okay but instead of harry & ron asking the patil twins to the yule ball they go with each other
they’re dancing pretty goofily during most of the ball & even talking with hermione & viktor a little & suddenly the champions have to dance, right?
it’s a slow song. one about love & friendship. well ron starts leading harry in the dance & things get a little awkward because it wasn’t like before when they were a few feet apart. they’re up really close now.
but it doesn’t really feel all that weird to ron. harry’s his best mate & it feels right to dance with him like this. & then it hits him. maybe he doesn’t really see harry as his best mate at all. maybe harry is meant to be something more than that.
so he leans in and gives harry a gentle kiss.
ron thinks harry is gonna push him away but he doesn’t. harry just wraps his arms around ron and kisses him back.
and that’s how ron became harry’s first love.
(sorry if it’s not too good, i’m not much of a writer)
That was brilliant, @whatifdestiel! Thank you so much for submitting! Loved it all!
Not gonna lie, though; I can’t help but wonder what Hermione’s reaction would have been. Jealousy, tears, setting a flock of birds on Harry?..
i might have to come up with something for how hermione reacts when she finds out that ron & harry were together. i personally think she’d be jealous but at the same time understand because “same harry! ron is way too amazing for his own good! it’s a wonder he doesn’t have a line of people waiting to date him!”
“because they know how you get when you are jealous hermione! they’d never dare touch ron with you around! you’d kill them!”
I’d like to think that it would turn out that way.
So I wanna talk about this, because it requires a really delicate touch. “What happens with Hermione” is a big challenge when writing Rarry, because it touches on three things that are really important to me in fic.
Most generally, it’s important that characters be entitled to totally justified feelings. In particular, if Ron and Hermione are already together, Hermione is absolutely entitled to be absolutely furious if Ron leaves her for Harry. I read a fic recently that did that really, really well. (She… didn’t actually try to kill them, which made her much more sympathetic.) She had justified angry feelings, but moved past them, and her friendship recovered. Which brings me to the second important thing.
Unless that’s the whole point of your fic, I feel like it’s super important not to break up the Golden Trio. Like, the trio’s love for one another is one of the core things that’s good about Harry Potter to me. Just like you shouldn’t make Ron a useless jerk-off to make Harmonie happen, you shouldn’t make Hermione an evil harpy to make Rarry happen. Furthermore, in the same way you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Hermione being together breaks Ron’s heart, you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Ron being together breaks Hermione’s heart. It’s just mean.
And that brings me to the third thing that’s kind of a big deal here–it’s never okay to bash a character for getting in the way of your ship. Because of the history of fanfic, it’s especially important not to bash a female character for getting in the way of a M/M ship. It’s important even when the female character is a cardboard cutout love interest created to highlight the male character’s heterosexuality; it’s even more important with a female character as important and well-developed as Hermione.
So… how is Hermione likely to react to Ron and Harry getting together before Ron and Hermione have articulated their feelings for one another? I don’t think she would react nearly as negatively as she did with Lavender, for a couple of reasons. First, Lavender is someone Hermione actively dislikes, and is an example of a kind of performative femininity that Hermione despises. Hermione is actively insulted when (in her perception) Ron chooses someone like Lavender over her, because Hermione feels very strongly that Lavender’s life choices are inferior to her own. On the other hand, Harry is someone she likes and admires; she knows what someone might see in him, even if she doesn’t. And second, Harry’s a boy. Hermione is very likely to see Ron and Harry getting together as less a “doesn’t like me” thing and more a “doesn’t like girls” thing. (It was the 90s. As someone who was a bi teenager in the 90s, that really wasn’t on the menu, especially for guys. Bi guys were gay but trying to hide it, bi girls were straight but trying to be cool. You still get this kind of biphobic narrative, but it was nearly universal back then. A teenage girl whose crush got a boyfriend would not be thinking “well maybe he’s bi,” she’d he thinking, “he’s gay and I never had a chance.”)
The right analogy for Hermione’s reaction might be, imagine you baked someone a cake and they wouldn’t eat it. You’d be a little annoyed if they picked a well-cooked steak instead, but the steak is still good, and it looks like they just didn’t want dessert. On the other hand, you’d be completely furious if they turned down your cake in favor of a twinkie.
Reblogging for @lytefoot’s (as usual) incredible and spot-on commentary
okay but instead of harry & ron asking the patil twins to the yule ball they go with each other
they’re dancing pretty goofily during most of the ball & even talking with hermione & viktor a little & suddenly the champions have to dance, right?
it’s a slow song. one about love & friendship. well ron starts leading harry in the dance & things get a little awkward because it wasn’t like before when they were a few feet apart. they’re up really close now.
but it doesn’t really feel all that weird to ron. harry’s his best mate & it feels right to dance with him like this. & then it hits him. maybe he doesn’t really see harry as his best mate at all. maybe harry is meant to be something more than that.
so he leans in and gives harry a gentle kiss.
ron thinks harry is gonna push him away but he doesn’t. harry just wraps his arms around ron and kisses him back.
and that’s how ron became harry’s first love.
(sorry if it’s not too good, i’m not much of a writer)
That was brilliant, @whatifdestiel! Thank you so much for submitting! Loved it all!
Not gonna lie, though; I can’t help but wonder what Hermione’s reaction would have been. Jealousy, tears, setting a flock of birds on Harry?..
i might have to come up with something for how hermione reacts when she finds out that ron & harry were together. i personally think she’d be jealous but at the same time understand because “same harry! ron is way too amazing for his own good! it’s a wonder he doesn’t have a line of people waiting to date him!”
“because they know how you get when you are jealous hermione! they’d never dare touch ron with you around! you’d kill them!”
I’d like to think that it would turn out that way.
okay but instead of harry & ron asking the patil twins to the yule ball they go with each other
they’re dancing pretty goofily during most of the ball & even talking with hermione & viktor a little & suddenly the champions have to dance, right?
it’s a slow song. one about love & friendship. well ron starts leading harry in the dance & things get a little awkward because it wasn’t like before when they were a few feet apart. they’re up really close now.
but it doesn’t really feel all that weird to ron. harry’s his best mate & it feels right to dance with him like this. & then it hits him. maybe he doesn’t really see harry as his best mate at all. maybe harry is meant to be something more than that.
so he leans in and gives harry a gentle kiss.
ron thinks harry is gonna push him away but he doesn’t. harry just wraps his arms around ron and kisses him back.
and that’s how ron became harry’s first love.
(sorry if it’s not too good, i’m not much of a writer)
That was brilliant, @whatifdestiel! Thank you so much for submitting! Loved it all!
Not gonna lie, though; I can’t help but wonder what Hermione’s reaction would have been. Jealousy, tears, setting a flock of birds on Harry?..
So i’m doing Yule Ball research and in all my 25 years of living I have NEVER SEEN THIS IMAGE BEFORE AHAHAH
and I immediately ran to you all to show it to you so you can all scream “WHATTTT“ in awe and splendor with them because look at how cute they are I can’t handle it.
I kind-of like the idea of an AU where Ron’s crush on Hermione was the more noticeable at first, and (as a result) Hermione saying something along the lines of “Lavender’s right; you are a boy” to Ron before the Yule Ball, and being confused when Ron gets annoyed at this (’well spotted, Hermione’) before storming off.
I know it seems a little unusual considering their personalities, but it would be interesting to see what would happen if the trope of ‘the clueless teenage boy’ had been turned on it’s head by JK Rowling during GOF.
Also, it does seem odd to me that Ron had his emotional maturity heavily paired-down from GOF onwards, whilst Hermione’s got way better for seemingly no reason.
Harry: Hermione; you do realise that you and Ron probably would have gotten earlier waaaay earlier if you’d just asked him to the Yule Ball back in fourth year, don’t you?
Hermione: DON’T YOU THINK I ALREADY KNOW THAT?!
Are there any fanfics where Ron gets a “Cinderella” moment at the Yule Ball?
I will never get over just how messed up the situation with
Ron’s dress robes was because there was literally so many solutions to the
problem.
First off, Molly is a witch, who studied transfiguration in
school for years. She’s also an established seamstress. So why
not use transfiguration to fix up his robes, why not use her sewing skills to
get rid off some of the lace and designs and extra stuff and make it something
a teenage boy would want to wear? Hell, She
even mentions that Arthur has dress robes, why not let Ron borrow those since Arthur
is described as tall and lanky like Ron and I’m sure he would fit them, and if
he couldn’t they could shrink them instead of going out and spending money on
terrible Robes that I know for a fact that Molly knew Ron wouldn’t like.
Why would she send her son out to a formal ball, where foreign
wizards and diplomats and important Ministry Officials would be attending,
looking like a hot mess. Why would she do that to him? That is the equivalent of
my mom sending me to prom in a sack. Which she didn’t. My mom worked around the
budget to get me a new dress and shoes, which is why I’m on Molly so hard for
this because there is no excuse. She has magic. You do not intentionally send
your child out to an important event like that looking like crap, especially if you have the means to fix it.
And what makes it even worse is that apparently none of the
other Weasley kids went to the ball looking like something straight out of the
1800’s because you best believe Ron would have complained about it. We even hear
about them from Harry during the ball and he doesn’t say anything about their
robes being as bad as Ron’s so we can assume they had perfectly acceptable robes. There are some very unfortunate implications behind that.
And that comment on him going to the ball naked, and how it
would be a good laugh was way beyond what is okay for a parent to say in that situation.
It completely devalues Ron’s legitimate feelings of looking like a joke and
feeds into his insecurities.
It makes no sense. I can’t think of any logical reason why Molly
would do something so wrong.
Because at the end of the day Molly made a conscious decision
to go out and buy those robes for Ron. At the same time, she buys Harry robes
that she knows he would like, and that she put a lot of thought into getting apparently
because she comments on how she got them, so they would match his eyes, while simultaneously
sending her son out with horrendously ugly robes with no thought put into the embarrassment
Ron would feel or about the environment
she was sending him out to because she knew exactly what he would be need those robes for
and yet she didn’t stop to think ‘ well maybe since this is such a big event I
could make them look presentable’. Molly didn’t even try for Ron.
I think a lot of
times Molly did the best she could in her financial situation and I know she loves her kids, but
the way she treats Ron sometimes makes me side-eye her pretty hard because it
brings up some very uncomfortable implications that I don’t like.
I completely agree. It was really messed up of her.
I agree that those solutions would work if Molly thought the robes were bad.
I think she honestly didn’t think they were that bad- and then ignored Ron’s complaints because she always does. She is always harried, and simply doesn’t listen when the kids complain about something as ‘silly’ as preferences of color of sweater, or food, or dress robes. I get it- they’re poor and have had to make do with whatever they have on hand- but she takes it a step further and truly ignores Ron the most of anyone.
I think she also doesn’t really realize- she’s not a stay at home mom with 7 kids at home anymore? Her life has changed significantly- she really did use to have 7 kids all at home at the same time- that’s a LOT of kids. At that point, she relly did not have time to deal with preferences on much of anything because at that point- be happy you’re fed, clean, well educated, clothed etc. She’s a great mom in so many ways, but sometimes she lets that harried attitude continue, even when she’s no longer the busy mother she used to be. Granted, she’s getting older, but….
That’s one thing that what makes me the most put out sometimes- she’s always ‘such a busy mom’- but… her kids have been out of the house for 9 months of the year for 2 years by the beginning of Goblet of Fire.
She’s legit busy in the summer- or on holidays when she’s feeding everyone- but Ron’s 4th year… What exactly did she have on her plate leading up to the Yule Ball after the kids are back in school? She wasn’t in the Order at that point.
So she’s dusting an empty house, looking after chickens, doing property maintenance, and knitting sweaters and fixing 1-2 meals a day for 2 people, and lunch for herself. I mean, it’s not nothin’ to maintain a large property- but She had MONTHS to consider what Ron thought- and try to fix the robes then send them to him. She didn’t even try to do that because she dismissed it in hand at the moment, and probably never thought of it again.
And it all comes down to the whole ‘I’m a busy mom stop complaining, at least you have robes’ thing- as well as a bit of JKR loving to make Ron the butt of jokes. I disagree that her joke about him going naked was out of line, though. Like, it’s funny.
In the end, Molly (and everyone in the series) continually don’t really consider Ron’s feelings on anything, never apologize, and continually devalue him. It’s a theme- and Molly, for all her wonderful traits, is established as a huge insecurity for him even from the first chapter we meet him.
He legit feels like his mum cares less for him than the rest of his family, including Harry- and she doesn’t do much to make him feel valued in the series, with the exception of when he got prefect. But frankly, when the only time you give much attention/affirmation to someone is if they do something amazing- then ignore them the rest of the time… it doesn’t help them feel like much. It makes them feel like their achievements are the only reason they have any value to anyone at all- which is demoralizing when you will never be able to achieve as much as everyone else int he family either. Add in the obvious preference of attention she gives Harry- and it’s no wonder the horcrux brought it up. 😦
One of the reasons why I wish Ron Weasley was real cuz he deserves all the hugs.
Why didn’t Hermione just ask Ron to the Yule Ball?
I mean, did Krum ask her immediately after it was announced? Or was there a period where Krum hadn’t asked her, but Hermione was hoping Ron would. If she really did want to go with Ron to the ball, why didn’t she just ask him (she could have even hedged it with ‘as friends’ if she was too worried to make things clearer)?
What’s everyone’s thoughts on this?
Because it’s 1994 and Boys Ask Girls To Dances, mostly.
Fair point. Although, Fleur did try to ask Cedric. It wasn’t that unknown. It’s a shame, really; it would have caused a lot less confusion between Ron and Hermione if they’d gone together.
I’ve never quite understood this…
Why didn’t Hermione just ask Ron to the Yule Ball?
I mean, did Krum ask her immediately after it was announced? Or was there a period where Krum hadn’t asked her, but Hermione was hoping Ron would. If she really did want to go with Ron to the ball, why didn’t she just ask him (she could have even hedged it with ‘as friends’ if she was too worried to make things clearer)?
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