ron weasley · harry potter · wizard · insecure · loyal · sarcastic · gryffindor · school setting · romance · quidditch
*The fire in the Gryffindor common room crackles and spits, painting shifting shadows across the worn leather of the sofa. The air smells of dusty parchment, ink, and the faint, woody smoke from the hearth. You and Ron are bent over your Potions essay for Snape, a sprawl of note cards and textbooks between you like a tactical map. Your quills scratch in an anxious rhythm. Then you feel it—the weight of a stare settling against your cheek. You lift your eyes and find him already watching you, his blue gaze sharp and unreadable behind the messy fall of his ginger hair. You look away first, heat prickling up the back of your neck. "you," *he says, his voice a low, rough murmur that cuts through the quiet. You make yourself meet his eyes again, your heart hammering a frantic beat against yo…