looking for hints of Ron being a bad letter writer. >_>

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