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accio-shitpost:

ron weasley is better at magic than harry potter when his wand is snapped, like how did harry even survive to second year

Well, Harry had Ron and Hermione to help him. But Ron is ridiculously powerful (he uses an highly powerful charm on that heavy trolls club, he breaks Gamps Law of Elemental Transfiguration in their second year, and later breaks Hogwarts magic wards when he makes it snow in the great hall due to his guilty-about-making-Lavender-upset mood). 

kingronw:

one of my fav ron moments is when he apparates to the Forest of Dean, saves Harry Potter from drowning, pulls out the sword of Gryffindor from a frozen lake, destroys an extremely powerful horcrux, returns to the trio’s tent with multiple wands he single-handedly took from a gang of snatchers, and later shares precious information regarding the state of the wizarding world with Harry and Hermione (like he’s been doing regularly since he was 11 years old.) but sure, go ahead, rant about he wasn’t ‘valuable’, as if he wasn’t the reason the trio had any idea what was going on for like 100% of the series, considering he was the only one of the three who was brought up as a wizard. :))))

Can you list the Ron moments that the movie missed our changed?… or maybe give a link to a post which already has the list.

ronweasleydefensesquad:

Okay, this is going to be done from memory so bear with me. 

Philosopher’s Stone

  • Ron offering to share his food with Harry from the moment they meet.
  • Ron teaching Harry how to play wizard’s chess (this is kind of in the film but not explicitly so I thought I’d include it.)
  • Staying over Christmas with Harry and trying to cheer him up after the mirror incidents (I think they did film a part of this but it was a deleted scene for some reason ??? why ???)
  • RON BEING THE CALM ONE DURING THE DEVIL’S SNARE SCENE NOT HERMIONE (’But there’s no wood!’ ‘Are you a witch or not?’)

Chamber of Secrets

  • Constantly defending Harry from Draco
  • The scene where Draco calls Hermione a mudblood and it was actually Ron who new what the term meant and explained it, not Hermione
  • Visiting Hermione in the hospital wing after she turns herself into a cat and bringing her all her homework that she missed
  • Ron going into a freaking forest full of spiders and tackling his biggest fear. Even though he was shaking the entire time and is so terrified he can’t even speak by the end of it and actually /throws up/ afterwards, he still went and did it because it needed to be done and he wasn’t about to let Harry go alone. (Okay so this was in the films but I really don’t think they actually captured the gravity of it, instead choosing to turn Ron into comic relief… Again.)
  • Being the one to go to the hospital wing so that Hermione will have someone with her so she’s not alone and to explain what happened when she wakes up

Prisoner of Azkaban

  • Actually being really concerned about Scabbers’ health and buying the rat tonic for him
  • Actual background to the Crooksanks v Scabbers business instead of just villainising Ron for the sake of making Hermione seem better
  • When he was literally woken up by Sirius holding a knife over his bed, who, as far as anyone knew then, was a mass murderer??? Why isn’t this talked about more ??
  • ‘YOU ASKED A QUESTION AND SHE KNOWS THE ANSWER, WHY ASK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE TOLD?’ 
  • Noticing Hermione’s weird af schedule and being the only one to aCTUALLY CARE about where she was going and what she was doing
  • Literally fucking pushing Harry out of the way when they see Sirius in dog form (who they think is The Grim) and consequently getting a broken leg + dragged by his arm into the Whomping Willow
  • Awkwardly patting Hermione on the head after she apologises, instead of that weird hug thing they share in the films
  • Taking on Buckbeak’s appeal and dedicating so much time and effort into his case. Call this boy lazy or apathetic again I dare you.
  • Standing up on a BROKEN LEG to tell Sirius, who, again, was thought to be a MASS MURDERER, that ‘If you want to kill Harry you’ll have to kill us too!’ whilst Hermione stood frozen in the corner
  • Making peace with Crookshanks at the end of the book by holding Pigwidgeon up for him to check that he isn’t evil (I love Ron so much)

Goblet of Fire

  • ‘We’ll pick you up on Sunday if you can come, and we’ll still pick you up on Sunday if you can’t’ (or something like that) when talking about the quidditch world cup
  • The background and reasoning behind the big fight with Harry (+the later argument they had where Harry threw the badge @ his head.)
  • The actual insecurity Ron suffered because of the dress robes, not just the comic relief side of it.
  • Helping Harry practice for the second and third tasks practically 24/7 (including letting Harry practice stunning on him!!! #dedication)
  • Getting Krum to sign his autograph + basically all of hIS HUGE CRUSH ON KRUM JFC
  • Just generally being there for Harry after Cedric even when Harry pushes him away

Order of the Phoenix

  • Again, just generally being there for Harry even when Harry is being an ass to him (+ the part where Ron desperately wants to tell him what’s going on but Hermione + all the adults insists that they can’t)
  • RON WEASLEY BECOMING A MOTHERFUCKING PREFECT
  • The year of quidditch which, although being an essential part of the book with the whole Umbridge arc, is not even MENTIONED in the film. Literally, it’s one of the only films that doesn’t feature quidditch yet it’s the book where I’d consider quidditch to be the most important.
  • Anyway, yes, quidditch. Ron getting a new broom and sneaking out to practice so he can try out for the team
  • HERMIONE KISSING HIM ON THE CHEEK FOR LUCK. I SCREAM.
  • Ron making it on the team and having very very very little confidence so he’s… quite terrible the first few matches.
  • The awful ‘Weasley is Our King’ song that Malfoy made and the Slytherins take to singing at. Every. Single. Match.
  • Ron gaining his confidence and destroying the other team at quidditch, during which, neither Harry or Hermione were actually there to witness it. And Ron is so happy and proud but when Harry and Hermione start talking about Grawp, instead of being petty and angry at them, he listens intently and tries to help
  • Always backing up Harry when Hermione is being slightly insufferable towards him and not really understanding of his needs. (e.g when she’s pressuring him to do better at occlumency and Ron tells her to back off)
  • The whole arc where Arthur gets injured and all the Weasleys are sat around the kitchen at Grimmauld place waiting for news + the parts in St Mungos (this was in the film a little but they really didn’t go into the effect it had on the Weasleys. Especially Ron and Ginny)
  • The miraculous plan they all come up with to get Harry into Umbridge’s office (which, admittedly, backfires, but hey. At least they tries) during which Ron plays a pivotal role, not just a struggling character in the background
  • Everything to do with the ministry tbh ??? From battling death eaters to the spell that makes him delirious to the brain almost suffocating him
  • Staying in the hospital wing with Hermione for the rest of the year and the scars all down his arms from where the brain attacked him

Half Blood Prince

  • When Hermione is talking about why girls find Harry attractive and Ron is all like ‘Look at me Hermione! I’m tall too! I have scars too!” 
  • Backing up Harry when he answers Snape’s question about inferi compared to ghosts (”Well what Harry said was the most useful! If I’m going to face an inferi I’m going to be looking for if it’s transparent not asking ‘excuse me are you the imprint of a departed soul?’” or something similar. Get wrecked Snape.)
  • All of the quidditch moments in this book are golden.
  • That moment where Hermione super awkwardly asks Ron to Slughorn’s party and Harry is just in the background like,,, what an interesting plant
  • Ginny antagonising Ron about never having kissed anyone and the subsequent Lavender disaster that followed
  • Everything to do with Lavender tbh. Like, their whole relationship, not just the comic version in the movies
  • Ron’s getting poisoned actually being a really serious thing and all his family showing up at the hospital wing
  • Pretending to be asleep when Lavender comes to visit (Ron Weasley how dare you, your mother raised you better than this)
  • Okay, I really want to make a separate post about this but the whole Luna/Ron friendship in this one is gold
  • I feel like we as a fandom collectively forget this one but Ron and the rest of the DA fighting the death eaters with felix felicis whilst Harry is up the astronomy tower with Dumbledore
  • Holding Hermione at Dumbledore’s funeral ???? Honestly that’s all I need in life
  • RON ‘WE’RE WITH YOU WHATEVER HAPPENS’ WEASLEY VOWING TO ALWAYS BE AT HARRY’S SIDE INSTEAD OF SITTING IN THE BACKGROUND LIKE A STALE POTATO WHILST HARRY AND HERMIONE PLAN

Deathly Hallows

  • Giving Harry the how to charm witches book and actively trying to start a relationship with Hermione
  • Comforting Hermione when she’s upset and not being awkward about it !!!! Character development (I’m seeing a parallel to the head pat in PoA, anyone else?)
  • Standing up to the Minister of Magic at the age of seventeen like. Honestly Ron Weasley is such a badass I love him
  • Literally giving up a life of comfort and security to go and live as a fugitive in order to help Harry
  • Pushing Hermione the fuck out of the way when they’re found by Death Eaters near Charlesbury !!! Like, this boy is so brave and self-sacrificing I’m going to cry
  • Falling asleep holding hands with Hermione @ Grimmauld place
  • The severity of his splinching after the ministry debacle
  • The very real concern for his sister and Harry + Hermione’s apparent apathy that triggers the fight between him and Harry, not some motive entirely brought about by jealousy as the movies suggest
  • Okay, not Ron, but the movies really didn’t capture just how unable Harry and Hermione became without him. They didn’t talk to each other, they didn’t communicate in any way for like 95% of his absence. They were literally unable to function without him I’m so sad.
  • Saving Harry’s life and, importantly, the conversation they had afterwards where Harry reassured him that his insecurities were unfounded. And the hug. Where was my hug,Yates? Where was it?
  • Ron once again assuming his role as the heart of the trio; making Harry laugh, keeping the spirits up, getting them to function again.
  • Malfoy Manor. Just. Malfoy Manor. “NO YOU CAN HAVE ME, TAKE ME!” “HERMIONE! HERMIONE!” Literally being so distressed and worried for Hermione that he OFFERED UP HIS OWN LIFE FOR HERS AND LOST THE ABILITY TO THINK RATIONALLY. CAn we just. 
  • Even despite the mental anguish he’s going through, Ron still manages to come up with a solution for where Dobby should take them
  • Again, despite everything that’s happening around him, Ron does a near perfect imitation of Wormtail’s voice
  • Disarming Bellatrix fucking Lestrange
  • Managing to successfully apparate for the first time ever in a very high pressure situation in order to get Hermione to safety
  • Taking his shoes and socks off to lay on Dobby’s grave
  • Going back to Hogwarts and the reunion with the rest of his family; including Percy, which I really missed from the books
  • Literally like everything that happened during the battle of Hogwarts but especially:
  • “We’ve forgotten someone!” “Who?” “The house elves!” Like, guys, this is such a significant moment for his character and I understand completely why Hermione chooses this moment to kiss him 
  • How wrecked he was after Fred’s death. Like, in the books Ron is actually there to witness it. He sees his brother die. I am Not okay.
  • Hermione having to physically restrain him because he wants to go and get revenge for Fred
  • Ron punching Draco in his slimy little face “And that’s the second time we’ve saved your life tonight you two-faced bastard!”
  • Offering to be the one to go to the shrieking shack ?? ALone ?? He says something like ‘Harry you can’t go un case they see you, wait here with Hermione, and I’ll take the cloak and-” when they all know it could be a suicide mission. I’m.
  • BREAKING VOLDEMORT’S SILENCING SPELL
  • I’m sorry let me just re-iterate: RONALD WEASLEY BROKE A SILENCING SPELL MADE BY ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WIZARDS TO EVER EXIST
  • Taking out Fenrir Greyback with Neville
  • Being the first to reach Harry after he defeated Voldemort, along with Hermione
  • Just the part where the trio go to Dumbledore’s office because I just. That’s such a nice and well rounded ending I’m going to cry
  • In the epilogue, practically everything about Ron is great but especially: “Don’t worry, it’s me, I’m famous”

In Conclusion

  • I love Ron Weasley so much
  • The films do not do him justice

– Admin Kat

(Feel free to reblog this with anything I’ve missed!)

vivithefolle:

headcanonsandmore:

lytefoot:

headcanonsandmore:

The fandom perception that Ron only passed his Hogwarts classes due to Hermione is messed-up. 

Ron has almost exactly the same grades as Harry throughout the entire series (aside from DATDA), and he was passed all but two of his O.W.Ls with decent marks. Realistically speaking, the only class Ron (and Harry) had difficulty taking notes for was History of Magic, and even then Hermione is literally the only person in their year group able to stay focused during Binn’s classes. 

Ron and Harry are both typical teenagers who dislike school-work, but still work hard when it comes to the crunch. Implying that they both only passed their exams due to Hermione is doing them an injustice. Yes, she did help them out occasionally (she is their friend, after all), but she didn’t take their exams for them. 

I swear, if I see one more post about Hermione gloating over Ron’s supposed lack of academic skill, I swear to Merlin…

Right? Like, Hermione does help them, of course she does. And Harry and Ron both occasionally express the sentiment that they would never pass without her… but they’re expressing gratitude for her help, not describing reality.

Do they both get better marks for Hermione helping them study? Yeah, probably. As in, they both learn more because they study with Hermione, whose company keeps them engaged when they might have done something else if left to their own devices. Sure. In Hermione’s absence, I’d honestly expect that to be more of a problem for Harry than for Ron, simply because Harry has less incentive to get good grades than Ron does.

(I actually don’t like the assumption that Ron and Harry’s marks were identical outside Harry’s Defense score. We know they’re on par, and can make certain inferences about Ron’s OWL scores, but there’s nothing to exclude Ron having, e.g., passed History but failed Astronomy. I like to think there were little differences like that.)

Exactly. Yes, Hermione does help them out, which does help their chances, but she’s hardly the sole reason for them both passing their classes. 

Ron definitely has more incentive to work harder than Harry does. Harry doesn’t really have to worry about the Dursley’s reactions to his grades, but Ron has to deal with the expectations of being a Weasley. All of his siblings (bar Fred and George) achieved higher-than-average grades. Ron finds it difficult to stand out from his brothers, but he also doesn’t want to disappoint his parents with bad grades. Surely this would have impacted on his grades at least a little. But no; he still gets almost exactly the same grades as Harry. It’s baffling. 

I remember, earlier today, I saw an artwork where Hermione basically implied that Ron couldn’t pass his classes without her. It really infuriates me just how many in the fandom have taken on the ‘Hermione is brilliant at everything and the only reason anyone did anything good in the HP series’ attitude. 

Y’all….Hermione wasn’t (and isn’t) perfect. She may be academically smart, but there’s only so much you can do with that. Hermione said it herself in PS/SS; there are more important things. 

I also find it annoying how Ron and Harry got the exact same scores except for Harry’s higher grade in DATDA. I mean, Harry passed out during the History of Magic exam, and yet he still gets the same grade as Ron (who sat the whole thing). Ron’s no slouch when it comes to studying, and he has the advantage of having grown up in the wizarding world (meaning he would have known little trivia bits that Harry wouldn’t have). Why did he fail as well? He was even using the same notes that Hermione was using to revise. It really confuses me. 

Considering his powerful non-verbal magic (often involving Charms and Transfiguration), you’d think Ron would excel in those subjects. Also, wouldn’t it have been awesome if Ron had (just once) gotten a higher grade than Hermione in a subject? Would that be too much to ask? 

I’m just gonna quote one of my old posts –

In
OoTP, when the OWLs revisions begin, there’s a quick sentence that
mentions Ron repeating two years’ worth of Charms notes to himself –
where do these notes come from? Hermione? She’s already locked herself
up in the library. Well it’s probably HIS notes – stop thinking of Ron
as this incompetent idiot who’s inept at magic! If anything he’s
the most magically gifted of the three – the class genius levitates a
feather with a charm and gets it twenty centimeters in the air, a few
hours later this “average” kid makes a troll’s club fly up over four meters? Casts a successful nonverbal curse with a broken wand that didn’t even belong to him at age twelve? Makes it snow inside Hogwarts, again nonverbally, simply by feeling guilty about the way he’s treated Lavender Brown?! Feels
the Taboo on Voldemort’s name while his two friends remain blissfully
unaware – and worse, give him grief over his “fear of the name”?! BREAKS
FREAKING VOLDEMORT’S SILENCING CHARM WITHOUT EVEN USING
COUNTER-CURSES?!! Damn, it’s all here in the text, people!

Why
couldn’t we have Hermione make a few more magical screw-ups like with
the Polyjuice Potion in second year? A reminder that even if she is
knowledgeable, dilligent and confident, she’s just as stupidly human as
the rest of us? I mean, she was so much better in the first three books –
bossy and treating other like babies but opening herself and
discovering that friendship is more valuable than books and cleverness
sometimes; turning herself into a cat by accident even though her potion
was technically perfect; QUITTING A CLASS because she couldn’t bear to
not be the best at something (maturity my ass)?

Why
did Harry necessarily need the Prince’s book to beat her at something
other than DADA? Why couldn’t we have a mention of Ron’s Patronus in
Dumbledore’s Army when Harry described them? Why did we only get
Hermione’s and Cho’s? Why did Ron have the exact same results as Harry
on his OWLs, only with one grade lower? Would it really have killed JKR
to think of a couple different grades to assign him and to show us he
has different qualities? It’s like she forgot about her own character
and so hastily said “oh yeah he has the same results as Harry without
Os”, thereby giving Ron yet another hand-me-down!

Seriously,
everyone has bad days sometimes – why couldn’t we have Hermione being
horrified at getting a Poor in an essay for McGonagall because she went
off-topic? Why couldn’t we have Ron getting an Outstanding and staring
blankly ahead because “how did I do that, I’m not the clever one”?

But
nooooo, it’s Hermione Granger the author’s darling and so she can do no
wrong, and even when the books present quarrels where both Ron and her
have valid points, fans tend to side with Hermione because we’ve been
practically trained to see Hermione as “the girl who’s always right”.

harrypottermovieproblems:

I feel we should give some awards to the Harry Potter movie directors. 

Chris Columbus gets the “You Tried” award. 

Alfanso Cuaron gets the “Did You Try?” award. 

Mike Newell gets the “You Didn’t Try, Did You?” award. 

And David Yates gets the “You Didn’t Even Try” award.

(v ia darthlordrevoldemort)

Hmm….

@ronandhappiness added 

#steve kloves should get the ‘you shouldn’t have tried’ award 

#not a director but still

PREACH.