Well, as many people love to claim that Ron's not at fault for abandoning the Trio in Deathly Hallows (some Ron stans instead prefer to shift the blame to Harry instead by reading things out of context), I thought I'd analyze the entire scene here.
So, to start with, I really like Ron. But I do not think that you have to excuse everything a character does in order to like him. Now, Ron fans would probably just claim that I am lying about liking Ron, but I don't care about that.
Let's get started, shall we?
“So, would he have hidden the sword well away from Hogsmeade then? What d’you reckon, Ron? Ron?”
Harry looked around. For one bewildered moment he thought
that Ron had left the tent, then realized that Ron was lying in the
shadow of a lower bunk, looking stony.
“Oh, remembered me, have you?” he said.
Okay, so it begins with Harry looking for Ron, and he notices him lying next to a bunk "looking stony". He makes a comment asking whether Harry's remembered him.
Now, how does Harry respond to that?
"What?”
Ron snorted as he started up at the underside of the upper
bunk.
“You two carry on. Don’t let me spoil your fun.”
Perplexed, Harry looked to Hermione for help, but she shook
her head, apparently as nonplussed as he was.
“What’s the problem?” asked Harry.
Harry's understandably confused. He says "What?" and then exchanges a look with Hermione, who's similarly perplexed. And then, Harry asks him again what the problem was. He just says "What's the problem?" and nothing else.
“Problem? There’s no problem,” said Ron, still refusing to look
at Harry. “Not according to you, anyway.”
There were several plunks on the canvas over their heads. It
had started to rain.
“Well, you’ve obviously got a problem,” said Harry. “Spit it
out, will you?
Ron refuses to elaborate & just says that according to Harry, there's no problem. Harry replies by asking him to "spit out". Well, that maybe he considered rude, but how would you even respond to it? They were discussing Horcruxes & Ron's talking about how the others "remembered" him now, that Harry shouldn't let him "spoil their fun", and that Harry doesn't think there's a problem.
Considering the context, it's a valid thing to say.
Ron swung his long legs off the bed and sat up. He looked
mean, unlike himself.
“All right, I’ll spit it out. Don’t expect me to skip up and down
the tent because there’s some other damn thing we’ve got to find.
Just add it to the list of stuff you don’t know.”
“I don’t know?” repeated Harry. “I don’t know?”
Ron looks unlike his usual self as he then implies that he doesn't care about what they had found out, and that it's Harry's fault. That's why Harry repeated the same thing. He was just surprised and shocked.
Plunk, plunk, plunk. The rain was falling harder and heavier; it
pattered on the leaf-strewn bank all around them and into the river
chattering through the dark. Dread doused Harry’s jubilation. Ron
was saying exactly what he had suspected and feared him to be
thinking.
“It’s not like I’m not having the time of my life here,” said Ron,
“you know, with my arm mangled and nothing to eat and freezing
my backside off every night. I just hoped, you know, after we’d
been running round a few weeks, we’d have achieved something.
Ron talks about how the Horcrux hunting wasn't similar to his expectations.
Again, Harry responded calmly:
"I thought you knew what you’d signed up for,” said Harry.
“Yeah, I thought I did too.”
“So what part of it isn’t living up to expectations?” asked
Harry. Anger was coming to his defense now. “Did you think we’d
be staying in five-star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day?
Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by Christmas?"
For Harry using the phrase "back to Mummy", remember that Ron agreed to come to help even though Harry said that they shouldn't, and now he's upset that it's not working out & is sulking. Anyone would have gotten angry. Seriously, Ron just makes it sound as if Harry forced him to come along.
"We thought you knew what you were doing!” shouted Ron,
standing up, and his words pierced Harry like scalding knives. “We
thought Dumbledore had told you what to do, we thought you had
a real plan!”
“Ron!” said Hermione, this time clearly audible over the rain
thundering on the tent roof, but again, he ignored her.
“Well, sorry to let you down,” said Harry, his voice quite calm
even though he felt hollow, inadequate. “I’ve been straight with
you from the start, I told you everything Dumbledore told me.
And in case you haven’t noticed, we’ve found on Horcrux—”
Ron's words are scathing, but remarkably, Harry is STILL calm in his response. He's composing himself as he explains to Ron that he did tell them everything that he knew.
"Yeah, and we’re about as near getting rid of it as we are to
finding the rest of them—nowhere effing near in other words.”
“Take off the locket, Ron,” Hermione said, her voice unusually
high. “Please take it off. You wouldn’t be talking like this if you
hadn’t been wearing it all day.”
“Yeah, he would,” said Harry, who did not want excuses made
for Ron. “D’you think I haven’t noticed the two of you whispering
behind my back? D’you think I didn’t guess you were thinking this stuff?"
Well, Hermione IS being unfair by blaming it on the locket. We do know that Ron left even after he removed the locket, and like Harry said, they were whispering behind his back.
Further on:
"Harry we weren’t—”
“Don’t lie!” Ron hurled at her. “You said it too, you said you
were disappointed, you said you’d thought he had a bit more to go
on than—”
“I didn’t say it like that—Harry, I didn’t!” she cried.
The rain was pounding the tent, tears were pouring down Her-
mione’s face, and the excitement of a few minutes before had van-
ished as if it had never been, a short-lived firework that had flared
and died, leaving everything dark, wet, and cold. The sword of
Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three
teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be
dead.
“So why are you still here?” Harry asked Ron.
“Search me,” said Ron.
Read the last part. Harry asks him why he's still there and Ron replies by saying that he doesn't know. THAT is when Harry asks him to leave; Ron made it clear that he does not even want to remain there any more.
Remarkably, Harry is STILL replying calmly when he asks him to go home.
"Go home then,” said Harry.
“Yeah, maybe I will!” shouted Ron, and he took several steps
toward Harry, who did not back away. “Didn’t you hear what they
said about my sister? But you don’t give a rat’s fart, do you, it’s
only the Forbidden Forest, Harry I’ve-Faced-Worse Potter doesn’t
care what happens to her in there—well, I do, all right, giant spider
and mental stuff—”
Ron talks about how Harry doesn't care about what happens to Ginny.
And incredibly, Harry is STILL calm.
“I was only saying—she was with the others, they were with
Hagrid—”
“Yeah, I get it, you don’t care! And what about the rest of my
family, the Weasleys don’t need another kid injured, did you hear
that?”
“Yeah, I—”
“Not bothered what it meant, though?”
“Not bothered what it meant, though?”
“Ron!” said Hermione, forcing her way between them. “I don’t
think it means anything new has happened, anything we don’t
know about: think, Ron, Bill’s already scarred; plenty of people
must have seen that George has lost an ear by now, and you’re
supposed to be on your deathbed with spattergroit, I’m sure that’s
all he meant—”
“Oh, you’re sure, are you? Right then, well, I won’t bother
myself about them. It’s all right for you two, isn’t it, with your
parents safely out of the way—”
“My parents are dead !” Harry bellowed
There you go. Ron insults Harry's parents greatly by talking about how his parents are "safely out of the way". At this point, Harry, who has been remarkably calm overall, loses his temper.
Honestly, you know what happens after that. Harry responds to him by asking him to essentially fuck off, and Ron begins to escalate it physically and attack Harry (a fight was averted by Hermione's shield charm).
And then Ron left even AFTER having removed the locket. Don't blame it on the locket, it's a weak excuse.
So, to summarize:
Ron started the argument.
Harry replies in a mostly calm manner.
Ron insults Harry's dead parents upon which the latter finally loses his temper.
Ron leaves after removing the locket.
Yeah, sorry, I am still 100% going to blame Ron here.
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Would understand if you aren’t interested/don’t like the pairing. But here’s the Drabble request:
Harmione(Harry x Hermione) prompt:
“ i shouldn't think about you that way.”
I admit that in general I don't see particular appeal in this ship, nor in the choices that have been made in canon, but if you can settle for unrequited love/previous fling, this is my attemtp at Harmony/Harmione. If you're a Dramione fan, you can read this between Days of Our Lives and Lost See Lost (it will add an interesting bit of lore to the universe), otherwise, it's just a standalone about a messy situation.
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Hermione was speechless. And not like when you say you are but you actually just don’t know where to start. She really couldn’t think of a response, and she probably didn’t possess the composure to confusedly utter that too.
“I know I shouldn’t think about you that way, but…” Harry went on, prompting her to abruptly stop him before he could regret his next words.
“You’re right, you shouldn’t,” she hissed, furious and disappointed at the same time. Had he forgotten that this was supposed to be the best day of her life, one of the few drama-free ones, where she should just focus on being beautiful and smile for the photos? What had gone through his head to decide to confess his feelings for her less than an hour before she married his best friend?
“I think you should go. And say to your fiancée to come back in. I need help to fix my corset,” she dismissed him, wondering if the whole ceremony wasn't all a big mistake, the result of having deluded herself into thinking she could leave behind what had happened before the war.
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