This is some of the most brilliant logic I've ever seen. It's a lovely and wonderful theory. As even further proof to it's probability, Ron as played in the movies has blue eyes- this might just be a coincidence, as blue eyes are fairly common amongst red-head, or maybe J.K. mentioned this to CC pre-casting.
But despite all this, I'm disinclined to believe the theory because of Dumbledore's speech given at the end of OotP. Dumbledore proffesses to being fully honest during this speech. While I think Dumbledore is capable of lying and deception, I don't think he'd ever practice it after just saying he was being completely honest. From this speech, it's very clear that while Dumbledore had very good connections and intuitions, he was far from being able to perfectly predict the future. So in order for Ron to be Dumbledore gone into the past, you'd have to somehow work into the story an event that causes him to lose his memory. That's far from impossible, but very improbable, more so than I think can really be justified. Plus, that then takes away the one edge of fore-knowledge that makes the Ron-Dumbledore switch so compelling. I do, however, think that Ron and Dumbledore have many resemblences (Ron may not have Dumbledore's knowledge, but I feel that he, more than any of the other Hogwarts students, demonstrates his wisdom in regards to human emotions. I think it's much more likely that Dumbledore will fall during the 6th or 7th book (he is, after all, Harry's crutch, and the protagonist's crutches have a way of dying in these epic stories), and Ron will be his successor.
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But despite all this, I'm disinclined to believe the theory because of Dumbledore's speech given at the end of OotP. Dumbledore proffesses to being fully honest during this speech. While I think Dumbledore is capable of lying and deception, I don't think he'd ever practice it after just saying he was being completely honest. From this speech, it's very clear that while Dumbledore had very good connections and intuitions, he was far from being able to perfectly predict the future. So in order for Ron to be Dumbledore gone into the past, you'd have to somehow work into the story an event that causes him to lose his memory. That's far from impossible, but very improbable, more so than I think can really be justified. Plus, that then takes away the one edge of fore-knowledge that makes the Ron-Dumbledore switch so compelling. I do, however, think that Ron and Dumbledore have many resemblences (Ron may not have Dumbledore's knowledge, but I feel that he, more than any of the other Hogwarts students, demonstrates his wisdom in regards to human emotions. I think it's much more likely that Dumbledore will fall during the 6th or 7th book (he is, after all, Harry's crutch, and the protagonist's crutches have a way of dying in these epic stories), and Ron will be his successor.