#justinron

third year is when justin realizes that ron is going to be a problem for him – he has a hard time paying attention in herbology but it’s partially his fault because he was the one who chose their workstation

justin is very talkative and outgoing, but once he realizes that he has a crush on ron, he has a hard time talking to him like a normal person. ron is oblivious

ron thinks justin is cute but he hasn’t admitted to himself that he likes boys so he’s a little confused when he starts dreaming about kissing him – that’s a dream he doesn’t want interpreted

at the end of third year ron overhears some of the hufflepuffs lovingly teasing justin about his crush and it’s like everything clicks into place for ron

before they all go home, ron is determined to find justin and talk to him about it, but... it’s ron and the convo is pretty awkward

but it goes well and they decide to write letters to each other all summer (cue all the cute awkward letters lol)

anyway, at the beginning of fourth year they start secretly dating (hannah and ernie both know because justin is bad at secrets but ron hasn’t told anyone)

“dating” as in... meeting up between classes, sometimes they sneak out after curfew, most of the time they pretend they have to study or something and go somewhere they can be alone so no one finds out

justin wants to go to the yule ball together and tell everyone but ron isn’t sure. they don’t break up but they end up going with other people and justin might try to make ron jealous (spoiler alert: it works)

in the middle of a song, ron goes up to justin and kisses him in front of everyone – all of ron’s friends are relieved because now they can stop pretending they don’t know

they become that couple... you know, the ones who always sit just a little too close, but everyone’s happy for them so they don’t mind too much