Ron and Ginny’s Relationship
“You’d better get along to the hospital wing, Weasley, you’re bleeding.” “Not much,” said Ron, hastily wiping the cut over his eye with his sleeve. “Professor, I wanted to watch my sister being Sorted —”
Ron caring more about watching Ginny get sorted then the gash above his eye.
“But you haven’t really got to know Mrs. Norris,” Ron told her bracingly. “Honestly, we’re much better off without her.” Ginny’s lip trembled. “Stuff like this doesn’t often happen at Hogwarts,” Ron assured her. “They’ll catch the maniac who did it and have him out of here in no time. I just hope he’s got time to Petrify Filch before he’s expelled. I’m only joking —” Ron added hastily as Ginny blanched.
Ron trying to comfort Ginny.
“That’s what I told Ginny,” said Percy fiercely, “but she still seems to think you’re going to be expelled, I’ve never seen her so upset, crying her eyes out, you might think of her, all the first years are thoroughly overexcited by this business —”
“You don’t care about Ginny,” said Ron, whose ears were now reddening.
Ron getting offended at Percy’s implication that Ron didn’t care about Ginny and implying he cares more about her then Percy does.
But Harry didn’t care, he was one-up on Malfoy, and that was worth five points from Gryffindor any day. Malfoy was looking furious, and as Ginny passed him to enter her classroom, he yelled spitefully after her, “I don’t think Potter liked your valentine much!”
Ginny covered her face with her hands and ran into class. Snarling, Ron pulled out his wand, too, but Harry pulled him away. Ron didn’t need to spend the whole of Charms belching slugs.
Ron almost cursing Draco for making Ginny cry.
Just then, Ginny Weasley came over and sat down next to Ron. She looked tense and nervous, and Harry noticed that her hands were twisting in her lap.
“What’s up?” said Ron, helping himself to more porridge.
Ginny didn’t say anything, but glanced up and down the Gryffindor table with a scared look on her face that reminded Harry of someone, though he couldn’t think who.
“Spit it out,” said Ron, watching her.
Harry suddenly realized who Ginny looked like. She was rocking backward and forward slightly in her chair, exactly like Dobby did when he was teetering on the edge of revealing forbidden information.
“I’ve got to tell you something,” Ginny mumbled, carefully not looking at Harry.
Out of the four brothers at that school it was Ron Ginny went to about the diary.
“I’m going to go and ask the driver what’s going on,” came Hermione’s voice. Harry felt her pass him, heard the door slide open again, and then a thud and two loud squeals of pain.
“I was looking for Ron —”
When the train suddenly stops and the lights all go out, once again it’s Ron out of all her brothers Ginny looks for.
“Come on, Ron, you were always saying how boring Scabbers was,” said Fred bracingly “And he’s been off-color for ages, he was wasting away. It was probably better for him to snuff it quickly — one swallow — he probably didn’t feel a thing.”
“Fred!” said Ginny indignantly.
Ginny get pisses at Fred on Ron’s behalf.
“Er — why are you calling that owl Pig?” Harry asked Ron.
“Because he’s being stupid,” said Ginny. “Its proper name is Pigwidgeon.”
“Yeah, and that’s not a stupid name at all,” said Ron sarcastically. “Ginny named him,” he explained to Harry.
Ron let Ginny name his owl, he didn’t like it and tried to change it later, but it was still a sweet gesture.
Entering the common room, Harry looked around, and to his surprise he saw Ron sitting ashen-faced in a distant corner. Ginny was sitting with him, talking to him in what seemed to be a low, soothing voice.
“What’s up, Ron?” said Harry, joining them. Ron looked up at Harry, a sort of blind horror in his face.
“Why did I do it?” he said wildly. “I don’t know what made me do it!”
“What?” said Harry. “He — er — just asked Fleur Delacour to go to the ball with him,” said Ginny. She looked as though she was fighting back a smile, but she kept patting Ron’s arm sympathetically.
Ginny comforting Ron after he embarrassed himself to Fleur
GOF was released in 2000, that same year Steve Kloves was chosen to write the screenplay for the first Potter movie. In the three years between the release of GOF and OOTP there were two Potter movies and one friendship between JKR and Steve Kloves. (something to keep in mind)
“Au revoir, ’Arry,” said Fleur throatily, kissing him good-bye. Ron hurried forward, looking hopeful, but Ginny stuck out her foot and Ron fell, sprawling in the dust at Fleur’s feet. Furious, redfaced, and dirt-spattered, he hurried into the car without saying good-bye.
She goes from comforting Ron because he embarrassed himself in front of Fleur to purposely embarrassing him in front of her.
“Panicked,” Ginny said angrily, landing next to Demelza and examining her fat lip. “You prat, Ron, look at the state of her!”
“And Ginny, don’t call Ron a prat, you’re not the Captain of this team —”
“Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should —” (This is before what’s below)
“Right,” said Ginny, tossing her long red hair out of her face and glaring at Ron, “let’s get this straight once and for all. It is none of your business who I go out with or what I do with them, Ron —”
“Yeah, it is!” said Ron, just as angrily. “D’you think I want people saying my sister’s a —”
“A what?” shouted Ginny, drawing her wand. “A what, exactly?”
“He doesn’t mean anything, Ginny —” said Harry automatically, though the monster was roaring its approval of Ron’s words.
“Oh yes he does!” she said, flaring up at Harry. “Just because he’s never snogged anyone in his life, just because the best kiss he’s ever had is from our Auntie Muriel —”
“Shut your mouth!” bellowed Ron, bypassing red and turning maroon.
“No, I will not!” yelled Ginny, beside herself. “I’ve seen you with Phlegm, hoping she’ll kiss you on the cheek every time you see her, it’s pathetic! If you went out and got a bit of snogging done yourself, you wouldn’t mind so much that everyone else does it!”
Ron had pulled out his wand too; Harry stepped swiftly between them.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” Ron roared, trying to get a clear shot at Ginny around Harry, who was now standing in front of her with his arms outstretched. “Just because I don’t do it in public — !”
Ginny screamed with derisive laughter, trying to push Harry out of the way. “Been kissing Pigwidgeon, have you? Or have you got a picture of Auntie Muriel stashed under your pillow?”
“You—” A streak of orange light flew under Harry’s left arm and missed Ginny by inches; Harry pushed Ron up against the wall.
“Harry’s snogged Cho Chang!” shouted Ginny, who sounded close to tears now. “And Hermione snogged Viktor Krum, it’s only you who acts like it’s something disgusting, Ron, and that’s because you’ve got about as much experience as a twelve-year-old!”
Siblings fight but this coming from the Ginny that looks to Ron when she’s scared and needs someone to confide in is a bit hard to understand.
I’m stopping here because I’m getting lazy and a bit annoyed at all this but we all know what Ginny and Ron’s relationship is like from here on out. As you can see the siblings in the first four books are not the same siblings in the last three.
There is a negative shift in Ron and Ginny’s relationship. There is no clear cause for it. There is little to no Ron and Ginny interaction in OOTP, group interaction yes, but nothing indicative of a rift between them. Ron’s comments about Ginny and Corner are said mostly to Harry and Hermione. There is no arguments between them. Their relationship in OOTP is flat and stale and when HBP comes around Ginny’s mean to Ron.
Ron is clearly her favorite brother in the first four book than out of nowhere she doesn’t seem like him much. And it’s not just Ginny and Ron’s relationship, everything Ron Weasley takes a nosedive. (I’ll make post on those later)
And it all starts after Steve Kloves enters the picture.
