What happened in the following weeks was different for Ron at Hogwarts, compared to all previous years of it. Professor McGonagall awarded the meeting room of the wizard's chess club with the entrance spellbound as the entrance to the common room, other than that, she supposed it would be a great educational experience to let Ron make the necessary adjustments, but without her or the house-elves help.
This meant that these weeks for Ron were used to organizing the club room. The cleanliness of the room was simple, as was the concert or removal of some chairs and other furniture. However, the extension spells he could not get into the room.
But the best change Ron was able to make was with the spells of disillusionment, he and Harry practiced this particular spell a lot, and Ron succeeded after two weeks of trying.
"Turn your wand around yourself like it's a rope, that," said Harry.
"And then?" Ron asked, lowering his wand.
"It's better, but when you move some traces of your clothes appear, let's see how long the effect lasts on you".
"Okay, meanwhile, we'll train the invisibility spell on the wall with windows
"Ron, the spell of disillusionment I understand why you want to know, since I also want to go unnoticed by people without depending on the invisibility cloak, but you will explain why you made me write to Fred and George asking them to explain to me the invisibility spell of the headless hats they sold them in our fifth year; because they answered me, but they asked to be careful not to get caught because they think I'm going to try and spy on girls around the castle", said Harry.
Then he finally stopped laughing at the last part of Harry's speech, Ron replied "Harry, they would never tell me, they would deny and say that this is a trade secret, so I used your prestige with my brothers, and at the very beginning I wanted to see which spell was better, that of disillusionment or that of invisibility, to hide myself, but from what we practice the spell of disillusionment is safer, but now that you mention Fred and George have come up with an idea.
"Do not tell me you're really going to improve this spell to spy on girls?"
"Not to spy on girls, I found it interesting to leave that invisible wall equal to the ceiling of the great hall, and besides, if Fred and George thought you were going to spy on girls it's because they probably tried and succeeded."
- Oh! cool Ron, the room is going to be very good and ... "Harry stopped talking in my own phrase and began to grope his pockets with a quill and parchment.
- What are you doing?
"I had some ideas for some new products and I'll see if Fred and George can do it.
"Not a product to spy on girls is it?" Ron laughed.
"Oh shut up Ron, you're all visible, your spell is going on for about twenty minutes, now it's my turn, set the time." And the two continued to practice spells for the club room as well for duels and other useful things.
In addition to the preparations for the wizard chess club room, Ron found himself attending Muggle Studies classes. After the O.W.L.s, Hogwarts' sixth year Muggle Studies class was made up of five students: two Slytherins, Tracey Davis and Daphne Greengrass, two Hufflepufffs, Hannah Abbott, and Susan Bones, and one from Ravenclaw, Lisa Turpin. On trying to get the O.W.L. in muggle studies, she left that decision to him by the end of the year.
The subjects of the classes were very different from what Ron was accustomed to, Professor Burbage taught the discipline as follows: choosing a Muggle world theme such as "television", "telephone" or "football" explained the story, its functioning and its consequences for the Muggles, but the duties related to the subjects were simple, the teacher did not try to be demanding, she was already very happy to have students to problem was the activities of the class together, in those moments, the tranquility of Ron ended. Professor Burbage liked to divide the students of the classes into groups of three, so she understood that more opinions and arguments about the subjects covered would arise. So the girls from Hufflepufff and Ravenclaw came together leaving Ron with the two Slytherins, and the activities consisted of presenting the group's opinion about some questioning of the teacher, these classes always ended in a silent discussion between Ron and the two girls.
"I'm telling you the last time, Weasley, this phone is much more like a two-way mirror than a floo powder," Daphne Greengrass said in a low, irritated voice.
"And I tell you Greengrass, the two-way mirror, as far as I know, it only communicates between two people, since the floo powder can make the person speak to several people one after the another and personally go to the place if necessary, returned Ron the same way.
"I think both are wrong, I think writing owl letters is the closest," Tracey Davis said in a disinterested voice, fingering her fingernails.
"Greengrass, few people have this mirror, and Davis device communication has to be fast, which is not the case with owls".
When Daphne Greengrass with a cold look was going to respond to him again, the teacher clapped her hands together and asked the two groups to present the answers to which wizard communication device is similar to the "telephone" in the next class.
"Well, Weasley, when do you have the time to finish this task? Do not think you're going to get any marks at the cost of my work or Tracey's," Daphne said, still annoyed at the disagreement.
"Well Greengrass, the Weasleys can not win a Knut for free, who would say muggle studies grades, I'll be in the room next to the transfiguration room during my free time, if you want to meet me, otherwise I'll do the homework myself and earn the grades for you, Ron said mockingly.
And Ron left the room watching Tracey Davis hold the giggle and Daphne Greengrass look annoyed at him.
The two Slytherins in class and Harry in the club room were the people he'd been talking to over the last four weeks. So Ron was on a cold morning the first Saturday of December in front of the lake, next to Hermione and Hagrid, waiting for Harry to leave the almost frozen lake demonstrating support.
While they waited for Harry to come back from the second dive, he had captured a grindylow, and left him with Hagrid who was putting him in an aquarium; Hermione approached him and began to speak hesitantly:
"Ron, how's it going?"
"Good and you?"
"A little busy with so many duties, but I'm fine, I wanted to make an invitation.
"What invitation?"
"I had already mentioned, but so much has happened, and ... and ... there will be Professor Slughorn's Christmas party, and I wonder if you would like to go with me?" Hermione asked shyly.
Ron did not expect it, he remembered him and Hermione closer in Herbology class before all Quidditch problems, and for a moment Ron almost accepted, but the memory of Professor Slughorn's treatment of him, and the memory that he would find many people attached to the Quidditch castle and out as Gwenog Jones of Holyhead Harpies, made him refuse.
"Thank you Hermione, but no, I think having you as a company would be great but at the moment I do not want to have to stay in a place with so many people, if you want we can" ... ACHEW ... ACHEW.
At that moment, while Hermione was making a sad expression and Ron would complete the denial of the invitation, a Harry sneezing a lot out of the lake with another grindylow. Hagrid ran to put the second grindylow in another aquarium and Ron and Hermione to help Harry in whatever way possible.
Harry, Ron and Hermione entered the castle. Harry shivering from head to toe, Hermione casting Hot-Air Charm spells on him, made a small effect, it seemed that Harry had spent too much time in the lake; and Ron was carrying the grindylow. When they reached the hospital wing, Ron stood waiting outside with the creature, and Hermione accompanied Harry to Madam Pomfrey.
After five minutes of waiting, two people came down the corridor approaching the hospital wing behind Ron's back.
"I told you not to mess with her, Daphne, because you went to fight with Queenie Runcorn," Tracey Davis's voice said in a low tone.
"Because? BECAUSE? In case you did not notice Tracey that bitch was offering me ten Galleons so I could stop going to Professor Slughorn's party with MY BOYFRIEND Blaise.
"He's not making too much effort to be your boyfriend, is he?" Now shut up people are listening ... oh it's just Weasley.
Ron, who had turned to see who was coming down the corridor, looked annoyed when he answered.
"How come it's just Weasley, I'm no longer a human by any chance?"
Laughing the girl replied - Stop whining Weasley, it was just an expression, we both know you better now in Muggle study class, I was worried that a complete stranger was listening to us - said the girl.
"Ahhh, so it means you do not care that I go out spreading through high school that the snakes are selling and buying people and fighting over it.
"You can even tell Weasley but apart from everyone laughing at you before you start talking since they will remember the Quidditch game, then your whole body will look just like my nose because I'm going to break yours" Said a very angry Dapnhe entering the hospital wing with her nose probably broken and bleeding.
Ron frowned, and Tracey, realizing this, said quietly,
"Sorry for that, we do not even care about Quidditch, she really wanted to annoy you, but please do not take it personally, she also goes through a lot like everyone else.
Ron spent a few moments breathing deeply before answering.
"It's okay, it's not like I can talk to people well and just talk nice things to them, here let me help there.
Ron put the aquarium with the grindylow on the floor and pulled out the wand saying "Tergeo" drying Dapnhe's blood that was in Tracey's clothes, yet the charm also dried the aquarium water with the grindylow.
"Shit, shit, shit," Aguamenti! "," Aguamenti! "," Aguamenti! "
Ron was desperately trying to save Harry's grindylow as the creature began to struggle in the aquarium when Tracey pulled her wand inward.
- "AGUAMENTI!" - Tracey did the water jet spell correctly filling the aquarium - no need to thank Weasley said the girl between laughs.
Ron whose breath was still heavy and breathless made only a wave of his hand as the hospital wing door opened with a Hermione's expression of surprise.
"What's going on here? What did you do to Ron?"
"Calm Granger, Weasley helped me, and I helped Weasley," Tracey said.
"Because?" Hermione said suspiciously.
"Granger, learn to share your friends, Weasley, after I and Greengrass will come to you," said the girl, laughing back down the hall.
"What did that girl mean, Ronald?" Hermione said in a bossy way.
Trying to control himself by the way Hermione spoke, Ron responded in a controlled manner.
"No big deal, Hermione, she was just referring to the task of Muggle studies, how is Harry?"
"It's better, but you're going to have to stay for a little while longer, and you've been asked to keep grindylow until he's cleared out of here, well I have to go, good luck with your muggle study activity and your new friends," Hermione said soberly and hurriedly .