AN:

I was bored and decided to write a short-story. This one is about Ron. I have never written Ron as a character, though I don't really think my version is at all like him, at least not in the fourth book. Ron is one of my favorite characters, and I often feel like he gets the short end of the stick, that's why I decided to write a short-story about him. He is a bit to self-aware though, hehe.

He has been sent 20 years into the future from 1995, thinking it is a dream (I am way too lazy to make up why). What happens when he is mistaken for a Weasley cousin?

I OWN NOTHING! J.K DOES

WE ARE FAMILY

He was the last to wake up that Saturday morning.

Looking around his room the only bed that still had its blinds closed was Seamus', and that was really no surprise to Ron, because he always slept in on Saturdays. It had been three weeks since the new term had started. It was five weeks since Ron had humiliated Hermione at the Yule ball, something he felt terrible about. He was ashamed of himself to be honest, he didn't want to hurt her and now she would barely talk to him. He quickly got dressed and went down to the common room to see if Harry was there. Ron found Harry sitting in one of the chairs at the far end of the common room. Just as he was about to greet his friend, Harry spoke,

"What do you want Hugo?" Hugo? Who the hell was Hugo?

"Huh?" The boy lifted his head, and right away Ron could see that it was not Harry, though he looked extremely similar. There was no student that look uncannily like Harry, at least not anyone he knew of. The only explanation was that he was still asleep, and that this was a dream, where his name was Hugo?

"- I told you before that I will not help you practice for the try-out… Hugo? Did you hear a word I said?"

"Uhm, …no?"

"Hugo please, just ask Rose or Al to help you instead"

"Uhm, okay sure," Who the bloody hell was Rose and Al?

Ron knew when he wasn't welcome, so instead of waiting next to the Harry-half clone for this Rose and Al he went down to breakfast. Even in a dream you need to eat, right? Once he had reached the great hall he found it completely swarmed. He found it particularly weird that he didn't recognize any of the students faces, and that there was a literal gang of people with red hair. He analyzed the room, at the teachers table he saw a very old professor McGonagall and a man that looked sort of like an old Nev…

"There you are Hugo," he whipped his head around to a Ginny clone, what was with these clones.

The girl dragged Ron over to the cluster of other redheads, "Honestly Hugo, you need to start waking up earlier, you lose your entire day by sleeping it away. Soon you will be like your dad, saying 'Good Morning' at 14:00" "Good morning everybody," Ron shouted out to the crowd of people, smirking back at the Ginny clone.

He noticed as he sat down at the table, that a lot of the teens looked like his own siblings. Ron most seriously miss them to make up new versions of them in his dream like that.

"How did you sleep Hugo? Please tell me you haven't sent dad that letter?" a girl with frizzy red hair asked,

"What letter?" He asked,

"Oh your know as well as I do what letter!" the girl shouted back, getting up from her seat.

"You have been threatening to send that letter ever since you found out that me and Scorpius were dating", she gestured to the boy next to her, a boy very similar to Draco…

"He's a Malfoy!" he screamed out in shock, pointing at the guy.

"Yes! He bloody well is a Malfoy Hugo. And yes I am a Weasley , but you know what, I don't care and you should definitively not care. You are not the boss of me and neither you or dad will ever change what I feel. – come on Scorpius let's go, it seems like my brother is being a git like always."

The girl hmphed and left with the Malfoy in tow. Ron continued to sit still in shock, while everybody in the entire great hall stared at him. Who were these people he was dreaming about, Weasleys? And also, who would have thought that Ron could have such intricate dreams. After about a minute the entire clan was back to talking and laughing,

"You all right mate" another Harry clone asked him.

He simply nodded,

"You know she's right."

Ron looked down at his plate, quite embarrassed by the whole situation.

"You shouldn't send that letter? She should be allowed to tell your dad on her own merits. And I know that when he is ready Uncle Ron will accept her relationship," Uncle Ron! Was that … him? What the hell was this dream?

"I should probably apologize",

"Yeah you should mate," The Harry boy said while laughing.

Ron knew he had to speak to the girl, if she really thought this dream version of him wouldn't accept him he wanted her to know that he would.

He looked around for her just about everywhere. She was not in the Gryffindor common room, something that she might not even be able to. She was not in the room of requirement, though it seemed like it was impossible to open no matter what Ron tried. After searching for a good two hours he finally found her alone in the library. He slowly slid into the empty chair opposite of her.

"Hi,"

"Go away Hugo". "No, I am here to say that I am sorry. I am sorry I threatened to send that letter and I am sorry that judged you. You are right, everything you do should be your own decision, not mine. I promise you that I won't tell – da...dad," wow that felt strange, calling himself dad.

"You know Hugo, one day I think you will be just as wise as mum. You might look like a Weasley, but you have a lot of Granger in you," Granger?!

As in Hermione Granger?! Was really Ron that pathetic. His subconsciousness knew he would never get Hermione, so he made her into his dream-wife.

"Yeah, maybe, but I think that dad can be smart too sometimes,"

"Ha ha, that was a good one Hugo. He will never say anything as wise as you just did Hugo, when I tell him am dating Scorpius he will probably throw me out,"

"Never judge a book by its cover. - I mean he might surprise you. And if Scorpius Malfoy is only twice the man Draco Malfoy is then I think he will come around eventually."

"Thank you Hugo," she said while walking over to his side of the table,

"Really, you are the best brother anyone could ask for," she hugged Ron before gathering her stuff and leaving the library.

"I have the weirdest dreams," he mumbled to himself leaving as well to find what he could only assume to be his cousins/nephews and nieces?

"Hughie, We are playing wizard chess, come on!" The first Harry clone, the Ginny clone and a George/Fred clone were sitting around the round table in the middle of the common room.

"Alright, is it a tournament, or teams?" he asked.

"Tournament." The Ginny clone replied.

"You will play against James first, while Lily and I will play together." The four of them played three tournaments before calling it a day, and Ron was in fact very happy that he had played.

Not only did he annihilate the competition every game, but he also learned a couple of the Weasley kids names; the second Harry clone was Albus, the brother of James and Lily, his "sister" was Rose, and the George/Fred clone was in fact named Fred.

"God Hugo, when did you become that good. I mean you have always been better than us, but now even you might win against uncle Ron," James said.

Ron merely shrugged and reclined back in his chair. The truth about James and Lily's parentage had crept up on Ron during the chess game, seriously, did his subconsciousness have a secret desire to see Ginny and Harry married, with three children! God, it was almost, ALMOST too hard to imagine, but he had clearly done it in this dream so.

"How did your conversation with Rose go, by the way," Lily asked him after the older boys had left to find some of the other Weasley's.

"Fine, I told her that it wasn't right of me to judge her, and that da-dad will probably accept them, when she tells him." "Wow, it seems like you have grown up a lot during the night Hughie."

"Yeah I guess so…" Even though Ron was in a dream he was starting to get tired, maybe that's what happens when you are in a dream for too long?

He tried pinching his arm in order to wake himself up "AU,"

"What did you do Hughie?"

"Uhm, nothing". Maybe you need to go to sleep in such a lucid dream to be able to wake up?

"I think I will go to bed now Lily, see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, good night Hughes". He stumbled up the stairs and laid down on his bed again, falling asleep instantly.

When he woke up, yet again, he was back in own, real… hospital bed?

"What happened?" He asked seemingly to no one.

"Oh Ron you are awake," Hermione shouted hugging him, very forcefully he might add.

"Mate, you okay? We found you lying in the 4th floor corridor." Harry asked.

"Yeah, I was just asleep. Had this awfully weird dream as well, it was this weird future."

"But Ron, before we found you in the 4th floor corridor you were missing. For 15 hours!" Hermione exclaimed.

What! He had been missing, but he had only been asleep. No one had taken him anywhere, at least not that he knew of.

"Mr. Weasley I think I might be able to answer all of your questions. Now if you Mr. Potter and Miss Granger could step outside for a bit." Dumbledore entered the hospital wing.

Once they were alone he continued to talk.

"Now Mr. Weasley I know it might seem like you have just woken up from a very weird dream,"

"yeah you could say that," he mumbled.

"However, Mr. Weasley. I believe that you have not been asleep. In fact you were in fact in the future."

"You've got to be joking," he said in a quiet voice.

"You mean - you mean to tell me that was all real! That this Hugo that everyone thought I was, is – will in fact become my son. And that I have a daughter in the future that dates a Malfoy," He felt himself getting warmer, seriously wanting to lay his head on the pillow to wake up from THIS weird dream.

"Oh my- " he continued amazed. He- he marries Hermione?! And Harry marries his LITTLE SISTER! OH my go…

"Well, Mr. Weasley, I can't vouch for whatever it was you saw, but I do know that you were nowhere to be found at this school. And that you suddenly popped up in the 4th floor corridor. I will leave you know Mr. Weasley to see your friends again,"

"Wait! Professor, could you please just send in Hermione, I have to talk to her". Albus left the ward with a knowing smile on his mouth.

Hermione stormed in a few seconds later, asking what it was he wanted to speak with her for. Apologizes had never been Ron's strong suit.

But with a bit of inspiration from his recent trip he started: "I wanted to apologize to you Hermione," quite frankly Hermione looked flabbergasted.

"It was wrong of me what I did at the Yule ball. You are allowed to make all your own decisions without a bigmouthed idiot like me harassing you. I am sorry. I had no right to get mad at you,"

"No you did not Ronald Weasley," She replied harshly, before her face melted into a smile.

"But thank you, you have really grown up a lot in just one day huh," she said kissing his cheek.

"I have to go now Ron, thank you again for your apology."

When Harry entered the room Ron was still had his hand at the spot she had KISSED him!

20 years into the future

"Hey Hugo, how are you today?" His sister asked while he sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"I feel horrible!"

"Why is that, we sorted out all the problems yesterday?"

"Yesterday?"

"Yes… Yesterday?"

"Honestly Hugo have you hit your head or something?" his cousin Lily added.

"No! I just don't understand what you are taking about. I was bedridden all day yesterday. Not that any of you would know, no one came to look for me obviously." All his cousins looked at him like he had grown a second head.

"bu-but we spent basically the entire day together" Lily said,

"Yes, an- and you promised me you wouldn't send that letter to dad," his sister continued,

"do you think someone polyjuiced you?"

"You know what, I don't know Rose. However, I will tell you that even though I am still mad at you I will not send that letter, I promise."

"But if we didn't talk about this yesterday, who convinced you not to send the letter?", "Dad sent me an owl yesterday, saying that you are a young woman that should make her own choices, and when you do want to tell him about Scorpius he will respect and accept you. He also added that Ron Weasley can also be smart, which he wrote was very important. I promise you that I have no idea how he knows about you and Malfoy, but he clearly did."

"GUYS… OH MY GOD!" Rose Weasley shouted loud enough for the entire Great hall to hear.