Ron, Jobs

[story645]

Long overdue Ron meta requested by stmargarets:

I would really like a list of all the occupations you've seen Ron shoved into in his post-Hogwarts life. You read all the fan fiction out there (not really, but I'll read almost anything Ron centric) so I'd love to know what other authors have dreamed up - and which occupations fit Ron.

Comments

[millieweasley]

I don't like most jobs Ron gets put into. I don't think he would really want to be an Auror (that's Harry's arena not his), I highly doubt he would want to go into his father and brother's footsteps and work in the Ministry, and I also doubt he'd want to work for his brothers (he has a inferiority complex, he has wanted nothing more than to make his mark appart from his brothers, so why work for them?)

When I needed a job for him in Spirits I made him a recruiter for the Chudley Canons, and that is the type of position I could see him in. Recruiter, manager - something that allows him to use his strategic knowledge, his love for the game but still would keep him away from the spotlight (because lets face it, Ron is not good with spotlight. He tense up and he fails.)

I don't know if it makes any sense, but I'm happy with it at least.

[story645]

I had that job in the back of my mind, I really did, and somehow forgot it, probably cause I was juggling five zillion other jobs, sorry. I agree with you. I've also seen sports-physical therapist, and both work fine for me for exactly the reasons that you've listed.

[lizbee]

Great post! I must admit that I have trouble finding jobs for all the kids, and my only recent flash of genius was making Ginny a freelance curse-breaker, and letting Hermione be a librarian.

I must admit that I did have glamour and action in mind when I made Ron (and Harry) Aurors in GML, but I also wanted to write a mystery about Aurors. I could have just put Harry alone into the job, but I really wanted to hit him (and the reader) over the head with the irony of Ron being a better Auror than Harry.

On the other hand, I couldn't imagine putting anyone in a job for shipping purposes alone...

[story645]

irony of Ron being a better Auror than Harry.
That was probably tghe other thing I adored about GML, but then again in your verse, Ron was an auror to the core, and Harry wasn;t as good and it just fit.

Librarian!Hermione and curse-breaker!Ginny sound interesting, and I can see both working actually. Hermione would have a feild day as a reference librarian, though poor people who asked her for help.

And I don't really think authors put chars in jobs for ships alone, but after the tenth Hermione's prgenant and Ron's an auror/in auror training fic, it starts becoming questionable.

[kathy_elaine]

I've kind of always viewed the Ron-and-Harry-as-Aurors thing the way I've viewed the Sirius-and-James-as-Aurors thing . . . yeah, it appeals to him, but he just doesn't have the taste for it that Sirius/Harry does. He'd go to the end of the earth to stick by Harry, to help him, and to be able to protect him, in a way, but it's not the thing he'd love to be doing

[story645]

Oh, I'm also annoyed about her no teacher!Harry, cause the boy is a natural, so I make him a Quidditch player in my head, cause he likes it and is good at it, and I refuse to make him an auror, cause he will become one to catch the last DE's, but no, want the boy doing Happy things.

I definitely peg Hermione as one of those brilliant people working in academia for a teeny salaray, or working for the gov't in muggle relations or creatures rights, or something.

[kathy_elaine]

My whole thing with the Aurors is . . . I know there's no canon evidence for this, but I've always kind of pictured that Aurors-in-training aren't allowed significant others until their training is done . . . though, really, it's broken all of the time. This is why I've never set a fic in the future with Ron as an Auror . . . his relationship with Hermione means too much to him, and it's the one stable thing in his life that's left over after the war.

Harry I've made an Auror in that situation not so he can reunite with Ginny in some grand escapade, but because he's good at isolation, and he's kind of one-track-minded . . . he'd be all for not officially being with Ginny in order to "protect her" (which, I suppose, is canon so it's redundant). But I've also made the sneaking around thing a kind of tradition with Aurors-in-training. I've also made it more structured than it probably is, with dorms, and isolation from the real world for three years, etc.

Now I'm rambling, and you probably didn't want to hear any of this! :-P

[kathy_elaine]

Sorry, had to add that I think Harry would become an Auror after the fall of Voldemort in order to prevent anyone else from becoming the next Voldemort. He does what he needs to, nothing special, isn't any better at it than anyone else, but makes this his sort of extra job that no one else knows about. And perhaps he goes a bit overboard in bringing in some of the crazies that he does because of this . . .

Ugh, now I'm spinning a plot bunny on your comment thread. I'll leave now.

[weasley_girl_ca]

Wow, this was great to read! I love how you divided the post into glamour, the mundane and the in between. I loved lawyer!Ron in After the End.

I imagine Ron and Ginny as healers (though that's partly because of a story I'm writing where they are lead to this career based on certain events). Hermione as an unspeakable (b/c I imagine that a section of the Department of Mysteries is dedicated to discovering new things in magic...somewhere where she is constantly learning). And Harry as either an Auror or a Quidditch player.

[story645]

I'm sick of Healer!Ginny cause after the zillionth fic with it yeah, lost all patience. And after reading canon, I kind of got the impression that Ginny wouldn't be into being a healer, she'd want a flashier job like working for the twins or being a Quidditch player or an auror. My only issue with Hermione working as an unspeakable is that their feild seems more abstract, and Hermione likes seeing results to her endevours.

[sagacious_c]

Oooh, very interesting post, and great analysis of how the jobs fit with what we know about Ron. I've thought a lot about a job for Ron, but usually fleetingly as I read a fic and think, "no... this isn't what Ron would do."

I think my favorite jobs for Ron are colored by fics... I really like him as a Hogwarts DADA professor like in Silver Phoenix's "Bury the Hatchet" and I also like his stint as a bartender in After the End because, like you said, it's a good part time job and plus he seems like he'd be a fun guy in a bar. I also liked him as a lawyer because that at least was based on his work with Buckbeak, and it seemed like something that got him energized.

But now after HBP I'm not sure what job fits best... He was kind of mean to the little kids, so I'm not sure about him as a teacher anymore.

[story645]

I know my favorite jobs for him are colored by fics. I got turned off of auror cause it's overdone, so lots of fics screwing it up got me thinking on how they screw it up, and yeah, once I'm analyzing the job, I start getting biases towards or against it.

I was never sure about what job would be good for him, still waiting to see.