Changes In Ron

1 Prologue

Before the summer of Ron's fifth year, Ron Weasley was the youngest brother of six, and an older brother to his only sister. Ron lived with his married parents, Arthur and Molly Weasley. His father worked in the Department of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts at the Ministry of Magic, while his mother stayed home cooking and cleaning. He had five older brothers, three who were alumni of Hogwarts.

Bill is Ron's oldest brother, and he works in Egypt for Gringotts Wizarding Bank, finding fortunes in the Egyptian pyramids. When Bill went to Hogwarts he was a prefect and a head boy, meaning he was smart and responsible. However, Bill was cool. Bill was built long and lanky and with his long red hair, an earring, and his clothes, he wouldn't look out of place at a muggle rock concert.

Charlie is Ron's second oldest brother. Charlie works with dragons in Romania. When Charlie attended Hogwarts, he was the Gryffindor House Quidditch Team's seeker and captain. Charlie was built stocky, and his arms and hands had calluses and blisters on them from working with the dragons.

Percy works at the Ministry of Magic for the Department of International Magical Cooperation. During Percy's years at Hogwarts, he was a prefect and a head boy. Percy was engaged to Penelope Clearwater, a former Ravenclaw prefect and head girl. Though, Percy still lived at the burrow. Percy could be bossy, but he was extremely intelligent. He was built long and lanky.

Fred and George are twins, and they will be attending their final year at Hogwarts in the fall. They liked to use Ron as a guinea pig for their inventions that they were testing for their joke shop they wanted to open after they finished Hogwarts. They were always pulling pranks and getting into mischief. They were very funny and very clever. They made good marks, but not good enough to be prefects, not like they would want that.

Ginny was Ron's only sister, the baby of the family as well. She was pretty smart. She would be attending her fourth year in the fall.

Ron felt as if he had to prove himself still. He felt like he had never done anything great, and even if he were to do something great, somebody else would have done it before him. He wanted to be the first to do something, but that something had yet to come.

Ron was lucky he had two great friends. One was Hermione Granger; she was the smartest student of their year. She was a muggleborn witch, which meant she was the first person in her family to ever have magic. She was very studious, and she could be bossy at times. She was against rule breaking, fearing she might be kicked out of school if they were caught, but when she had to, she would break rules for her friends. She had changed in Ron's eyes. Before the Yule Ball Ron thought of her nothing more than a friend, but when she dressed up for the Yule Ball, Ron couldn't help but watch in disbelief at how beautiful his friend was. Ron had no chance of dating her as she was dating the Bulgarian Quidditch Team's seeker, Viktor Krum. She would be spending her summer there.

Ron's best friend, even more than Hermione, was Harry Potter. Harry Potter was the only person to ever survive Lord Voldemort, when he tried to kill him. Harry was famous and hated it. Harry lived on Privet Drive with his horrible muggle relatives the Dursley's during the summer. The Dursley's were Harry's only living relatives. Harry's parents were killed on the same night Voldemort tried to kill Harry and failed, the curse backfiring upon him instead. Ron didn't care that Harry was famous. Ron was always there for Harry, people often referred to him as Harry's sidekick. They got in trouble together quite often, and they always were up to an adventure.

Before the summer of Ron's fifth year, he was sarcastic about everything, but he could be serious when times called for it.

Before the summer, Ron was laid back, friendly, free spirited and at times stubborn.

This was his perfect life before the summer changed everything.