MY BROTHER, MY SISTER (PG) BY IAMSHADOW

[shadowfiction]

Title: My Brother, My Sister
Author: iamshadow
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 560
Notes/Summary: 'Missing' scene from DH, taking place while Harry and Ginny are in Ginny's bedroom together (pages 98-99 of the Bloomsbury hardcover edition of Deathly Hallows). Written for the '08 Harry and Ron FQF.
Prompt: 38. In DH: The real reason why Ron was fuming

Comments

[shocolate]

wow.

this clearly and totally and utterly Happened.

[shadowfiction]

*blushes*

Thank you!

I was fretting over length, but it just didn't want to be any longer. I got about 150 more words of description in there, but it couldn't really have much more dialogue because Harry and Ginny's conversation and kiss doesn't last very long, and they're supposed to be taking place concurrently.

[oncelikeshari]

Go Ron, tear the floozy off your boy's face!

[shadowfiction]

He's too frightened of his mum. She's in that pre-wedding batshit insane zone, at that point. D:

[hedwigs_bane]

Exactly!

Now, please excuse me while I go and blank out those lines when, during the battle, Hermione forces herself on Ron. I hope they'll be correcting that scene in later editions (as well as fixing that seriously flawed epilogue thingy)...

This makes much more sense!

[shadowfiction]

You haven't blanked out those lines already? :D

And it's completely canon-compliant, too. We know Hermione and Ron have some kind of altercation outside; whether it's just Ron breaking away and running back, chased by Hermione, or whether they actually have a conversation about it. But we do know that Ron had some idea of what he might find when he opens the door.

"Oh," said Ron pointedly. "Sorry."

Not with shock, or horrifiedly, or apologetically or angrily. Pointedly.

And it's that tone and Ron's admonishments afterwards that bring Harry back down to earth, and make him ashamed of his actions.

[hedwigs_bane]

And it's that tone and Ron's admonishments afterwards that bring Harry back down to earth, and make him ashamed of his actions.

... and then they shag.

Oops, sorry. Thought it was another challenge...

:-)

[shadowfiction]

What? That's what my copy of DH says...

"You promised," Ron said, once they were alone in Ron's room together that night.

"I'm sorry!" Harry said. "She asked me this strange question about me chasing Veela, and all I said was that I wouldn't have an opportunity to date while I was off fighting Voldemort, and she...she lunged at me! I didn't know what to do

[thanfiction]

This is so, so perfect, and manages to be completely canon while still walking that exact line between absolutely slash and absolutely gen. Good, real subtext is hard to write, harder still from the actual POV of a subtexting character. Kudos.

[shadowfiction]

Thank you!

I didn't want Ron to have this 'OMG epiphany' moment (though Hermione has a bit of one). I just wanted him to be shaken, and have this big, swirling mess of emotions going on under the surface. He doesn't really understand why Harry and Ginny together upsets him in the way it does, and he's more than content to explain it away and deny it. He's not like Hermione, who wants to dig and probe and understand, and by her doing those things, she's stirred up a whole lot of confusion in him.

[massielita]

this is way awesome. this is what and how it happened. thank you for writing it :D

[shadowfiction]

Thank you for reading! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!