goblet of fire really feeds into my harry and hermione gossip about their boy crushes together agenda
Friendly reminder that Ginny said no to Harry's invitation to go to the yule ball, because she had already said yes to Neville.
How many of us would have turned down our crush of many years, because we had made a deal with someone else?
Queen.
Also, F whoever cut that out of the movie!
“ron weasley is a himbo for the straights, harry potter is a himbo for the queers.” i say into the microphone.
the crowd boos. i begin to walk off the stage in shame when a voice speaks and command silence from the room.
“he’s right,” they say. i look up for the owner of the voice. hermione granger herself stands in the third row.
harry would burn the world for his friends.
hermione would kill anyone for her friends.
ron would take a nap if he weren’t busy making sure neither of them did that.
snape stans will be like “but james bullied snape!”
like… yeah someone had to
Let’s talk about the battle in the Department of Mysteries for a sec. So after the group gets split up, Harry, Hermione and Neville go one way and Ron, Ginny and Luna the other. The next time we see the latter group Ginny’s ankle is busted and Ron’s brain is addled. Luna says that the Death Eaters blew up a planet in the planetarium and hit Ron with some sort of hex.
Let’s take a moment to examine that. If the curse that hit the planet had hit any of the kids, they’d be dead. So the Death Eater probably missed, hit the planet ahead of them, injuring Ginny. But here’s the important part: the one who actually gets hit by the hex? Ron.
Why is this important? Because Ron is consistently described throughout the series as tall. Like, every time Harry sees him after the beginning of summer he’s described as having shot up. Again. On the other hand Ginny is described as “the small one” by Bellatrix Lestrange. But Ron is behind her. I don’t know if you know this but tall people can run really fast. I am not particularly fit but I am tall. And I can pour on the speed when my adrenaline’s up, which I have no doubt was the case for everyone in the Department of Mysteries. But he’s behind her.
Because he did that deliberately. He kept his body between the Death Eaters and the girls. He shielded them from their spells. Because those he cares about are more important to him than his own life.
I don’t know, I just think about this a lot.
Ron is a strategist, and has already shown a willingness to take the hit for the team and be left behind. In any group, I think that’s just his default position; take the hit, buy more time for others to escape. He’s well aware that realistically, someone is going to be hurt. In this case, Luna is creative and smart enough to come up with something out of left field to throw the enemy off. Ginny is small, but she’s an athletic powerhouse who can throw strong hexes. If it comes down to a crunch, Ron knows that the two of them can fight their way out, and he can increase their odds by at least holding off the wave behind them.
Honestly, this is such an important point.
Consistently throughout the series, Ron can be seen being taken out of the action somehow. AND IT IS NEVER BECAUSE HE IS WEAK.
Rather, it’s because Ron is a STRATEGIST, who CARES.
In Philosopher’s Stone, for example. Ron allows himself to be “taken” by the queen, because he knows that he is standing with the Boy-Who-Lived and the Brightest-Witch-Of-Her-Age and Voldy must be stopped and it’s SIMPLE to him. Ron is a strategist, like has been said. It’s a strategic decision - who cares if it puts himself in harm’s way?
In Prisoner of Azkaban, Ron and Harry are faced with the Grim, and what does Ron do? He pushes Harry out of Sirius’ path, in the process allowing the dog to latch onto his outstretched arm and pull him away, breaking his leg as they enter the Willow. This decision is simple too - it’s because Harry Potter means the world to Ron Weasley, and Ron would not hesitate for a moment in putting himself between Harry and danger.
RON IS A STRATEGIST, AND RON CARES.
And when it comes down to it, he never hesitates.
And don’t forget DH:
“Wait,” said Bellatrix sharply. "All except… except for the Mudblood.“ Greyback gave a grunt of pleasure. “No!” shouted Ron. “You can have me, keep me!”
“Right,” said Ron, squaring his shoulders. “So you can’t go, that’s what he wants, what he’s expecting. You stay here and look after Hermione, and I’ll go and get it —”
Where do people who claim Ron is a coward who hides behind his friends get their bullshit from?
No to be super dramatic, but emotionally, Ron is chock full of middle child issues, and he honestly thinks his life is worth less than Harry’s or Hermione’s or even Ginny’s.
It comes up over and over in the series. Ron gets hand me downs, and he doesn’t think it’s just because his family is poor, he thinks it’s because he’s not worthy of new things. Ron becomes prefect and his first reaction isn’t happiness, it’s confusion. Because he doesn’t think he’s worthy of the honor.
Take Ron’s self esteem issues and add them to his genuine care for other’s safety and his strategic brain, and you get this boy whose survival by the end of the series is basically a miracle.
guys, you know how harry tends to internalise his emotions more but even then, Hermione could see that in GoF he was missing Ron so much? Imagine how much more obvious Ron was 😭. Like Ron unable to shut up about harry while hanging out with Dean and Seamus like "Harry isn't eating breakfast today even though its all his favourite food hos stupid why sint he eating why isn't Hermione making him eat he's so annoying" and Dean and Seamus just nodding along not really listening because Ron is constantly hiding his worry for harry as complains
Then that night when Harry threw that badge at Ron, Ron was definitely asking "why do you think harry is late, he's probs practicing for the tournament how dare he do it without telling me why isn't he sleeping now he needs to sle-" till Dean threw a pillow at Ron and Seamus told him to just check on Harry himself
[harry doesn’t show up for meals] “here it goes again that stupid git forgetting to show up at meals and actually nourish his stupid body if mum was here she would spoon feed him enough he would be bursting full for a week! and hermione isn’t dragging him to the great hall because she’s nose deep in some stupid OWL preparation! i wonder if i could convince fred and george to find him and drag him to lunch? no hold on, maybe i can sneak things in his schoolbag when he’s distracted so the git actually sees them and has half the mind not to send his body into starvation mode!”
[harry isn’t in bed and it’s late at night] “WHERE is that prat oh my god seamus? dean? you just got in have you guys seen him? it’s just he left his bloody invisibility cloak here and yeah i wouldn’t want him to get caught and cost us house points! remember first year yeah? he’s always been too keen to going out at night and getting himself into trouble the idiot! oh he’s in the common room? okay good, at least he’s not wandering around… you guys think i should go check on him? yeah you’re right we are fighting… so i wait on the bed and if he isn’t here in uhm let’s say twenty minutes i go check? yes neville of course i’ll pretend i don’t care”
[harry doesn’t leave his used clothes for the elves to collect] “that arsehole has been wearing the same t-shirt and trousers for a week! does he think that just because we wear robes over those and he’s stressed he can just completely disregard his hygiene? stupid git. neville help me please get those socks from his nightstand”
[harry gets in trouble for fighting with malfoy] “here he goes picking fights with the ferret without me! yes seamus i know we are fighting but he can’t pick fights with malfoy without me! i am the one who does the physical harm malfoy thing! it’s a family thing! and he can’t go fight him when he has all those minions and he’s alone! he’s going to get himself ambushed! do you think i can hex them without like… being noticed?”
dean and seamus by the end of the week: oh my GOD just MAKE UP
harry doesn’t get why people don’t like him
Look how they massacred my boy 😢
when no one has written the exact fic to scratch a very specific emotional itch and you absolutely do not have time to write it yourself but you still want to read it dammit
this was a prompt suggested by one of my lovely patrons! because why in the heck would harry, a 90′s kid who went to public school, use a quill and ink?
go become a patron so you can suggest silly prompts for me to draw too!
Why do they have to travel in packs? And how are you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?
You will keep looking while I’m away, won’t you? And send me an owl if you find anything.
“Go on, have a pasty,” said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry’s pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) - J.K. Rowling
Seamus was bang out of order, mate. But he’ll come through. You’ll see.
And you? Are you coming or you staying? Fine, I get it.
