The Good Ol' Weasley Complex
Summary: A glimpse into the minds of the Weasley children that may just explain a few things about their behaviors.
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Chapter SIX: Ronald Weasley
As the sixth and youngest son in the family Ron has never felt special. He wasn't smart like Bill and Percy, athletic like Charlie, or great pranksters like the twins. And as the first girl actually born into the Weasley family for generations there was no question as to Ginny being special. He had Bill's old robe, Charlie's old wand, and Percy's old rat. His dress robes came from his Great Aunt Jessie's attic, his school books mostly came from whichever brother had yet to completely destroy the book they had used and his favorite possession was his Uncle Billius's old wizarding chess set. Everyone expected him to be just like his brothers so anything he managed to do well didn't matter since one of the five of them had more than likely done it already. Not that he actually tried in school, having been told too many times that he couldn't do something yet to do so now at Hogwarts.
He remembers being shoved from brother to brother when he was a kid. With only a year between Ginny and him, he had been his Mother's baby for the shortest amount of time. Instead basically being raised by a six-year-old Percy who already had his hands full with the twins.
Ron likes to pretend his family loves him instead of him being just another mouth to feed to his Father and another disappointment to the Mother who only ever wanted a daughter. He smiles, laughs, and play their little game of 'let's pretend' with them but at the end of the day he lays in bed hoping to fall asleep quickly so he can dream of himself being somewhere else...
...Somewhere he isn't constantly hounded for not having as good of grades as Bill and Percy.
Somewhere his Mother remembers that corned beef is Percy's favorite and he himself thought that type of meat tasted rather disgusting (I know, shocking right?!).
Somewhere his sweaters were light blue or even brown rather than Charlie's maroon.
Somewhere he could be sorted, not as 'Another Weasley', but as 'Ron'.
But it's hard to lie to himself even in his dreams.
To himself, the name Ronald Weasley has only ever meant one thing...
...It was the equivalent of saying 'Nothing Special'.
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The Good Ol' Weasley Complex
FanfictionActual summery inside. Your family shapes you growing up weither you want them to or not. And in a family with seven children... the things they instill in you may not all be sunshine and roses.
