When he was an itty bitty Ronnie he was surprisingly fond of Percy. Ron was afraid of Fred and George, and Bill and Charlie were away at Hogwarts for most of the year, so he latched onto Percy who wasn’t mean like the twins or loud like baby Ginny. Percy taught him how to play chess (with some unexpected help from the board itself) and often read the Tales Of Beedle The Bard aloud to his baby brother. When Percy went to Hogwarts, their closeness crumbled apart. Little Ron didn’t understand why his big brother spent more time with books than with him during the holidays, wondered if he’d done something to make Percy dislike him, and ending up resenting those schoolbooks for stealing his brother away. As for Percy, he was absorbed in his studies, feeling the obsessive need to make the world better by becoming Minister of Magic, and that included an outstanding resume.
With Percy gone, Ron became closer to Ginny. They got on really well, both close in age and with caring personalities. Fred and George bullied Ron still, but never bothered Ginny as much because she was the precious baby sister. Once the twins left for Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny became thick as thieves and did all the sort of stupid things a happy-go-lucky big brother and a daredevil little sister do when they have a whole house and orchard for themselves. This sibling bond was soured by the influence Tom Riddle had on Ginny during her first year. She adored her big brother so much that she spent some time writing about him in the diary, how he had helped the Boy-Who-Lived defeat You-Know-Who the year prior. Riddle managed to manipulate Ginny into feeling abandoned by her big brother who spent his time with his friends instead of her, and then twisted this into the seeds of resentment against Ron that we see bloom in Half-Blood Prince.
After the war, Ron rekindled his soured relationship with Ginny when he told her about the locket and how he’d abandoned Harry and Hermione, expecting Ginny to hex him into next Wednesday… and instead receiving a hug full of understanding and absolution. Percy was quite bewildered when Ron forgave him so fast – he had thought that as Harry Potter’s right-hand-man, Ron would have the hardest time forgiving him for turning against the Saviour. Instead he was met by a strong embrace from his not-quite-so-little-brother and plans to meet up for some quality sibling time together.
Is Ron a Taylor Swift fan? What type of music does he listen to?
I have no idea because I’ve never listened to Taylor Swift. *runs away*
I think he’d have a few old-timey Wizard tunes he scoffs at in public but is secretly fond of, and a lot of music he thinks “sounds cool”. It’s not about one particular artist, it’s a question of whether the song is enjoyable or not. He tends to favour rock songs. The variety of Muggle music never ceases to amaze him and he often finds himself whistling along as he’s working. If he made a playlist, it’d be a chaotic mess of music coming from every kind of media possible, from videogames to actual concerts.
What would Ron’s animagus be?
Sooooooo many possibilities…!
There’s obviously Ron as a lion with a beautiful ginger mane that looks like a halo of fire under the sun, truly playing the part of a Gryffindor…
Ron as a falcon, circling the battlefield from above and pondering his move like the chessmaster he is, then checkmating his opponent by diving at breakneck speed…
Ron as a swan because why the hell not? Isn’t he the best of them all, he who was thought of as nothing special, the last and lesser son, who eventually revealed his beauty after countless trials he triumphed over?
And just because I’m a sucker for angst and how much Rowling screwed him over…
As an interesting aside, ròn is the Celtic word for seal. In
Druid lore, seals represent love, longing, and dilemma. No more
appropriate totem animal could be imagined for this boy whose sense of
selfhood is undermined by his longing for love from a rejecting mother
and inadequate father, and who, like the selchie wives of folklore, is
faced with the impossible choice of being who he truly is and being
rejected, or denying the best part of himself to gain love. Ron’s
intelligence and independence threaten his insecure wife (and best
friend), just as the selchie’s identity as a seal-woman threatens her
human husband; Ron imprisons himself by hiding who he is so the Hs can
feel smart and in charge, just as the selchie’s human husband imprisons
his wife by hiding her sealskin in a trunk.
Ron as a seal, feeling so alive when he’s in the water, almost as if he were meant for this; he feels so clumsy on the ground at times, while in the water it’s like flying… carrying his children onto his back when they’re at the beach, bringing them far but not too far off the shore, so he can share this feeling of pure liberty with them, show them how colourful are all the fishes and corals, and coming back to the ground, feeling strangely lost and sad, but as he looks at his family, he feels a warmth that doesn’t exist in the great empty blueness of the sea; and he bids the ocean goodbye, until next time.
The Ron-is-the-heir-of-Merlin AU. Harry is supposed to be the next dark lord but he really doesn’t want to. Hermione is an abomination that shouldn’t be but she really just wants to use her eldritch powers to get eight Outstanding NEWTs. Ron should really be vanquishing them. “Vanquishing” is a really terrible description for what Ron is doing with them. Inspired by @vivithefolle ‘s headcanon. Featuring what I believe @ronandhappiness called “the ot3 without the notp,” Rarry and Ronmione without the Harmonie. Not nearly as silly as this description sounds, but a brand-new idea.
The Ron and Harry go on Grand Tour fic, inspired by this discussion, featuring platonic cuddling and scooby-doo style adventures, but like, backwards. “That’s not Old Man Perkins trying to steal the Spanish doubloons! It’s just an innocent ghost haunting the old fairgrounds!” This is what I call the “Harry trusts people over 30 to run the country for a year” AU
The Harry is basically Batman AU. Harry gets kicked out of the Aurors for being a loose cannon and becomes a costumed vigilante. Ron becomes Head Auror, and is basically Commissioner Gordon to Harry’s Batman. “Stop disguising your voice, Harry, we’ve been friends since we were 11, I know it’s you. And tell my sister if she’s going to join you in whatever the heck this is she should put on some pants.”
Hmm, I think he and his family are Merlin’s descendants. Yep. They definitely are.
If someone spiked Ron’s pumpkin juice with Veritaserum and asked him to
pick between Harry or Hermione, who would he pick? Who does he love the
most?
I think he wouldn’t be able to pick, haha! He loves them both so much!
“Hermarry.
Harrymione. Harmiarryone. Herharmyne.”
They’re both his soulmates… in different ways.
If you could meet Ron Weasley and tell him anything, what would it be?
“Marry me.”
or
“You’re the one I read those books for.”
or most probably
“*incoherent delighted screaming*”
Okay, I actually legit love “The Weasleys are descended from Merlin.”
The Potters are descended from the Peverells, which makes Harry uniquely suited to wield the Hallows, do all this shadowy dark magic stuff. The Potters spent generations mucking about with hair potions to keep themselves out of trouble, with their affinity for the Dark Arts.
Whereas Merlin, for all the dumb s*** with people’s sex lives, was fundamentally a Good magician. Ron balances out Harry’s affinity for the dark arts. The key difference between Harry and a Snape or a Riddle is having a Ron, this is absolutely clear. It was Ron’s destiny to meet Harry on the train so they could team up together and wreck s***.
(Technically, it was his destiny to meet up with Harry on the train and become his nemesis, but they decided to be besties instead because Molly and Arthur raised Ron to be basically a sweetheart.)
And Hermione, as the muggle-born, is entirely sui generis, coming from nothing and entirely unpredictable. Her presence in the mix means the patterns of history don’t have to play out the way they have before. You could even have some of the completely bonkers bulls*** she pulls in books 5 and 6 point to an instability that comes from having all that magic bursting at her seams without the proper background.
You could run with that into a really cool powerful!Trio AU and make serious havoc.
Totally here for the ‘Ron is a descendent of Merlin’ AU idea.
Getting involved with muggles had been a mistake. Salazar had a point, though he made it poorly. The problem was that muggles produced heroes. Muggles disrupted the Balance.
Magic needs balance. The rise and defeat of the Dark Lord is a cycle as old as the seasons. But muggles have no respect for fate.
The first mistake was when Merope Gaunt took that muggle. The Gaunt line was due to produce a Dark Lord, but her son had his father’s face and a touch of his father’s destiny. Young Tom learned things about power, growing up in a muggle orphanage, that a Dark Lord should never know. As a young man, he looked deeply into his lineage, and he learned where else he could find power.
The second mistake was when James Potter, the scion of the Peverell like, which hadn’t spawned a dark lord in generations, married that muggle-born. Lily Evans was brave and passionate–she had the soul of a hero, and was untouched by destiny. And so when the Dark Lord came for her son, she sacrificed herself, left a mark on Harry’s power that not even Dumbledore would fully understand.
The third mistake was when Arthur Weasley, the seventh son of the seventh son, heir to Merlin’s legacy, came too close to the muggle world. He admired them. He loved them. He sacrificed his family’s reputation for them. And his seventh son was a daughter.
The fourth mistake was Arthur Weasley’s heir. Not the girl–she was her mother’s pet, but she wasn’t a son of Merlin. So the sixth son of the seventh son should have been raised as a champion. He shouldn’t have been the child who brought home baby birds that fell from the nest and nursed them, or the boy whose brothers found him an easy butt of jokes. He shouldn’t have been the boy who met the next dark lord on the Hogwarts Express, saw a lonely soul, and showed him what love was.
The fifth mistake was when Merlin’s heir and the next Dark Lord saved the muggle-born prodigy from a troll, and made her one of their company. It was bad enough the two of them were thick of thieves. Throwing a muggle without a destiny into the mix could only spell disaster.
It was only the tenacity of the last Dark Lord that kept the world on an even keel for so long. With a piece of Voldemort’s soul keeping Harry’s power in check, and the quest to defeat him holding Hermione’s attention, and Ron’s strength turned against a Dark Lord at least, the balance maintained itself well enough.
Voldemort had been dead for nearly a year when all hell broke loose.
Ron’s skills should have included ‘tactics’, ‘emotional support’ and ‘knowledge of the minute details of the wizarding world’. Also, why is ‘eating sweets’ in his hobbies section?
And, while I’m here, Hermione’s skills do not extent to ‘almost everything’. Sure, she may be academic, but she’s rubbish at flying, emotional magic (not to mention being emotionally sensitive), the patronus charm, and inter-personal skills. Just being she’s smart doesn’t mean she’s good at almost everything.
I swear, Joanne, there’s only some much of this I can take…
(No offence to the OP, of course; this is a great post aside from that. Love the artwork)
Eeeeh, I dunno… Maybe a matching one with Harry on a dare/bet, but I don’t see him having many tattoos. He might get the ever-popular lion, a dragon, a gryffin or a phoenix… or even a Pygmy Puff as a private joke! But I can imagine Hermione begging him to get it on an un-freckled part of his body, because she has the habit to kiss his every freckle when they’re having a lazy morning and she doesn’t want to miss one because it’s hidden under some tattoo.
How do you think Ron would react at how the HP fandom treats him?
Okay, I’m an utter goner for Ron Weasley/low self-esteem and angsty fluff so… this is me being totally self-indulgent.
He shrugs off the first few hateful posts and fanfics bashing him, knowing after all this time that he can’t damn well please everyone. He keeps scrolling as the list keeps getting longer and longer, and surely those can’t all come from the same people, right…? As he keeps looking, he still scoffs at the “fans” who claim he was being paid by Dumbledore or that he drugged Hermione with love potions, but he sees some people criticizing him from making Hermione cry, and leaving the Horcrux Hunt, and cherry-picking his less stellar moments as reasons to hate him, and he can’t help but think they have a point, that he really was an arse, but he changed, he did… And that bloody list, it keeps on going and going and going…
And no matter how well-hidden they are now, no matter how much balm he put on them, they’re still here, those self-doubting tendencies of him, they’re still there, those underlying insecurities – maybe they’re not about whether Mum or Hermione love him anymore, but they have changed and turned into different ones. Whether he’s a good boyfriend/husband/father. Whether he’s supportive enough. Whether he’s making his family happy enough.
And as he reads, as he watches, he starts wondering – doubting – about what he’s really accomplished. Did he truly did things that mattered? Yes, he’s saved Harry at times, but so would have most people, wouldn’t they? Yes, he was a real prat to Hermione, but now it’s all past them, isn’t it? Did he really change that much or did his friends just… got used to him being an arse?
And most of all, if so many people can believe this is who he is, can believe he’s such an ugly and vile person, does that mean he really is one…? That he just didn’t notice how awful he is, because he dared to assume that he’d built something good out of his life?
And Hermione finds him in tears on the couch, thinking and thinking and thinking too much, his fantastic strategic mind turning against itself and striking right where it hurts, right where he doubts most, weaving a web of self-loathing out of which it is so hard to escape, because Ron is merciless on a chessboard and merciless against himself.
Hermione may be rubbish at chess but if there’s something she excels at, it’s presenting the facts, and steamrolling over ignorance. So she does just that.
She wipes away his tears, she cuddles with him, she tells him what she thinks, she reminds him of how harsh they BOTH were to each other and how she was so afraid to look like one of those “normal schoolgirls” that she refused to take a chance, how she was too hard on him and how she should have encouraged him instead of tearing him down. That she and Harry couldn’t have asked for a better friend – speaking of Harry she’s going to Floo him and bring him over so he can tell Ron how much he loves him – and that he’s always been there for them, watching and worrying from afar during the petty squabbles of teenagehood.
It’s a long time of cuddles and shared secrets, of Harry admitting to being jealous of Ron over something as silly as a prefect’s badge, of Hermione calling herself daft for waiting til a war to make a move when Ron’s crush on her was visible from space, and Ron arguing and defending them from themselves…
They eventually come to the conclusion that, really, in the end they’re all pretty rubbish at this friendship thing, and it’s a good thing they had some backup or else nobody would have made it.
To which Ron replies that it’s unfair, that they were teenagers, that he’s forgiven them, that of course they’re not perfect and he doesn’t expect them to be because they’re human, and they should just stop being so hard on themselves already, and that nobody knows them like he does so of course he’s right…
And as Hermione smiles at him, Ron realizes what he’s saying and chuckles softly.
They end up snuggling together in the bed – Harry’s sent Ginny a Patronus to tell her he’s having a sleepover – Ron in the middle, feeling warm and safe, and he drifts off to sleep easily, comforted by his best friends’ presence. As soon as he’s asleep, Harry and Hermione share a dark look… tomorrow, from their respective laptops, they’re going to start a war.
3. What are your top 5 headcanons for Ron Weasley?
Ron is the best dad ever.
Ron proposed to Hermione before they left for Australia. He didn’t even have time to buy a ring, because he was afraid that if put it off even for an obviously good reason, he’d put it off forever. He had to make sure he was right about how she felt and she knew how he felt. Proposing to Hermione was the scariest thing he ever did.
Later in his career, Ron is only called in by the Aurors when excrement is very close to rotary blades. Whenever he walks in, someone (Dean Thomas) (it’s definitely Dean Thomas) always starts whistling “Weasley Is Our King.” [Weasley can save anything…]
Ron plays wizard and muggle chess at the international level, and holds Grandmaster rank in both organizations. Chess tournaments are the one place that Ron is the member of the trio most likely to be recognized. Harry loves to go to them with him.
In universes where Ron has left the Aurors to work with George/be a full-time dad/write smutty romance novels, Harry and Hermione give zero f***s about Ron’s lack of security clearance.
10. How do you think Ron would react if he meets Movie!Ron, Musical!Ron, and CC!Ron?
Musical!Ron I think Ron would like. He’s a little doofy, but he’s basically a good guy, loves Harry, loves Hermione, comes through in a pinch. Musical!Ron is a parody, but a loving one.
Movie!Ron, I think Ron would tell off for being such a lump most of the time. (How could you agree with Snape when he dissed Hermione? How could you just stand there and let Harry walk off to die?)
CC!Ron I can’t really comment on, CC is kind of impenetrable to me (I know the gist, but I kind of Can’t with either the script format or live theater, so…), but I don’t think Ron would be well pleased by the love potion bit.
15. What’s an aspect of Ron’s character that you think people should discuss more?
One of the things I love about Ron is the level of contradiction in his character. He’s a big guy who likes sports and is always 100% down to punch bigots in the face, but he’s also nurturing and sweet and wears his heart on his sleeve. He’s intelligent, but he isn’t interested in academics. He’s insecure and sometimes jealous, but he presents a confident face and is genuinely proud of people close to him. I wish we talked more about of his duality rather than focusing on one side or the other.
I kinda imagine book!Ron would end up giving film!Ron a hug as the poor guy cried into his shoulder about how sorry he was….
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