Chapter Fourteen

"Do me Hermione." Ron commanded.

She looked at his face and tried to picture how it would look before asking, "Do you want me to do anything in particular?"

He said the first thing he wanted to take care of right away, "You can get rid of my freckles." He had always thought he had too many and that they didn't make him look very handsome.

"Okay, here we go." Hermione waved her wand and all of his freckles disappeared.

Ron saw her frown and got nervous, "Did it work? Do I look bad?" He took the mirror they had brought outside with them, to the bench by the swing, and held it up. It had worked; there wasn't a single freckle on his face. He didn't know if he liked it or not. It made his skin look fake. He touched his cheek to make sure it was real. "Why don't you like it?"

He lowered the mirror and caught her blushing.

"Oh, no…it's just that…it's strange seeing you without them." She turned her head and looked into the distance.

During the silence that followed, Ron looked at himself in the mirror for something to do. He eventually broke the silence by bluntly saying, "Can you fix my nose next?" In a lower voice he added, "Make it a little smaller."

Hermione turned her head and narrowed her eyes at him, "Ron, this isn't about fixing what you think are imperfections. We're supposed to be making a disguise."

"I know what we're doing." He retorted. "And I didn't say anything about imperfections. I was just curious to see what I would look like if some things were different."

Hermione sighed, "You want me to make it smaller?"

"Please?"

She pointed her wand at his nose, "How's that?"

Ron raised the mirror back up and then jumped when he saw his tiny nose, "Woah that's way too small! I look like a bloody rabbit!"

"Hey, rabbits are cute!"

"Well unless you plan on disguising me as one, you can make it a bit bigger."

"Is that better?" She asked several seconds later.

He looked at the mirror, "Eh, it will do." Maybe original nose wasn't as big as he thought it was. "What should we do next?"

"Hmm. Do you want some dimples? They would look very menacing." Hermione tried to sound as serious as she could.

"What?" Ron said, falling for it.

"Joking." She laughed. "I don't even know how to do dimples."

"Oh, well…" Ron tried to think of something else to change and take her thoughts away from his gullibility. "What about a moustache!"

"A moustache?"

"Yeah."

"What kind?"

"I dunno, maybe the one that twirls in at the ends." He said half-jokingly.

"Really?" Hermione knew that it was going to look silly and be a waste of time.

"Come on, I just want to see." He begged.

"Fine." She did the spell and then laughed, "You look ridiculous."

Ron laughed at his reflection and then joked, "I don't know what you're talking about, I think I look quite devious." He twirled one of the ends around his finger.

Hermione chuckled. "Okay, how about we try something more…modest."

It was a very skinny moustache. Ron stuck his tongue out at it, "That's pathetic. Make it fuller."

A second later, Ron could see the hair sticking out from under his nose. It felt like a lot of hair. He looked up and saw Hermione smirk. He was scared to look in the mirror. "Bloody hell! Hermione that's not funny! It look like there's a small, furry animal on my lip."

"You said to make it fuller." Hermione said, feigning innocence.

"Not that full."

Hermione flicked her wand and the moustache became a more normal size.

"That's better." Ron said with content. "I think a goatee would look good with this."

"Okay." She twirled her wand and then said, "How about that?"

Ron raised the mirror. It didn't look terrible, but there was something about this look...He studied his reflection; no freckles, somewhat pointed nose, little beard…and then it hit him—he was trying to turn himself into Viktor Krum! He groaned, "No."

"What, you don't like it?"

"Not at all. Make it a full beard." He asked with urgency.

Ron examined his face as soon as Hermione was done. While it wasn't something he particularly fancied, it was a big improvement from the first one. "Take that." He muttered.

"What did you say?"

He was thankfully easily able to cover his Viktor comment, "Oh, um I said 'I like that."

"You do?"

"Well, I don't love it, but I think it's a good disguise. Much longer hair would help too." He added; eager to distinguish himself from Viktor.

"You think so?" Hermione wasn't too game on the idea.

Ron shrugged, "It wouldn't hurt to see what it would look like."

"I suppose." She twirled her wand. "Ooh, that's way too long, you look like Ginny. Hold on," she said before he could pick up the mirror, "let me shorten it a bit. There."

When Ron was allowed to look, he saw his hair stopping just below his shoulder and Hermione had made it wavy as well. He preferred his shorter hair, but he felt like the long hair went with the disguise. "I look like a wild man."

"You do. But I think it's a good look for the character you'll be playing. We have to change your hair color though. I'm afraid it's very noticeable."

"I thought you might say that." Ron said a little glumly. His was quite fond of his red hair, especially since it was so different from Viktor's.

"Sorry, but we can't take any chances."

"I know." He itched his beard, "Blimey, how does a bloke keep this thing for years. I've only had it for a few minutes and it itches. Do we need it while we change my hair color?"

"I guess not."

A moment later, he was relieved to feel his facial hair disappear."Okay, you can go on now."

Hermione raised her wand but then lowered it for a second, probably lost in thought. The corners of her mouth pointed up and then she made a sweeping motion with her wand. Her eyes lit up and she pressed her lips tightly together.

Ron's eyebrows knitted together, "Are you done?"

She nodded and then her shoulders started shaking. She put a hand over her mouth but she quickly burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" He grabbed the mirror and to his horror, found his hair to be bright pink. "Hey!"

Hermione continued to laugh, but calmed down enough to say, "Sorry, I couldn't resist."

"Oh yeah?" Ron took his wand out, "Well then I guess it's okay for me to do this!" He turned her hair blue. "Haha!"

She stopped laughing and hastily picked up the mirror to see what he had done. "Ron!"

"Sorry, I couldn't resist." He teased.

"Then you'll understand me doing this!" She turned his hair green.

They then proceeded to turn each other's hair whatever color they could think of: purple, bright yellow, silver, light blue, and other combinations. They went back and forth, laughing at the colors they were turning each other's hair, until Ron turned hers red and said, "Ha! Welcome to the family, Hermione Weasley!"

Hermione froze and stared at him. He was going to ask her what was wrong with being a Weasley and then he figured it out that she thought his comment was more than a simple joke. He felt his ears turn red and then he tried to fix the awkward situation. "Er, h-here, I'll change it back. We should really be finishing up this whole disguise."

Hermione unfroze and nodded, "Y-yes. Um, why don't I just make your hair dark brown?"

"Whatever you want." He answered, eager to move on.

"Okay." A moment later, she hurriedly said, "I think that's good, do you agree?"

It wasn't a very exciting color, but it was good enough. "Yeah, it's fine."

"Brilliant. Then that's it for your disguise. I think Luna's calling for me, see you later!" She jumped up and dashed out of the swing area, leaving Ron to ponder why he couldn't hear Luna and also how much he liked the way 'Hermione Weasley' sounded.

Author's Note: I'm baaaaack! Sorry about the long wait for this chapter, but I was working on another Ron/Hermione fanfic that I wanted finished before the wonderful movie came out. Did I trick you all with the first line? Hehe. (I wanted Harry to ask Ron "Do you and Hermione do it?" after they came back from the Chamber of Secrets in the movie, like Ron asked Harry after he and Ginny went to the Room of Requirement in the 6th one, but they sadly didn't. Oh well)

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Let me know your thoughts in a review please, and I will try not to make you wait too long for the next chapter!