Title: The Reluctant Journal of Ron Weasley
Author: FelsGoddess
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Ron Weasley
Timeline: A couple years after DH
Summary: Ron's reluctant journal. Written for the 2011 Dear Diary Challenge. The challenge it to write a diary for one year. This will be updated at least twice a month. Because this is a diary, the entries vary from short to long.

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My name is Ronald Bil-

This is the life and times of

Recordings of Auror in training

Oh, forget it.

As part of the Auror training, I have to keep a journal. It's supposed to keep my head clear or some rubbish like that. I'd love to see Moody's diary.

So, I'm Ron Weasley: best friend to Harry Potter (yeah, THAT Harry Potter) and boyfriend to Hermione Granger. I'm the sixth child of Molly and Arthur Weasley. Auror-in-training. Hogwarts graduate.

Auror training is intense. My instructors randomly take us to the middle of nowhere for days at a time. We can't contact anyone. Hermione's used to it by now. She doesn't like it, naturally. Ginny isn't as worried about Harry. Of course, she's off becoming a professional Quidditch player. She spends weeks away at a time. I almost dread when she comes back. She lives with Hermione when she's in town. Well, technically. She comes to Harry and me's flat and the two of them disappear. I don't like it. Hermione won't let me do anything to Harry so I'm reduced to glaring. Hey now, don't laugh. He flinches and Hermione does not keep me on a short leash. Take that, Bilson. At least I have a girlfriend.

Right, back to this journal thing. Hermione spends a lot of time at my place. Auror rules say we can't cohabitate, not that Hermione would go for it anyway. Plus, if Hermione and I lived together, nothing would stop Harry and Ginny from doing it too. It was a safety net. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I'm avoiding the issue. I just need to come out and say it:

Harry just proposed to my baby sister four hours ago.

Charlie, Bill, George, Percy and I are still trying to come up with way to stop it. We haven't ruled out locking her in a tower. Hermione snapped at us when she heard that. She said something about Ginny not being Rapunzel. I'm guessing she's some Muggle book character. Everyone Hermione references is a book character.

See the problem is that it's Harry Potter. If she were marrying some nobody, we could deal with him easily. The fact that my parents love him doesn't help at all. You'd think Mum and Dad would be upset about Ginny getting married. Nope. They are thrilled to have Harry as an official member of the family.

Traitors.

Don't get me wrong. Harry is a great guy. But this is my baby sister. Harry had to point out, in front of Hermione, that when I proposed Mr. Granger would feel similar. I wanted to smack him both for being right and for saying that I was going to ask Hermione to marry me.

I am going to do it, but you see, I have a plan. First, I'm going to get a year of being a professional Auror under my belt. Then I am going to find us a nice place to live. I want to be able to provide for our future family. I do plenty of things like taking Hermione on trips and cooking dinner. See, I'm a good boyfriend.

And no, she doesn't boss me around. Well, not all the time.

Take that, Bilson.

I should probably explain who Bilson is. Bilson is the Draco of Auror training. He thinks he is better than everyone. He started making annoying comments to me after I said I couldn't go out night because I was taking Hermione out. He drives me crazy. Hermione and Harry say to ignore him, but he's like a paper cut. Once you know it's there, you can't stop being irritated by it.

Anyways, back to the story.

Harry asked Ginny to marry him in a romantic-so she says- way. He brought her to some park, got down on one knee, the whole routine. She fell for it. I thought we had taught her better than that.

Right after the proposal, they arrived at Mum's for Victoire's birthday party. How convenient that the whole family was there to hear the announcement. I think they were going to wait until the end, but Mum spied the rock within five minutes.

Harry asked me to be his best man. I said yes, but I still don't like it.

Don't give me that look. Saying yes was not a blessing.

Nope. It wasn't.

Signing off,

Ronald Weasley, annoyed best man