Potterweek Prompts Day 1 New Student
For today’s prompt I decided to draw the scene when Harry meets Ron for the first time at the Hogwarts Express as they’re New students
Hermione: I think I’m falling behind in Herbology. I barely remember anything from the last lesson, and I kept dropping plant pots.
Harry: That’s because you kept staring at Ron’s arse.
Hermione: No, I wasn’t! Those plant pots were difficult! There were a lot of things packed in, and they kept jiggling around!
Harry: Still sounds like you’re talking about Ron’s arse…
*blushes* thank you ! But Mad Martha will always be captain of HMS Best Mate.
@headcanonsandmore – so many are now joining the HMS Best Mate Armada so any fic recs would be greatly appreciated by many others, too. (If you have any to share, your own or from Martha.)
Thanks for the tag, @diva-gonzo (so sorry that it took me this long to reply).
For recs, check out the thread that me, @vivithefolle and @lytefoot have got going at the minute. I haven’t read them all yet, but the ones I have read are really good. 🙂
I don’t read a lot of fanfiction (and the Harry x Ron ship is so tiny compared to others, so there aren’t many fanfics to choose from anyway), but here you go!
‘Wildflowers
and soft laughter’ by Cookies and Ink. Ron decides to finally confront the
stranger who’d been stealing wildflowers from their front garden every weekend.
He also manages to repeatedly embarrass himself in the process. Rated T.
‘Wedding Favours’
by Cookies and Ink. Harry had agreed to be Ginny’s fake boyfriend for a
wedding, to keep her Mum off her back. He hadn’t expected to find someone he’d
fall head over heels for there. Rated T.
Basically, check out
everything by Cookies
and Ink. They write so much Rarry/Harron fanfiction (often AU stuff, as
well as halfway-canon stuff).
‘Engaged’ by I’mdeadsothere.
All around Harry everyone is getting engaged, leaving Harry to wonder if he’ll
ever have the same honor. Especially when the one person he truly loves, well,
it’s complicated. Rated T. Contains strong language.
‘Beds’ by I’mdeadsothere.
Now that the war is over Harry treats himself by buying a nice big fluffy bed.
Only it’s too nice, too fluffy, and WAY too big. Ron has the perfect solution,
but it’ll change a lot more than just how Harry feels about his bed. Rated T.
Contains strong language. (This one also has Hermione ‘biggest Rarry shipper on
the planet’ Granger involved, so that’s a plus).
(WARNING- FLAGRANT
SELF-PROMOTION) There’s also my own ‘Having
trouble sleeping?’, which is about Ron being the crush of both Hermione and
Harry. It doesn’t have Ron choosing one person over the other, but focuses more
on why Ron is so loveable. Rated T.
I totally ship Harry and Ron, but to be fair I ship everything that has Ron in a healthy, loving relationship and have him being loved and adored for who he truly is SO LET’S GET STARTED
Or the Look Or the Words by LullabyKnell:
Goblet of Fire AU: The change in their relationship happens during 4th
year, when an exhausted and dateless Harry groans out the important
question, “Why can’t we just go together?” It’s as every bit as cute and perfect as it sounds and it just makes my heart swell. Hhhhnnngg.
Unrequited Love by themaltesefalcon:
Ron makes a startling realization one day. He decides to do something about it.
Ron is a bit ditzy in this one but we’ll forgive it because it’s so freaking funny. Also features Drunk!Ron. You know you want some Drunk!Ron.
Here for you by Focussight:
When Harry gets his arm broken in a Quidditch match, Ron is determined
to be there for his best friend. One-shot, slash. Rated K because
there’s nothing mature in this story, just good ol’ adorable kiddy
crushes.
Adorable it is, adorable indeed!
Swollen Lips and Mistaken Intentions by Adjuel:
Ron finally gets up the courage to tell Harry how he really feels. Now
all he has to do is wait for Harry to come home… from his date… with a
witch, a.k.a. a female. Yeah, life sucked.
Our boys are rather emotional in this one and they tear up easily. But I don’t care because I’m a sucker for angst and tears and Ron is adorable.
About How I Loved You by SazMuffin: Harry’s in a comaaaa! … or not because he just woke up and Ron is there. Cue shippiness. 😀
The Thrill of the Chase, Etcetera by tout-a-coup:
Harry is going to seduce Ron. Even if it kills him. A personal favourite of mine. It’ll have you roll on the floor with laughter. Plus, Ron is adorable.
Spiders by loonyluna9:
When Harry played a prank on Ron by enlarging a spider, and it chased
after him, he hadn’t expected Ron to jump into his arms. He hadn’t
expected himself to catch him either. Or the following awkwardness. Or
the part where they leaned in. Or when they… Harry’s a little bit of an ass to do that, but hey, we get Harron out of it so we can’t complain.
Friendship and Love by Guardian of Jupiter: Sometimes even if you don’t know it, love is always there. It takes something to make you realize it. The writing is a little wonky and clunky at times but it’s still a lovely story, with an absolutely perfect Ron to boot.
Harry’s Pet by earth-dragon-1: Mature! Ron’s as cuddly as a little ol’ kitten. Really. Ooooh how I love this one, it’s so perfectly written and the comparisons are so wonderful. There isn’t true smut, I promise, but I’ll tag it anyway.
Other Waters by Mad Maudlin: Mature! Three years after the way, Harry’s life is no like he expected it to be. Then a face from the past changes everything. A fanfic that deals with trauma and torture and its aftermath. Be forewarned. It’s beautiful still.
What Ron Did by Flaminia Grisandole: Mature! Harry can’t understand why Ron isn’t receiving the credit he deserves. Oh, oh, oh my stars I love this one. I even forgive Harry’s perverse little mind and his smutty slip-up in the middle I love it so much. AU of Deathly Hallows.
@headcanonsandmore, I’m going to read the heck out of these little fics you’ve proposed! I can’t believe I never even saw them before!
… And… And if anyone is interested, um… I’m going to do some shameless self-promotion too? If that doesn’t bother? ;v; You can read it on AO3 or onFFN. It’s called Lovers on the public benches, and I’d really, really like it if you could leave a little review or something! I crave reviews, I live for them, I cherish them, I promise.
I’m afraid I’m going to disappoint you, @headcanonsandmore, because even I’m new to this Ron/Harry ship. (And it doesn’t help that I’m very picky about Harry Potter fan fiction and have a complicated relationship with them.) However, you can trust @vivithefolle because she has great taste. I’ve read Or the Look Or the Words, which was really good. It should’ve totally happened in the actual book. Adorable, funny and might make you question if Ron/Hermione deserve to be your OTP (I’m telling you, it was that good.) The writer clearly knows Harry Potter, and characters like Ron, Lavender, and Fleur Delacour are respected (something that’s hard to find in a HP fics these days.)
Unrequited Love is also decent. However, it features a George/Hermione side pairing, which isn’t really my cup of tea. I really can’t see Hermione with anyone but Ron, which is hypocritical and unfair on my part, considering I ship Ron with Harry, Luna, happiness, myself, etc.
So anyway I was up until 3am reading Teapot by IamShadow21 and I highly recommend it. (Mature, kinda angsty, and please read the tags, and also want to throw in a content warning for involuntary outing, but recommended.) Tea and Apples, in the same series, are much fluffier and also shorter, I’d recommend reading them first to get the taste.
i fought the war, but the war won by sable_tyger: it is as exruciatingly angsty as you’d expect from a wwii au, but goddamnit if it isn’t beautifully, beautifully written. i come back to reread this all the time. plus the author’s written a number of other harry/ron stories, so, eat your heart out, anon.
What can I say @lytefoot, I love me some Harry x Ron goodness….
Nah, I support poly ships. My OT3 is James/Tessa/Will from The Infernal Devices (I hate the author but that trilogy was good.) I also like Luna/Ginny/Harry (Only Linny and Hinny though.)
I’ve noticed that there are many Golden trio fics where Ha/rmione is also a thing, alongside Romione and Ronarry. Harry/Hermione is my NOTP. I don’t know if I could read a Har/mione fic without laughing, so I avoid those fics. Adding to that, I’m totally here for Ron getting love and happiness, but I don’t know if Hermione would do poly. She’s not the sharing type and I don’t think canon Hermione would share Ron Weasley (she’s very possessive of Ron.) @headcanonsandmore’s Romionarry AUs are my guilty pleasure but I’m not sure if the OT3 would work in canon, considering how jealous Hermione gets. But hey, all power to you if you ship it! 🙂
Thanks for the ask!
@ronandhappiness I agree with you on the fact that Hermione is very possessive of Ron (I mean, we all know how she jealous she can be). I think a poly ship of Romione + Rarry/Harron could only really happen in an AU (and with a far less jealous Hermione). The canon character is really an all-or-nothing type of person when it comes to romance (and Ron).
And thank you! I’m glad you like my poly ship ideas (I tend to just write about them in headcanons, but I do have a fanfic about it as well)!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of Ron getting love and affection from the people he loves most in the world, but the canon version of Hermione is so rooted in possessiveness and jealousy that it becomes difficult for the poly ship to work.
Having said that, I kinda like the idea of Harry and Hermione arguing over who gets to spend more time with Ron, and Ron just blushing and stammering while he tries to calm them both down.
Headcanonsandmore 