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Do you realise what these questions have done to me. Do you

• Hermione realises she likes Ron when she throws her arms around him and hugs him after he tells her he’ll help with Buckbeak’s appeal in PoA and realises that his hair smells really good. She does what any sensible woman does in that situation, and completely ignores it
• Ron realises he likes Hermione when he’s kissing Lavender and all he can think about is what it would be like to kiss Hermione and it just sort of hits him
• but that doesn’t mean they both don’t like/lust after Viktor and Lavender bc it is totally possible to like more than one person at once
• when Harry breaks up with Ginny, they chat about it and Ron says something like “well, it wouldn’t make sense to carry on a relationship with everything that’s going on” and Hermione looks him in the eye and says, “no, it wouldn’t but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t love him still” and he says “or that he doesn’t love her” and they both know who they’re talking about
• in the days and weeks following the battle, they walk around holding hands and she’ll rest his head on his shoulder or he’ll put his in her lap and none of their friends or family say anything but they’re all so happy for them, even in the midst of all that has happened
• they keep sneaking off to snog in private in the most ridiculous places, because they’re both living in The Burrow and there’s no privacy there at the best of times, and in the days surrounding Fred’s funeral, with so many people around it’s even worse. They end up in the chicken coop most days because that’s the most secluded spot they can find and to this day that sound of chickens clucking and pecking around is a really weird aphrodisiac for Ron
• they’re also so. damn. happy. when they’re with each other and that makes them so feel so guilty because of everything they’ve been through, but then on other occasions they’re just so grateful to be alive. The only person who really understands is the other, and so when one or other of them breaks down crying in the middle of a make-out session, they just hold each other until they’re done, because they, of everyone else on Earth, get it. Really, they do
• the first time they have sex  it’s awkward and uncomfortable and anti-climactic in more ways than one and far too quick and just generally terrible, and Hermione is stressing about it to Ginny, wondering if it’ll ever get better or if she’s totally unskilled at it, and Ginny just rolls her eyes and tells Hermione she’s doing it totally wrong. And Hermione just stares, bc as far as she’s aware, Ginny and Harry haven’t done that yet and how did she get that much experience?! So Ginny loans her her stack of Mills and Boon romances, and Hermione learns a few things, and it gets better from there. Much, much better
• Hermione realises Ron loves her when they take an aeroplane to Australia to fetch her parents, and even though Ron is clearly genuinely terrified by the contraption, he doesn’t say anything at all and makes sure to look after her when she’s worried about finding Dr and Dr Granger
• Ron realises Hermione loves him when she leaps off the Hogwarts’ Express and into his arms at the end of her first term and full on snogs him in front of the entire world (or so it seems) even though she’s 600% an anti-PDA girl bc she’s missed him so much
• they live at Grimmauld Place with Harry and Ginny for a little while, then they rent a flat in London which neither of them really like, then they buy a house in Warwickshire 20 minutes away from her parents, so Dr and Dr Granger don’t have to rely on magic to visit them
• the first time they have a full on blow-out argument, Hermione starts crying before bed bc she’s read that you mustn’t go to sleep on a fight but she’s still really mad at Ron and doesn’t want to forgive him, and she tells him this and he storms out in exasperation and she cries harder, thinking that’s it
• but then he returns 10 minutes later carrying a hand painted sign that says “I love you more than anything but right now I really dislike you and can’t stand to be around you” and she laughs so much she cries (good tears this time, not bad)
• in the future, that sign gets a lot of use but it basically saves their marriage
• both of them were so loved as children and still do love their parents so, so much, but Ron absolutely refuses to have as many children as his parents (bc he knows the harsh reality of poverty and not enough and constant fighting for attention) and Hermione absolutely refuses to have just one child (bc she knows the harsh reality of crippling loneliness and stunted social skills). So they compromise, and decide they’ll have three
• Rose is planned (bc of course, it’s Hermione). When she’s nearly 2, they start talking about having another one, at some point. Hermione gets pregnant within the month
• and then the third time just doesn’t happen. They try for years and there’s no real hard and fast explanation as to why it’s worked twice but now just won’t. They’re genuinely devastated, but they realise that they have two perfect children already, and after everything else that’s happened to them they both figure that not being able to have a third child is not the worst
• when Crookshanks eventually dies, they’re both so saddened they swear they’ll never get another cat bc they can’t stand such heartache again. Two weeks later, Ron finds a stray kitten behind the bins in the park and the rest is history…
• when Rose starts dating Scorpius Malfoy, Ron makes a few jokes about it but generally accepts it; it’s Hermione who’s horrified by her daughter and a Malfoy bc all she can think about is being tortured in his family home. Ron brings her round bc he can see how much Scorpius means to Rose, but he forbids his daughter from ever going into that drawing room
• Ron drags Hermione to every Cannons home game, and when they’re old and white-haired and can hardly walk, they stop going bc it’s just too much exertion and too cold in the stands. They chariman of the Cannons hears about this and gives them both free tickets in the Top Box for as long as they live. Ron tells Hermione that this is as exciting as his wedding day, and she loves him so much she doesn’t divorce him for it
• when he dies, she refuses all memorials to him except them naming of his chair in the Cannons Top Box the Ronald B. Weasley Memorial Seat and when she tells Ginny this, she swears she hears him laughing