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  1. LazyChaos on Chapter 7 Sun 03 Dec 2023 03:44PM UTC

    To me canon Ron is almost... a little worse? Mostly because he's supposed to be her friend and I always view betrayal of trust and friendship as far worse than when there isn't that friendship or trust involved. That's definitely me projecting (when I was a kid I was bullied severely, to the point that I had to move between 6 or 7 different schools in 6 years before being homeschooled and even with as bad as that got, it's the people I trusted that hurt me that I don't think I can ever really forgive). But, like, for as horrible as Draco was, he never claimed to be her friend and I don't think he is ever shown to have sent her into tears the way Ron did. Ron however was and he belittled her intelligence, made Harry choose between them or turned Harry away from her, all sorts of little chip away things and big things and he doesn't have the "excuse" of being basically brainwashed. He's described as being super loyal but I'm not seeing the loyalty. And after he left, during the hunt, I don't know how she would be able to trust him in a romantic relationship. Like, yeah, he was young and was being affected by the horcrux... but so was she. And he's just constantly shown as having anger issues, and you just know that Molly would be one of Those™ mother in laws. lol

    Sorry, I have thoughts on that character. lol I don't understand how he was supposedly the author's wish fulfillment character when he's just so... ugh. Though given how she acts, maybe I can see it.

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    1. Tinycatwrites on Chapter 7 Tue 05 Dec 2023 01:03PM UTC

      I'm so sorry you went through that! I actually agree that he was worse. I've read a few stories where she describes it well as what Ron has said to her being worse because he broke her heart where when Draco said things to her she hadn't given him that trust to break.

      Agreed with the leaving. How she could trust that when times were hard he wouldn't leave is beyond me. Harry, I could see because he always sided with him and had so few people that I think he would forgive Ron for anything but I don't see how she could ever be anything with him.

      I have many, many unkind feelings about Molly. She was my unsaid reason for Arthur not testifying. I didn't write it but in my head she doesn't let him. I see her as the type to use her hysteria as a weapon and I just didn't want to write it because it made me feel bitter.

      Ahh yes I agree with your last statement too. I stake JKR's Weasley wish fulfillment up with her many, many failings.

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      1. Account Deleted on Chapter 7 Wed 13 Dec 2023 06:17AM UTC

        omggg the both of yall are SO REAL for all these comments, bc this is exactly how i feel !!!!

        i never understood how Hermione stayed friends with Harry or Ron, because even in the books they had a tendency of being two against one. Then, that time they got sooo upset with her over a BROOM. and dont even get me started on Ronald Weasley, i actually cant stand him omg 😭 like i will never see how Hermione could've ended up with him. Even for all that Draco was, he was better than Ron, and thats not me being bias either.

        like anybody but Ron would've been better, bc i feel like he hardly respected her for who she was. also, like yall said, he was supposed to be her friend and the way he treated her sometimes, he might as well have been Draco. not to mention, he was horrible to Harry too...during GOF and then the horcrux hunt. I would've knocked him square in the jaw so many times.

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