ronandhappiness:

headcanonsandmore:

I like to think McGonagall made sure Hogsmeade trips coincided with Valentines Day just on the off-chance that Ron and Hermione ended up going without Harry.

McGonagall definitely shipped Romione. My theory is that, she must have known that Harry would find a way to sneak into Hogsmeade. She just wanted Ron and Hermione to have some alone time.

She also made sure they had the last rounds of the night so by the time they were on duty nearly everyone was in their houses and they were mostly alone.

Very true. I think she was hoping they’d end up confessing to each-other during a prefect patrol. Unfortunately (in canon, at least) that never happened. But that’s where fanfic comes in!

What do you think about Ron being a prefect because that always pissed me off in my opinion he absolutely did not deserve it

dictacontrion:

By the time he was 15 Ron Weasley had faced down more genuinely terrifying obstacles than most adults. He had demonstrated that his loyalty would prevail even when he was scared or jealous. He had shown that he had valuable skills and knew his limits, and that he was willing to step aside and take one for the team. Why wouldn’t he deserve to be a prefect?

Even if you’re not a Ron fan, though, consider the context. In appointing prefects Dumbledore would have had several goals in mind:

Keeping a handle on Harry – no one was going to do that better than Ron, including Hermione, who both Ron and Harry sometimes disregard because she can be so by-the-book.

Making sure that Harry had the latitude to do what he needed to do – Ron was going to be understanding of that in a way no one else would have been.

Making sure that the Death Eaters didn’t get a foothold in Gryffindor – Ron would never have let that happen.

Developing the Order’s bench – Ron’s whole family was in the Order, developing his leadership skills and confidence was the safest bet going.

Creating balance in the house – Hermione might be a stickler for rules, but Ron would be a moderating influence.

Appointing prefects who could lighten adults’ loads as they focused on the war – Ron would have had important perspective on what really needed adult intervention and what students could be encouraged to work out on their own.

Appointing prefects who would stand up to each other and make sure no one abused their power – Ron definitely wouldn’t have had a problem stepping in if anyone else, especially Pansy and Draco, had tried pulling rank on younger kids, and the Slytherins would’ve realized that Ron wouldn’t have been above retaliating if they’d been tempted.

Making Ron a prefect also would’ve helped him come into his own among his siblings, given him a better understanding of power and authority (and helped reveal any lurking character issues that power might have brought out – remember how Percy changed when he became a prefect?)

And tbh, if Dumbledore saw what was coming he may have understood the virtue in giving Ron some privileges and creature comforts (for his sake and for Harry’s).

Consider the choices, too. There are only five possible Gryffindor boys prefects.

Harry was way too preoccupied and wouldn’t have benefited from additional responsibility, nor was it the best use of his energy.

Seamus had doubts about whether Voldemort’s return was real and had contributed to people second-guessing Harry, and it would’ve been risky to give him authority if that’s how he might have used it.

Neville still had his old wand and his magical strength wasn’t great yet, and he also may not have had the social authority to enforce rules, plus he had shown that he was willing to stand up to the trio and stop them from doing what they needed to do which, while brave and well-intentioned, had the potential to really get in the way of important stuff.

Dean was great and probably would’ve been a perfectly fine prefect but didn’t come with the same tactical advantages.

Any way you look at it, it’s gotta be Ron. He was the best choice going in any number of ways. Including because he had shown that he deserved it.

(P.S. – Why Pansy and Draco were the right choices too)

stuckwith-harry:

otterandterrier:

lufttsu:

Quotes from the Harry Potter Books [41/50]

For those who still think that Hermione is perfect, remember that she can be insensitive at times, too, and hurt Ron’s feelings as much as he can hurt hers.
Also, for those who think Ron is an idiot: even though Dumbledore said he didn’t make Harry a prefect only because he didn’t want to add any more responsibilities to him, his second choice was Ron. Not any of the other boys in Gryffindor, Ron.

#IMPORTANT #hermione hurt ron a lot actually #but nobody ever pays attention to that #neither one of them was perfect (theperksofshippingromione)

I personally think Dumbledore only told Harry that so as not to hurt his feelings. McGonagall’s picks were Ron and Hermione from the start, since she knew how well they worked as a team.

lytefoot:

pynki:

lytefoot:

pynki:

ronandhappiness:

likehandlingroses:

I HATE how mean the twins are about Ron being a prefect I HATE IT

I get that Mrs. Weasley can be super weird about it and they get made to feel like they aren’t good enough so they’re compensating…

but it’s not Ron’s fault. And he didn’t deserve to be treated like that by his older brothers.

Agreed. I like Fred and George but they are not the amazing gods the fandom makes them out to be.

Let’s not forget Harry and Hermione were… I don’t wanna say assholes, but assholes about it too. Even at his congratulation dinner/party thingy, the adults were being assholes. Rather than being happy for Ron they just stood around talking about how they weren’t prefects to make Harry feel better.

It’s Ron’s moment and it’s all about Harrry.

Assholes, the whole lot of them.

(I’m looking at you too Molly Weasley, with your inital doubt that it was Ron who made prefect)

I feel like the twins’ reaction stems directly from the way Molly plays favorites.

So Percy and Ginny (and Harry) are pretty clearly Molly’s favorites among the Weasley kids we see a lot. Ron and the twins have always been out, and they’ve had that in common. They made fun of Percy together when he was Prefect and then Head Boy.

But now Ron is in! In fact, he’s being pulled into Percy’s newly-emptied shoes. The twins feel deserted.

And yeah, it’s absolutely a d**k move from the twins. But they aren’t that much older than he is, and they are *definitely* established to be mean when the mood strikes them. They’re putting Ron into Percy’s shoes exactly the same way Molly is.

I don’t think the discussion of who wasn’t a prefect was necessarily directed at making Harry feel better, though it had that effect. It started with Tonks, who you’ll recall is four years out of Hogwarts at this point; it’s natural for a young adult to reminisce about their own school days with the teenagers. Heck, Sirius is four years plus 12 in Azkaban out of Hogwarts; it’s natural for him to reminisce about school, too. Nobody at dinner was particularly congratulatory to Hermione, either.

No excuse for Harry, except that OotP is Harry’s book to multiclass to b**** for a few levels. We forgive Harry for being an a**hole in OotP because he’s having a rough year. He gets half points for stopping his general b****iness for a moment and being appropriately congratulatory earlier.

Spot on about the twins and Molly’s “That’s everyone in the family” comment was a really low blow.

But I do think all that talk was done to make Harry feel better because later on doesn’t Harry overhear them wondering why it wasn’t Harry?

Yup,

“… why Dumbledore didn’t make Potter a prefect?” said Kingsley.

“He’ll have had his reasons,” replied Lupin.

“But it would’ve shown confidence in him. It’s what I’d’ve done,” persisted Kingsley,

It was Ron’s moment and they made it about Harry. It just annoys me.

With all the unwanted attention Harry’s been getting from the prophet making him perfect would add more and anyone thinking of having a go at Harry might reconsider knowing his two best friends are Prefects. It makes perfect sense, but they’re too preoccupied with “why not Harry” to realize that Dumbledore gave Harry’s unofficial bodyguards power over the other students ensuring that it wasn’t open season on Harry Potter when school started.

Ron getting the badge was already all about Harry, couldn’t they just give Ron one night out of Harry’s shadow?

Anyway, the twins get a pass, but everyone else…

Harry, Harry gets half a pass. I know I called him an asshole earlier but it’s because I always go off of my initial reaction when thinking about this scene. I wanted to strangle Harry when I first read it, I wanted to strangle him on every re-read but then DH came out and I now wonder if that little argument Harry has in his head about being “Better than Ron” is the fragment of Voldemort’s soul. It made him think stuff, stuff he was thinking anyway, but it made everything worse.

I don’t know that Ron getting the badge was really all about Harry.

I mean it is in the narrative? But that’s because Harry is the protagonist, and everything is all about Harry. Especially in OotP, when Harry is at about his most self-centered.

If Voldemort hadn’t come back exactly when he did, Harry would have gotten the badge, but that would have been about Harry being Dumbledore’s favorite, not about his particular qualities.

What about absent the whole Voldemort situation?

@hillnerd makes an excellent case elsewhere about Ron being the boy in their year best suited to be prefect. I’m just going to hit a few highlights.

* Ron has pretty good marks. Every time we hear Harry remark on his grades, he remarks on Ron’s, too, and notes with surprise that they’re both pretty good. (The only time we hear about Harry out-performing Ron is in DADA, and that’s a subject in which Harry takes a special interest.) We know Ron’s marks are overall better than Neville’s, at least.

* Ron has very rarely been in trouble. He had a couple of detentions first year, and one in second. Otherwise, his record is pretty clean.

* Ron exhibits leadership qualities. He worked with Hagrid on Buckbeak’s trial third year, and he’s often seen helping his friends and classmates study.

Admittedly, we know almost nothing about Dean and Seamus in this regard, because there isn’t much to make them stand out. But there’s no reason to suspect that, in a normal chosen one-free environment, Ron wouldn’t have been perfect.

slowburnotptrash:

I didn’t want to re read this so bad, This hurts so bad, I want to hug him so bad, I only claim Ron and Molly in this scene, the others fucked up so bad.

What’s especially upsetting is that Hermione was present during so many of the amazing things Ron did, but can’t seem to remember any of them. My poor ginger baby needs a hug…

larajaenscovey:

ron getting his prefect badge will always make me v emotional 😭😭😭 THAT’S MY BOY

I love Ron very much. I love that Ron was made Prefect because even though his brothers were Prefects, too (partially), it was still something he had for himself, something that showed him “Yes, I’m worth something”. I do find Dumbledore’s reasoning and Hermione’s reaction shitty. Ron deserved to be Prefect because he’s a really good and responsible person. I mean, “responsible” isn’t the first word that you’d associate with him but still.

hillnerd:

lytefoot:

hillnerd:

vivithefolle:

hillnerd:

headcanonsandmore:

ronaldswheezy:

just some highlights of ron’s career as a prefect:

“Ron?” said Hermione, her jaw dropping. “But … are you sure? I
mean —”
She turned red as Ron looked around at her with a defiant expression
on his face.
“It’s my name on the letter,” he said.

i love how, after not having said a word since he opened the letter, baring through all of fred and george’s teasing, his first response to hermione is to defend his position, ‘a defiant expression’ that’s right ron you earned that badge don’t let anyone make you think otherwise

“Wait until your father hears! Ron, I’m so proud of you, what wonderful
news, you could end up Head Boy just like Bill and Percy, it’s
the first step! Oh, what a thing to happen in the middle of all this
worry, I’m just thrilled, oh Ronnie —”

MOLLY IS SO PROUD OF HIM AND I CRY

“Harry noticed that Ron
kept moving his prefect’s badge around, first placing it on his bedside
table, then putting it into his jeans pocket, then taking it out and laying
it on his folded robes, as though to see the effect of the red on the
black. Only when Fred and George dropped in and offered to attach
it to his forehead with a Permanent Sticking Charm did he wrap it
tenderly in his maroon socks and lock it in his trunk.”

i love how he tries to pretend like it’s no big deal and he really couldn’t care less about it but he’s also really secretly proud and happy and HE WRAPPED THE BADGE /TENDERLY/ IN HIS SOCKS I CAN’T W THIS CHILD MY SMOL

“We’d better change,” said Hermione at last. She and Ron pinned
their prefect badges carefully to their chests. Harry saw Ron checking
how it looked in the black window.

HE’S SO CUTE I’M NOT OKSY

“Then you’re mad too,” said Seamus in disgust.

“Yeah? Well unfortunately for you, pal, I’m also a prefect!” said
Ron, jabbing himself in the chest with a finger. “So unless you want
detention, watch your mouth!”

RON USING HIS PREFECT POSITION TO STICK UP FOR HIS BFF IS MY FAVE THING ON THIS PLANET I’M A MESS like he’s been sort of ashamed this whole time bc he doesn’t want to end up like percy and he doesn’t really consider being a prefect to be a cool thing and he always shies away from giving out detentions etc, but someone insults harry and he’s all WTF DID YOU SAY TO MY BRO #FIGHTME

“I feel I owe you another explanation, Harry,” said Dumbledore
hesitantly. “You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you
as a prefect? I must confess … that I rather thought … you had
enough responsibility to be going on with.”

yeah, well, fuck you too, dumbledore

basically i love ron weasley and i love the fact that he was made prefect and i love how (after some hesitancy) he accepted the responsibility and i love how he felt like he was worth something for once and i love i love i love I LOVE

Screw you, Dumbledore- Ron deserved that prefect role.

And deserved it more than Harry.

Ron only got detention 3 times in the whole book – Ford Anglia, and twice from Snape (both times for defending people/arguing with Snape). He has never once been caught fighting, dueling, out of bed etc. Compare this to Harry, who has served more detentions than anyone else in the books.

Harry is a born rule-breaker, much more than Ron has ever been. Ron helps balance him out, knows when it’s the right time to break the rules, or the wrong time.

Ron has good grades. Harry is only able to out-do him in DADA, which even Hermione can’t do. Ron is never failing classes or all that behind, despite the amount of time he is in the hospital wing. He puts things off to the last minute, but still manages his course loads well.

Ron didn’t have extracurriculars that would make being a prefect difficult, vs Harry who did.

Ron is always defending those who deserve to be defended, more so than any of the other Gryff boys. He’s cheering Neville on all the time, even in book 1, defending Harry, Hermione, muggleborns etc. Someone who is willing to do this shows clear leadership skills, but also the compassion that makes them ideal to be a prefect.

Comparitively, Harry rushes in headfirst to save people, but also doesn’t do much to bolster people like Ron does, as he’s a bit more stoic.

Ron is always trying to report issues to an adult in charge who they trust- vs Harry wants to handle everything himself and does not trust adult authority figures.

In the end, Ron was the best candidate of the Gryffindor boys BY FAR.

Recently saw some Quorans claim that Neville should’ve been made prefect – so I’m bringing that back for reference. Bless you, Hilly. ♥

@vivithefolle Aww thanks! 😀

Okay, so Ron was clearly the best choice in their year for Prefect. Dean and Seamus didn’t have any obvious leadership qualities; Neville would have taken it the same way he did winning the house cup first year, as a joke at his expense, *and* as of the beginning of fifth year hadn’t shown any leadership qualities either; and Harry at that point was not in any way psychologically equipped for the job even if Ron’s gentle empathy weren’t a better fit for a prefect than Harry’s fierce charisma.

Why, then, did Dumbledore tell Harry he would have made him prefect? It’s important to understand the significance of that scene in Dumbledore’s office. This is, if you recall, the scene where Harry is smashing Dumbledore’s office and screaming that he doesn’t care. Sirius is dead, Harry’s just been posessed, this is the end of the road. Meanwhile, Dumbledore has had his suspicions about the horcruxes partially confirmed: he knows what Harry is going to have to do.

Harry is broken at this point, and Dumbledore has three goals in reconstructing him. First, solidify Harry’s absolute loyalty to Dumbledore; Sirius’s death paves the way for that, since Sirius was his only meaningful competition for Harry’s loyalty. Second, imbue Harry with a sense of his purpose; this is the moment when Harry becomes a weapon aimed at Voldemort’s heart. Third, and paradoxically, he has to nurture Harry’s s***ty super power. He has to make sure he doesn’t detach entirely from his love for his friends, because despite his connivance, Dumbledore really *does* care about Harry. It’s that attachment that offers the only hope of bringing Harry out the other side of the mission alive.

Everything Dumbledore says and does in this scene is aimed toward those goals. (Note that “give Harry accurate information” is not on the list.) How does what he says about Ron play into it? First, he wants to assure Harry that he really is Dumbledore’s favorite, that he hasn’t been showing favor to other people, in order to deepen Harry’s loyalty to him. In the same vein, he wants to express sympathy for the burden Harry is taking up, without in any way suggesting he might be relieved of it. “Obviously killing Voldemort is on you, why would I lay any more on you?” (This is pretty much exactly what he says.) Third, he wants to heal any rift that making Ron a prefect might have created between them. I think that here he’s not understanding Harry very well, actually; Harry is already over his resentment of Ron for making prefect. (Dumbledore may be thinking of himself on that one.)

Would Dumbledore actually have made Harry prefect if Voldemort hadn’t come back? Yeah, probably, given the way he played favorites with Harry previously. (End of first year is the most glaring example.) Does that mean Harry was the best choice? Definitely not.

Yes!! Excellent addition

harrypotterconfessions:

If I had to choose one unnecessary scene I hated it would be the one where Dumbledore tells Harry that he would have chosen Harry as a prefect instead of Ron, but didn’t because he thought Harry already had enough problems. Why I hated it? In fifth book we find out Ron become a prefect, which was very admirable and he managed to surpass Harry this time and get his 5 minutes, which isn’t always easy. But noo. Dumbledore just had to ruin it by disrespecting Ron and kissing Harry’s ass once again.

Preach. Ron Weasley was the second-choice for most of his life. Couldn’t he have ONE moment where he was the first choice?