Hello ladies, gentleman, others and variances in between! While in class, I pondered why it is that Ron is often looked down upon by our fics (which is writer's perogitive, naturally), when he has done so much to protect Harry and Hermione! So I jotted down some examples, and this is what became of it. I am a NEW WRITER, and this is very unbeta-ed. Please be gentle, my readers.
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Ronald Weasley, with pain clouding both his mind and his vision, stood on broken legs in the dark of the Shrieking Shack. His fiery red hair was matted into a blood-soaked crimson, and his arms –wandless and mangled –hung limp at his sides, droplets of magical blood falling from his numb fingertips to the rotting wood of the Shack's floorboards.
The thirteen year old wizard stood unsteadily in front of his friends, shielding them against their would-be murderer: Sirius Black. The criminal stood tall, almost regally –if not for the prison uniform he still wore, caked with grime and half-dried blood.
Ron stood, battered and broken, in front of his friends –protecting them from their executioner. Even as Sirius Black's face contorted into a manic look of fury and impatience, even as Ron stared down the tip of his own wand, and his broken legs strained to keep him standing, Ron stood. So determined was he to protect his friends, up through the moment that Ron breathed his last.
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Yeaaah, it's a bit short. But that moment, in PoA, Ron, a normal thirteen year old wizard, stands on his broken legs –you know, in front of (what he thinks is) a mass murderer, determined to kill his friends –and says "No. I won't let you do this. You'll have to go through me, first." I think that many of us (myself included) forget moments like this, that are only one or two sentences long. That get a second of screen-time, if it all. We forget these little moments that span only a heartbeat, but hold so much more. And I thought I'd try to stretch it out a bit.