RP: Going home
Date: November 7, 2004
Characters: Ron, Harry, Hermione
Location: Outside the Burrow
Status: Private
Summary: Ron, Harry and Hermione visit what's left of Ron's childhood home.
Completion: Complete
So...there it was. Definitely not the way he remembered it, or what he wanted to see.
For months Ron had tried not to think about what had happened to his family's home. He’d been in Bulgaria with Harry and Hermione when the news reached him. Snape had owled some information to Hermione and mentioned very casually that Death Eaters had attacked the Burrow. No one had been killed (for which Ron was thankful) but the house was unlivable.
Now, as Ron looked at the Burrow for the first time in seven years, it seemed that only one thing worse had ever happened to him.
Ron had seen and done things in the past four years that he’d never thought he would see or do. He’d lived in caves, stolen food from Muggle farmers, slept up trees, robbed a Muggle bank and Obliviated the staff and customers, all to help Harry as they sought the Horcruxes. He’d tied up Gregory Goyle with magical ropes and used some rather unpleasant (though not illegal) hexes to try to make him reveal Draco Malfoy’s whereabouts. Goyle flipped in an instant but didn’t actually know where to find Malfoy, which pissed Ron off enough to make him inflict more pain on his captive. Ron used his fists this time, punching Goyle in the face and chest until Hermione pleaded with him to stop.
“Please, Ron, stop. Don’t turn into one of them,” she begged.
He stopped.
That was probably the worst thing Ron did in those years on the run with Harry and Hermione. When he lay in the dark, he was ashamed of it. He was ashamed of a lot of things he’d done. But he was a man now, and men didn’t cry. Men kept those soft emotions to themselves.
No, Ron wouldn’t ever cry about any of the things he had to do while he helped Harry find and destroy the Horcruxes. Only two things made him cry in those seven years.
The first time, he cried when his father was murdered in Diagon Alley.
Now, a year later, Ron saw what was left of his family’s home for the first time. Standing with Harry’s arm around his shoulders and Hermione’s arm around his waist, Ron finally cried because Death Eaters had burned the Burrow.
Characters: Ron, Harry, Hermione
Location: Outside the Burrow
Status: Private
Summary: Ron, Harry and Hermione visit what's left of Ron's childhood home.
Completion: Complete
So...there it was. Definitely not the way he remembered it, or what he wanted to see.
For months Ron had tried not to think about what had happened to his family's home. He’d been in Bulgaria with Harry and Hermione when the news reached him. Snape had owled some information to Hermione and mentioned very casually that Death Eaters had attacked the Burrow. No one had been killed (for which Ron was thankful) but the house was unlivable.
Now, as Ron looked at the Burrow for the first time in seven years, it seemed that only one thing worse had ever happened to him.
Ron had seen and done things in the past four years that he’d never thought he would see or do. He’d lived in caves, stolen food from Muggle farmers, slept up trees, robbed a Muggle bank and Obliviated the staff and customers, all to help Harry as they sought the Horcruxes. He’d tied up Gregory Goyle with magical ropes and used some rather unpleasant (though not illegal) hexes to try to make him reveal Draco Malfoy’s whereabouts. Goyle flipped in an instant but didn’t actually know where to find Malfoy, which pissed Ron off enough to make him inflict more pain on his captive. Ron used his fists this time, punching Goyle in the face and chest until Hermione pleaded with him to stop.
“Please, Ron, stop. Don’t turn into one of them,” she begged.
He stopped.
That was probably the worst thing Ron did in those years on the run with Harry and Hermione. When he lay in the dark, he was ashamed of it. He was ashamed of a lot of things he’d done. But he was a man now, and men didn’t cry. Men kept those soft emotions to themselves.
No, Ron wouldn’t ever cry about any of the things he had to do while he helped Harry find and destroy the Horcruxes. Only two things made him cry in those seven years.
The first time, he cried when his father was murdered in Diagon Alley.
Now, a year later, Ron saw what was left of his family’s home for the first time. Standing with Harry’s arm around his shoulders and Hermione’s arm around his waist, Ron finally cried because Death Eaters had burned the Burrow.