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Ron Weasley and the Weasley Business
Being an Auror at 20 years old was more trouble than it needed to be. It felt as if he had aged an additional 20 years in the short time since the war ended. He’d been through enough as it was being around the Harry Potter, and all the adventures that being with his best friend caused them all, but working for the Ministry of Magic made that all seem like a walk in the park. He wanted to help put the pieces of the wizarding world back together, just as much as Harry and Hermione did, but their ambition and drive were larger than he thought his ever could be.
He hadn’t joined up straight after the war, taking a year to recompose himself and take time with family to build themselves back up to where they used to be, but the invitation to join the Aurors was always sitting on his bedside table. Hearing about what his girlfriend and his best friend were doing continued to spur him towards the path, but he wanted to make sure that his family was back up on their feet before thinking about anyone else’s.
The decision to go back to help George after his two year stint was much simpler than the nosey press were spewing out; he had more luck in making his coworkers smile when trying to cheer them up than when he was actually out trying to ‘do good’, and Ron decided that it was more fun to help people in less conventional ways.
Ron Weasley and the Hyphenated Family
Ron has always had issues picking up on subtle hints, especially from girls. He had absolutely no clue that Hermione had been planning on proposing to him for some time, and what he thought was her being ‘in-a-mood’ (because of course he still doesn’t understand tact or human emotion at this point) was actually her slight nerves into popping the question. So when they had an argument (one of many) and she let slip her plans, it came as a complete surprise. No-one else was once they announced the engagement, whether they had been involved in the plans or not, and it frustrated him for a while.
But when that big day came on the last day of 2002, all of that just thawed into the surrounding snowy banks of the burrow. Ron had attended numerous weddings over the years, a ‘perk’ of belonging to such a large family, but he never truly understood the need for such a big occasion. When she walked down the aisle, surrounded by friends and family, he understood; he wanted to show off this beautiful woman that he was going to spend the rest of his life with to anyone and everyone who cared to attend.
Every time the midnight bells begin to chime in a new year, it marks not only the start of another 365 days around the sun, but the exact date and time of their anniversary. Makes it easier to remember too.
Ron Weasley and the Rise of the Inner Confidence
Anger, as a response to inner confusion, was something that Ron had always defaulted to. Something about being a red-head was always to blame, but that never really was the cause. He just didn’t have the capacity to actually think things through until he’d calmed down, realised his mistakes, and apologised. People trying to get him to do things outside his comfort zone felt like an attack on the way he did things, and the reason he didn’t step out of those boundaries was because he worried about what other people thought.
But marrying someone that continued to push him to do new things broke down those insecurities, and eventually he just… stopped caring. Hermione was there to give him the boost he needed that he was making the right decisions, that what he had been too afraid to try before was fine to do. Sure, some of them might have been dumb mistakes (which she usually caught onto before he took too far), but once he realised that most other people didn’t care as much as he thought, it brought him into a new lease of life.
Of course, his kids find him a huge source of embarrassment from time to time, but whose kids don’t?
Ron Weasley and the Year of Bereavement
Harry’s death hit everyone hard. Ron wishes he could have seen it coming, done something - anything - to prevent what happened. He lost a best man, a great wizard co-worker, and his closest friend. The wizarding world stopped for everyone, and whilst a month of ‘national’ mourning felt enough for the greater population, it took a lot longer for everyone in Harry’s inner circle. The Weasley family rallied the most, as Ron’s sister was Harry’s wife. She had been the closest, the one who knew him the best, but Ron didn’t want to press her for anything.
Of course, he had questions. Everyone had questions, and still have. They burned into Ron’s heart like etchings into an old oak tree, and he doesn’t have the strength to whittle them away. But time, as always, moved forwards. Rose and Hugo continued their studies at Hogwarts, Hermione continued working her hardest, and Ron dove back into his own business studies and work.
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