Oh man that hp story sounds great
so re: my hermione/ron/viktor ot3, i always thought of it like this.
hermione and ron live together right away, with no intention to get married or anything. they are just in love and also pretty broke. (as opposed to ginny and harry who get married before they even try living on their own.)
and hermione is doing whatever the wizard equivalent of interning is at the ministry in the misuse of muggle artifacts office so she can one day create ministry-wide overhaul in re wizard and non-wizard relations. and ron is doing auror training, which i would hope is something a little more like fbi training that combines specialized magic and physical training as well as law enforcement theory and technique.
and there’s a huge hubbub because some this year’s recruits were players in the wizarding war, and there’s huge news because international quidditch star viktor krum is going to study to become an auror.
and omg the only friend he has in england is hermione granger.
so hermione’s very happy and going out of her way to invite viktor over and include him in their lives. she and viktor connected in way she rarely ever has with anyone. as an inordinately talented young quidditch player, viktor was always under a lot of pressure to live a certain kind of life, regardless of his wishes. it’s great he’s doing something he wants, and something for the public good. she rarely has any time for anyone now, working overtime and then some at the ministry. it’s a relief to have one of her only friends in the country, and to have ron at home.
and ron is feeling threatened because he’s ronald weasley. not only does he still have to compete with harry bloody potter and other law enforcement professionals looking to become aurors, but now viktor krum. again. he’s got no more room in his life for perfect, super talented, ridiculously attractive people. how can he possibly continue to convince people he’s worth the trouble, of being an auror, of being a partner, if everyone around him is so much better?
and finally getting to know viktor? is even worse that him being the best seeker of ron’s lifetime. because viktor is freaking nice to him.
viktor doesn’t just tolerate him in order to keep being friends with hermione. he listens to what ron has to say. laughs at his dumb comments. and wants to team up with ron for practicum.
it’s total madness.
so it’s not like ron can be angry with him. he’s just angry he’s not angry with him.
and after a particularly eventful night of field study, when they’re supposed to only be shadowing a real auror, but of course explodes into danger, ron can’t even pretend he’s only tolerating viktor. he’s totally in love.
NOT INLOVE IN LOVE. ER-
hermione’s also going through her own silent back and forth between thinking she’s cheating on ron for finding viktor attractive and wondering why she’s giving herself so much grief for nothing-and was she ever really not attracted to viktor? how can it be cheating or wrong if it’s always been a state of her life. and she is working nearly 80 hours a week around well-meaning wizards who don’t know anything about muggle life and flat out bigots. and she hardly ever gets to see ron anymore who lives with her, let alone her friends and family, so can’t she have just this one weakness, this one little thing, without tearing her hair out over it.
but of course she never stops feeling bad about it. because she can’t stop thinking about viktor like that. it’s not like she loves ron any less. that’s not the case at all. if anything she keeps comparing them and thinking how she doesn’t want to lose either of them. but she’s fairly certain ron’s head would actually spin around like a top and fly off if anything ever happened. but she doesn’t want to lie to him.
and ron has been acting very strange lately. it makes her worried. when she and ron and viktor have dinner together lately the atmosphere is always very strange and awkward, but also like no one ever wants to leave. she had made a habit of introducing them to more muggle things, and they finally got together another time to sit on the couch and watch a movie and it was so quiet and the air was so thick.
the next morning ron looked at her so openly and so sincerely, almost like he was going to cry, and said “i love you” before almost running out of the house.
and hermione, well, hermione did cry. because ron has always been more intuitive than her, even if he could never follow up very well and actually talk about his feelings. so she’s convinced he must know somehow.
so after feeling sick nearly all day, she tells him that night. she tells him that she has not a crush, not just feelings. she’s in love with viktor. but she’s also in love with ron. desperately in love and that’s why she has to tell him. and she would never act on it, but she has to be honest if she ever wants to be true to ron, and to herself.
except ron’s head doesn’t spin off. he doesn’t yell or rave, like she’d thought. he doesn’t crumble or cry. he freezes and for a moment she thinks that portends something much worse, like him leaving her forever.
but instead he just sits and looks like a deer caught in headlights. finally he swallows nervously and says something like “here i thought i was going to make a startling confession but you were always quicker than me.”
so it turns out that ron was in the same boat hermione was in all along, and they both have been making love faces at viktor krum since they were fourteen and never stopped.
then the rest is getting viktor’s temperature and starting a beautiful poly negotiation with viktor krum, wherein probably harry and ginny and some of the more hep weasley sibs find out for funsies.
i didn’t include much from viktor’s pov because i didn’t want to get too involved, but lol missed that train didn’t i.
that’s my hermione/ron/viktor not!fic i never finished in 2006.
Posted in full at: http://eemilyvr1.tumblr.com/post/101182760220
hermione and ron live together right away, with no intention to get married or anything. they are just in love and also pretty broke. (as opposed to ginny and harry who get married before they even try living on their own.)
and hermione is doing whatever the wizard equivalent of interning is at the ministry in the misuse of muggle artifacts office so she can one day create ministry-wide overhaul in re wizard and non-wizard relations. and ron is doing auror training, which i would hope is something a little more like fbi training that combines specialized magic and physical training as well as law enforcement theory and technique.
and there’s a huge hubbub because some this year’s recruits were players in the wizarding war, and there’s huge news because international quidditch star viktor krum is going to study to become an auror.
and omg the only friend he has in england is hermione granger.
so hermione’s very happy and going out of her way to invite viktor over and include him in their lives. she and viktor connected in way she rarely ever has with anyone. as an inordinately talented young quidditch player, viktor was always under a lot of pressure to live a certain kind of life, regardless of his wishes. it’s great he’s doing something he wants, and something for the public good. she rarely has any time for anyone now, working overtime and then some at the ministry. it’s a relief to have one of her only friends in the country, and to have ron at home.
and ron is feeling threatened because he’s ronald weasley. not only does he still have to compete with harry bloody potter and other law enforcement professionals looking to become aurors, but now viktor krum. again. he’s got no more room in his life for perfect, super talented, ridiculously attractive people. how can he possibly continue to convince people he’s worth the trouble, of being an auror, of being a partner, if everyone around him is so much better?
and finally getting to know viktor? is even worse that him being the best seeker of ron’s lifetime. because viktor is freaking nice to him.
viktor doesn’t just tolerate him in order to keep being friends with hermione. he listens to what ron has to say. laughs at his dumb comments. and wants to team up with ron for practicum.
it’s total madness.
so it’s not like ron can be angry with him. he’s just angry he’s not angry with him.
and after a particularly eventful night of field study, when they’re supposed to only be shadowing a real auror, but of course explodes into danger, ron can’t even pretend he’s only tolerating viktor. he’s totally in love.
NOT INLOVE IN LOVE. ER-
hermione’s also going through her own silent back and forth between thinking she’s cheating on ron for finding viktor attractive and wondering why she’s giving herself so much grief for nothing-and was she ever really not attracted to viktor? how can it be cheating or wrong if it’s always been a state of her life. and she is working nearly 80 hours a week around well-meaning wizards who don’t know anything about muggle life and flat out bigots. and she hardly ever gets to see ron anymore who lives with her, let alone her friends and family, so can’t she have just this one weakness, this one little thing, without tearing her hair out over it.
but of course she never stops feeling bad about it. because she can’t stop thinking about viktor like that. it’s not like she loves ron any less. that’s not the case at all. if anything she keeps comparing them and thinking how she doesn’t want to lose either of them. but she’s fairly certain ron’s head would actually spin around like a top and fly off if anything ever happened. but she doesn’t want to lie to him.
and ron has been acting very strange lately. it makes her worried. when she and ron and viktor have dinner together lately the atmosphere is always very strange and awkward, but also like no one ever wants to leave. she had made a habit of introducing them to more muggle things, and they finally got together another time to sit on the couch and watch a movie and it was so quiet and the air was so thick.
the next morning ron looked at her so openly and so sincerely, almost like he was going to cry, and said “i love you” before almost running out of the house.
and hermione, well, hermione did cry. because ron has always been more intuitive than her, even if he could never follow up very well and actually talk about his feelings. so she’s convinced he must know somehow.
so after feeling sick nearly all day, she tells him that night. she tells him that she has not a crush, not just feelings. she’s in love with viktor. but she’s also in love with ron. desperately in love and that’s why she has to tell him. and she would never act on it, but she has to be honest if she ever wants to be true to ron, and to herself.
except ron’s head doesn’t spin off. he doesn’t yell or rave, like she’d thought. he doesn’t crumble or cry. he freezes and for a moment she thinks that portends something much worse, like him leaving her forever.
but instead he just sits and looks like a deer caught in headlights. finally he swallows nervously and says something like “here i thought i was going to make a startling confession but you were always quicker than me.”
so it turns out that ron was in the same boat hermione was in all along, and they both have been making love faces at viktor krum since they were fourteen and never stopped.
then the rest is getting viktor’s temperature and starting a beautiful poly negotiation with viktor krum, wherein probably harry and ginny and some of the more hep weasley sibs find out for funsies.
i didn’t include much from viktor’s pov because i didn’t want to get too involved, but lol missed that train didn’t i.
that’s my hermione/ron/viktor not!fic i never finished in 2006.
Posted in full at: http://eemilyvr1.tumblr.com/post/101182760220