Innermost
Character: Ron Weasley
Pairings: Ron/Hermione, mentioned Draco/Hermione (sorta), Hermione/Krum, Harry/Ginny
Spoilers: LOTS!
A/N: Sorry it's been a while. I've written only a tiny bit and have started reading Twilight.


Ron - 2

1) He's the youngest child in a large family and his parents dote on him. And then his sister is born, a bright and shining happy person eventually but at first she is loud and wrinkly and takes all the attention. Ron cannot understand why his brothers stand over her and make faces. She doesn't appreciate them-all she does is cry and make stinky smells in her diaper. Then one day in early april before the moon has dissapeared over the horizon, he sneaks into her room with the intention of hiding her so he could sleep before breakfast. Standing over her crib, hands around her back, the little girl had looked up at him, grinned, and made a little noise. "Ron."

2) He loves quidditch, up on a broom with a large flying ball coming near you and suddenly ducking, flying away and through the air like... he saw a star shooting across the sky one night. "Mommy, what's that," he had asked, pointing up to the bright sky in his child voice. She'd followed his hand with her enquiring gaze. "That's a shooting star, little Ronnie. If you wish by it, maybe it'll come true." Ron Weasley wanted someone to wish for him. He should have been more specific but he had been dreaming in orange for a while.

3) The Chudley Cannons aren't the best team to root for. That's what Charlie had cautioned when Ron had said they were his favorite team. But Ron believed too that there were possibilities in the world, like a chess board. No matter how many ways you could move, the other team can always surprise you.

4) When Ron Weasley goes to Hogwarts he finds the first empty comartment he can find in order to lose his meddling brothers. When a group of older Slytherin girls chase him out, he goes to the last door and hopes for the best. "Scuse me," he says, "do you mind? Everywhere else is full." There is a dark haired boy sitting down petting a glorious white owl inside a cage. "Not at all," the boy replies and for once there is no one picking or laughing or chasing him out. "I'm Ron, Ron Weasley, by the way," and they shake hands. He feels relieved and excited at the same time. Maybe he can make a friend and be best buds and have wild adventures in Gryffindor. "I'm Harry. Harry Potter," and Ron Weasley turns red because what kind of person would have money and fame and hang out with nothing but a young and poor Weasley?

5) He is nervous at first, nervous that maybe he'll have to wrestly a troll or jump off the Tower his brothers Fred and George (or is it George and Fred, or Forge and Gred?) always go on about. He sees that Granger chit with the talkative mouth go up. How did she get into Gryffindor. She had been made for Ravenclaw! Even Longbottom, a pureblood like himself, "Gryffindor!" Then Harry goes up; one minute, then two, three minutes and the hall is speculating. Ron doesn't notice how the hall watches his new (maybe) friend and by the time the Sorting Hat arches and says "Gryffindor!" he is so releived he hardly recalls how Harry bends down to hide his face and inch away from those watching him. It's his turn soon and the hat sorts him into red and gold.

6) Hermione has large brown hair, brown eyes, and a know-it-all attitude. She has a large mouth, a huge brain, and a way of getting on his nerves. "Know-it-all!" He shouts, "Brainiack" he spurts, "Stupid powerless muddblood!" Draco Malfoy shouts across the hall. And there is nothing more pleasing for the third year red head than tackling the Slytherin git and breaking the cartilage of his nose just how Harry instructe him.

7) Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever. Mostly it's disbelief. Guilt too, and there is a lot of worry. But, how cold it be Ginny? Ginny who had six older brothers-four who were also at school and watching- four brothers who had failed and a passing acquaintance who had noticed something was off. Ron looked at Harry, saw that familiar (it slightly scares him every time) look in his eyes and knew she would be safe.

8) She is annoying, speculative, too all-knowing for his own good. He is sick of the way she tells him what to do and blames him when he gets a howler from Mum. Ron especially hates when she pushes at him and Harry when all they want to do is go flying or have some fun once in a while. But he can't stand the way Draco Malfoy and Victor Krum stare at her as if planning to pull her away or how Harry just sighs when he says that they need to protect her from them. So he insults her and she insults him and soon they are slurring words neither will remember later and their best friend is stuck in the middle of the Common room as their room mates and others give them a wide berth. Later when he is fuming alone with Harry and Neville just watching him stalk from Harry's bed to the door and back, Neville turns to Harry and asks him why they do this. What he hears chills him to the bone in ways he can't understand because it's true and (how did this happen?) it makes so much sense now and-Shit! (How could he for Hermione?!). "He's in love with her."

9) A red glowing stone in a mirror following a harrowing enchanted chess set, logical potions and a plant scraping from fire. Fighting with Harry, knowing Sirius Black (resonsible for the tragic death of the Potters) and a grim and Giant bloody spiders. A deathly trap in a maze, dragons, magical creatures like basilisks, werewolves and evil-conniving-rat-animaguss, enchanted objects, bonkered house elves, evil professors, death threats, poison, nightmaters, myths come to life, bloody professors, homework, moving stair cases, Filch and his mean cat, ghosts, blood, guts, broken bones, more adventure than he could have imagined before he turned eleven, and Nothing causes him more guilt than a Troll in a bathroom standing over an innocent girl; nothing causes him more fear than standing over a petrified body of a girl he knew clutching a note in his hand and wondering why everything was so twisted.

10) He agrees with Hermione that despite all the grief and primal fear in and before the war, the Final Battle was lost when Hagrid carried Harry over the Hogwarts threshold as if he was a baby. Ginny ran for him only to listen for a quiet heart. Hermione clutched at his hand and whimpered. But Ron stopped breathing. Because how could any of them go on without Harry when the bloody sod had been what held them together? Neither had been more relieved when he came back but... his heart hadn't been beating.