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Chapter 6

In Which Ron Changes Skirts

Or

Ginny's Plot Thickens

Thoughts such as these ran through his mind for a few hours before the cold finally got the better of him and he returned to his dorm, where everyone was already asleep. He changed into his pajamas and curled up in bed, not able to fall asleep till the wee hours of the night...

Ron rolled over in his bed. It was way to early in the morning for him to be getting up, but he couldn't go back to sleep because whatever he had gone to sleep in had gotten bunched up and was very uncomfortable. He blinked a few times and found himself looking down at a body what definitely wasn't his. The body had on a girl's school uniform and lacked some body parts that Ron was rather accustom to. Ron screamed and immediately recognized the voice; it was Hermione's. He Ron Weasley was in Hermione Grangers body, bloody hell.

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Hermione Granger woke up to someone yelling, the voice sounded familiar but she couldn't put a finger on whose it was. She rubbed her eyes and stretched, as the screaming stopped. When her eyes became accustom to the light she recognized that she was not in her bed. She knew this room it was the 7th year Gryffindor boys room and there was Harry, just awakening with no shirt on, oh bloody hell Harry put on a shirt she thought. Wait a minute, she thought, I don't say bloody hell and if that is Harry's bed then this is… that prat! What am I doing in his bed? She jumped out of the bed, hitting her head on the ceiling. She Rubbed her head, oh no, she thought, this isn't my hair, its too soft… and straight… and RED. No, no, no, no, she was in Ron Weasley's body.

She shot out of the room like a lightning (the fastest broom in the world), hearing Harry ask her if something was up, but she had no time to respond. She raced down the stairs only to underestimate where the stares were and ended up falling down the whole lot of them, colliding head first into a bushy haired girl. They untangled themselves at the bottom of the stairs and just as Hermione was about to apologizes she realized that she was staring back at herself and literally screamed, "You!"

"You! Get out of there right now, how dare you steal my body!" Ron screamed.

"Me, you're the one who caused it!" Hermione spat.

"I did not I just woke up and I was like this. Besides you're the one who's suppose to be bloody brilliant I couldn't pull off a charm like this!"

"Even I don't know kind of a charm this is."

"Oh, I bet it was Malfoy that bloody prat," Ron said, 'his' face plastered with a look of disgust.

"I can't believe this! What are we going to do?"

"Well first off you're going to get out of my pajamas. What will people think if they see me walking around in the castle with them on?"

"You git think of what your are saying! I don't want to see anything that you have under your pajamas. And people are beginning to stare. I think we better go talk to Dumbledore."

"Your right, if anyone knows, I will be the laughing stock of the whole school."

"I am always right and you are always the laughing stock of the whole school," Hermione said unhappily under her breath, still having felt the resentment from the day before. They exited the common room and almost ran to Dumbledore's office. About half way there Hermione noticed just how untidy she looked.

She pulled Ron behind a statue and exasperatedly said, "I can't believe I let you out of the common room like this, we are going to see the headmaster, I should have made you look presentable." She then went about pulling the skirt this way and that and trying to flatten down the shirt. She noticed how odd it was for her to use Ron's large hands to do things. Ron on the other hand stood there very awkwardly as Hermione readjusted 'his' clothing. He began to realize just how different Hermione's body really was from his, besides being so short, he reluctantly noticed that she also was more 'top heavy' then him and that she definitely had more curves then he previously remembered (not that he would ever admit to have checked Hermione's curves out before).

"Hermione, stop fussing I look fine. Now come on, I want out of this body," Ron said irritablely. She stopped fussing with the clothes and began marching quickly to the office, still in an angry mood. When they arrived Hermione said the password, firewisky, (which she knew because she was head girl) and they were let into the office. Dumbledore was already there, staring contently at them as they entered, a mysterious glimmer in his eyes.

"I was expecting you two, sit," he said indicating two squashy armchairs. They both took seats and Ron shot a glace towards Hermione.

"Professor," Hermione began, "I am Hermione, not Ron, I woke up this morning and we had switched bodies."

"Ah yes, I already know. It is part of your extra credit assignment, every prefect has to do," he answered simply.

"What! How!" Ron said astonished.

"It's really quite simple, any academic challenge would be to easy for Hermione and it is definitely not something that she needs improving on. In fact both of your biggest difficulties seem to be getting along with each other and although your are best mates ("were best mates you mean," Ron said under his breath) you don't seem to always understand each other. I am aware that you two have recently had a disagreement, so I think this will not only be beneficial to you two, but the whole school because I heard the row all the way on the first floor and I am sure it disrupted many other people. I therefore have decided that you will just have to spend some time in each other's shoes so you can better relate to each other."

"Professor, isn't it a bit rash? I mean I don't want Ron to see any of me or me see any of him."

"Don't worry Miss. Granger, I am sure you are capable of finding a proper spell for any problems you encounter, in the library. The spell that I used will wear off after you have walked about a mile, so I think you are both able to last that long."

"But, don't you think someone will notice the difference? He will ruin my reputation," Hermione said, who wasn't taking any of this at all well.

"Well that is part of the assignment, I don't want anyone to know you switched places and that includes Mr. Potter."

"I can't believe this, I am stick in some teacher pets body," Ron said. Hermione glared at Ron and looked as though she was going to cry, but didn't say anything in the presence of the headmaster.

"Now I am sure you have a lot to do so I shall see you two later, and don't bother looking for a counter cure for 'taosataodahilsaamilya' Ms. Granger, their isn't one," Dumbledore said a sparkle in his eye. Ron and Hermione exited and Hermione began dragging Ron towards the library.

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The night before (after Ron and Hermione got in a row) Ginny had been left alone with Harry who seemed very sad about his mates' row and as they talked Harry had told her that he was really worried that they would keep it up and be too stingy to apologize to each other. So despite the fact that Ginny was unhappy about the row, she was ecstatic to have had a real conversation with Harry and not freeze up.

The next morning Ginny had woken up to Hermione screaming, she had instantly raced up the stairs to see what was wrong, but Hermione came racing past her instead, so Ginny followed right behind the fast moving Hermione, until she ran straight into Ron. Ginny stood rooted to the spot as she listened to them bicker until she realized what had happened. She had then followed them to Dumbledore's office and used an extendable ear to ease drop on the three talking. She had then quickly returned to her dorm, taken a shower and gotten dressed. After that she had raced down to the great hall, where she snagged a piece of toast and answered Harry's question about where Ron and Hermione were, and headed straight to the library.

Ginny knew that she did not have a lot of time to put her plan into action. She had created a plan to make Hermione and Ron realize just how much the fancied each other. All she needed was a modifying charm for the spell that was put on the two, so that they would be stuck in the bodies longer, and a bit of luck.

When Ginny entered the library she noticed a near tears "Ron" and an extremely angry "Hermione" she skirted to the opposite side of the library, before starting to pull book after book off the shelf looking for the right book. Too bad Hermione couldn't help me find the right book, Ginny thought. Finally she pulled out a book labeled, Conman Strengthening and Time Extending Spells. Smiling, she found a section that said 'extending time for the effects of advanced human substitution spells' and began to read:

In the cause of Substitution spells, related to humans, such as the famous 'humanosapodisjuntor' incantations common in 7th century CE Europe, in which a human and a toad switch places, long lasting effects are rather important, however, the power of such incantations is often not substantial enough to last for the wanted amount of time. For example often the 'humanosapodisjuntor' spell was wanted to last until the toad was kissed, but the spell in its original form only lasts for a few days at best, so additional charms where added. To extend the effects of a spell till a certain event occur; involves careful mathematical calculations and spell wring skills, so inexperienced spell writers beware, even the slightest mistake can have catastrophic effects. (Like warnings were going to stop Ginny when she put her mind to something.)

The first step to creating the additional spell is to obtain the original spell cast and find the origin spell and is meaning. For example 'humanosapodisjuntor' originated in Portugal and roughly translates to human toad switch. Then you must fuse this spell with both a time extender and a given event or date. There is a list of time extenders, date, and event spells located at the back of the book on page 1043. The French who greatly enjoyed the 'humanosapodisjuntor' spell created the suffix spell 'labourerlesembrasser' translating to till the kiss to create the desired effect in 743 CE (Ginny grinned, wouldn't Hermione and Ron hate her if she used that suffix spell?). When combining two spells ending in r, r's are most commonly removed, however, there are exceptions (see any beginners spell wringing book for examples). So the additional incantation for 'humanosapodisjuntor' is 'humanosapadisjuntolabourerlesembrasser'. However, unlike the last example many spells already have built in prefixes or suffices that must be removed before the adding of a new one. An example of this is the 'taosataodahilsaamilya' spell that is written in Filipino (translating to human to human for a mile) by a mother who wanted her son and daughter to walk a mile in each other's shoes around the second century CE. A Latin student later altered it to 'taosataoexaroamoretlumenevalesco' in the 5th century who tried to get her divorced patents back together. She removed the suffix 'dahilsaamilya' and added 'exaroamoretlumenevalesco', which means till love and understanding prevail. (Ginny was overjoyed that she didn't have to write such an extensive spell herself and the book had just placed it right in front of her.)

It is important to also remember that only one breath must be used during the speaking of the spell for it to work properly. The wand work will remain the same due to the same core spell, but the importance of visualizing only increases because of the semi unstable state of a modified spell.

Ginny got out her wand and pointed it at Ron and Hermione who where huddled over a large stack of books and said 'taosataoexaroamoretlumenevalesco' in a loud clear voice doing a sort of double circle design that was indicated in a picture text labeled Professor R. J. Tinkle demonstrating 'taosataoexaroamoretlumenevalesco' and 'taosataodahilsaamilya'. There was a little popping sound but nothing else happened. Ginny hoped she had done it right, but only time would tell.

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Hermione and Ron spent all morning looking up spells and eventually found a spell for going to the bathroom (tinkous), a spell for changing cloths (changothous) and as for bathing they would just change into bathing suites and take a shower. Other than telling each other spells they both refused to speak to one another. Harry finally found them mid morning and began questioning them.

"So have you guys made up yet?" Harry asked.

'Ron' replied, "Harry you can tell Ro…err… Hermione that we will never make up."

"I guess I will take that as a no," Harry said, taking a seat at the table, "What are you two doing?"

Hermione and Ron quickly covered the books and Hermione stammered, "Oh nothing, don't you have Quidditch practice or something?"

"Bloody hell," Ron said jumping up and Harry looked at him funny because Hermione never cursed.

"Hermione are you ok?" Harry asked.

"Do I look ok?" asked Hermione angrily.

"I said Hermione not Ron," Harry stammered slightly taken a back.

"Err… Ron can I talk to you in privet," Ron said.

"Fine," Hermione pouted.

"Before you leave don't forget that practice is at 1," Harry said as Ron pulled Hermione through the halls to the grounds.

"We have to walk a bloody mile and fast," Ron said.

Hermione finally released herself from Ron's grasp (wondering, damn am I really that strong?), and said, "What are you talking about?"

"There is no way in hell that you are going to ruin my Quidditch stature. We have to change bodies now!"

"Oh no, I am not going to get on a broom," Hermione stammered. They both walked quickly about the grounds hoping that the spell would wear off but I didn't. Hermione's tummy made a loud rumbling and they both realized just how hungry they bother were.

"I don't care if we ever get back to our bodies, just as long as I get food," Hermione said.

"I know, I am so hungry I could eat a hippogriff," Ron agreed.

"Ron, Stop being so rash, that is a living being and you have to pretend to be me which means no meat," Hermione said horrorstricken.

"Merlin, I can't even eat meat when will the injustice end," Ron groaned, "besides you're the rash one, I could fast for days if it meant being a man again."

"Honestly you make it seem like being in my body is so bad," Hermione said.

"It is, this skirt is so bloody drafty and how do you keep people from not looking up it," Ron said.

Hermione grinned, "You have to cross your legs when you sit down, and now you know just one of the many discomforts females have that men seem to find attractive."

They finally found their way to the great hall and realized that they would have to sit together because all the other seats were taken. With groans they sat next to each other and Hermione continually pestered Ron about Table edict saying things like, "Put your napkin on your lap," " Stop slouching," and "Your hands are not utensils". At the end of the meal Harry and Ginny came up to Ron and Hermione (Harry had decided to sit with Ginny, who enjoyed the company because he was slightly afraid of the way his best mates had been acting).

"Come on Ron time for practice," Harry said. Hermione had a pleading look on her face but got up and followed Harry. Ginny did everything in her power not to laugh, the look on Ron's face at the thought of letting Hermione take his place in Quidditch was really funny.

She thought to herself deviously, time to start my incredible plan and said, "Hermione, after you meet with Krum, you have to give me all the details so meet me at my room at 7, unless you think you will spend longer with Krum," she winked. The real Hermione went red in the face and the fake Hermione's jaw dropped. No, no, no, no, I have to meet with the bloody git and he is going to be all over me like he is with Hermione, Ron thought bitterly. He and Hermione shared a look of horror, Ginny grinned, and Harry didn't pay a wink of attention to Hermione or Ron, but instead was looking at Ginny. Harry though feverishly, I wish I could make her smile like that.

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Dear readers and hopefully son to be reviewers, I am so sorry it took to long but I had serous writers block. I hope you like the chapter though. I have been swamped with AP World work not to mention chem., Spanish 2, geometry honors, drawing and panting 1, media 1, English 2 honors, or my social life. The chapters fallowing will become increasingly funny (I mean how couldn't it?). Also thanks to my lovely reviewers my ego has been completely boosted, and its only cause of people like you that I am motivated to update instead of doing my homework.

Anyways, HELP WANTED!!!!!!- All my lovely readers you can contribute. I know that you all must know something of the hardships of male teenaged wizards, so tell me because I am not one (and if you don't cause you are female grab you brother, BF, or just a guy friend and force them to read the story and give ideas)!

Reviewers-

Bhekie- there is competition for the favorite reviewers but you are defiantly still one of the top ones because you don't seem to get bored or reviewing witch is a very good thing! They have finally switched bodies, and denial is hanging as think as a cloud in their air, (but just wait a few chapters it might un fog).

Purple butterfly – you are high on my list of favorite reviewers! I am sorry it took so long to update but I am a perfectionist. I wish I where the next J.K. Rowling but sadly I am not and writing is only my side career on my way to (hopefully) becoming a famous artist. I just turned 16 at the end of October, so sadly that dose not mean that I am a 12 year old writing genius, but hay at least I can drive as soon as I get around to taking the test right?

Thehalfbloodprincess- so glad you liked it, here is a new update for you; expect them about once a week. (I read you pf and I am sorry to say that Ginny and Harry look like they are getting together, however, I hate Harry Potter so he really not going to be such a big part of the plot). Ps I hate Harry/ Hermione love fanfics gerr Nash, Nash!