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Ron's return, or what Ron wouldn't have done to find Harry and Hermione again ?

Alternative title: if you hate Ron Weasley you're wrong.

We all know what I'm talking about, but I feel like none of us have really discussed what Ron did before saving Harry's life in the frozen pond. Even I had not realized the lengths Ron went to in order to find Harry and Hermione again before I really looked into the situation. So let's compile the excerpts that give clues as to what happened.

It was snowing by the time Hermione took over the watch at midnight. Harry’s dreams were confused and disturbing: Nagini wove in and out of them, first through a wreath of Christmas roses. He woke repeatedly, panicky, convinced that somebody had called out to him in the distance, imagining that the wind whipping around the tent was footsteps or voices.

[...]

Here too snow lay on the trees all around and it was bitterly cold, but they were at least protected from the wind. They spent most of the day inside the tent, huddled for warmth around the useful bright blue flames that Hermione was adept at producing, and which could be scooped up and carried in a jar. Harry felt as though he was recuperating from some brief but severe illness, an impression reinforced by Hermione’s solicitousness. That afternoon fresh flakes drifted down upon them, so that even their sheltered clearing had a fresh dusting of powdery snow.

[...]

“Long story,” said Ron. “I’ve been looking for you for hours, it’s a big forest, isn’t it? And I was just thinking I’d have to go kip under a tree and wait for morning when I saw that dear coming and you following.”

[...]

“It doesn’t just turn the lights on and off,” said Ron. “I don’t know how it works or why it happened then and not any other time, because I’ve been wanting to come back ever since I left. But I was listening to the radio really early on Christmas morning and I heard… I heard you.”

[...]

“It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then - it just went straight through. It was here,” he touched a point close to his heart, “I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me, I knew what I was supposed to do. I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere…” “We were there,” said Harry. “We spent two nights there, and the second night I kept thinking I could hear someone moving around in the dark and calling out!” “Yeah, well, that would’ve been me,” said Ron. “Your protective spells work, anyway, because I couldn’t see you and I couldn’t hear you. I was sure you were around, though, so in the end I got in my sleeping bag and waited for one of you to appear. I thought you’d have to show yourselves when you packed up the tent.” “No, actually,” said Hermione. “We’ve been Disapparating under the Invisibility Cloak as an extra precaution. And we left really early, because as Harry says, we’d heard somebody blundering around.” “Well, I stayed on that hill all day,” said Ron. “I kept hoping you’d appear. But when it started to get dark I knew I must have missed you, so I clicked the Deluminator again, the blue light came out and went inside me, and I Disapparated and arrived here in these woods. I still couldn’t see you, so I just had to hope one of you would show yourselves in the end - and Harry did. Well, I saw the doe first, obviously.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K.Rowling

Now let's recap:

Very early on Christmas morning, Ron was listening to the radio. At some point, Ron heard Hermione talk about him inside the Deluminator. He activated the device, followed the blue light inside the garden and behind Bill and Fleur's shed before Disapparating and coming out on the side of the hill where there was snow everywhere.

We actually have very little information as to what Ron did that night and the day that followed, because Ron doesn't tell us what happened to him. It's very possible he tried to search for Harry and Hermione, calling out to them, but he might also have hidden himself to observe his surroundings and see where they might be. We also don't know whether he slept, that night - if he did then it was in the snow.

We do know that the second night, he completely disregarded his own safety, moving around what he supposed was Harry and Hermione's tent and calling out to them. At some point he realized that their protective spells were too strong, and that what he was doing was pointless. Probably exhausted, he retrieved a sleeping bag from his rucksack and either slept in the snow, or kept watching the area without sleeping. He had no tent, no survival gear, and was definitely inexperienced. But he disregarded the severe risks to his own health and remained (possibly slept) in the biting cold anyway.

And keep this in mind: if Ron wanted Harry and/or Hermione to notice him the way he did, then it means that he couldn't cast protective spells around him...which means that he couldn't light up a fire or do anything that might attract too much attention.

On December 26th, he remained on the hill for most of the day, and once it started getting dark (so around 4 pm, because sunset time on December 26th, 1997 was at 4.05 pm), Ron used the Deluminator again and appeared in the Forest of Dean, where it was "bitterly cold", windy, and where snow had fallen during the day. He looked for Harry and Hermione for hours again, and once he considered he'd have to wait for morning he decided he might "take a kip under a tree"...in the snow...again.

So Ron spent two entire days and almost three nights without anything to really warm him up, in the snow. He probably slept in the snow without a tent and without anything truly useful - if he didn't then he actually didn't sleep at all for two days. He also disregarded his own safety, calling out Harry and Hermione just to find them, which means, I repeat it, that he didn't cast protective spells around himself.

If you wanted more evidence that Ron downplays his own suffering and experiences, there you go.

I mean, the guy literally slept in the snow two nights on end and was ready to do it a third time, without any complaint, just to find Harry and Hermione again, and you Ron-basher dare tell me he's selfish ??

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