Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Hoàng Tử Lai/Chương 14”

Heading back to the Gryffindor Common room, Harry and Ron stumble across [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley|Ginny]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dean Thomas|Dean]] kissing in a corridor; Harry feels jealous while Ron reacts angrily. Ginny is equally angry at Ron, shouting that Harry kissed [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cho Chang|Cho Chang]] and Hermione kissed [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Viktor Krum|Viktor Krum]], but Ron has as much experience as a twelve-year-old; she then storms off. Heading to the Common room, Harry and Ron startle a girl who drops a jar.

Ron, Ginny's words still stinging, broods dark thoughtsdarkly, apparently thinking about Hermione having kissed Viktor. Harry struggles with his own romantic feelings towards Ginny, though he dismisses it as only friendship. He also fears that if he did start dating Ginny, it could end his and Ron's friendship.

The next day, Ron, still angry, lashes out at everyone, especially Hermione, and cold-shoulders Dean and Ginny. Ron's mood hardly improves over the next several days and plays miserably at practice. He nearly resigns, but Harry snaps him out of it. However, Ron remains dejected before the match against Slytherin. Harry devises what he considers a brilliant plan. At breakfast, Hermione glimpses the small flask containing the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Felix Felicis|Felix Felicis]] potion concealed in Harry's hand and, suspecting Harry spiked Ron's pumpkin juice, berates him. Ron drinks the juice anyway. Apparently, the luck potion works, as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Malfoy]] and another player are not playing that day, though Harry suspects Draco is planning something. When Ron asks if Harry did put the Felix potion in his drink, Harry says nothing.

Harry's skill at utilizing people's flaws and habits is improving; he knows Hermione will intervene if there is any unethical behavior, and that Ron, like a petulant child, tends to resist her. No doubt Harry has observed that Ron's continuing bad mood will accentuate this behavior. This is why, we believe, he allows Hermione to see the phial of Felix Felicis as he passes it over Ron's pumpkin juice; Harry knows that if Hermione assumes Ron's drink was spiked with the potion, she will object. It is uncertain whether Harry is counting on that to motivate Ron into drinking it; it is certain that Hermione's protest will lead Ron to believe that he has been given a chance at some liquid luck. This is somewhat similar to how [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]] manipulates people and their thought patterns to his advantage. Unlike Voldemort, however, Harry's aim is to help his friends rather than for his own selfish ends.

Ron once again reacts in a bad way to his unresolved feelings for Hermione. Ginny's taunts regarding his romantic inexperience deeply embarrass him, but it is probably her revelation about Hermione kissing Viktor Krum that truly upsets him, causing him to lash out at Hermione; by. failingFailing to recognize his emotions for what they are, he allows himself to be propelled into a questionable relationship with Lavender, a silly, giggly girl who Ron probably never would have noticed had she not overtly flirted with him, thus flattering his ego. Hermione, in turn, becomes even more furious with Ron for succumbing to Lavender's attentions, though she is actually more hurt and upset than angry. And while this is the most openly emotional that she has expressed her feelings about Ron, only Harry, and we, can perceive what he does not.

While Harry wants his two best friends to be happy, he also has concerns. If Ron and Hermione should ever overcome their differences and become a couple, it could mean he would be left behind or be forced to choose sides if they break up. Ron's flirtation with Lavender, and the affect it's having on Hermione's relations with him and with Harry, clearly lends weight to this fear. Harry is beginning to realize just how much he relies on each for their friendship and support, a fact Professor Dumbledore has subtly been impressing upon him for some time. Harry also wrestles with budding romantic feelings for Ginny Weasley, though he brushes this off as "brotherly" concern.

We see here what could be considered the formal beginning of the romantic relationship between Ron and Lavender. She had quite clearly set her sights on Ron early in the year, but rather than making any overt move, had simply responded more strongly than necessary to any of his sallies, whether directed at her or not. Ron has been consciously unaware, but now, partially elated by the Quidditch victory over Slytherin, and partly in response to Ginny's recent accusation that he is romantically inexperienced, he is drawn to Lavender as the quickest way to disprove Ginny's claims. This romance, if it can be called that, will put serious tension on the bond between Ron and Hermione, tension that will gradually ease in the Spring as Ron realizes that he and Lavender actually have little in common, and starts looking to Hermione once more for friendship and advice.

Although she is passed by almost unnoticed, the small girl in the seventh-floor hallway who drops the jar of frog-spawn will be important. The alert reader will note that a small girl is often standing in that hallway, and who invariably drops something noisy as Harry passes. Readers may also note that this occurs near the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Room of Requirement|Room of Requirement]]. This girl is either [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vincent Crabbe|Crabbe]] or [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gregory Goyle|Goyle]], disguised with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Polyjuice Potion|Polyjuice Potion]] and standing guard outside the Room of Requirement while Malfoy works within on his secret task for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]]. Harry never realizes this until he has [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dobby|Dobby]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher|Kreacher]] tail Malfoy later in the spring.