Video Games and Teenage Boys (Harry Potter, Ron/Hermione)
Title: Video Games and Teenage Boys
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character(s) or Pairing: Ron/Hermione, hints of Harry/Ginny
Rating: PG
Warnings: Het
Word Count: ~ 580 words
Summary: Hermione wonders when Ron will get a clue.
A/N: Written for mailboxarson, in response to the following challenge: N - nun chucks. harry potter. ron/hermione..
After everything is said and done, Harry is still a teenage boy growing up. Ron is just the same: their apartment is dirty, half of the time they have no food in the fridge, and Harry buys the things he never had growing up.
There’s a huge TV in the living room, which fascinates Ron, as well the game consoles Harry bought on a spree and a thousand games for each one. Ron takes to them like a fish out of water, at first, but Harry buys guides and they check the internet for cheats, and eventually Ron grows better at them.
He is hooked.
When Hermione visits, she usually finds Ron attached to the TV and scowls, shakes her head, and unplugs the game so he will have to go out with her. She forces them both to buy food, to eat, to clean out their fridge of rotten milk and do the dishes. She’s the stabilizing force in the lives of the teenage Boy Who Lived Again and his best friend, both of whom are her best friends. Ginny is as much a stabilizing force in Harry’s live as Hermione, but not in the same way.
She wonders if she will ever be the force in Ron’s life that Ginny is in Harry’s. Then she hears him cheering over a game and wonders why she would even want to.
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Harry takes Ginny out for the anniversary of Voldemort’s death, and Hermione manages to drag Ron away from his games. He’s back to the old school Nintendo, which Hermione vaguely remembers and an unrealistic game about turtles that she remembers as well. She hates them both.
They find a long alley, filled with stalls selling a thousand and one foreign things. Foreign because they are foreign, from other countries, in the Muggle sense, not the wizarding sense. Vendors hawk their wares, even before Ron and Hermione enter the bazaar and Hermione is almost tempted to turn around and drag Ron back to his apartment, but he is already making his way down the alley and Hermione can do nothing but follow.
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“Hermione! Check this out! Nun chucks, like the ones Michelangelo uses in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!” Ron is holding a set of nun-chucks, staring at them in fascination and the look on his face is almost reverent. “I have to get these!”
“Those are illegal, if you get caught -“
“HERMIONE! Let me have some fun once in a while.” Ron shoves the nun chucks at her and waves them in her face. “I won’t use them, they’ll just be like a decoration.”
Hermione reaches a hand out to take the weapon from Ron, her fingers curling around the top of the wooden stick and sliding down, to the base. She swings around to set them down, planning on dragging Ron far, far away, to do something practical, when she is stopped. Ron’s hand on her arm stops her movements, and she only looks at him curiously when he swings her around to face him again.
The alley is all crowds, hot, sweaty people and unpleasant smells, but those all fade when Hermione sees the look on Ron’s face. He is staring at her with a mixed expression, of lust and longing and sudden realization. She’s about to ask what he’s staring at, when his lips press against hers.
She lets him get the weapon, and her plans to do something practical for the rest of the afternoon are pushed far back.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character(s) or Pairing: Ron/Hermione, hints of Harry/Ginny
Rating: PG
Warnings: Het
Word Count: ~ 580 words
Summary: Hermione wonders when Ron will get a clue.
A/N: Written for mailboxarson, in response to the following challenge: N - nun chucks. harry potter. ron/hermione..
After everything is said and done, Harry is still a teenage boy growing up. Ron is just the same: their apartment is dirty, half of the time they have no food in the fridge, and Harry buys the things he never had growing up.
There’s a huge TV in the living room, which fascinates Ron, as well the game consoles Harry bought on a spree and a thousand games for each one. Ron takes to them like a fish out of water, at first, but Harry buys guides and they check the internet for cheats, and eventually Ron grows better at them.
He is hooked.
When Hermione visits, she usually finds Ron attached to the TV and scowls, shakes her head, and unplugs the game so he will have to go out with her. She forces them both to buy food, to eat, to clean out their fridge of rotten milk and do the dishes. She’s the stabilizing force in the lives of the teenage Boy Who Lived Again and his best friend, both of whom are her best friends. Ginny is as much a stabilizing force in Harry’s live as Hermione, but not in the same way.
She wonders if she will ever be the force in Ron’s life that Ginny is in Harry’s. Then she hears him cheering over a game and wonders why she would even want to.
-
Harry takes Ginny out for the anniversary of Voldemort’s death, and Hermione manages to drag Ron away from his games. He’s back to the old school Nintendo, which Hermione vaguely remembers and an unrealistic game about turtles that she remembers as well. She hates them both.
They find a long alley, filled with stalls selling a thousand and one foreign things. Foreign because they are foreign, from other countries, in the Muggle sense, not the wizarding sense. Vendors hawk their wares, even before Ron and Hermione enter the bazaar and Hermione is almost tempted to turn around and drag Ron back to his apartment, but he is already making his way down the alley and Hermione can do nothing but follow.
-
“Hermione! Check this out! Nun chucks, like the ones Michelangelo uses in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!” Ron is holding a set of nun-chucks, staring at them in fascination and the look on his face is almost reverent. “I have to get these!”
“Those are illegal, if you get caught -“
“HERMIONE! Let me have some fun once in a while.” Ron shoves the nun chucks at her and waves them in her face. “I won’t use them, they’ll just be like a decoration.”
Hermione reaches a hand out to take the weapon from Ron, her fingers curling around the top of the wooden stick and sliding down, to the base. She swings around to set them down, planning on dragging Ron far, far away, to do something practical, when she is stopped. Ron’s hand on her arm stops her movements, and she only looks at him curiously when he swings her around to face him again.
The alley is all crowds, hot, sweaty people and unpleasant smells, but those all fade when Hermione sees the look on Ron’s face. He is staring at her with a mixed expression, of lust and longing and sudden realization. She’s about to ask what he’s staring at, when his lips press against hers.
She lets him get the weapon, and her plans to do something practical for the rest of the afternoon are pushed far back.