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Chapter 2: The End of the Trio
Ronald Weasley was a multitude of things: a brother, a friend, a food lover, a red head, a dueler, funny, and sarcastic but perhaps his most defining trait was self-centeredness.
Yes, perhaps self-centeredness is the most accurate description of one Ronald Weasley.
He never grew out of it, never even tried and it ruined his life.
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All he sees through the anger red haze in his eyes is Hermione and Harry sitting at the long, polished table laughing as Harry points to something in the old, leather book he's holding.
(This shouldn't bother him because while it isn't unusual to see Hermione laughing Harry was a different story. Harry had hardly laughed since the day Sirius – Harry's UncleBrotherLastChanceofEscape – died)
But all he felt was fury and with it the bubbling rage of words thought but never spoken. (Because some thoughts are too horrible to speak no matter how true)
Words Draco Malfoy had said in less explicit terms, because even Malfoy had lines he would never cross, sprang to Ronald's tongue. But even with the knowledge that even Harry's rival would never utter these following words Ron found he couldn't stop himself.
"You have no family." These words were worse than Malfoy's jibes about Harry's parents (because while Harry loved them, he never knew them) Ron had just denied Harry being a part of the Weasley family and that wasn't true, could never be true because Ron was still convinced that some of his brother's – the twins- loved Harry more than him.
All these thoughts passed in a heartbeat all centered around one thought- he had (finally) gone too far.
Harry reared back – almost falling out of his seat and throwing the book he had been showing Hermione about different battle strategies over his head in an instinctual action to move away from what was causing him pain.
He reared back like he had been sucker punched- and in a way he had.
Green eyes the color of emeralds, of clover, of bright summer days, and of the Avada Kedavra curse filled with hurt and clouded in disappointment.
Ron feels a brief flash of regret but forgets it just as quickly when a fist connects with his nose. He has a moment to think, 'this must be what Malfoy felt' before a snarling, livid Hermione Granger is in his face, the skin around her eyes crinkling as she glares and her untamable, bushy hair almost giving of sparks with how livid she is.
"How dare you." It's spoken quietly, with feeling. The amount of DisappointmentDefeatBetraylExpectation in her voice is worse than if she shouted, and twice as damning.
There is no compassion in those once gentle chocolate-brown eyes. Not for him. 'Never again' Hermione vows quietly to herself because she and Harry forgave Ron after the Triwizard Tournament but he has attacked Harry, her brother, twice and there is no going back becuae some things are beyond forgiveness.
Hermione turns to her little brother, the bleeding-heart who has to save everyone, and shudders at the despair and hurt darkening his eyes.
"You were my brother." Harry whispers in the heavy silence following Hermione's condemnation.
Harry's words cut Ron like the sharpest of blades, the darkest of curses.
Ron has no response so he turns and leaves, never looking back.
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Ronald never looks back and he never stops leaving no matter who it is he's leavinghurtingbetraying.
(He had friends before Hogwarts but then he was friends with Harry Potter and the brightest witch of their year, their generation even and he never looked back, never talked to his old friends)
Loyalty was always Ronald Weasley's weak point and self-centered was always the best definition.