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Canon: Harry Potter
Character: Ronald ‘Ron’ Bilius Weasley
Timeline: Deathly Hallows ; Malfoy Manor ; Right after escaping the cellar when Bellatrix says Greyback can have Hermione.
Personality:
Ron, through the entire series, stays mostly the same and his most exponential growth comes during the last year. One of the biggest and most notable traits of Ron is his self-esteem. He's never had anything that was his first, or if he does it breaks easily (or is just Chudley Cannon stuff). Being "second-hand" is something he grumbles about and is embarrassed about from the beginning. Strangely enough, even though he hates this he won't take anything from others if he feels it makes him a charity case.
His low view of himself doesn't come just from being poor; it's also from consistently being in the shadow of someone else. With five older brothers there's not much you can do to prove yourself, especially when they set the bar high or do something interesting. He doesn't feel there's much of anything he can do to get noticed, and this is only furthered when he becomes best friends with "The Boy Who Lived".
This low self-esteem also brings about Ron's jealousy. Constantly being overshadowed by his best friend and brothers makes Ron irritable. A lot of times he holds it in, especially around Harry since he knows the guy can't help the fame he has, but over time the jealousy boils over. When it comes to that point, it takes very little to make Ron angry. It can be as simple as a word before he explodes and that's it. His ability to hide his jealousy goes hand-in-hand with his way of masking his emotions. Ron holds in a lot of his deeper emotions: anger, jealousy, despair and the like. In the end when they all reach that same "boiling point" he explodes and the sight is not so pretty. Ron becomes a good deal more argumentative and bad-tempered at these points, as shown in Deathly Hallows (although to fiercer extremes), and when it's bad enough resolves him to--momentarily-- abandoning a friendship.
Ron isn't incredibly smart, nor does he even care to pick up his school books or do his homework. In most ways, he relies on mere instinct. He has a consistent way of not thinking things through and taking things as they come, often leading to irrational responses. A great example of this is during the Devil Snare incident where Hermione tells him to calm down, but his instinct only tells him to struggle against the vines strangling him. Ron gets better at this over the years, but when it comes to instinctive situations where you have to react instantaneously Ron doesn't fare well.
Although he's easily jealous, Ron is fiercely loyal and protective. He doesn't always make it noticeable, but then again he hardly ever lets most of his emotions out. His moments of loyalty, and even anger, are most signified by the fact his ears turn a deep crimson red when he tries to hold it in. For Ron, in some ways, he can say whatever he likes about his friends and family but if someone says something wrong about them it's more than enough reason for him to attack. Take Malfoy calling Hermione a "mudblood" for example. Ron's loyalty is such that, while he may get angry and stop talking--even leave--, it never fails. He has a way of showing up when a person truly needs them or, as in most cases, he sees his wrongs and wants to return. It's important to note, however, that in his moments of "disloyalty" it's not even because he hates the person-- simply that he feels overshadowed or ignored.
On the flip side, he's a brilliant strategist. This doesn't come into play nearly as much as it should, but if Ron is being faced with a "game" scenario--- chess, mostly, and sometimes Quidditch-- he performs and thinks brilliantly. In a lot of ways it's because he has the time to think things through and see what his opponent is doing, where as academically and on the battlefield he doesn't get that chance. Ron's actually capable of beating even Hermione when he's fully in the mode of playing chess, which helps to prove his strategic nature can outdo her logic sometimes.
Ron's a wisecracker, there's no two ways about it. Growing up around Fred and George has had quite the impact on him. His sense of humor can often get the people around him laughing, but on the same note it's also often insensitive. Ron doesn't really notice his jokes are insensitive, however, and often shrugs it off until he actually makes someone cry. This is mostly because he really is emotionally immature, but it's also likely because he keeps so much emotion in that he thinks other people should be just as capable. However, as unintentional it may be, his jokes really are hurtful and at other peoples' expense.
Background:
On March 1st, 1980, Ron was born as the sixth child to Arthur and Molly (née Prewett) Weasley. The Weasley's were a Pureblood magical family (who appeared to have some random muggle cousin as an accountant) and weren't very well off. Arthur worked at the Ministry of Magic in the department for Misuse of Muggle Artifacts. This job is considered mediocre at best by the outside world, and is given the least of the Ministry's worries as proven by its little space and two-man team.
The Wizarding World was currently at war when Ronald was born. A man who went by "Lord Voldemort" had taken to power and was trying to get as many followers as possible, called Death Eaters, not to mention kill any non-magical folk or people he deemed "unworthy" of carrying magical blood. It was dangerous times, than with no one being able to trust their neighbors, and even more dangerous if you were a family such as the Weasley's. For, while pureblood, they were considered "blood traitors" for their pro-muggle (non-magical) leanings. However, Voldemort fell a year later on Halloween when he killed off a toddler's parents and attempted to kill him. Something that night prevented Voldemort from killing him, and because of that the boy became famous throughout the Wizarding World for finishing Voldemort--- a name Ron grew up to know well: Harry Potter.
A little over a year after Ron's birth and mere weeks before Voldemort's downfall, the Weasley family gained a seventh child: a girl by the name of Ginerva (Ginny). Six children were already hard enough to feed and clothe, and with Ginny the only female, times in the Weasley household got even tighter than they were before. Ron grew up with everything he owned being second-hand owned from either his brothers or shops in Diagon Alley, and it's quite more likely that he was the third or even fourth to receive them.
Growing up in the Wizarding World introduced Ron to most of his Hogwarts concepts at a young age. He and his brothers constantly played Quidditch, the wizarding sport, in an Orchard by the house and he became... decent enough. He even took a liking to his favorite team, the Chudley Cannons, who are known by the Wizarding World as a bit of a joke with their outstanding losses. Ron also became an avid and masterful chess player when he was little, which carried out into his later years.
His most significant moments before going to school contain his two older twin brothers: Fred and George. At age three, Fred turned Ron's teddy bear into a large spider when he accidentally broke his broomstick. This incident comes to make Ron absolutely terrified of spiders. When Ron was five, Fred and George tried getting Ron to create an Unbreakable Vow with them. He almost did as well, until Arthur showed up and went-- as Ron puts it-- mental. This is significant because if this vow was broken, the person would die.
In the summer after his eleventh birthday Ron received his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. By this time, his two oldest brothers, Bill and Charlie, had graduated Hogwartss and started their own careers in working at Gringotts--the Wizarding bank-- and with dragons (respectively). His third older brother, Percy, was starting his fifth year as a Prefect while the twins started their third. While Ron was excited in his own right, he also knew he had a lot to live up to thanks to his older brothers-- and felt he never would. Already there had been three school Prefects in his family, but Bill had also been Head Boy and Charlie Quidditch Captain.
Despite his worries, on September 1st, 1991 Ron boarded the train to Hogwarts and there he met and befriended Harry Potter. He also met, of course, Hermione Granger but would not count her any sort of friend until Halloween where he, she and Harry battle a giant troll. The train ride wouldn't be complete if the two boys didn't meet nemesis Draco Malfoy and his two cronies Crabbe and Goyle. That evening Ron was sorted without a doubt into the house of Godric Gryffindor.
While all his things were second-hand, even his wand being Charlie's old one, that day was in some ways prophetic. After Halloween the trio become inseparable and started their trouble-making days, and by the end of their first year they were known throughout the school---Ron, most amusingly, for his chess playing abilities.
What made the trio known at the end of their first year would come to be a constant theme for the rest of their school years: the rise of Lord Voldemort. In their first year, they had faced off against their Professor’s various tasks to keep people away from the Philosopher’s Stone-a stone with the ability to make the person immortal, something Dumbledore had made alongside his partner Nicolas Flamel and Voldemort would seek. They had started in order to stop Snape from getting it, but Harry learned Quirrel was trying to obtain it for the Dark Lord himself (who was attached to the back of his head). This was their first encounter with the Dark Lord’s rise to power.
Their second was met with Ron’s younger sister being used by Voldemort’s younger self, Tom Riddle, in the form of his diary (or later to be found out, horcrux, form), as he tried to open the Chamber of Secrets once more. Third year was met with some calm as was their fourth. That is until they found out the truth behind who betrayed Harry’s parents and the culprit, Peter Pettigrew, escaped to help Voldemort regain power at the end of their fourth year.
Years five and six were spent preparing for war. Well, to be more frank, their fifth year was spent with Dumbledore and Harry trying to prove to the world that Voldemort was back and Dumbledore reorganizing a resistance group called the Order of the Phoenix. The trio also ended up forming their own resistance group inside the school when Umbridge and the Ministry tried taking away teaching them Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was members of this organization that later helped them infiltrate the Ministry of Magic to try to rescue Sirius Black (whom Harry, thanks to Voldemort’s ability to get inside his mind, thought needed saving). Their battle in the Department of Mysteries against Voldemort’s Death Eater’s ended with Ministry officials showing up at the tail-end to see Voldemort escape. Ultimately, they had to come out and say it was true that Voldemort had returned to power and spent the next year preparing for it.
Their sixth year was fairly normal… Well, normal for the trio. Hermione and Ron were wrestling with feelings that presented themselves earlier on, but became extremely evident this book. Ron spent the the earlier bits of it trying to grab Hermione’s attention with little success. It was only after he learned that Hermione had snogged another boy that he decided the best plan was to get girlfriend of his own. This came in the form of Lavender Brown, whom he snogged all the time and in clear view of Hermione. His actions and the rift it caused between him and Hermione almost ruined their friendship, that is until Ron nearly died from being poisoned (thanks to a failed attempt by Draco on Dumbledore). Draco Malfoy had been trying to murder Dumbledore throughout the year on Voldemort’s orders, but continuously failed. Harry, on the other hand, had learned all about Horcruxes and Voldemort’s past life as Tom Riddle. It was on one evening when he and Dumbledore were going to find Horcruxes that it happened: Snape killed Dumbledore.
At the end of the sixth book, the trio decided to forego their final year of schooling so they may hunt for the Horcruxes and finally take down Voldemort. The idea is only furthered when the Ministry fell to the hands of Voldemort. And then, later, the school barred Muggleborns such as Hermione and it was no place for a blood traitor such as Ron or the “Chosen One” (Harry) that Voldemort was looking for.
With the Ministry fallen shortly into the summer, the trio went on the run. The Wizarding World around them changed more, as Snatchers became forefront in finding muggleborns, blood traitors, and even school aged children who refused to return to the school for money. It made their being on the run more dangerous than initially started, but the trio still went about their way to find horcruxes, going as far as to breaking into the Ministry of Magic itself.
Except, after the trio found their first horcrux, Slytherin’s locket, Ron became deeply affected by it. While all three of them found the horcrux saying awful things to them, it affected Ron the most. After hearing about an incident at the school involving his sister, Ron finally snapped and left the other two. Apparating away and no longer bearing the locket he immediately realized his mistake, but it was too late. The Deluminator, an object Dumbledore made himself and had passed down to Ron, was the one thing that helped him to be reunited with his friends weeks later when he heard Hermione’s voice.
From then on he tried to get back on Hermione’s good side, who had taken his leaving quite hard, and to keep his spirits up for Harry. Because, throughout the novels, while Ron may often have been sullen and fought with them, he was endlessly loyal and was what kept them together. It was only after he had left for that short time it truly became noticed. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t until sometime after the trio met up with Xeno Lovegood to ask about the Deathly Hallows (an object Hermione had came across in the book she had inherited from Dumbledore) that he’d get somewhat back on Hermione's good side. And, even more unfortunate, it was after this Harry entered his world of fantasizing about horcruxes. Due to this, Ron bucked up and took the lead.
Late one March evening, the night Ron would arrive in Adstring, tremendous things would happen. Ron had since told the other two that saying Voldemort’s name was now taboo, something he learned when he was on his own, but that evening Harry says his name. The result was their being surrounded and captured by Snatchers. If it weren’t for a well placed Stinging Jinx by Hermione that made Harry near unrecognizable they would have been found out immediately. As it were, the Daily Prophet had recently revealed Hermione’s face and it all came out. The Snatchers, excited by such a find as Harry Potter himself, brought them to Malfoy Manor where Voldemort’s base was currently at. Bellatrix Lestrange, one of Voldemort’s most faithful servants, would have called him immediately until she saw the trio had Gryffindor’s Sword-a sword that was supposed to be in her vault at Gringotts Bank. She proceeded to tell Peter Pettigrew to lock Ron and Harry in the Cellar so she may torture the answer out of Hermione. Ron near lost it while in the cellar as he heard Hermione being tortured even as she managed to lie about how they found the sword. Dobby, a house-elf Harry befriended in his second year, appeared as help for the trio and if it weren’t for him the two boys might not have escaped the cellar as successfully as they did. It’s just as Bellatrix tells Greyback, one of the Snatchers who found them as well as a Death Eater, he may have the girl that Ron arrives in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes:
Ron's a wizard! In the world of Harry Potter wizards have pretty extraordinary power going from elemental to defensive/offensive. They have three main ways to use their powers: Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration. With Charms this can be something as easy as cheering someone up and making them laugh forever or go to the point of blowing stuff up/setting it on fire. Defense is just as it sounds with the addition of having offensive spells such as hexes. Transfiguration is just as it sounds meaning changing one object into another. Exceptionally large objects-- like dragons-- aren't possible to transfigure for even the best at it (Hermione says even McGonagall would have difficulty with it). There's also the matter of apparation, which is the ability to appear in one place and then another by concentrating on it.
Harry Potter magic is a broad term and covers many things, Ron isn't a fully accomplished wizard with only six years of study and he had difficulty with magic of this level, as well. Due to the nature of his situation he's gotten fairly good at Defense Against the Dark Arts and protection spells.
Sample Journal Post:
[The PCD doesn’t turn onto a face or voice just yet, but instead the viewer is met with a rather odd message in text:]
Fgfdgfg35gggHEY oi!
[The viewer is likely about as confused with the device as the operator, because a few moments later it seems they’ve hit the button to turn on the PCD’s video function. A barrage of freckles and ginger hair takes up the screen as he inspects the gadget.]
Weird. Bet dad would never stop messing with this if he had one. Still bit barmy if you ask me. No wonder Muggles seem to be upset all the time, must be murder to have to deal with this stuff all the time.
[Ron doesn’t seem to realize the PCD is on yet as he turns it upset down and around before settling it back to its usual position. However, the amused curiosity has all but left his features with a frown.]
Just what am I doing mucking around with this stuff when there’s loads more I should be doing? Blimey, give a bloke some weird gadget and he can forget all about priorities-
[Scoffing, Ron unknowingly slips the still on PCD in his pocket.]
Not that anything about this whole mess isn’t weird. Right mental, really.
Sample RP:
If someone asked Ron how it felt to have the horcrux inside your heart and mind and suddenly gone again, he wouldn’t be able to explain it. Hours of heightened fear and anxiety, your thoughts whirling about with no end and no happiness and suddenly it was gone, all gone. You would think that with the horcrux no longer hanging around his neck he would be happier, but it was hardly the case this time. The thought of the horcux's disappearance was not a relief, but a feeling of foreboding and dread. After all, the last time he had worn the horcrux he had let it finally get the best of him and abandoned his two best friends.
Now, watching the waves lick the shore was not as calm as he once imagined. Weeks ago he had abandoned Hermione and Harry in the middle of nowhere, walked right into a Snatcher trap… And while he escaped, the ordeal had only wrought more anxiety in him. He had left them and now what would he do with himself should something ever happen to them? Ron knew that if they were found he’d know as Voldemort wouldn’t hush it up from the papers and the idea sickened him.
Only the thought didn’t sicken him as much as his abandonment of Hermione and Harry. He’d tried searching for them, but had came to the inevitable conclusion that Hermione’s charms protected them well and he’d never find them, which left him here at his brother’s place. He found himself at the beach everyday, watching the waves lap along the shore and wanting to keep out of Fleur’s and Bill’s sight as much as possible. Even though his brother never said anything, he could feel the disappointment and it only made it weigh down on him more.
Moving from his sitting position on the rock, he scowled as he caught sight of Fleur moving away from a window in the house. His fingers tightened in the coat pocket he wore, but he tried to settle himself. After all, it wasn’t Fleur he was angry at but himself. If only he hadn’t been so stupid as to allow the Horcrux to get the better of him… But, then again, he would never feel he was as strong as his best friends who managed to wrestle it better than he did. Still, he knew better, and he wasn’t going to let them do this alone if he could help it. As he made it into the house it was to his surprise that a voice echoed from his pocket: Hermione’s voice. Grappling for several seconds he pulled it out just for the tail-end and, with a click, a light appeared and floated out the window.
For a moment Ron couldn’t help a small smirk. “Suppose that means my ride’s here,” he muttered with a more uplifted spirit than he had before.
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Canon: Harry Potter
Character: Ronald ‘Ron’ Bilius Weasley
Timeline: Deathly Hallows ; Malfoy Manor ; Right after escaping the cellar when Bellatrix says Greyback can have Hermione.
Personality:
Ron, through the entire series, stays mostly the same and his most exponential growth comes during the last year. One of the biggest and most notable traits of Ron is his self-esteem. He's never had anything that was his first, or if he does it breaks easily (or is just Chudley Cannon stuff). Being "second-hand" is something he grumbles about and is embarrassed about from the beginning. Strangely enough, even though he hates this he won't take anything from others if he feels it makes him a charity case.
His low view of himself doesn't come just from being poor; it's also from consistently being in the shadow of someone else. With five older brothers there's not much you can do to prove yourself, especially when they set the bar high or do something interesting. He doesn't feel there's much of anything he can do to get noticed, and this is only furthered when he becomes best friends with "The Boy Who Lived".
This low self-esteem also brings about Ron's jealousy. Constantly being overshadowed by his best friend and brothers makes Ron irritable. A lot of times he holds it in, especially around Harry since he knows the guy can't help the fame he has, but over time the jealousy boils over. When it comes to that point, it takes very little to make Ron angry. It can be as simple as a word before he explodes and that's it. His ability to hide his jealousy goes hand-in-hand with his way of masking his emotions. Ron holds in a lot of his deeper emotions: anger, jealousy, despair and the like. In the end when they all reach that same "boiling point" he explodes and the sight is not so pretty. Ron becomes a good deal more argumentative and bad-tempered at these points, as shown in Deathly Hallows (although to fiercer extremes), and when it's bad enough resolves him to--momentarily-- abandoning a friendship.
Ron isn't incredibly smart, nor does he even care to pick up his school books or do his homework. In most ways, he relies on mere instinct. He has a consistent way of not thinking things through and taking things as they come, often leading to irrational responses. A great example of this is during the Devil Snare incident where Hermione tells him to calm down, but his instinct only tells him to struggle against the vines strangling him. Ron gets better at this over the years, but when it comes to instinctive situations where you have to react instantaneously Ron doesn't fare well.
Although he's easily jealous, Ron is fiercely loyal and protective. He doesn't always make it noticeable, but then again he hardly ever lets most of his emotions out. His moments of loyalty, and even anger, are most signified by the fact his ears turn a deep crimson red when he tries to hold it in. For Ron, in some ways, he can say whatever he likes about his friends and family but if someone says something wrong about them it's more than enough reason for him to attack. Take Malfoy calling Hermione a "mudblood" for example. Ron's loyalty is such that, while he may get angry and stop talking--even leave--, it never fails. He has a way of showing up when a person truly needs them or, as in most cases, he sees his wrongs and wants to return. It's important to note, however, that in his moments of "disloyalty" it's not even because he hates the person-- simply that he feels overshadowed or ignored.
On the flip side, he's a brilliant strategist. This doesn't come into play nearly as much as it should, but if Ron is being faced with a "game" scenario--- chess, mostly, and sometimes Quidditch-- he performs and thinks brilliantly. In a lot of ways it's because he has the time to think things through and see what his opponent is doing, where as academically and on the battlefield he doesn't get that chance. Ron's actually capable of beating even Hermione when he's fully in the mode of playing chess, which helps to prove his strategic nature can outdo her logic sometimes.
Ron's a wisecracker, there's no two ways about it. Growing up around Fred and George has had quite the impact on him. His sense of humor can often get the people around him laughing, but on the same note it's also often insensitive. Ron doesn't really notice his jokes are insensitive, however, and often shrugs it off until he actually makes someone cry. This is mostly because he really is emotionally immature, but it's also likely because he keeps so much emotion in that he thinks other people should be just as capable. However, as unintentional it may be, his jokes really are hurtful and at other peoples' expense.
Background:
On March 1st, 1980, Ron was born as the sixth child to Arthur and Molly (née Prewett) Weasley. The Weasley's were a Pureblood magical family (who appeared to have some random muggle cousin as an accountant) and weren't very well off. Arthur worked at the Ministry of Magic in the department for Misuse of Muggle Artifacts. This job is considered mediocre at best by the outside world, and is given the least of the Ministry's worries as proven by its little space and two-man team.
The Wizarding World was currently at war when Ronald was born. A man who went by "Lord Voldemort" had taken to power and was trying to get as many followers as possible, called Death Eaters, not to mention kill any non-magical folk or people he deemed "unworthy" of carrying magical blood. It was dangerous times, than with no one being able to trust their neighbors, and even more dangerous if you were a family such as the Weasley's. For, while pureblood, they were considered "blood traitors" for their pro-muggle (non-magical) leanings. However, Voldemort fell a year later on Halloween when he killed off a toddler's parents and attempted to kill him. Something that night prevented Voldemort from killing him, and because of that the boy became famous throughout the Wizarding World for finishing Voldemort--- a name Ron grew up to know well: Harry Potter.
A little over a year after Ron's birth and mere weeks before Voldemort's downfall, the Weasley family gained a seventh child: a girl by the name of Ginerva (Ginny). Six children were already hard enough to feed and clothe, and with Ginny the only female, times in the Weasley household got even tighter than they were before. Ron grew up with everything he owned being second-hand owned from either his brothers or shops in Diagon Alley, and it's quite more likely that he was the third or even fourth to receive them.
Growing up in the Wizarding World introduced Ron to most of his Hogwarts concepts at a young age. He and his brothers constantly played Quidditch, the wizarding sport, in an Orchard by the house and he became... decent enough. He even took a liking to his favorite team, the Chudley Cannons, who are known by the Wizarding World as a bit of a joke with their outstanding losses. Ron also became an avid and masterful chess player when he was little, which carried out into his later years.
His most significant moments before going to school contain his two older twin brothers: Fred and George. At age three, Fred turned Ron's teddy bear into a large spider when he accidentally broke his broomstick. This incident comes to make Ron absolutely terrified of spiders. When Ron was five, Fred and George tried getting Ron to create an Unbreakable Vow with them. He almost did as well, until Arthur showed up and went-- as Ron puts it-- mental. This is significant because if this vow was broken, the person would die.
In the summer after his eleventh birthday Ron received his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. By this time, his two oldest brothers, Bill and Charlie, had graduated Hogwartss and started their own careers in working at Gringotts--the Wizarding bank-- and with dragons (respectively). His third older brother, Percy, was starting his fifth year as a Prefect while the twins started their third. While Ron was excited in his own right, he also knew he had a lot to live up to thanks to his older brothers-- and felt he never would. Already there had been three school Prefects in his family, but Bill had also been Head Boy and Charlie Quidditch Captain.
Despite his worries, on September 1st, 1991 Ron boarded the train to Hogwarts and there he met and befriended Harry Potter. He also met, of course, Hermione Granger but would not count her any sort of friend until Halloween where he, she and Harry battle a giant troll. The train ride wouldn't be complete if the two boys didn't meet nemesis Draco Malfoy and his two cronies Crabbe and Goyle. That evening Ron was sorted without a doubt into the house of Godric Gryffindor.
While all his things were second-hand, even his wand being Charlie's old one, that day was in some ways prophetic. After Halloween the trio become inseparable and started their trouble-making days, and by the end of their first year they were known throughout the school---Ron, most amusingly, for his chess playing abilities.
What made the trio known at the end of their first year would come to be a constant theme for the rest of their school years: the rise of Lord Voldemort. In their first year, they had faced off against their Professor’s various tasks to keep people away from the Philosopher’s Stone-a stone with the ability to make the person immortal, something Dumbledore had made alongside his partner Nicolas Flamel and Voldemort would seek. They had started in order to stop Snape from getting it, but Harry learned Quirrel was trying to obtain it for the Dark Lord himself (who was attached to the back of his head). This was their first encounter with the Dark Lord’s rise to power.
Their second was met with Ron’s younger sister being used by Voldemort’s younger self, Tom Riddle, in the form of his diary (or later to be found out, horcrux, form), as he tried to open the Chamber of Secrets once more. Third year was met with some calm as was their fourth. That is until they found out the truth behind who betrayed Harry’s parents and the culprit, Peter Pettigrew, escaped to help Voldemort regain power at the end of their fourth year.
Years five and six were spent preparing for war. Well, to be more frank, their fifth year was spent with Dumbledore and Harry trying to prove to the world that Voldemort was back and Dumbledore reorganizing a resistance group called the Order of the Phoenix. The trio also ended up forming their own resistance group inside the school when Umbridge and the Ministry tried taking away teaching them Defense Against the Dark Arts. It was members of this organization that later helped them infiltrate the Ministry of Magic to try to rescue Sirius Black (whom Harry, thanks to Voldemort’s ability to get inside his mind, thought needed saving). Their battle in the Department of Mysteries against Voldemort’s Death Eater’s ended with Ministry officials showing up at the tail-end to see Voldemort escape. Ultimately, they had to come out and say it was true that Voldemort had returned to power and spent the next year preparing for it.
Their sixth year was fairly normal… Well, normal for the trio. Hermione and Ron were wrestling with feelings that presented themselves earlier on, but became extremely evident this book. Ron spent the the earlier bits of it trying to grab Hermione’s attention with little success. It was only after he learned that Hermione had snogged another boy that he decided the best plan was to get girlfriend of his own. This came in the form of Lavender Brown, whom he snogged all the time and in clear view of Hermione. His actions and the rift it caused between him and Hermione almost ruined their friendship, that is until Ron nearly died from being poisoned (thanks to a failed attempt by Draco on Dumbledore). Draco Malfoy had been trying to murder Dumbledore throughout the year on Voldemort’s orders, but continuously failed. Harry, on the other hand, had learned all about Horcruxes and Voldemort’s past life as Tom Riddle. It was on one evening when he and Dumbledore were going to find Horcruxes that it happened: Snape killed Dumbledore.
At the end of the sixth book, the trio decided to forego their final year of schooling so they may hunt for the Horcruxes and finally take down Voldemort. The idea is only furthered when the Ministry fell to the hands of Voldemort. And then, later, the school barred Muggleborns such as Hermione and it was no place for a blood traitor such as Ron or the “Chosen One” (Harry) that Voldemort was looking for.
With the Ministry fallen shortly into the summer, the trio went on the run. The Wizarding World around them changed more, as Snatchers became forefront in finding muggleborns, blood traitors, and even school aged children who refused to return to the school for money. It made their being on the run more dangerous than initially started, but the trio still went about their way to find horcruxes, going as far as to breaking into the Ministry of Magic itself.
Except, after the trio found their first horcrux, Slytherin’s locket, Ron became deeply affected by it. While all three of them found the horcrux saying awful things to them, it affected Ron the most. After hearing about an incident at the school involving his sister, Ron finally snapped and left the other two. Apparating away and no longer bearing the locket he immediately realized his mistake, but it was too late. The Deluminator, an object Dumbledore made himself and had passed down to Ron, was the one thing that helped him to be reunited with his friends weeks later when he heard Hermione’s voice.
From then on he tried to get back on Hermione’s good side, who had taken his leaving quite hard, and to keep his spirits up for Harry. Because, throughout the novels, while Ron may often have been sullen and fought with them, he was endlessly loyal and was what kept them together. It was only after he had left for that short time it truly became noticed. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t until sometime after the trio met up with Xeno Lovegood to ask about the Deathly Hallows (an object Hermione had came across in the book she had inherited from Dumbledore) that he’d get somewhat back on Hermione's good side. And, even more unfortunate, it was after this Harry entered his world of fantasizing about horcruxes. Due to this, Ron bucked up and took the lead.
Late one March evening, the night Ron would arrive in Adstring, tremendous things would happen. Ron had since told the other two that saying Voldemort’s name was now taboo, something he learned when he was on his own, but that evening Harry says his name. The result was their being surrounded and captured by Snatchers. If it weren’t for a well placed Stinging Jinx by Hermione that made Harry near unrecognizable they would have been found out immediately. As it were, the Daily Prophet had recently revealed Hermione’s face and it all came out. The Snatchers, excited by such a find as Harry Potter himself, brought them to Malfoy Manor where Voldemort’s base was currently at. Bellatrix Lestrange, one of Voldemort’s most faithful servants, would have called him immediately until she saw the trio had Gryffindor’s Sword-a sword that was supposed to be in her vault at Gringotts Bank. She proceeded to tell Peter Pettigrew to lock Ron and Harry in the Cellar so she may torture the answer out of Hermione. Ron near lost it while in the cellar as he heard Hermione being tortured even as she managed to lie about how they found the sword. Dobby, a house-elf Harry befriended in his second year, appeared as help for the trio and if it weren’t for him the two boys might not have escaped the cellar as successfully as they did. It’s just as Bellatrix tells Greyback, one of the Snatchers who found them as well as a Death Eater, he may have the girl that Ron arrives in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes:
Ron's a wizard! In the world of Harry Potter wizards have pretty extraordinary power going from elemental to defensive/offensive. They have three main ways to use their powers: Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration. With Charms this can be something as easy as cheering someone up and making them laugh forever or go to the point of blowing stuff up/setting it on fire. Defense is just as it sounds with the addition of having offensive spells such as hexes. Transfiguration is just as it sounds meaning changing one object into another. Exceptionally large objects-- like dragons-- aren't possible to transfigure for even the best at it (Hermione says even McGonagall would have difficulty with it). There's also the matter of apparation, which is the ability to appear in one place and then another by concentrating on it.
Harry Potter magic is a broad term and covers many things, Ron isn't a fully accomplished wizard with only six years of study and he had difficulty with magic of this level, as well. Due to the nature of his situation he's gotten fairly good at Defense Against the Dark Arts and protection spells.
Sample Journal Post:
[The PCD doesn’t turn onto a face or voice just yet, but instead the viewer is met with a rather odd message in text:]
Fgfdgfg35gggHEY oi!
[The viewer is likely about as confused with the device as the operator, because a few moments later it seems they’ve hit the button to turn on the PCD’s video function. A barrage of freckles and ginger hair takes up the screen as he inspects the gadget.]
Weird. Bet dad would never stop messing with this if he had one. Still bit barmy if you ask me. No wonder Muggles seem to be upset all the time, must be murder to have to deal with this stuff all the time.
[Ron doesn’t seem to realize the PCD is on yet as he turns it upset down and around before settling it back to its usual position. However, the amused curiosity has all but left his features with a frown.]
Just what am I doing mucking around with this stuff when there’s loads more I should be doing? Blimey, give a bloke some weird gadget and he can forget all about priorities-
[Scoffing, Ron unknowingly slips the still on PCD in his pocket.]
Not that anything about this whole mess isn’t weird. Right mental, really.
Sample RP:
If someone asked Ron how it felt to have the horcrux inside your heart and mind and suddenly gone again, he wouldn’t be able to explain it. Hours of heightened fear and anxiety, your thoughts whirling about with no end and no happiness and suddenly it was gone, all gone. You would think that with the horcrux no longer hanging around his neck he would be happier, but it was hardly the case this time. The thought of the horcux's disappearance was not a relief, but a feeling of foreboding and dread. After all, the last time he had worn the horcrux he had let it finally get the best of him and abandoned his two best friends.
Now, watching the waves lick the shore was not as calm as he once imagined. Weeks ago he had abandoned Hermione and Harry in the middle of nowhere, walked right into a Snatcher trap… And while he escaped, the ordeal had only wrought more anxiety in him. He had left them and now what would he do with himself should something ever happen to them? Ron knew that if they were found he’d know as Voldemort wouldn’t hush it up from the papers and the idea sickened him.
Only the thought didn’t sicken him as much as his abandonment of Hermione and Harry. He’d tried searching for them, but had came to the inevitable conclusion that Hermione’s charms protected them well and he’d never find them, which left him here at his brother’s place. He found himself at the beach everyday, watching the waves lap along the shore and wanting to keep out of Fleur’s and Bill’s sight as much as possible. Even though his brother never said anything, he could feel the disappointment and it only made it weigh down on him more.
Moving from his sitting position on the rock, he scowled as he caught sight of Fleur moving away from a window in the house. His fingers tightened in the coat pocket he wore, but he tried to settle himself. After all, it wasn’t Fleur he was angry at but himself. If only he hadn’t been so stupid as to allow the Horcrux to get the better of him… But, then again, he would never feel he was as strong as his best friends who managed to wrestle it better than he did. Still, he knew better, and he wasn’t going to let them do this alone if he could help it. As he made it into the house it was to his surprise that a voice echoed from his pocket: Hermione’s voice. Grappling for several seconds he pulled it out just for the tail-end and, with a click, a light appeared and floated out the window.
For a moment Ron couldn’t help a small smirk. “Suppose that means my ride’s here,” he muttered with a more uplifted spirit than he had before.