Order Only: Private message to Ron

[alt_harry]

I should have been there with you tonight.

Remember? I was Sorted into Gryffindor. I ought to be a Gryffindor, not a Slytherin.

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[alt_ron]

I remember, yeah. But who knows what He might've done if you were.

I mean there's just no telling, right? He's completely bleedin mad.

I keep wondering if I'd tried, if I could've got my wand out before one of them stopped me.

[alt_harry]

I was wondering the same thing. He was distracted. They all were.

Not distracted enough, though.

[alt_ron]

No, and it was over before I really realised what was happening.

I mean, that seems daft now, but- it just didn't seem real, y'know? When he started hurting her. And I think I was sort of dazed from lying there. I wasn't asleep, but it'd been a long time, lying on my face, y'know? And then all of a sudden she was on the floor, screaming. She was really strong, y'know? When she was thrashing around, you could feel it through the stones of the floor.

And then it was just over. Just- too late to do anything.

[alt_harry]

I tried talking to him. During.

It was like I wasn't even talking.

Maybe he was right, moving me out of Gryffindor. I didn't -- I don't know what I should have done. I was so afraid of making things worse.

[alt_ron]

You were the only one who stood up to him at all.

Think that makes you more Gryffindor than any of the rest of us.