“Ron, our loyal Knight, will become a time traveler. He will be sent back in time to some point in the 19th century to live out the rest of his days at Albus Dumbledore, our venerable King. The exact mechanics of his journey in time are unclear, though we do believe it is unavoidable, and that it will in fact be the very move that enables Harry’s eventual defeat of Voldemort (the checkmate) and that it will also have something to do with the White Queen (Bellatrix). Though you may think us a couple of nutters for making such an outrageous claim, we do indeed have evidence. Lots and lots of evidence.”
– This Guy On An Old Harry Potter Forum Says Dumbledore Is A Time-Traveling Ron Weasley And I Want To Hear Him Out
“Ron makes it very clear on several occasions that he hates the color maroon. Could it be because he will eventually be ‘marooned’ in time?”
– Secret Ronbledore Pages Of Harry Potter Revealed By Court Order
“Others will try to smear and discredit me. This is how you will know I am telling the truth about Ronbledore.”
– “I regret pairing Ron and Hermione together (because Ron is a time-traveling Dumbledore),” JK Rowling Admits
This week, author J.K. Rowling shared her latest Harry Potter short story on Pottermore.com. Set twenty years after the events of the original series – an obvious nod to the time-traveling nature of Ron-as-Dumbledore, for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear — the story is written in the voice of Rita Skeeter, tabloid columnist and secret Continuity Anchor for the Time Wanderers (cf. Ronbledore: Tomorrow’s History Today, pp. 17-19, “Who guards the Clock Portals?”). Nominally centered around an outing to the Quidditch World Cup Finals, “Dumbledore’s Army Reunion” is in fact a highly coded series of revelations about the mechanics of Ron Weasley’s ultimate transformation into Ronbledore shortly after graduating from Hogwarts.
“There are celebrities – and then there are celebrities. We’ve seen many a famous face from the wizarding world grace the stands here in the Patagonian Desert – Ministers and Presidents, Celestina Warbeck, controversial American wizarding band The Bent-Winged Snitches – all have caused flurries of excitement, with crowd members scrambling for autographs and even casting Bridging Charms to reach the VIP boxes over the heads of the crowd.”
Leaving aside the obvious klaxon of the Patagonian Desert location (“I’m the first non-Brazilian person to travel backwards through time!”), Rowling’s mention of the Bent-Winged Snitches is a clear reference to the curvature of space-time (cf. Time Opens Its Door To Me: Ronbledore’s Event Horizon, canto IVV), bent almost entirely out of shape during Ron’s first unexpected time-reversal in 1993/1941 (the same year).
An amusing aside for the Ronbledore completist — if you reread The Deathly Hallows under the right conditions (during a physics blackout or in a perfect vacuum), immediately after this scene:
“Why are they all staring?” demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.
“Don’t let it worry you,” said Ron. “It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”
the face of Professor Trelawney (not Emma Thompson as Professor Trelawney) will momentarily hover out of the page and whisper “HE’S NOT WRONG” before dissolving into cinnamon. I myself have seen this happen twice.
“Sundry other members of the Army are here, but it is on these six that most interest is focused. Wherever there is a red head one may make an educated guess that it belongs to a Weasley, but it is difficult to tell whether it is George, Charlie or Percy, or a mysterious floating head that appears only long enough to mouth HELP ME before dissolving into an hourlong scream, which coincidentally also causes every clock within a 144-mile radius to break, reading only REDEEM THE TIME FOR THE HOUR IS EVIL.
The only one who is easy to recognise is Bill who, poor man, is grievously scarred from an encounter with a werewolf and yet somehow (enchantment? Love potion? Blackmail? Kidnap?) married the undeniably beautiful (though doubtless empty-headed) Fleur Delacour. Incidentally, we have lost fourteen hours today; the Ministry of Magic cannot account for them.
Later this afternoon the Quidditch Cup announcers will almost certainly reveal that history has changed yet again during lunch due to a slip in the time-stream, after which thousands of red hairs will drift heavily from the sky, vaporizing whatever surface they land on.
Ronbledore is coming. Ronbledore is already here. This is the darkest timeline.”
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All hail Ronbledore! All hail!
I cackled with glee as soon as I saw a new Ronbledore post.
I hear that men don’t often squee, but that’s what I did when I saw this was up. Unabashedly, unrepentantly, and oh-so-excitedly for our Ronbledore overlord.
Listen: Ronnie Weasley has come unstuck in time [and is Dumbledore].
I have been waiting for this ever since I heard she had written a new story about Harry Potter. RONBLEDORE LIVES (well, no, he doesn’t but you know.)
HE LIVES ON IN OUR HEARTS.
Can someone traveling across space and time truly ever die?
Yes. Terribly.
He is both dead and alive. And undead.
Schrodinger’s Ronbledore?
What a coincidence, that’s my knuckle tattoo! In related news, I am an eldritch abomination.
JK Rowling’s increasingly poor creative commerce decisions are worth it if only we continue to receive the sacrament of Ronbledore world without end. Amen
REDEEMING THE TIME BECAUSE THE HOUR IS EVIL.
Ronbledore cometh. Ronbledore hath come. Ronbledore shall come again. ALL HAIL RONBLEDORE.
I need that poster!
I’m convinced. It’s all clear to me now.
Whenever I wear my Ronbledore shirt, believers come up and whisper, “you too? There are more of us?” And I nod solemnly and we make the sign of the Deathly Hallows together.
Can’t wait for the sequel where Ronbledore gets stuck in time, and a postcard is sent to present day Harry telling Harry he needs the time-turner to travel to the Wild West and save Ronbledore from Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen, who has stolen Ronbledore’s wand and is using it. However, during the time warp, his wand breaks, and is forced to rely solely on his wits to survive.
I heard if you can get a steam-engine train up to 88mph you can generate magic.
Guys. I posted about this on Tumblr, but I am having a hard time dealing.
I finally joined Pottermore to read the new HP story, and I got sorted into Slytherin. I have always identified as a Ravenclaw. I don’t know how to feel anymore.
Pottermore is Bad at Magic. (Trust your own Sorting; that’s what the Hat would do.)
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I too was sorted into Slytherin while testing the Pottermore site to see if I would let my kids use it.
I’m torn between thinking it was WRONG WRONG WRONG and wondering what dark corners of my soul it peered into. Am I in fact a horrible monster who will someday tattoo my wrist, join a hate group and march upon the world, torturing the magickless for my own financial and power gains? Because however often Rowling told us that Slytherin wasn’t just for horrible people, come on: Slytherin was pretty much just for horrible people and this internet quiz says that is where I belong. And it didn’t give me a Harry Potter-out to pick Ravenclaw instead. I should probably start preparing my friends for the day I betray them horribly.
That exact thing happened to me a few years ago. For like ten minutes I was mad, and then I realized that it was totally, TOTALLY correct. I am a Slytherin. I have been one all along.
EDIT: To clarify, I have always found it absurd that one-quarter of all wizarding ten-year-olds are definitely going to grow up to be evil, unscrupulous pseudo-Nazis. Like, could you not have shown ONE decent Slytherin? (I guess we have Slughorn, who was pretty firmly on the side of the good guys, but was not a particularly likable person himself. And Snape, who ended up doing good things, but for shitty selfish reasons.)
So, anyway. Thinking back, I realized that although I love learning and am a huge nerd, if I am not personally interested in a subject I will put in only the minimum effort required to get a good grade and I will cut corners wherever I can. Would a true Ravenclaw have cut as many classes as I did in high school to sneak off and do work for the two classes I actually cared about? No, they would not.
Er, but isn’t that willingness to take shortcuts and break the rules a characteristic Griffyndor trait? Slytherin seems far more likely to play _exactly_ by the rules as written… to their own inexorable advantage. It’s the fascist way.
Me too, but I got sorted into Hufflepuff, so of course I haven’t gone back onto the site. I can’t decide if Slytherin would have been worse–it at least would feel more distinguished.
Um, Slytherin is the best house. You should feel awesome.
The whole Skeeter article is an anagram for this post #proof
Ohmygod:
“Ronbledore” = “Robed Loner”
OH MY GOD
“nor bled ore”
“bleed ron ro –”
“doe borne lo”
I don’t buy it
i don’t buy YOU
Buy me, I’m cheap.
Hmm, this “Ronbledore” theory dovetails nicely with my thesis on Herminerva McGranger. Ronbledore distracts the masses while Herminerva Gets It Done.
I wore my Ronbledore shirt in public and people thought it was a ship. It was a glorious opportunity to spread the truth.
Every time I scroll past this picture I see a naked white woman. Anyone else? (Try it)
Slouching, with legs together and arms across body, like The Birth of Venus – could it be that this is a reference to Ron’s “rebirth” as Dumbledore?
EXACTLY! Relieved I’m not the only one : )
#ronblegate #weasleytimeprison
"I have always found it absurd that one-quarter of all wizarding ten-year-olds are definitely going to grow up to be evil, unscrupulous pseudo-Nazis"
yep. On the other hand I could see randomly telling a bunch of ten year-olds they're "good" or "evil" being a self-fulfilling thing. Roping actually-terrible folks together with people who are told they're terrible, what could go wrong.
I stumbled across this anagram a long time ago: Ronald Bilius Weasley = Is really Albus D in Woe