Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2011-08-08 15:54:00 |
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Entry tags: | hp ficlets harry/ron, hp quill-it 100.3 |
HP ficlet: Hopeless Search [Harry/Ron, general]
Title: Hopeless Search
Author: celandineb
Fandom: HP
Pairing: Harry/Ron, implied Hermione/Ron
Rating: general
Length: 326 words
Summary: The Horcrux search is tearing Harry and Ron apart.
Note: For quill_it, 100.3, prompt 24, "frustrated".
This was worse than their fourth year, when Ron hadn't believed Harry when he said he hadn't put his name in the Goblet of Fire, and they didn't speak for weeks.
Harry knew that Ron was frustrated by their lack of progress in finding Horcruxes. Harry was, too, and so was Hermione. Even being able to destroy the one they had found would have been a help, since its very presence made them all more hopeless and angry with one another.
He couldn't even console Ron effectively. The three of them had agreed that whoever was on guard duty ought not to have to wear the locket. That meant that if Hermione was out of the tent, either Harry or Ron had the locket around his neck, and it didn't exactly put either of them in the mood for so much as a snog, far less anything more. Harry missed the sex. It was small consolation that Ron was in the same boat with Hermione. He wasn't exactly jealous that Ron fancied Hermione too, but it would have been difficult to cope with Ron's emotional upset and distance if Harry had known Ron was acting differently with Hermione.
But it was Ron's friendship that Harry missed most. More than that, he worried that in his frustration, Ron might decide to give the whole search up as a bad job. Hermione's parents were safely out of the way, whereas Harry understood that Ron was afraid for his family, and hated not having reliable information about what might be happening to them.
All Harry could do now was to hope that somehow one of them would come up with a new idea for where to search, what exactly to look for. He couldn't think beyond that, not really, but he held on to the slim hope that someday they would succeed, and then perhaps he and Ron could again be to each other what they had been before.