\u201cHave you seen this?\u201d Ginny was waving a copy of the Daily Prophet where Harry could see Ron\u2019s picture and a title about him and Lyra accompanied by generic slander of some kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, but I\u2019m not too surprised\u201d, Harry shrugged. \u201cI\u2019ve seen Ron in similar phases twice. Let me guess: we\u2019re all frauds, he has us all figured out, and we hate him because he knows the actual truth about us, but he\u2019s done covering for us and is ready to tell it all like it is\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty much, except this doesn\u2019t look like a phase\u201d, Ginny was fuming. \u201cIt looks like a final choice of personality. It\u2019s like he\u2019s been balancing between nice and nasty, and now he unapologetically chose nasty and feels like he found his true self. Honestly, Dean and I are serious and if he doesn\u2019t ask me to marry him soon, I\u2019ll ask him, just so that I can get the hell away from that place. He\u2019s constantly moping there like a dark cloud. Lyra, you might test that anti-Dementor spell on him. Fits his character perfectly\u201d, she managed a half-smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Hermione left him, he switched into that energy, and from there he decided that he feels more powerful being Harry Potter\u2019s enemy who can pretend to be a credible source of gossip, rather than being known as Harry Potter\u2019s stupid and useless friend, whom Hermione left because he was infantile and passive\u201d, Lyra nodded. \u201cIn his current state, he feels as if he removed the mental shackles that were binding him to the ground and took flight. He feels powerful when he\u2019s nasty and hateful. It\u2019s what weak people do when they want a cheap way of feeling powerful. He\u2019s getting more attention now and it\u2019s making him feel valuable. It\u2019s much easier than facing the actual issues with his character and doing something constructive\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ginny looked at her with mouth agape, and then at Harry. \u201cNo wonder you married her and not me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Harry smiled uncomfortably and changed the subject. \u201cI don\u2019t think his state of mind will improve until he finds some reason to be a positive person again, something that will give him more energy than he thinks he\u2019s getting from hate and resentment. Is he seeing anyone? It would be good for him if he fell in love\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish. That would have him leave the house at least once in a while. No, he\u2019s just sitting there being a mommy\u2019s boy and hating on Harry the fake Messiah, Hermione the back-stabbing traitor and Lyra the Death Eater who deceived everybody. Honestly, Harry, by Merlin\u2019s beard, I will hex him so hard that even Mom won\u2019t recognize him and will think it\u2019s a swollen garden gnome\u201d, she was pacing angrily. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what kind of a girl would want him when he\u2019s like that, unless she\u2019s a fellow Dementor\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, hi\u201d, she noticed Hermione who came to see what the commotion is about. \u201cYou dodged that bullet so hard; only it\u2019s not even a bullet, it\u2019s a cursed dart of fuck my life\u201d, Ginny smiled at her. \u201cI know, he\u2019s my brother, I should be on his side, but honestly if we had another war I don\u2019t care whose side I\u2019m on, as long as I\u2019m allowed to fire curses at him. Please tell me what it feels like to be permanently rid of him because I want to live vicariously\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hermione hugged her and laughed. \u201cYeah, Ron will do that to people. What does it feel like? It doesn\u2019t feel like I replaced him with another person. It feels like I replaced the version of myself that had to tiptoe around his weaknesses and insecurities, with the version of myself that can just exist at full volume\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI envy you so much\u201d, Ginny sighed. \u201cI hope to become Mrs. Dean Thomas soon and fly into the sunset, before I end up in St. Mungo in a room next to Neville\u2019s poor parents\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHave you seen this?\u201d Ginny was waving a copy of the Daily Prophet where Harry could see Ron\u2019s picture and a title about him and Lyra accompanied by generic slander of some kind. \u201cNo, but I\u2019m not too surprised\u201d, Harry … Continue reading