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Stories Submitted for Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge

Fallen by splash1	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." -- Brendan Gill (color: amaranth) Set during HBP, Ron realizes that he really made a mess of his relationship with Hermione. He wants to apologize and fix things, but how?	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 40 genre: status:

Bedtime Stories by potterhead37	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. “If an idea is worth having once, it’s worth having twice” -- Tom Stoppard (color: beige) A naughty book prompts Hermione to make some much-desired changes...	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: NC-17 chapters: 1 reviews: 63 genre: status:

Memories by jaguarweasley	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments." -- Rose Kennedy. (color: saphire) Can something as trivial as a snowball fight trigger some of Ron's favorite memories to flashback?	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 26 genre: status:

Boxing Day by allybee	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Whenever I have to decide between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before." -- Mae West (color: coral) After a hard day's work, Ron receives a belated Christmas present from Hermione.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: NC-17 chapters: 1 reviews: 21 genre: status:

Conversation With McGonagall by MagikCat	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -- Oscar Wilde (color: black) McGonagall knows a lot more than her students realize — as Ron soon discovers.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 35 genre: status:

The Bed by annasmit	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "I never think of the future, it comes soon enough," -- Albert Einstein (color: grey) Ron and Hermione’s lives together in their bed. With their children, their family, and their friends but most importantly with each other.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 95 genre: status:

Believing by spidergirl	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends." -- Churton Collins (color: chocolate) Sometimes the biggest help comes from the most unexpected source.	ship: Hermione / Ron rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 30 genre: status:

The Art of Compromise by dresa	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict." -- Paxton Blair (color: cinnamon) Ron and Hermione struggle to learn the art of compromise.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 21 genre: status:

The Dobby Law by clara86	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -- Thomas Paine (color: chestnut) Just when Hermione is feeling defeated, someone unexpected gives her a new outlook.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 25 genre: status:

On Wearing Auburn - Not White by Michelleypie	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Explain nothing - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." -- Elbert Hubbard (color: auburn) On the eve of Harry and Ginny's wedding, Ron notices that he's upset Hermione and wonders what it could be about until his Auntie Muriel provides some insight.	ship: none / none rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 25 genre: status:

I Still Do by HiddenFirecracker

updated: Jan 21, 2008

Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." -- Madeleine L'Engle (color: taupe) Hermione keeps canceling lunch, and she knows what that means for his stomach. They don’t playfully fight like they used to. All he gets is a peck on the cheek at the end of the day, and he is the kind of man who definitely needs more than that. Ron doesn’t understand it, and he doesn’t like it.

ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 19 genre: status:

A Walk with Royalty by RonHermione33	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Fame is proof that people are gullible." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (color: eggplant) Ron and Hermione go on a little stroll. A missing moment from Deathly Hallows.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 32 genre: status:

A Room Without Books by rhweasley4evah	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Cicero (color: tan) Giving in isn't always easy, but sometimes the reward far surpasses the trouble.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 19 genre: status:

Finding Themselves by starkitty713	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." -- Lynn Hall (color: brown) This tells Ron's story while he was separated from Harry and Hermione and living at Shell Cottage. Bill and Fleur help Ron to deal with his worries and insecurities concerning his relationship with Hermione.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 14 genre: status:

A Risk Worth Taking by pili204	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." -- Geena Davis (color: ruby) To Ron, taking risks was just part of the past, until his future flashed before his eyes.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 30 genre: status:

Short Thoughts in the Dark by Eres	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Humour is also a way of saying something serious." -- T.S Eliot (color: charcoal) The pregnancy hormones do their dance and Hermione Granger-Weasley finds herself suddenly jealous of Ron’s Auror friend and stewing in the dark.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 24 genre: status:

Out of the Shadows by lauryne	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -– J.R.R. Tolkien (color: crimson) Hermione and Ron travel to Australia to retrieve Hermione’s parents. During a very difficult search, they learn that sometimes, the best way to find something is not to look quite so hard. And sometimes, the best things are discovered along the way.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: R chapters: 1 reviews: 36 genre: status:

Baby Talk by PureBloodMuggle	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." -- St. Francis de Sales (color: blue) Ron and Hermione pay Bill and Fleur a visit and get side tracked from their inital intention of why they're there in the first place.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: G chapters: 1 reviews: 23 genre: status:

Autumn Leaves and Marshmallows by MistressAriadne	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Truth springs from arguments amongst friends." -- David Hume (color: scarlet) Combine Hermione trying to prove a point, a change of seasons and Ron seeing something he shouldn't, and disaster is bound to strike. Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 25 genre: status:

Regret by erinanne	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” -- George Elliott (color: seashell) It is possible to apologize to someone and yet not forgive yourself.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 22 genre: status:

A Little Left To Give by MsChangifyourenasty	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "There are limits to self-indulgence, none to self-restraint." -- Gandhi (color: gold) “I think, when we’re old and grey, I’ll remember this.”	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 19 genre: status:

Sepia by RedSioda

updated: Jan 21, 2008

Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." -- Pearl S. Buck (color: sepia) There was a picture of Harry, Ron and herself on page four of The Daily Prophet. It had been only a few years since Harry defeated Voldemort, and the photograph seemed prematurely faded. It had the distinctive colour of memories.

ship: Ron / Hermione rating: R chapters: 1 reviews: 61 genre: status:

Priorities and Purposes by Azyne	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own home." -- Harold B. Lee (color: pear) Ron realises that nobody's perfect, and those that are close are the ones most often taken for granted. A Shell Cottage moment.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 23 genre: status:

Damage Control by punimpotter	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" -- Niels Bohr (color: olive) Ron gets a little brotherly advice at Shell Cottage. A DH missing moment.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 36 genre: status:

In The Bleak Midwinter by SnorkackCatcher

updated: Jan 21, 2008

Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -- Robert Frost (colour: cerise) Hermione Granger had grown to dread the winter. The season almost seemed to have a grudge against her. And so as she and Ron flew from summer in Britain to winter in Australia to search for her parents, she found she had both old and new issues to resolve.

ship: Ron / Hermione rating: R chapters: 1 reviews: 40 genre: status:

Remembering Red by PigWithHair	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." -- Lois Lowry (color: red) After a battle, Ron is cursed and loses his past, though there are his nightly dreams of the witch he desperately longs for...	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: NC-17 chapters: 1 reviews: 31 genre: status:

Beautiful Man by belladonna803	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (color: green) JKR tells us that aside from his Auror work, Ron helped out George at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes because he needed the money. Here's my take on why he might have needed it. :)	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG chapters: 1 reviews: 36 genre: status:

Spectrum by queenb23	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. “Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.” -- Charles Caleb Colton (color: white) She tries not to dwell on Ron’s absence. But try as she might, Hermione cannot shake the melancholy that lingers without him.	ship: Hermione / Ron rating: R chapters: 1 reviews: 27 genre: status:

First Christmas by Auds	updated: Jan 21, 2008
Written for the Ron/Hermione Colorful Winter Quote!Fic Challenge. "Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest." -- William Faulkner. (color: jade) Hermione worries about Christmas gifts, bum bruises, knobby sweaters, and knights in shining armor--and learns a little humility in the process.	ship: Ron / Hermione rating: PG-13 chapters: 1 reviews: 26 genre: status: