Ron Weasley: A Noble's Ascension

After all the other students had left, Prof. McGonagall motioned Ron over. Doing as he was told he slowly approached her whilr maintaining his cheerful demeanor. Unlike with his much younger female peers, the old Witch barely reacted to Ron's charismatic smile. Which he found refreshing as having girls blankly stare at you was becoming stale.

" Ronald, your talent speaks for itself there's no denying that. However even if that's true you simply cannot act so unruly during class."

Being scolded by Prof. McGonagall brought back memories of his aunt Lucretia. Which to Ron made him feel quite relaxed and caused him to instinctively apologize.

" I apologise ma'am, It won't happen again. You have my word, I'll also accept the corresponding punishment."

A bit shocked at his apology, Prof. McGonagall didn't know what else to say. She'd actually expected him to try to talk his way out. Never did she imagine Ron to admit his wrong doing. At least not without an exchange of words, now she felt a bit out of sorts.

" Well then.. that's good. Let this be the last time I have you distracting my class. Now go on, don't be late for your next class."

After a short bow Ron turned around and exited the classroom, leaving behind a perplexed Professor.

-

Walking out, Ron was quickly pulled by Daphne and Hermione. Naturally they also wanted to know why he slipped up.

" So are you going to tell us why you the most subtle Wizard ever lost his composure?"

Asked Hermione while pulling on his robes, which was bothersome since he wanted to retrieve the Marauders Map.

" That was actually funny, It's rare to see you embarrassed. Sometimes I've even doubted if you were capable of anything other than smiling."

Daphne also joined in, although Ron was sure she actually believed that to an extent.

" If you two have to know, I was genuinely bored. I mean, it's difficult to act like I'm not. Oh, and by the way I'm a normal person.. if I do say so myself."

" Hehehe."

" Tehehehe."

Ignoring the giggling Ron managed to fetch the worn out map. After hastily going over it several times, he handed it over to Daphne.

" Huh? Why are you giving Daph the map?"

Taking a step back, distancing him from them he answered her question.

" I'm not going. I find History of Magic yo be a boring and rather pointless class. So I'll be going to do something, different."

Without a second thought Daphne pushed the Map into Hermione.

" Then I'll go with you. I'm sure whatever you're up to will be way more interesting than listening to an old ghost."

" Hey, what about me? If the both of you leave I'll be left alone. Besides you'd get in trouble for not showing up."

" That is why I'll be going alone, so I'm sorry Daph, but you can't come."

Unwilling to be left behind again, Daphne grabbed on to Ron's sleeve. She was tired of always covering for him, not again.

" Then you can't go. You always do this, Ron. You leave me behind while you go off to do something else. So if you don't want to take me along with you, you can't go either."

From earlier today Ron knew something like this could happen. Yet he'd hoped for it to slowly build up, giving him enough time to sway her mind. This of course was a byproduct of leading a young girl on, who wasn't accustomed to being denied.

"* Sigh, why did she have to chose now to be so unreasonable?*"

" Daph, please. I can't take you with me-"

Tightening her grip on his sleeve, she proceeded to pull him closer to her.

" Then you can't go."

Hermione who was witnessing their quarrel wasn't sure what to do. She was also curious as to where exactly Ron would run off to, but she trusted him and didn't ask further. So she simply took a few steps back and waited for things to settle down. Which only did so when Ron leaned over and whispered into Daphne's ear. Hermione did try to get closer and hear what he was saying but wasn't able to catch anything.

Shortly after Daphne was happily smiling and walked over to Hermione.

" Let's go, Mimi, or we'll be late to class."

Surprised at the sudden reconciliation, Hermione wasn't able to react before being pulled along by Daphne. Looking back she saw Ron waving her goodbye with an obviously forced smile.

-

*Sigh*

Walking through an empty corridor, Ron couldn't help but sigh as he thought back to what had just occurred.

"* I can't believe I was played by her again, maybe were more alike than I thought. Nonetheless I'll have to make sure she doesn't act too much out of my expectations.*"

Entering the secret passage he'd found earlier, it took him a few minutes to reach the seventh floor.

"* I really love that Map, it saves me soo much time and hassle. If I had to walk up staircase after staircase, please God kill me.*"

Walking by the entrance and focusing on the Forbidden Section of the library. He was able to summon exactly what he needed, books, specifically the book on breaking Voldemorts Curse. Entering inside he searched for the book, once found he looked for the correct page.

"* Due to time restraints last time, I wasn't able to fully copy the recipe. Now I can finish transferring it over to my personal journal.*"

" Here it is, Aurum Maledicta Delens. With this the countless Curses and Hexes placed on the Horcruxes are worthless."

-

" Done. Now, I'll just have to wait until winter break. After that, things will surely pick up."

After he finished writing down the Recipe, Ron continued reading. He even found another interesting recipe and also wrote it down. Felix Felicis, an honest to God luck potion.

Thinking he might find something else he skimmed through the entire book. Having nothing grab his attention he finally closed the old tome.

" Guess that's all, class is about to end and I'm quite hungry, time to head out."

Rising from his seat, storing a small black notebook inside his Item Pouch, he walked to the door.

" Ah, right, I can't have others coming across this. Oh, well it's not like they'd use it either way."

Drawing Longinus, Ron uttered a simple incantation:

" Expulso."