Ron genuinely liked Sol, there was something fun-loving about him. A natural joking charisma that was like the twins minus a great many of their sometimes cruel jokes. He felt a great sense of relief that Sol seemed to enjoy spending time with him.

He couldn't bear it if Don's son hated him or something. They were the youngest in the castle so Sol was the closest to his age. "Do you ever get bored?" Ron asked. He was quite relieved when Sol let them switch to English as their language.

"What do you mean?" Sol asked, "Knight D4" he instructed his piece on the chessboard.

"Well, there aren't any teenagers anywhere in the castle," Ron said.

"Hm… well if I stay in the castle, yeah. Hey, I have an idea" Sol stood up.

"But our match," Ron said, glancing at the board. A couple more moves and he would have won.

"We'll go and finish another time, c'mon" Sol lead him to his room, he had one wardrobe. He opened it both doors revealing the robes, capes, and suits. Sol stepped up and went through it.

Ron stared at it "you have an extended closet?" he asked, Sol pulled him by the arm inside. This part of the closet was filled with muggles clothes like jeans, t-shirts, boots, and hoodies.

"We're going to go to the village" Sol said "so you should wear these" Sol handed him jeans first.

"Why all of a sudden?" Ron asked, taking the clothes suddenly thrust at him.

Sol gave him a grin "so I can show you what I do when I'm bored. I know how boring and very well to do that wizards can be. It's all, oh I'm a wizard so we're better than muggles and therefore better than muggle-borns" he rolled his eyes.

"So I take it you don't approve of purebloods," Ron said.

Ron found himself dressed in jeans, a grey button-up shirt, and coat that while it only went to his waist, was fur-lined including the hood so it would be warm enough. He was put in boots that Sol said were called 'Doc Martins' whatever that meant.

"I don't like their prejudiced, I do enjoy their intention to be impeccably dressed but the judgment could do without. Many vampires are similar though, we are technically high society vampires. You know muggles can be just like that too" Sol explained.

Ron had never thought about it that way but the Prince part he embarrassingly realized meant he was an upper class. "How do you know so much about muggles?"

"Well, my mama was one before she was turned, my papa was a muggle-born wizard before he was turned, and I was born a vampire. They sent me to muggle primary school then, when I was old enough, to Beauxbatons"

Sol put on black pants and a white turtle neck as he spoke. Ron was surprised "why a muggle primary school"

"As you've noticed there are no kids around here and he wanted me social. It was good, too, even if I had to have a few glamour charms to pretend like I was eating like everyone else" Sol said.

Sol look at Ron then tilted his head. "Take off your jacket a moment." Ron sighed but did.

Sol led him to the bathroom and pulled out his wand "I'm gonna give you a haircut" Ron immediately reached for his red locks.

"What?" he said.

"Don't worry, it'll look good, I promise. Right now, it's not much more than a mop. I'm certain it probably looked better earlier in the year" Sol said.

Ron figured that Sol's hair looked good enough, shiny and well cared for so he didn't protest. Sol carefully trimmed. By the end, he'd cut the sides much shorter but definitely not buzzed. The top remained longer but shorter than it was before.

"Do you still know people from your Primary school?" Ron asked.

"Oh yeah, I stayed friends with a couple. We exchange letters. We might run into them since we'll be going to a few of the usual places," Sol agreed.

Sol cast some kind of spell that misted his hair until it was damp and he felt a bit cold. "Almost done," Sol said, he pulled some kind of gel that he squirted on his hands. Ron tolerated Sol running his hand through his hair then he styled the shorter bit to one side and then made it longer on his right side. He dried it and Sol stepped aside to let him see.

"How do the letters work? Not through owl," Ron commented.

"Of course not, wizards have a muggle connection post. You send it to them and they place stamps and send them out the muggle way."

Ron actually liked this look on himself, it made him look more grown-up but also cool. The short haircut wasn't really anything like what he'd seen wizards wear before. "What's this haircut called?" he asked.

Sol shrugged "um I suppose it's a bit like an undercut but I didn't want to buzz the sides, you've got such gorgeous hair. The color is nearly unnatural but your whole family has red hair, right? I left the top long because you can style it however you want. I just swept your hair to the side so your eyes can be seen best. Do you like it?" Sol babbled a bit and kept his eyes trained to see Ron's reaction.

His ears would be cold in this weather but he supposed he could ignore that. "I like it" he admitted, making Sol grin with pride. "Alright, then let's go" Sol waved his wand to sweep up the floor.

He put on his coat which was white and Ron put on his own. Sol lead the way downstairs "How is Beauxbatons? Is it different than Hogwarts?"

"Oh, very, from what I've read anyway. Beauxbatons is not as old as Hogwarts for one. It was made during the Renaissance so it's a huge and gleaming white castle. No houses either"

"So how are dorms decided then?" Ron asked.

"Randomly and by boys and girls," Sol replied.

Sol leads him to the door, he whistled as the door opened to brisk cold.

Valkyrie appeared first and excitedly ran for Ron. "Valkyrie, come here girl," he said not that she needed the encouragement. She almost tackled him she was so happy he scratched her behind the ears.

Freya also showed up followed by Odin and some of her other betas.

"they can take us to the village," he said. Sol got on Odin's back and Freya went to Ron.

"Do you think Valkyrie will be big enough by the end of this year to carry me?" Ron asked. He got on Freya's back.

"Yes, she's nearly there" Sol nodded, the wolves dashed at Sol's signal and this time they were faster, going downhill. Ron could already formulate the letter he would send to Harry, Hermione, and the rest of his family.

They reached the outskirts of the village when they dismounted. Sol leads him to the trail "don't worry about the pack, they'll wait until we're done."

The village was nice with lots of shops, restaurants, and houses. Sol pointed to what looked like a jewelry store but less fancy than the ones in Diagon Alley.

They went in "let me know if you want anything done, alright?" the muggle woman running the register said.

Done? Ron glanced at Sol, "He means if you want a piercing" Sol replied.

"Oh," Ron knew his mother was sure to kill him if he did but he couldn't he'd help it since he wanted one ever since he saw Bill's ears pierced. He looked back the muggle woman had lots of piercings.

The ones on her ears he was particularly interested in, Bill only had his on the lobes but she had that and the cartilage too. "I like your piercings" Ron hesitantly said in Romanian.

The woman smiled "thank you, are you looking to get yours pierced?" she asked.

"I want to but my mum would be upset," Ron said.

"Hm well sometimes we need to be rebellious but it's up to you," she said.

"I'll pay for it all if you get some" Sol said with a grin, of course, he wanted him to get piercings.

"Alright," Ron said, they looked cool and that was it. He was already judged by just being a vampire so what's a couple of piercings?

"So what kind do you want?" she asked, she pulled out a chart where there were labels for placements of the piercings. One had it labeled "Industrial" that Sol translated for him. It was a bar across the ear, he wanted that one but also wanted his lobes too.

Oh to the hell with it, he'd do it all; Sol grinned with glee when he said he wanted three. "Great, then you need to pick out a bar and a pair," she said.

That part he struggled with a bit, Sol eventually insisted he looked best in silver. "What do you think? Studs or hanging?" Sol asked.

"Studs I suppose" Ron replied.

"Then how about these?" Sol pointed at a pair shaped like small swords.

"I like them" Ron agreed, Sol picked out a simple bar that had rounded balls at the end.

Ron remembers only after he was sitting in the chair that he should have asked if muggles numb it. Turns out they didn't but he didn't feel it for long anyway.

Xxx

Next was a record shop, Ron found more 'CDS' that his Walkman played. "You know about these?" Sol asked.

"I have a Walkman" Ron replied.

"That's a shock, where did you get one?" Sol asked.

"One of my best friends, Hermione, is muggle-born. She got it for me along with a couple of cds" Ron explained.

"Ah, well what do you like, maybe I can help you pick," Sol said.

"ACDC, Queen, Journey, Jimi Hendrix, and the Eagles are all the artists I have for the CDs I got from Hermione," Ron said.

Sol smiled "I like this girl, sharp taste with Jimi Hendrix. Well then let's look at some more classic rock. David Bowie, Aerosmith-" he muttered to himself walking along.

In the end, they went to a counter, a guy with long hair in a ponytail stood with his back to it. "Ahem" Sol coughed and the guy turned around, he had an eyebrow piercing.

"Oh my God, Sol," the guy gave him a grin "finally come to hang with us lowly mortals?" he asked, speaking Romanian.

"Who said I came to hang with you? This is my British friend, Ron Weasley," Sol smirked.

"He speaks Romanian?" his friend asked.

"No," Sol said and Ron looked to Sol with a raised eyebrow. His eyes were sparkling with mischief "just go with it, will you?" Sol said in English.

"Fine," Ron said wondering he was up to.

"Why are all your friends hotter than the sun?" his friend asked and Ron fought to keep a straight face.

"No idea, maybe it's my influence," Sol said, placing a lock of straightened hair behind his ear.

"Amber and grey heterochromia, good God, is he gay?" he asked.

"No, unfortunately," Sol said and then he turned to Ron. "by the way, this is Andrei," he said in English to Ron.

"Figures," Andrei sighed, "all the pretty ones are always straight or taken."

"Uh, thanks for that I guess," Ron said, this time in Romanian. He couldn't really do this much longer as he didn't want the poor guy to deal with so much embarrassment.

Andrei stared at him then his face flushed a bright glowing cherry and he sunk behind the counter. "Sol, I am going to murder you," he said, muffled. Ron stifled a laugh.

"Ron, you said you'd play along," Sol said.

"Yes but I figured too much of this would kill him," Ron said. "But anyway, Andrei, thanks for the confidence boost."

Andrei rose from the floor "yeah, Anyway, is there something you needed?" he asked, his face still a rose tint.

"Believe it or not, Ron has not listened to Classic rock until recently. I thought we'd let him listen to some in the testing room."

"Seriously?" Andrei said then grinned "alright," he walked out from behind the counter, he was almost as tall as Ron, he realized. "So your British right? You speak excellent Romanian."

"Thanks, I thought I was awful until I got here," Ron said.

Andrei shook his head then took out keys from his pocket and lead them to a room with a couple of couches. "This room is for testing music, we have most copies of almost everything in the store that is opened to listen to."

"Brilliant," Ron said in English before he realized but Andrei got the point.

"Your welcome to spend as long as you need," Andrei said then headed out.

"He seems cool," Ron said, English this time.

"Oh yeah, he is" Sol agreed "now let's get started." Sol collected many CDs and put in the first cd "alright this is Bon Jovi" he put it in. Ron enjoyed the guitar a lot.

"I like that one, is all muggle rock so intense?" Ron asked.

"No, this is Classic rock, which means it was made around the 80s and most of them toured around America," Sol said. He introduced Ron then to a different artist.

"He's a bit of a different style than some you listened to before. He's more a mixed media. This is Elton John" he put in the cd, the first song he played was Rocket Man.

"I want that cd" Ron said after the first song, Sol nodded noting it.

They picked a few more like Rolling Stones, Guns N Roses, and then Sol picked some more. "Hey, since you like Classic rock, why don't I introduce to some more modern rock?"

"Sure" Ron agreed, wondering how he was ever going to get time to listen to this all.

"Alright then, this is Nirvana" he put it in then and Ron was immediately mesmerized by the throaty singer. Sol smiled when Ron leaned in.

"Good, right?" Sol said then laughed "I got another band you'll like then," he said.

He put in a cd "Smashing Pumpkins" he told him was the name of the band. All these names were really interesting but he supposed the Weird Sisters was an odd name too. "Bullet with butterfly wings," Sol told him the song name then played it.

"The world is a vampire- sent to drai-ee-aa-ain" he heard first and Ron smirked when he realized why Sol had picked it.

"Sol if you keep recommending me music, I'm just going to go broke," Ron said.

"Alright, one more band. I promise you'll love it" Sol said.

"Fine" Ron said then he put it in.

"They have a bunch of great albums but this is one you want. American Idiot is the album name" he said putting in.

Immediately the riffs started playing and then drums. He immediately realized how much he loved muggle rock. It was incredible how many different styles of music they had in just one genre.

"That one" Ron agreed then headed out with countless CDs "I'm gonna need a new book," he said.

"Oh, I can help you there," Sol said grabbing a book similar to one Hermione had given him from a shelf.

They headed to counter where Andrei stood to talking to a pretty girl with long auburn hair. She was a camera at her side and a red coat on. "Hey, you find everything you wanted?" Andrei asked them.

"Lots more than I expected as well" Ron replied, the girl turned to them.

"Sol" she beamed and ran for him, Sol took her hug in stride without getting bowled over one bit. "I missed you, your letters are nice but come in person more often why don't you?"

"Sorry," Sol said as she stepped away. The girl turned to Ron, surprisingly she did not need to look up at all. She was his height, pretty tall for a girl "you're gorgeous, can I use you as a model."

Ron flushed "I don't know your name," he said.

"Oh, it's Amanda. I'm a photographer,"

"Amanda" Andrei and Sol sighed.

"Is your hair natural?" she asked, her blue eyes were gleaming. Were all photographers this pushy? It was like Colin hounding Harry.

"Yeah, it is, my whole family is red-haired," Ron said.

"Excellent, then can I?" she asked then Ron turned to Sol.

"Oh no, don't look at me. Yes or no but she won't let this go until you say yes" Sol told him.

"Yeah, fine" Ron said.

"Cool," Amanda grinned. They paid for the CDs and were going to head outside where Amanda wanted the picture.

"I'm off so I might as well go with," Andrei said slipping on his coat and a scarf "hey why don't we eat something together?"

"Sure" Sol agreed "we already ate but we don't mind some drinks and snacks."

As they got outside, Amanda immediately stopped at a brick wall "here first." Ron wasn't sure what to do in front of a camera so he just stood "hands in your pockets" Amanda instructed.

He just followed her instructions "look up and to the side, relax your eyelids, shift your left foot to the right" she was quite demanding as she clicked away.

"Smile, no that's too forced. Think of something funny"

"Act like you're defeating a boggart" Sol called out in English, Ron grimaced "okay nevermind, you know my Papa loves candy? He's crazy for it, sneaks chocolate secretly."

Ron breathed a laugh, he couldn't imagine his rather proper mentor, sneaking sweets. He heard several clicks.

"Okay, we're done," Amanda said. "But what's a boggart?"

"Nothing," Sol and Ron said.

They were lead to a restaurant with white tables. It wasn't too hard to relate to them which was surprising because Ron had never been too interested in muggles.

He'd always thought that he wouldn't know how to speak to them. But there actually wasn't much difference in wizards his age and muggles his age. They spoke about music, the family drama, school drama, and well the 'tv' and 'computer part was hard but otherwise.

They really were just like them, vampires, muggles, and wizards were alike. The same really. Ron picked up a french fry when they brought food and drinks to them.

Looking at all the food around him, he wished he was still a wizard to enjoy eating food. The fries he didn't mind eating but remember he couldn't too many, they tasted good though. "So we know you're not into men, Ron" Amanda began making Ron lookup.

"But do you have a girl you like?" Amanda continued. Ron blushed.

"You do" Andrei accused, leaning back.

"Yeah," Ron said, he and Harry didn't really discuss stuff like this. For all he knew, Harry didn't get crushes.

"Well, tell us who she is? It's not like we can tell her" Sol said with a smirk.

"No way," Ron said stiffly.

"Well, is she beautiful?" Amanda asked.

"Of course," he said.

"Smart?" Andrei asked.

"The smartest in the entire school, she's bloody brilliant" Ron replied sharply.

"Aww" Amanda teased "then what's she look like, her hair?"

"Super curly," Ron replied "she's small and carries so many books she needs a fe-" he stopped, he was about to say featherweight charm, "me to carry them all. Can we stop, this is embarrassing."

"Leave him alone, Amanda" Sol agreed.

"Oh alright" Amanda agreed then sighed "so did you get any holiday homework?"

"I've finished all mine" Sol replied.

"Seriously?" Amanda moaned.

"She's just complaining because she took an English class on Gothic Novels and didn't get the novel she wanted," Andrei said.

"Gothic novels?" Ron asked.

"In English, too, which makes it super difficult. I thought I'd be reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. We're Romanian, we live for the vampires and Dracula" Amanda sighed.

Ron wasn't sure what Dracula was but he kept quiet since he figured it would be outrageous not to know. "What did you get instead?" Sol asked with a smirk.

"The Strange Case of Jekyll and Mr. Hide" Amber said.

"But that one is really good too" Andrei pointed out.

"What's it about?" Ron asked.

"You don't know? I thought it was popular in Britain?" Amber asked.

"It is, I just never read it" Ron quickly covered his tracks.

"Oh well, this doctor named Jekyll transforms and becomes a completely different person by swallowing a potion."

"But it's still him?" Ron asked that didn't sound that interesting, just polyjuice.

"No, that's the thing, it's not him. It's like a completely different man with a horrible personality. The whole story, he keeps trying to hide it from his friends" Amanda said.

"Talk about being two-faced" Andrei grinned. "Personally, I like Frankenstein best,"

"Too depressing for me," Sol said, Ron really felt a bit confused and wanted to know what all these were. He didn't mind books so long as they weren't the textbooks Hermione only ever seemed to read.

"What about Edgar Allan Poe?"

"The Cask of Amontillado is my favorite," Amanda said.

"The Tell-Tale Heart is mine," Andrei said, "what about you Ron?" he said.

Ron flushed "oh, I'm not very familiar with him much. I mean to read him," he said.

XXX

They said goodbye to Amanda and Andrei, Amanda promised she'd send the pictures to Ron through Sol once they were developed. "Do you have all those books?" Ron asked.

"Of course" Sol agreed, they arrived in the castle right at sundown and Sol lead him to the north wing. He opened a set of red and gold doors. Ron's jaw dropped as he stared at the library.

The shelves reached so high they needed sliding ladders. Hermione would love this place "come on" Sol lead him a section "I'd start with Poe, he wrote short stories and poetry" he handed him the book "it's a collection."

Ron nodded "if you want any others just come here and ask when the Lee, our librarian is here," Sol explained.

Ron kept the book and immediately collapsed on his bed when he got into his bedroom. He was exhausted but also really elated, it had been an incredible day.

This really is just a dump of getting Ron Weasley to be a muggle cultured individual. Also, I think Ron's jealousy is related to having his incredible, not exactly normal, friends. I think him having friends other than his best friends will help him fend off jealousy. Plus it will be a big connection with Hermione later.