Favourite Spn Relationships → Sam & Jack
Wait a second. Lonnie saying Will has "never been very good at taking care of himself" vs Mike always being the one whose self-reliant and takes care of others
Will has Joyce and Jonathan to take care of him, he didn't have to take care of himself as a child, he could be a kid when Lonnie wasn't being an ass.
Then we have Mike, where we have Karen saying "he'll come to me when he's ready" when, if your 12 year old is suffering the loss of his childhood best friend, you as the parent need to be the one reaching out to them. We have Mike clearly not having a close bond with Nancy, and not going to his mother unless he's at his absolute limit. We have Mike clothing and housing and generally taking care of another 12 year old when he's already living in an absolute nightmare.
Something something a kid "taking care of himself" is what abusers want, that Will didn't have that emotional neglect from his whole family because he had Joyce and Jonathan, but Mike takes care of himself because his family doesn't emotionally support him.
Harry and Ron having a date in Hogsmeade
I am nearly done with my slowest Prisoner of Azkaban reread in the world and I am, once again, upset at how many people in the fandom don’t like (or worse, fully hate on) Ron Weasley. He is SO GOOD. And he genuinely does the absolute most in the shrieking shack scene, holy shit. I’m talking falling down strategically on Sirius’ wand arm, “if you want to kill Harry you’ll have to kill us first” then DOUBLING DOWN “Did you hear what I said?” (Don’t even get me STARTED on how they tossed this line away to Hermione in the movie I am absolutely fuming), hexing Snape, volunteering IMMEDIATELY to CHAIN himself to a MASS MURDERER because he takes it as a personal affront that the pet rat he’s loved and cared for his entire childhood turned out to be a hideously evil human being. Did I mention he does all that with a severely broken leg?? Like he is white as a sheet, gripping Harry painfully just to stay upright, about to pass out at times and he STILL does everything in his power to protect his people. He is so so good I love him so much.
daily reminder that ron deserting harry because he was “jealous” was hermione’s interpretation of what had happened. harry himself was shocked and didn’t believe it when she first brought it up, but of course we as readers are supposed to believe her, because has dear hermione ever been wrong?
‘Oh, hello,’ said Ron. He was grinning, but it looked like a very odd, strained sort of grin.
‘Oh, right,’ said Ron. ‘I thought you might’ve told me if it was the Cloak… because it would’ve covered both of us, wouldn’t it? But you found another way, did you?’
Ron’s eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair. ‘It’s OK, you know, you can tell me the truth,’ he said. ‘If you don’t want everyone else to know, fine, but I don’t know why you’re bothering to lie, you didn’t get into trouble for it, did you? […]’ ‘I didn’t put my name in that Goblet! said Harry, starting to feel angry. ‘Yeah, OK,’ said Ron, in exactly the same sceptical tone as Cedric. ‘Only you said this morning you’d have done it last night, and no one would’ve seen you… I’m not stupid, you know.’
ron was not jealous of harry for being the centre of attention, ron was mad at harry because he thought harry was lying to him. he didn’t care that harry was the champion, he cared that harry didn’t tell him about entering, and after the fight started things got admittedly out of hand because gee fourteen-year-olds feelings. they had talked about entering the tournament together before and yeah, he was still wrong for not believing harry but that lasted a total of, like, twenty days, give or take. ron was never a bad friend.
One of the things that I almost never see Ron fans complain about as much as I think they could is the whole Prefect subplot that he has in OoTP. Cause pretty much, when Prefect letters come out before the start of the school year, legit EVERYONE is shocked when Ron gets the badge instead of Harry. It’s honestly a really interesting scene character-wise because NO ONE comes out of the situation looking good. The twins literally say the words “we thought that it would’ve been Harry,” and Molly takes a full page before she’s even able to comprehend that Ron has actually been singled out for having done something good. Even Hermione, who had been ecstatic when she thought that it was Harry who had got the letter, then has to do a bunch of backtracking and stuttering when she realizes that no, her fellow Gryffindor Prefect will in fact be Ron. It’s a really telling moment for Harry’s character as well, since it’s pretty much the only time when he gets a taste of Ron’s side of things. He’s jealous of his best friend for essentially the first time ever, and really struggles with how he feels about Ron “besting” him.
It’s honestly one of my favorite moments in the whole series, not only because it features something good happening for Ron, (not to mention that this is one of the only occasions outside of Philosopher’s Stone where Dumbledore formally acknowledges Ron’s badass-ery), but because it makes clear that there are other measures of bravery besides just *being Harry Potter*, a fact which can sometimes get a little lost in the kerfuffle of everything.
But then at the end of OoTP, R*wling just goes LMAO FUCK ALL OF THAT DEEP INTROSPECTION AND MEANING, because it turns out that in actuality, the only reason that Ron was made a Prefect was because Dumbledore thought that Harry “had enough on his plate already” and didn’t want to give him any more pressure. So Harry really was the worthier Gryffindor all along and had no reason to be jealous because obviously Ron is stupid and incompetent and can never once be better in anything.
Um…Excuse me, Joanne? WHY DID YOU RUIN THAT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT SCENE WITH SOME HALF-ASSED BULLSHIT????????
Ron Weasley deserved better.
• Ron’s full name is Ronald Bilius Weasley, the direct translation of the name is ‘having the god’s power’ ‘anger’ ‘cunning’
•“Ronald” is a name that has its roots in Old Norse language from the name ‘Ragnvald’, it was the name of many old kings, probably this is where the‘Weasley is Our King’ were referenced from.
•Ron’s middle name Bilius came from his uncle Bilius, who was a very humorous and funny man before he went crazy and die because of seeing a Grim.
•Ron is a Pisces. He was born on March 1st (3.1). If you reverse the birth number it’s ‘13’, an ominous number( Maybe this is why he got poisoned on his birthday in HBP). And unlike Harry and Ginny whose represent number is ‘7’—the lucky number, favored by gods. Hermione whose represent number is ‘9’—a number that represents virtues. Ron is the sixth son of the family. ‘6’ represents ‘Satan/Lucifer’ ‘Devil’ ‘The Beast’. I think JKR did this to reverse the trope. A kid who was born on an unlucky day and with bad omens, who was least loved in the family, turned out to be a kind and loyal friend.
•Ron’s first wand is his brother, Charlie’s old wand. It’s an Ash wood wand with unicorn hair. He later got his own wand because his dad Arthur won a prize and bought him one. It’s an Willow wood wand with unicorn hair. What’s interesting is that it is also the same wand wood of Lily Potter. It is said that Willow wood wand will only choose wizards with great magic potential.
•Ron is probably the tallest student in golden trio era. Many times the books described him to have long legs and arms. Since adult Harry is like 180+cm in the books and Ron is a head taller than him. By the end of the series Ron probably reach the height of 190+cm.