Drastic Measures

by M. Sloane

A/N: Welcome to my first uploaded fanfic. I hope it's enjoyable. This chapter is, erm, sort of an intro-ish. The next will be out quickly, though I can't say anything about any of the others. Hopefully the bold and italics show up!

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            Ronald Weasley was not "tall, dark, and handsome." Sure, he was tall, and plenty of people thought he was handsome, but he was not the "dark" type, and he never really had whatever it was that made all the girls sigh.  Ron didn't seem to mind, but then again, he was never really trying to get girls to do all that sighing over him. 

            But suddenly, all that changed. If only that one girl, that one special girl, if only she would sigh over him.  Ron didn't know what to do, because he had never really cared before.  So he did something that he thought was rather drastic.

            Ronald Weasley cut his hair.

            But! He kicked the normal haircut that his mother gave him out the door, and instead, he went for something different.  Sure, he still wasn't "tall, dark, and handsome."  But he was tall, and plenty of people thought he was handsome. And he had a new haircut.

            If there were such a thing as a "sigh-o-meter," then Ron's sighs would suddenly be off the charts.  Girls took notice of him everywhere, witch and muggle girls, even though he came in very little contact with the muggles.  Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley, what a pair they were, the tall, dark, and handsome hero, and his tall, not-so-dark, and handsome sidekick with a haircut.  They turned heads wherever they went, those two did, and not just because one of them had stopped You-Know-Who so long ago.

            The sighs, though, never seemed to come from that one girl, though, and Ron was distressed.  So, not knowing what to do, he did another thing that he thought was quite drastic.

            Ronald Weasley tried out for the quidditch team.

            He not only tried out, he made the quidditch team.  He was also appointed assistant captain to Harry, and took over his job when he was absent.  Though the job was not as glorious as it sounded, as Harry was only missing when he was sick or off fighting some sort of evil wizard, or creature, or whatever, and if Harry was fighting evil, Ron was most likely helping him.  That's what sidekicks do- help the hero.  And Ron was a better sidekick than them all.

            Though the new spot on the quidditch team and the job of assistant captain caught the attention of many, (even stealing some of Draco Malfoy's spotlight), and caught even more sighs, none of it was from the one girl, the one special girl. Very distressed now, Ron did something ever so drastic about it.

            Ronald Weasley attempted to get over her.

            The key word is attempted, though, because he didn't get over her.  His drastic decisions had all gone well for him. The hair cut, the quidditch try outs, all ending in good things.  So why was it that Ron couldn't get over her?  Sure, he could have almost any girl he wanted.  But that just reminded him that he couldn't have her.  Ron had fallen head over heals in love, and there was nothing his haircut, or quidditch position could do about it.