Thanks! It's funny that even though I was sympathetic to Ron throughout the book it's only now re-reading and with other people saying it that it strikes me he really was *owed* better treatment by his friends somehow. I mean, not in the sense of their literally owing him, exactly, but just it made me think there's a lot that's just taken for granted about Ron and in OotP Harry and Hermione were so focused on their own goals (which sometimes seemed like plans for world domination!;-) he just didn't rank up there as important at all.