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A/N: Thanks to the people who reviewed my first chapter, you really made my day! :) And I'm really sorry it has taken me FOREVER to update even though I said I'd update soon, so feel free to get mad at me for that 'cause I'm mad at myself for it/. I tried so hard to make it nice and long for everyone and I didn't realize that it would take me so long to do. I ended up taking so long to make it super, super long, when I figured I could have a good sized chapter by splitting it in half....so here is chapter 2 modified to be better...so you really do end up getting the better deal. :) Hope you like it and keep on reading! :)

CHANGING IN MORE THAN ONE WAY

CHAPTER 2: GOOD OL' SIBLING RIVALRY

After shaking off his strange unexpected feelings received from the letters, Ron made his way downstairs to the kitchen to help with dinner as well as to inform Mr. and Mrs. Weasley of Harry and Hermione's expected arrival. As he entered the room he unsurprisingly saw Fred and George sitting at a corner of the dinner table discussing something seriously. Now just the sight of the twins doing anything serious at all, almost made Ron laugh himself out of breath.

'Probably has something to do with the joke shop,' he thought as he made sense of what their discussion could be about as he also contained himself from laughing at them. Apparently he wasn't the only one trying not to laugh as he turned around to see Ginny on the other side of the room, looking at the same thing Ron was and slipped out a giggle. This new sudden noise brought the twins out of their discussion as there heads turned in Ginny's direction with annoyed expressions on their faces as they asked her in unison,

"What?"

"Nothing," Ginny quickly supplied, "I was just laughing at the faces Ron was making at you."

Ron glared at her sister for saying that, and became speechless as Fred and George's heads swiftly turned into his direction just noticing his presence.

"Taking a few prat lessons from Malfoy now are we?" Fred quickly questioned Ron, which truthfully just increased Ginny's laughter.

"I was just lying!" Ginny managed to say in between giggles. "I wanted to see what you would say... it was worth it!"

"Sorry about that then Ron," Fred quickly apologized.

"Yes, now we can plainly see that it's Ginny who's taking the prat lessons. Hmm, seems to be getting her money's worth out of Malfoy."

"If anything I'm getting lessons from you two," Ginny quickly shot back.

Ron just stood there silently laughing at the squabbling in front of him. No wonder Harry and Hermione loved coming to the Burrow so much, they got free entertainment every day and night.

"Oh yeah? Well everyone knows you're a-," No one heard what everyone knew George was, as just then Mrs. Weasley had cleared her throat to gain her children's attention. Even though it was a...umm... "friendly" squabble between family, Mrs. Wealsey was not happy to see it occur. And Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George, all knew what it was like when Mrs. Weasley was not happy; a very unhappy moment to be a Weasley child.

"Yes Mum?" all four Weasleys asked meekly.

"Now for Merlin's sake! What are you lot arguing about now?" she paused as she saw all four mouths about to open at the same time when she immediately said, "No wait I don't want to hear it this time. Just help put out the food on the table and we'll talk about this later when your father comes home," Mrs. Weasley sighed, "I just don't understand why all of you can't get along. When I was your age-." Mrs. Weasley was cut off as her husband came waltzing through the door, humming a catchy tune.

"Mmm, what smells so good?" he asked as he stood in front of them all.

"Dinner Dad, Mum's really out done herself once again," piped up Ginny trying to have her mother forget about the incident. It had worked numerous times before.

"Oh really, it's nothing," said Mrs. Weasley feeling flattered. Yep, it had worked again.

Soon the six of them were sitting around the dinner table stuffing their faces with the usual scrumptious food and were involved in many different conversations as they ate. Soon the conversation was directed at Ron concerning two certain guests.

"So when are they coming?" asked Mrs. Weasley.

"Umm well Harry said he'll be ready by tomorrow so that we can just drop by whenever to pick him up-," Ron was cut off by his mum.

"Oh, poor dear, probably has nothing to do at that dreadful place with those dreadful people,"

"-and Hermione said she'll be here in... umm I think it was two days time?"

"In three days Hermione will be here," Ginny simply supplied for Ron.

This made Ron realize that Ginny had got another letter from Hermione today as well. This made him annoyed once more and he took his frustration out on Ginny.

"Are you sure now? Because I would have sworn that in the letter it said in two days. If you want I can go and check just now-."

"Awww," cooed the twins together.

"What?" Ron asked them, his frustration now clearly heard through his voice. Which was a bad move considering that it would just get the twins going even more at him.

"Ickle Ronniekins is worried about when his wittle girlfriend is coming over," George answered.

At this Ginny snorted out the juice she was drinking spraying herself and getting juice all over her clothes.

"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed, "I wish you would all stop teasing him, now at this rate they'll never end up together soon enough to give me grandchildren!"

"Mum!" everyone at the table replied in disgust, except for Mr. Weasley who just said "Molly" in a warning tone.

"Well I want grandchildren and who am I going to get them from? You two?" she said as she eyed Fred and George skeptically.

"Umm...how about those other guys in our family, you know them, at least you should, umm, your eldest sons?" Fred answered desperately hoping for a quick and lasting subject change.

"Of course! How could I be so silly as to forget about them. It's just so hard these days you know, I mean I hardly see them anymore and they have there own lives so far away and... oh I must send an owl to Bill, Charlie, and Percy." Mrs. Weasley suddenly got all quiet after saying Percy's name.

Thinking desperately to lighten the moods, Ron quickly said,

"Well instead of always having to pick on me and Hermione, which seems to be a never ending, long running joke in this family-." Mrs. Weasley looked at him wearily at that part, "but how about we start and give a go at Ginny and Harry," Ron finished grinning cheekily at Ginny.

But apparently lightening the moods was not what he achieved at this comment, as everyone sat there silently staring at Ron and then at Ginny, while Ginny just sat there with a horror-stricken face turned towards Ron. Finally Ginny spoke and ended the silence.

"Honestly Ron, we are just friends, how hard is it to get that through your thick skull?"

"I dunno, it's pretty thick," piped up Fred.

"Oh shut it!" Ron hastily responded.

"But we are just friends! Nothing more!" Ginny continuously insisted.

"Yeah okay fine, so then pick on me and Hermione because after all she is my fiancée and everything." Ron replied dryly. As he looked in his mother's direction he could have sworn he saw a hopeful look at that last part he said, so just to be safe he quickly added, "I'm being sarcastic by the way."

"Well Duh." The twins both responded.

Just as Ginny was about to open her mouth to say something, Mrs. Weasley interrupted her (A/N: Sorry she seems to be doing a lot of that isn't she?) and said,

"Well, I think we've all had enough of that conversation. Now Arthur, tomorrow you and Ron will go to #4 Privet Drive, to pick up Harry quickly without any problems-."

"Can't we come too?" asked George trying to look innocent.

"Now didn't you just hear me say that they are to pick up Harry quickly and with NO problems? So anyways once you have Harry you will immediately come back here, alright?"

"Sure sounds like a plan to me," Mr. Weasley replied, suddenly relieved of the subject change and the implication of dinner ending soon. He didn't know how much more of this dinner conversation he could take.

"Alright then, now that we have everything for tomorrow under control, Ginny please help me clear off the table, and Ron, tonight is your night to help clean the dishes," Mrs. Weasley added as the family members got up to leave the kitchen. Two of them groaned and remained in the kitchen as the others left to... well to just not be in the kitchen anymore.

Once Ron had finished helping with cleaning the dishes, he made his way up to his room where the first thing he did was grab the piece of parchment with Hermione's letter on it. He skimmed through the sentences until he found the one he needed to see. He then threw the letter onto a small desk in his room, obviously now in a darker mood.

"Damn, Ginny was right," Ron said out loud, but not too loud that anyone might accidentally hear him. "Hermione is coming in three days, not two"

Ginny was certainly beginning to bug him these days. And what was that in the kitchen, with Ginny? The continuous, "We're just friends, honestly Ron!" had already become an all too familiar expression with him now. His suspicions were still steadily rising up. He decided to forget about it though as he definitely didn't need to think about that sort of stuff.

As Ron sat on his bed he could see his reflection on the mirror sitting on top of the small desk. He stood up and took a good look at himself. His appearance had changed, that much was for sure. All of that Quiditch practice in the last month could certainly be seen in him. He was no longer a tall gangly lanky thing. His body was well toned now with muscles. It wasn't like he was a buff scary looking guy, he had normal muscles for his age and looked quite handsome. Ron laughed as he remembered in his first year when he and Harry had gone in the middle of the night to the Mirror of Erised. He remembered that he had seen in the mirror an older version of himself as Quidditch captain and Head Boy. Now as he thought back he realized that he now looked a lot like the older version he had seen that day. Ron decided to take it as a good sign that he looked closer to the image he saw in the Mirror of Erised.

He now sat back on his bed and found his thoughts wandering over to what Hermione would think. His appearance was after all the surprise he had in store for her. He wondered what she would think of his new look, if she would like it. He hoped she would. Then Ron froze as he thought that last part. Since when did he care so much about what Hermione thought of him? And now that he thought about it, why did he really tell only Hermione that she should be prepared for a surprise and not Harry? It was definitely weird, but after today's events he didn't want to think about it and just wanted to get some sleep as he was sure he was going to be up early so that he and his dad could pick up Harry from that evil place he had the unfortunate luck of having to call home.

A/N: Okay soooo finally I have updated!!! And if I take longer than a week to update the next chapter then you officially have the right to get mad at me!!! Because I already have more than half done...so I should be able to get it finished provided I don't get too, too swamped with homework this week.;) alrighty then...stay tuned for the next installment!! (installment? Man, school must be seriously getting to my head...what I really need right now is a giant snowstorm so I won't have to go for a couple of days...that's all I'm askin for..nothing too big or serious....;) )