Blog Post #3

I chose the argument between Ron and Harry in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (pages 306–311) to be an example of what Joe Harris refers to as, “countering”. In this fight, Ron is yelling at Harry for not understanding the struggles he is enduring while living on the run from the law trying to destroy Lord Voldemort. They each tell each other that what the other is thinking is wrong. Or rather, he doesn’t understand the other’s view. Ron says he is angry because they have not accomplished anything and Harry starts drilling him with questions about what exactly he thought that they would have completed by this point. The argument is not civil and Ron ends up leaving Harry and Hermione on their own when the fight is over.

The reason I chose this argument is to almost mimic the argument at the beginning of the chapter but not in a comical sense. I wanted to use an argument that didn’t end positively but still executed the points of one person questioning the other, a non-civil disagreement, but does not show any effectiveness in the end.