okay but instead of harry & ron asking the patil twins to the yule ball they go with each other
they’re dancing pretty goofily during most of the ball & even talking with hermione & viktor a little & suddenly the champions have to dance, right?
it’s a slow song. one about love & friendship. well ron starts leading harry in the dance & things get a little awkward because it wasn’t like before when they were a few feet apart. they’re up really close now.
but it doesn’t really feel all that weird to ron. harry’s his best mate & it feels right to dance with him like this. & then it hits him. maybe he doesn’t really see harry as his best mate at all. maybe harry is meant to be something more than that.
so he leans in and gives harry a gentle kiss.
ron thinks harry is gonna push him away but he doesn’t. harry just wraps his arms around ron and kisses him back.
and that’s how ron became harry’s first love.
(sorry if it’s not too good, i’m not much of a writer)
That was brilliant, @whatifdestiel! Thank you so much for submitting! Loved it all!
Not gonna lie, though; I can’t help but wonder what Hermione’s reaction would have been. Jealousy, tears, setting a flock of birds on Harry?..
i might have to come up with something for how hermione reacts when she finds out that ron & harry were together. i personally think she’d be jealous but at the same time understand because “same harry! ron is way too amazing for his own good! it’s a wonder he doesn’t have a line of people waiting to date him!”
“because they know how you get when you are jealous hermione! they’d never dare touch ron with you around! you’d kill them!”
I’d like to think that it would turn out that way.
So I wanna talk about this, because it requires a really delicate touch. “What happens with Hermione” is a big challenge when writing Rarry, because it touches on three things that are really important to me in fic.
Most generally, it’s important that characters be entitled to totally justified feelings. In particular, if Ron and Hermione are already together, Hermione is absolutely entitled to be absolutely furious if Ron leaves her for Harry. I read a fic recently that did that really, really well. (She… didn’t actually try to kill them, which made her much more sympathetic.) She had justified angry feelings, but moved past them, and her friendship recovered. Which brings me to the second important thing.
Unless that’s the whole point of your fic, I feel like it’s super important not to break up the Golden Trio. Like, the trio’s love for one another is one of the core things that’s good about Harry Potter to me. Just like you shouldn’t make Ron a useless jerk-off to make Harmonie happen, you shouldn’t make Hermione an evil harpy to make Rarry happen. Furthermore, in the same way you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Hermione being together breaks Ron’s heart, you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Ron being together breaks Hermione’s heart. It’s just mean.
And that brings me to the third thing that’s kind of a big deal here–it’s never okay to bash a character for getting in the way of your ship. Because of the history of fanfic, it’s especially important not to bash a female character for getting in the way of a M/M ship. It’s important even when the female character is a cardboard cutout love interest created to highlight the male character’s heterosexuality; it’s even more important with a female character as important and well-developed as Hermione.
So… how is Hermione likely to react to Ron and Harry getting together before Ron and Hermione have articulated their feelings for one another? I don’t think she would react nearly as negatively as she did with Lavender, for a couple of reasons. First, Lavender is someone Hermione actively dislikes, and is an example of a kind of performative femininity that Hermione despises. Hermione is actively insulted when (in her perception) Ron chooses someone like Lavender over her, because Hermione feels very strongly that Lavender’s life choices are inferior to her own. On the other hand, Harry is someone she likes and admires; she knows what someone might see in him, even if she doesn’t. And second, Harry’s a boy. Hermione is very likely to see Ron and Harry getting together as less a “doesn’t like me” thing and more a “doesn’t like girls” thing. (It was the 90s. As someone who was a bi teenager in the 90s, that really wasn’t on the menu, especially for guys. Bi guys were gay but trying to hide it, bi girls were straight but trying to be cool. You still get this kind of biphobic narrative, but it was nearly universal back then. A teenage girl whose crush got a boyfriend would not be thinking “well maybe he’s bi,” she’d he thinking, “he’s gay and I never had a chance.”)
The right analogy for Hermione’s reaction might be, imagine you baked someone a cake and they wouldn’t eat it. You’d be a little annoyed if they picked a well-cooked steak instead, but the steak is still good, and it looks like they just didn’t want dessert. On the other hand, you’d be completely furious if they turned down your cake in favor of a twinkie.
Reblogging for @lytefoot’s (as usual) incredible and spot-on commentary
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