Private message to Mum

[alt_ginny]

So Ron told me he'd owl you with the news. There were twenty-one students who got pins today from Councilwizards saying that they were being honoured with consideration and maybe if they were good enough they'd get to be Councilwizards, even though they're all still in school and Hydra Lestrange hasn't even sat OWLs yet, she's the same year as me.

Ron was one of them.

We talked this afternoon, he took me for a walk down by the lake and we talked about how he doesn't want this never sought this sort of attention. And why he wants to be an Auror. He said all the things you'd expect but also he talked about how our family is sometimes a target and treated unfairly, and he wants people to feel like it's not safe to mess with us. And of course being a Councilwizard is even better in some ways, but -- 

You know sometimes it's hard being a Weasley? There are so many MANY people who think they're better than we were. Part of what I liked about that tia modeling is it made me feel like I was better than the people who snubbed me. It didn't work forever, though. 

I thought for a long time it didn't bother Ron because he was a boy, but of course it does, he just hides it better. Anyway, of course mixing with the others who got pins means a lot of time spent with people who think their families are better than ours. He's not looking forward to that. 

Joining the Council was never something he'd thought to try for. And I think he's frightened. Mum I didn't know what to say to him.  I still don't.