Twenty Random Things About Ron Weasley & Pansy Parkinson
This is a quick meme entry for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest in which you claim a character or pairing and write twenty random facts about them--things you'd never know or think of until, of course, you do! And then fic writers can come along and use these facts to create lovely stories. It's an awesome thing run by iulia_linnea and I suggest you check it out, because this has been so much fun
Twenty Facts About Ron Weasley and Pansy Parkinson
1. Pansy’s favorite flowers have never been pansies. Her childhood bedroom, however, was adorned in the flower; even the brass knobs on her night table were molded in their shape. When she came to Hogwarts, the plain green curtains and simple woodwork in her dormitory was an immense relief.
2. Ron and Pansy met for the first time at Neville Longbottom’s fifth birthday party, which was an enormous affair at the Longbottom Manor and a major event for all the pureblooded families in England. He threw up on her patent-leather shoes after drinking too much punch, so she threw her glass all over him.
3. Ron’s least favorite place is the broomshed at the Burrow; he got locked in there once, by accident, as a toddler. Pansy’s least favorite place is Azkaban. She got locked in there, too, for a fortnight, and would rather forget about it.
4. The name of Ron’s teddy bear was Mr. Wonkins. He was white with a black nose and shiny black eyes. He was Ron’s best friend for three years, and was torn, tattered, grimy, and loved, when the twins got a hold of him and transfigured him into a spider. Ron screamed bloody murder. Molly Weasley changed Mr. Wonkins back right away, but Ron marched over the fireplace resolutely and jammed the bear into the flames, on account of Mr. Wonkins’s betrayal.
5. Every Friday night before Hogsmeade weekends, starting third year, Pansy braided Daphne Greengrass’s long hair-wet from the shower-into one hundred and three individual, skinny plaits, so that the next morning when they undid them, her hair would be crimped and beautiful for Blaise Zabini.
6. Pansy lost her virginity to Adrian Pucey in her fourth year; she was drunk on wine from the Yule Ball and had been abandoned by Draco in the middle of the party, only to be scooped up the suave older boy, eager for an easy catch. She cried. Ron lost his to Pansy. He didn't.
7. On his seventeenth birthday, Pansy stood at Ron’s side and watched as the tattoo wizard carved their intertwined initials into his fair, freckled skin. She received another kind of tattoo three weeks later, but Ron wasn’t present.
8. Their first journey on the Hogwarts Express, Pansy accidentally used the boys’ toilet to change into her school robes. Ron caught a glimpse of her clad only in a thin undershirt and her knickers as he walked in. It was the first time he’d ever seen a girl wearing that little before-besides Ginny, who didn’t count, being practically one of the boys. Pansy didn’t even notice he was there.
9. Pansy sometimes forgets what her father looks like, but she’ll never forget the way the Dark Mark looks on his wrist; none of the hair ever grew back on that arm. (None of the hair has grown back on hers, either.)
10. People wonder how they match up, but it's clear to them. Pansy's in love with his fumbling, his stubborn streak, and his eyes. He's in love her sharp tongue, soft hands and good intentions that so often go awry. They understand each other.
11. Ron lied and told Pansy he wasn’t a virgin. She saw right through him but didn’t tell him she’d known all along until she slipped, accidentally, the first night they spent together in their first shared flat, resulting in shouting, hexes, and a lonely night for both of them.
12. Ron prefers Muggle lingerie catalogs, like the kind Dean Thomas smuggled from home, to wizarding pornography, which he used to nick from Bill and Charlie’s old room-they don’t make any noise at all!
13. Ron is the only member of the Order romantically linked with a Death Eater. Upon leaving Harry’s wedding, he and Pansy were bombarded by reporters, who asked them how on earth they came together, coming from opposite sides of the battlefields. The reply? "No comment, now move out of the bloody way."
14. The truth is, they got together during their sixth year at Hogwarts. It was, of course, a secret. Even after they left school, they still managed to meet clandestinely, and tried their hardest to ignore their differences in allegiance. Eventually, Ron couldn’t handle it anymore, and broke things off.
15. During fourth year, Pansy paid off a seventh-year girl to put her name in the Goblet of Fire. She was heartbroken when she wasn’t chosen, but refused to cry. Instead she threw a porcelain figurine across the Slytherin common room when everybody was asleep.
16. Pansy loves Ron’s hair. She cut a lock off, once, as he slept, and put it in her carved wooden box to keep, just in case. When Ron went searching for his cufflinks, and stumbled upon the red hair tied with a blue ribbon, he tiptoed into the kitchen and pressed his lips against on her neck, just below her ear, where she likes to be kissed best.
17. After the war, it was Pansy, battered and beaten, who found Ron. She planned to beg for his forgiveness and ask him to take her back, but it quickly became the opposite, as she barged in on him in bed with Hermione.
18. They’ve never married, and don’t intend to. Molly Weasley gave her son the silent treatment for six months after he informed her there was no wedding in the near future, and never would be. It took Arthur Weasley’s careful plotting for them to bump into each other at a Ministry function for them to get back on speaking terms. Pansy is terrified of Ron’s mother…mostly because she’s afraid marriage to a Weasley is what made her who she is, and is scared she’ll go down the same path.
19. Their first child was a boy with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes.
20. Pansy’s favorite part about sleeping with Ron is wearing his Chudley Cannons t-shirts to bed. Ron’s favorite part is that he can hold her all night, which he could never do at Hogwarts.