My experience with a dementor
Author: TraScully
Rating: K
Summary: So... how would our favorite Harry Potter characters react to the dementors? Or, how did they react to them?

Note: I took crazy mad personal liberties when describing the inside of Azkaban and visiting rights and the wards, etc. I have no idea what Azkaban is like, because we're never really taken there. So I tried to make it plausible... it made sense to me that they'd want some wizards there at all times, not just the dementors. It just seemed like something could go wrong and it's not like dementors are going to jump up and help... so yeah. If you have any better ideas for the prison, review and tell me because I'm trying to make it believable. Thanks!

Chapter 6: Ron Weasley
The first and only time I've ever been affected by a dementor was on the train to Hogwarts. Sirius Black was on the loose, and they had come on the train to search for him. Of course I was a little scared, but not half as scared as Hermione. She looked like she was about to fall down and die! But I, I could handle it. Oh yeah. Definitely.

So it opened our cabin door, rignt? Right. And then it sort of looked in at us one by one, and the second it looked at me it felt like my heart froze. Yeah, I said froze. It was bloody creepy. So then I couldn't remember where I was or anything, and all I could think about were the times mum and dad congratulated Bill and Charlie and Percy on getting Prefect and Head Boy and moving to Romania and getting all those OWLs and NEWTs and how I'd always been kind of the failurewell, aside from Fred and George, I guessbut at least they were good at something! They were making all those joke things and they knew what they were going to do with their lives and I secretly thought that was kind of cool.

So then all I could think about were the times my brothers and even my sister had done better than I had and how my parents were always fawning over them and that I was kind of the 'freak' of the family, and how with Harry and Hermione they were always on the same page I mean, Harry is just about the best Defense against the Dark Arts student in Hogwarts' history, and Hermione is the brightest witch in a century, aside from McGonagall probably, and that I just didn't quite fit in with them.

And then I just felt like a big fat failure and I couldn't get the heavy feeling out of my stomach when I felt things return to normal again. I stopped shivering and I opened my eyes. Hermione was sitting next to me, as if she'd just gone through the same thing, and Lupin was sitting next to Harry on the ground. That was just too weird.