Chocolate Frogs

Disclaimer: I honestly do not own Harry Potter. I solemnly swear I'm up to no good. (Sorry, I had to.) Legal issues are cleared. Mischief managed.

Ron Weasley sighed. He'd had a sudden craving for chocolate frogs and the pack he'd bought had the same few cards that one always got. Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledor, Merlin, Circe, and Morgana were the most common ones anymore. Even though Ron had mostly (mostly being the key word) gotten over his jealousy towards over his fame, it was still rather annoying that Harry got to be on a Chocolate Frog Card (Chocolate Frogs were his favorite candy) and he didn't. One card, however, was someone that he hadn't gotten before. At first he wasn't even sure that he'd read it correctly, and yet, Hermione Granger was on the last Chocolate Frog Card. "Of course," he thought bitterly. "My best friend and my girlfriend get to be on Chocolate Frog cards, but I don't even though I eat the most Chocolate frogs. Typical."

Ron just sighed. No one really understood where he was coming from since Harry and Hermione didn't have any older siblings or best friends that they had to live up to.

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CRACK! Hermione jumped about ten feet. No matter how often people visited her, she would never get used to people just apperating into her apartment. "Oh, Ron," she let out a breath. "Don't do that! Can't you just, I don't know, wait outside and knock on the door?"

"Sorry," he grinned at her. "You'll never guess what I have."

"That new broom you were saving up for?"

"Sadly, no."

"Proof that Victor Krum did something illegal?"

"If only."

"An article that says Malfoy was arrested?"

"I wish."

"A letter accepting you to play for the Chudley Cannons?"

"Stop guessing. This is only depressing me."

"Okay, what is it then?"

He pulled a Chocolate Frog Card out from behind his back. "You're on a Chocolate Frog Card!" he shouted.

"Oh, that's cool," she said not really impressed.

"Didn't you hear what I just said?" he asked.

"Yes, but I guess that I'm just not as excited as you are," she shrugged. "Why?"

"YOU'RE ON A CHOCOLATE FROG CARD AND YOUDON'T EVEN CARE?" he stared at her incredulously.

"Well, not really."

He shook his head disbelieving. The things that people took for granted could be mind-boggling.

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Ron Weasley burst into the Burrow kitchen. Everyone stared at him. "I…I'm…on a Chocolate…..Frog Card!" he shouted trying to catch his breath. For some odd reason, rather than apperating downstairs, he decided that he should run there…..in the same amount of time that it would have taken him to apperate.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that," Hermione said. She and Ron were having lunch at the Burrow while he moved stuff from his old room to his new apartment.

"I'M ON A CHOCOLATE FROG CARD!" he shouted on the top of his lungs.

"That's great!" she said ever so slightly indifferent.

"I'm going to frame this!" he waved the card above his head.

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At the time, Hermione had thought that framing the card was funny and cute. When she realized that he was not going to take down the framed card and it would remain on the first wall that you see when entering his apartment, she laughed and rolled her eyes. When they got married and he tried to hang it up in the living room of their first house, she put her foot down. The argument about it lasted for several days, but eventually, they decided to hang it up in the hallway upstairs. Hermione scowled every time she walked past it.

Years later, Rose Weasley got the courage to ask about it. "Mum? Why is the Chocolate Frog Card with Dad on it hanging in the hallway?"

"Because your father is a stubborn idiot who gets too excited about things years after they happen," Hermione said annoyed.

Though still confused, Rose decided it would be best for everyone if she didn't bring it up again.