Coworkers re-ignighted my HP flame months ago and every now and then I get a hankering for a good fic or art or pretty much anything. Also, the new movie coming out pretty much threw fuel on that fire.
ron: you can practise your stunning spells on me, mate
harry: i can’t, mate
ron: why not, mate?
harry: because you’re already stunning, mate
ron: mate
hermione:…
Hermione: Harry, do you fancy Ron?
Harry: Oh, not this again! You mentally classify your best mate as ‘the person you would miss most’ and no-one ever lets you forget it…
that ron bravado™️ being exuded by rupert in last gif is one of the few times we see that side of ron within the movies and I need more right this instant
AU in which Ron has to get the last, most ragged secondhand copy of Advanced Potion Making from Flourish and Blott’s (typical, why is everything he owns such rubbish), but then it’s Snape’s copy and Ron gets to be the potions prodigy for the year.
I need this au ASAP
Ron letting Harry copy off him because Ron is a sweetie and sharing is caring
Ron telling Hermione that she’s welcome to read the book too if she’s so angry about him “cheating”
Ron contemplating using the Felix Felicis he’s won the night of Slughorn’s Party because he’s so goddamn scared about his date with Hermione, he’s so sure he’s going to mess it all up
Ron testing Sectumsempra on a piece of parchment and when it leaves a deep indentation in the table he says “ok you know what we’re not gonna use that spell”
Ron hesitating between keeping the book and burning it once he learns that Snape is the one who wrote in it (he keeps it because he figures out that using Snape’s methods against their creator and the Death Eaters is the greatest karmic justice ever)
YES! ALL THE YES TO THIS AU!
Colin: So, Ginny, pardon my confusion, but…are Harry and Ron a couple?
Ginny: What? No; they’re best mates! I’m the Weasley who’s dating Harry!
Colin: Really?
Ginny: Why is this so difficult to believe?
Colin: (points to Harry and Ron nearby)
Harry: (has his head in Ron’s lap)
Ron: (stoking Harry’s hair while they talk)
Ginny: …
Ginny: (to Colin) Okay, you might have a point…
I don’t get why Lavender Brown gets so much hate i mean i get that she is annoying and also kind of sexually aggressive but aren’t all teenage girls? I mean all she really did in the series was have a boyfriend
In fact i kind of like her she’s sassy and she says what she thinks of the girl is hilarious too.
“FRieNDs?! Oh don’t make me laugh!”
also she loves divination and she’s proud of it and she fought in the battle of Hogwarts what more do you want from the girl
Also, there’s nothing wrong with Lavender being “sexually aggressive.” (What does that even mean? Sorry, I’m dumb.) And she’s not exactly annoying if you think about it. Sure, she enjoyed giggling, had a crush on a teacher, was looking forward to the Yule Ball, wanted a boyfriend, and started becoming possessive of said boyfriend when he started getting attention from another girl. But wait…that sounds a lot like Hermione! (Also, she started being suspicious of Hermione when she attacked Ron. Even I wouldn’t be happy if my boyfriend started spending time with a girl who attacked him.)
Ron Weasley would feel very sad and guilty, if he found out about how his fans treat his ex-girlfriend. There’s nothing wrong with Lavender Brown. She may not be Miss Brightest Witch of Her Age or Miss Badass or Miss Quirky, and I’m totally okay with that.
Yep. Everything I’ve been saying. We’re supposed to hate her simply because she is a teenage girl. Bah! One of those silly things! How dare they exist?
And if any of us were a teenage girl, or even teenage boy, we’ve probably done all these things: laugh during class, have dramatic crushes, be a little socially unaware of our pda (which, it’s not often that teenagers have a private place to do such things, which is probably why it ends up happening in public), have a favorite subject that others may not enjoy, have a crush on a teacher etc.
Ron and Harry did most of those things too. They laughed during class. Ron had a crush on Madam Rosmerta. Harry had a crush on Cho and Ginny (and possibly Cedric if we count the number of times he calls him handsome). Ron had a crush on Lavender and Hermione. Ron and Harry had public kisses. These things are only demonized when done by females 1) because how dare females have sexual desire or express sexuality and 2) because how dare females exist, everything they do is silly and unimportant just like them.
Hot take: I’m a Romione shipper for the books, but (in the film series) I don’t really ship them after POA.
Forgive me, Romione shippers, for I have sinned…
I know it sounds a bit weird, but the later films altered the characterisations of Ron and Hermione so much that they (especially Hermione) are so unlike their book counterparts that it doesn’t really feel like the same pairing.
It doesn’t help that I personally find Emma Watson very irritating as Hermione. And I don’t mean in the ‘Hermione is supposed to be irritating’ kind of way. I honestly find her portrayal (especially from GOF onwards) to be bland and wooden.
I ship book!Ron and book!Hermione 100%. But film!Ron and film!Hermione? Nah, mate.
Film!Ron is funny and has a certain warmth to him, although I think that’s primarily Rupert Grint’s sheer talent blossoming through despite the meagre characterisation he was given to work with. I ship movie!Ron with someone who makes him happy; maybe film!Luna or film!Harry, since they actually show him appreciation and respect the majority of the time. He seems like a nice bloke (occasional bad joke aside), and overall a decent person. I mean, he’s based on book!Ron, for crying out loud; it’s very difficult to make Ron Weasley unlikable.
Film!Hermione, though? She’s an arrogant, mean little jerk who treats Ron like a petulant child she’s having to babysit 90% of the time (mostly in the films Steve Kloves wrote. Coincidence? I think not). She’s lacking in book!Hermione’s warmth and humanity, and seems almost perpetually irritated by everything around her. That might just be Emma Watson’s “reading” of the character, but I personally can’t stomach it. Film!Hermione can work herself into an early grave for all I care.
I didn’t mind film!Hermione in the first three films (mainly the first two, but she had her moments in the third film as well), but after that, I stopped caring. I can’t imagine what film!Ron actually sees in her, since she seems to regard him with bemusement, shock (whenever he shows intelligence) or irritation most of the time. I never got the sense that their personalities meshed well, in contrast to their book counterparts who were perfect compliments to each-other.
But what do you guys think? Is this heresy for a Romione shipper to say, or am I onto something here?
This is part of why I really can’t watch the movies.
Sorcerer’s Stone was a good adaptation. The only things that are really missing are the wizards’ duel and the logic puzzle, and they managed to get the work that those did spread out around the other plot points, so it makes sense. (Although the logic puzzle is an incredibly key piece of Hermione characterization. The entire rest of her character needs to be read through that lens, in the same way that the rest of Ron’s character needs to be read through the lens of the chess match. Replacing that with revised Devil’s Snare incident is the first hint of a serious misunderstanding of who Hermione is.)
CoS and PoA are fine (though SS is the only one I actually re-watch, so I can’t really comment on them). Ron gets swept under the rug a bit, but the general plot is at least in tact.
Starting in GoF, too much is left out. Too much is left out in GoF (no Dobby, no Sirius, no SPEW, no… too many things), and as a result, a lot of the key beats to come are just completely incoherent. By OotP, I literally can’t follow the plot in the films, because there’s too much missing and every moment is a sustained, No, that’s not right! (I should try re-watching them now, since it’s been a couple of years since I actually read through the books. Maybe I’ll be able to make sense of them with a little distance from the real story.) We miss the point.
But all of the little details and moments that make Ron and Hermione perfect are just… gone. Their dynamic is gone, their chemistry is gone, their opportunities to support and complement one another is gone.
It’s clear that in the films that we’re supposed to be shipping Harry and Hermione, but Dan and Emma have no chemistry, and it comes across on screen as a completely generic “Look! Here’s a boy and girl in proximity! They will ultimately bone!” romance. Like, movie!Harmony is the blandest, most stilted not-ship since Luke and Leia. The dance in DH? Ugh. It’s like, ew, no, let’s just be celibate forever.
In the films, frankly, it’s a lot easier to see Harry x Ron than any other ship involving members of the trio, no matter how hard Kloves tried to push Harry x Hermione.
What ends up happening, with the reduction of Ron’s character, is that he comes across as somebody’s love interest (why else is he there?) but he’s definitely not Hermione’s with the way she treats him. With the Harmony-pushing, it ends up looking like Hermione is mean to Ron because she’s jealous.
That makes so much sense now! Ron’s closeness with Harry is one of the only non-Harmione relationships that the film series didn’t completely get rid of. From that perspective, it makes so much sense that Hermione would jealous of Ron for being so close with Harry. No wonder she found him so irritating in the film; the screen-writer wanted her to be the closest to Harry, but Ron was always closer with him.
Heck, in the film series, I’m definitely more on board with Harry x Rom because their relationship was still treated with some semblance of respect. Ron x Hermione was ignored as much as possible by Steve Kloves, and the film counterparts of the characters seemed too unlike their book versions to make sense as a couple. And you all know my opinions on the Harry x Hermione pairing (hint: I find it uninteresting and I’ve never seen the two characters like that). By the power of deduction alone, Ron x Harry is the most believable pairing in the film!golden trio.
Books? I’m Romione all the way. But films? Harry x Ron is far more believable, and much more of a mutually-supportive relationship.
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