Part Three: July 9 - July 16, 1996
Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/9/96
Dear Ron,
I fail to see how images of my room should disturb you. I've visited your room how many times? I can honestly say that mine is not any worse than yours, I just have books every where instead of dirty clothes and comics.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Herm -
I'll have you know that comic books count as books. They both have words don't they?
Ginny is looking forward to your arrival, apparently brothers don't make good confidants for fifteen year old girl.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/10/96
Dear Ron,
Of course you and your brothers aren't good confidants. Especially since you all tend to growl when Dean's name is mentioned. I can just imagine you all hunting Dean down in a rather permanent fashion should Ginny ever become upset with him.
Which reminds me, have the twin patched everything up with your mother? I won't ask about Percy because I know he hasn't.
Comic books do not count as books! They generally contain more pictures and actions then real books do. I am not saying that they can't be fun, just that they shouldn't be ranked with 'Hogwarts: A History'.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
You can't say that the only value of comic books is in entertainment. 'Martin the Mad Muggle' teaches young wizards about the Muggle world. Just think about how different our lives would be if You-Know-Who had read those comics.
You'd better believe that we'd hunt Dean down if he ever made Ginny upset. This is my sister we're talking about. How she can even let that lecherous male touch her is beyond me. You'd think she'd have more sense than that!
- Ron
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Ronald Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/11/96
Dear Ron,
You know Dean. You've roomed with him for the past five years. You've trusted him with your life in Charms and Potions. Just trust him a little with your sister.
'Martin the Mad Muggle' has very little to do with actual Muggle life and everything to do with how Wizards and Witches perceive Muggles. You'd know this if you'd bothered to take Muggle studies instead of that ridiculous course.
Why you and Harry continue to take that worthless course is beyond me. Trelawney's only had two real predictions, and it doesn't seem to be something you can learn.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
Divinations is easy, as long as we predict Death, Doom, and Destruction. Trelawney loves it.
I know Dean, and that is why I don't want him within ten ft. of Ginny. You saw him that day in Diagon Alley, he was crowding Gabrielle, practically drooling all over her. Is that the kind of man I should approve for dating my sister?
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/12/96
Dear Ron,
I can see how you wouldn't want your sister dating someone who is exactly like you. You were doing your fair share of drooling that day.
The fact that all you need is one or more of the three 'Ds' in your homework and you'll get a good grade is silly. Don't you want to learn something useful? Sounds to me like this class is more in line of Creative Writing.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Are you daft! Dean and I are the same? I was merely talking to my brother's girlfriend and her sister. Dean was disgracing all the men present with his behavior.
I am surprised at you. I would have thought you of all people could see things for the way they are.
- Ron
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Ronald Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/13/96
Dear Ron,
I of all people could what? That you're a hypocrite? Yes I do understand that. You blame your attraction to Fleur and Gabrielle on their Veela ancestor, yet you can't give Dean the benefit of being under the same spell.
You complain about Ginny and Dean, as well as me and Viktor, but if one were to complain about you that would be above much.
My God but you're a prig!
- Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
I fail to see how being concerned for the two most important women in my life makes me a prig. I am a man, I know how men think. Also I've been reading Ginny's Muggle Psychology books.
I think it is safe to say that a fourteen year old and an eighteen year old shouldn't be in a serious relationship.
Being a sixteen year old male, I can safely say I don't want my fifteen year old sister dating one of my species.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/14/96
Dear Ron,
I really don't believe you. You're the one who asked Fleur to the Yule ball. How is that different from Viktor asking me?
And may I point out that you didn't have as much of a problem when Ginny went with Neville.
- Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
I would be the first to admit that ti is a good thing Fleur didn't take me up on the invitation to the Yule Ball. I was immature and Veelas seemed the epitome of all that was female.
I think differently now and the Delcours are merely friends.
As for Neville, he is harmless. Ginny could have pounded him into the dirt herself if he tried anything untoward.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/15/96
Dear Ron,
I am glad you are willing to admit that you were immature at Fourteen. How much pride did that confession cost you?
Also, if Quarter blooded Veelas are no longer the embodiment of all things female, what is?
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermia,
You are my ideal woman now. Who Else?
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/15/96
Dear Ron,
I am your dream woman?
I hardly believe that when Lavender keeps crowing in her letters that you regularly send her love poems.
Pull the other one why don't you?
- Hermia
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
A man confesses his love to you and what is the response? Pull the other one.
No wonder 'Viktor' found you so enthralling, everyone knows he is into masochism.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/16/96
Ron,
Typical of you to drag Viktor into this.
- Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Herm,
I would say that you dragged Lavender and that damn poem into the discussion first.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/16/96
Ron,
How does my mentioning that a friend of mine is receiving love poems from you constitute my dragging her into our discussion?
- Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
It was one, counting one here, poem; a single poem that I wrote for her about her name. It wasn't a love poem. I don't know where she, or you for that matter, get off thinking it was a love poem or that there was more than one.
- Ron
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End Notes:
- When we return: Hermione's reply.
- Mione Weasley the Original: Well, at the moment Ron seems to be digging himself a very nice hole....
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