fic. triptych. ron.

[marginalia]

Triptych: Ron
part one of a series. unoriginal, i'm sure, but allow me my delusions.


Ron didn't know. Hermione tried to tell him, Harry tried to hide it, and still he didn't know. He was strangely unaware.

Not entirely, of course. He knew things were horribly wrong, but he believed it would be sorted in the end. Nothing so dark would happen that it could not be reversed, that it could not be fought by those he was still innocent enough to trust.

Ron would do what he could, and even what he thought he couldn't, but he would never directly fight the dark. Ron fought always without reflection and wholeheartedly for those he loved.

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Pure fear ran like ice through his veins. Ron had read stories when he was small about brave wizards and young boys and quests, and he thought that he could be like them. He thought that he could stand up and kill the dragon and be not afraid.

The last night in the Burrow, he paged through the books where the beasts roared and thrashed, and the heroes stood stalwart and as still as Muggle art.

The dragon was nothing any of them could see, and the painted boy could not tell him that the fear never truly goes away.

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After, it is quiet, and Ron likes it that way. He has his flat and his work. He is living. There are still people worth living for.

He goes down to the pub some nights, some nights round the corner for a bit of wizard chess. Maurice makes tea the Muggle way, and Ron thinks it's worth the wait. They talk of everything behind the chatter of nothing, and Ron listens closer now, because he knows no victory is decisive.

Today he got an owl from Ginny, aglow with her studies. He thinks he will visit Dean in the spring.

Comments

[mellyflori.livejournal.com]

Oh Jaci... you know I don't read a lot of HP stuff but this I love. The second one is my favorite because the images in it are so wonderfully vivid.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you so much, dear!

[dramaqueen-23.livejournal.com]

I wish to god I could write like you do. You are awesomely talented!

*applauds*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

you're too kind :) thank you!

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

Lovely, the second on is my favorite, I know exactly how Ron feels there.

I've actually gotten angry at fairytales for not being real enough to let me be brave enough. (If that makes any sense.)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

it does. the whole psychology of fairy tales fascinates me.

[dacro.livejournal.com]

Ron didn't know. Hermione tried to tell him, Harry tried to hide it, and still he didn't know.

Lovely opening. It's like a lyric.
*hugs*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you :)

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

omg how did I miss this HOW???

My friend.

*sob*

This is Ron. This is truly Ron.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i dunno, dude. you were busy and things. i even told you, i'm all "i wrote something with a happy ending" and you were all "busy!"

:)

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously I suck. I mean, damn.

[kay-cricketed.livejournal.com]

Oh... beautiful. So subtle and perfectly like him, and this is an absolutely amazing look at Ron. Thank you so much for this-- the ending is particularly well-done, and I loved the book with the dragons and the painted boy.

Fantastic. :)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you so much! i was rather partial to the book myself - thinking about details like that is part of what i really love about the potterverse.

and ron, oh, how i love ron.