Author: elenorecanard

Title: Like Sunshine

Word Count: 100x3

Rating: G

Prompt: Sunshine

A/N: Written for Harryron100 at LJ.

My Ronnie. His smile was always like sunshine. Even when he was small and it was pouring rain, and all he wanted to do was play outdoors, his smile could practically scatter the clouds. That's exactly how it seemed during his first year Christmas holidays. He looked so glum sitting in the kitchen, missing his friends. I had to cheer him up some how, and his letters about school were always so happy. So I sat down and said "Tell me about your class mates."

The clouds broke open, and he said "Mum, I go to school with Harry Potter."

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One day near the end of Christmas Holidays, in Ronnie's fifth year, he was sitting at the kitchen table, looking rather sad. Or, well, rather more sad than one normally looked in that grim old house. He'd been carrying on about not looking forward to returning to his week's worth of detentions when I had snapped at him to behave himself.

"Ron," I started. "I just don't understand why you get into so much mischief. Why can't you just be good at school?"

He snorted a laugh and the room brightened, and he said "Mum, my best mate's Harry Potter!"

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One evening, shortly after the war, I found myself in the living room, surrounded by my sons, and their wives or girlfriends, and Ginny and her boyfriend, and of course, Harry when George piped up across the room.

"Oi! Ronniekins! When you gonna bring home a girl of your own?"

Ron blushed, and looked to Hermione, who nodded encouragingly from her spot on Charlie's lap. Then Ron laid a hand on Harry's shoulder, and the sun shone through his eyes and smile, and he said, as if only to me, and not his brothers, "I'm in love with Harry Potter."