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After the meeting: Ron

Ron was sitting on his bed in the London flat he shared with Dean, looking stunned at the card in his hands. The whole evening had been weird, but looking at this tangible proof of the incredible story …

In the beginning he had suspected a prank by Fred and George. Why would Professor Dumbledore summon him, Ron, to a meeting? When he apparated to the Burrow (not knowing exactly where the location of the meeting was, so he could not apparate there on his own and the floo access was blocked due to security reasons) and had found his whole family ready to go, he had amused himself by imagining the lecture that would await the twins from their Mum when the prank was revealed. Only when he saw several of his old Hogwarts teachers at the meeting, he had started to believe it was not a prank. While Dumbledore might be moved to help Fred and George, he could not imagine Professor McGonogal to agree to something like that. Add to that the presence of several well-known aurors … no, not even Fred and George would pull such a prank.

The story that was revealed at the meeting was incredible, scary, mind-numbing … and the idea that he himself was involved, had played such an important part … well, his `other self´ as Dumbledore had referred to the people in the other universe … he could not even find the right word to describe it.

For the first time in their acquaintance he even got the feeling that he was on one page with Hermione Granger. Miss Know-It-All had a look on her face when this Harry Potter guy – who for some reason should be called Carl for the time being – had announced the two of them to be his best friends, to be best friends themselves, that must have been just as stupid as his own.

Really, as if she would ever be his friend. She usually looked at him as if he was a beetle she could crush under her shoe when he talked to her. Why he always felt the need to make her notice him, he did not know. She was such a smart-ass. Know it all. Miss Head Girl. Teacher's Pet. Live by the Rules.

Well, ok, she was pretty. And kind, sometimes. All right, most of the time, if she was talking to someone besides him. She could even be funny in a sarcastic way, especially when he got her riled. Ron grinned, remembering one special occasion when she had almost slapped him. With red cheeks and sparkling eyes, dressing him down for shooing a first-year out of his favourite armchair in the common room, she was even prettier than normally.

But the most astonishing thing had happened at the end of the meeting. Harry-Carl saw him preparing to leave, had excused himself from a discussion with Remus Lupin and a pink haired woman and went over to talk to him.

"I want to give you something I think you might want to see." Harry-Carl had paused, looking a bit confused. "Well, at least your other self would want to see it, he was very proud when it came out …" And he had pulled the little card Ron was now holding in his hands out of his pocket and given it to Ron whose eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw what it was.

Leaving and apparating home was fuzzy. He was probably lucky not to have splintered during the process. Now, he again stared down at his own face, looking up at him from a chocolate frog card. The text below read:

RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY

CURRENTLY TRAINING AS AN AUROR FOR THE BRITISH MINISTERY OF MAGIC

Most known for his essential role in the final defeat of the dark wizard Lord Voldemort (1998) together with his friends Harry James Potter and Hermione Jean Granger, Mr. Weasley also is a founding member of the secret organization Dumbledore's Army, dedicated to the fight against Lord Voldemort, and had a part in the events around the Philosopher's Stone in 1992, the solving of the mystery surrounding the Chamber of Secrets in 1993 and the battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996. His hobbies include quidditch and chess.