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Fourth Year
Third Task
Switching bodies

Ron Bashing
Death of a Main Character

Death of a minor character

Ron Weasley
Harry Potter

To: lovesanimals for the bunny:

“Therein lies the sole reason that Ron is Harry’s friend. He only wants the glory left over from the boy-who-lived. Maybe if he plans hard enough, he and Harry can switch bodies. Then Ron can have all the “adventure and glory” to himself.”

Summary:
Fate is a strange being. Neutral in all things, with only thoughts of seeing her job done, she did have a sense of dry humor.
So, when he “Chosen One” was decried as fake, when he was scheduled to die at the hands of the enemy so others would rise together to fight this new/old one, she took a long look at the boy. This new “Chosen One” and saw the life her sister had laid out for him. She also saw the greed one supposedly close to him had underneath his outer shell, and decided that the people only wanted the façade, the shell to die so they could martyr him in their books and lives as Destiny ordered.
That did not mean the soul had to be the same though. And this other “boy” wished so hard to change places with the soon to be martyr, that she allowed it. Changing the two souls with memories the night of the third task. As both boys awoke to the day of the task, and their new lives.

Switching Tasks
Harry

Fate is a strange being. Neutral in all things, with only thoughts of seeing her job done, she did have a sense of dry humor.
So, when he “Chosen One” was decried as fake, when he was scheduled to die at the hands of the enemy so others would rise together to fight this new/old one, she took a long look at the boy. This new “Chosen One” and saw the life her sister had laid out for him. She also saw the greed one supposedly close to him had underneath his outer shell, and decided that the people only wanted the façade, the shell, to die so they could martyr him in their books and lives as Destiny ordered.
That did not mean the soul had to be the same though. And this other “boy” wished so hard to change places with the soon to be martyr, that she allowed it. Changing the two souls with memories the night of the third task. As both boys awoke to the day of the task, and their new lives.

Harry was the first to wake up and find himself in the wrong bed. He was in Ron’s smelly bed and not his own. And he wondered if he had walked in his sleep and got in bed there instead in his worry. With Ron finding his way to Harry’s bed instead.

However, as he woke up more, he noticed things. He could see without his glasses. Like the hair on his arms was red and not black. And his body and head itched like the time Aunt Petunia hadn’t allowed him to bathe.
He sniffed himself and made a face, he smelled as bad as Ron too.
Looking closer, he was wearing Ron’s bedclothes as well. What the hell?

He got out of bed and padded to the shower room and sinks, looking in the mirror there. Yup. He had switched bodies with Ron…. He had switched BODIES with RON. On the day of the third task to boot!
Ron! Who always claimed he wanted what he perceived Harry had. Yet he always took what he had for granted.
Harry got an evil grin on his face and went to get a set of towels from the shelf for a very long and cleansing shower. He wasn’t the Boy-Who-Lived anymore with the image that went with it. He had to make his own now. And THAT meant cleaning this body up and getting the body’s clothes clean. And not holding back on his schoolwork anymore due to offending others. Or getting in trouble at home.

He stripped out of the bed clothes and looked at himself, then got in the furthest shower and turned it on the warmest setting. Just letting it soak him down. Doing his hair several times to get it finally clean. Then working his way down. Slowly. Letting the water slush his body clean. Finding out that, yes, Ron was in puberty. Whereas he, like Harry, hadn’t been. And he recleaned himself after finding out about that fact.
Getting out of the shower and drying himself off, then heading back to the dorm. There he got the cleanest clothes Ron had in his trunk out and dressed. Put Ron’s dirty clothes in the hamper to be cleaned along with the towel and the sheets. Then grabbing Ron’s schoolwork as this was a task day so no classes. The next time they were in class would be testing for the end of year.

And from there he headed out to the Great Hall after grabbing Ron’s wand. Knowing that while Ron lamented about having hand me downs, even Harry had them growing up and it wasn’t until he went to Hogwarts that he got new clothes. Ron lamented on Harry getting a new wand while he got a hand me down. While Harry saw it as a hand-me-down from Riddle. His enemy. And because it was so well known he, as Harry, had it, he would never be allowed to stop using Riddle’s hand-me-down wand. Whereas Ron got a newer wand after breaking his old hand-me-down wand. And he could actually get new stuff with no problems if he applied himself to working more than he had to, to earn the money to do so. Harry’s money was under the control of others, and he wasn’t allowed to keep any extra money he earned for himself.

Yes, this would be a good restart of his life if it ended up being real.

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He planted himself in Ron’s spot and got himself some food. It was early yet, and only the other early risers were up and eating. Like Hermione. Who had her face buried in a book.
As time went on and more and more people showed up McGonagall was getting angry at the Ron in Harry’s body not showing up as he was supposed to be doing tournament stuff this morning before the event.

An hour later everyone got a good giggle as she was seen dragging him out by the ear, food dribbling out of his complaining mouth. And her going off on him being in the kitchen of all places.
He just had a good laugh and saluted the boy/idiot on his way out the door and to his PR doom.

For the tournament, itself, later that evening, he whinged and whined about not going first, but was shoved through finally and everyone could hear him screaming like a toddler wanting her mummy at the first turn and running out of there. To get blasted back by Moody to try again.

And again, and again, and again.

Harry started a roundel of Ring Around the Rosies which got others singing along. Going “We all Fall Down,” each time he got banished back inside the maze.

Finally, Moody went in with him to a point, and he did not return again. Did not scream again either. And Harry/Ron just chalked it up to Moody being the bad guy and killed the bugger like most the other Defense teachers they had had. Especially when the maze came down, showing Cedric as the winner, and no Ron around to be found.

Neither was the man pretending to be Moody, though they found the real thing in his rooms dead in a trunk by rumors.
And during the month everyone was searching for the “Poor Boy-Who-Lived”, a ministry worker who was a “mudblood” found he had been found in a cemetery across the country. Tortured to death. And buried in an unmarked grave as a Jr. John Doe.

Everyone put it on the fake Moody wanting revenge on The Potter Family, and let it lie after seeing he was reburied as a hero. And forgot about him. Harry/Ron worked odd jobs all summer in the town for extra money for his own things that year and extra afterwards. Leaving the Wizarding World after passing his OWLS as there was now nothing holding him there.

The war had started in earnest, and what was one more “disappeared” after all. As Ron, no one would look for a nobody like him.

Fin
5/22/2025