3 Diagon Alley Part 1

``Ron! Come back inside, breakfast's ready!!'' if this was the original timeline, those words in the Weasley Household would have brought a small chubby two year old tornado into the living room, which would have devoured the food on the table in a matter of minutes. But in place of that image was a young boy with a slight bit of sweat on his face. Ron who had come back from a run around the house entered the dining area and greeted his loving mother, ``Good morning Mum, where's everyone else?''

Molly looked at her youngest son with a smile on her face. out of all her children, he was the most well behaved, he didn't throw a tantrum when he didn't get what he wanted and even helped out around the house all the time. ``Your dad's still asleep, he got stuck at work yesterday and you know your brothers as well as I do.'' Although Ron laughed at his mother's joke about his brothers laziness, he felt pain at the thought of his father having to stay back at work once again. Although the Weasley's were one of the Sacred Twenty Eight and were one of the oldest Pure Blood families in the world, they weren't rich in any way shape or form. Thinking how these thoughts would only make him sad, Ron quickly dismissed those thoughts and started eating breakfast.

``Good Morning Mum, you too little brother although I still don't know how you can get up so early in the morning.'' Bill had just finished speaking when Charlie entered the room and started talking, ``eh! To each his own, at least he doesn't wake us up and ask us to join him.'' Ron looked at his brothers Bill and Charlie and just smiled while eating his toast. Before anyone else could say anything Ron jumped out of his seat with his breakfast in hand just in time to avoid getting splashed by water. ``Fred! George! What have I said about pranks at the dinner table!!'' looking at their mother's furious face the twins just put on a apologetic face and asked for forgiveness. Seeing the two pranksters in trouble, the two older brother just sat there eating and enjoying the show.

``go get Percy and eat your breakfast like normal people!!'' after admonishing the twins, Molly turned to ask Ron if he was alright but saw him eating his breakfast in peace and continued with her chores. Although being a witch made many matters easier, there was still a lot of work to around the house. ``How do you do it Ron? Everyone in the house has suffered at the hands of those two except maybe you.'' While the twins were getting Percy out of his study, Bill and Charlie started asking Ron about his secrets. ``Yeah! don't tell me you are in cahoots with them and are just pretending to be mysterious or something!'' Molly heard her son's teasing each other but was genuinely curious about the matter. Her youngest son was a genius, this wasn't just a mother bragging about her son but was a genuine fact. He had spoken his first words around the age of two and within a matter of months learned to talk to his family.

By the time Ron had turned two, it was time for the eldest Weasley son to go to Hogwarts. Although the older kids had taken trips to Diagon Alley with the adults, Molly and Arthur hadn't taken their youngest kids to the crowded marketplace. But under her son's persistence, the whole family had taken a trip to Diagon Alley. ``Wow!!!'' seeing the shock and happiness on Ron's face made everyone crack up a smile as well, even Little Ginny was smiling looking at her brother's face. When Ron turned around and saw the look on his family's face, he excitedly grabbed his parent's hands and started jumping up and down, ``So! So! Where are we going to?!'' it was probably the first time, their youngest son had acted his age and it made the two adults very happy. ``Well! I am going to leave you guys here and get to work. You guys are gonna go around and help your mom look for things your big brother needs for school, ok?!''

Hearing his father's words reminded Ron of their financial situation and immediately brought his mood down significantly but he didn't let it show and smiled and waved his father goodbye with the rest of his siblings. ``alright you lot! Stay close to me and don't wander off! Especially you two, if you cause trouble here..'' Mother Weasley didn't need to finish her words, the twins nodded their heads like chickens and expressed their understanding of the threat behind her words. ``Mooom! We knooow! Let's go into the shops already!!'' looking at the twin's face, Molly knew they understood her words and took them all to a shop next to a beautiful Ice Cream Parlour. It was quite a contrast between the two shops, one was a beautiful parlour, the other a second hand bookshop.

``now, you can all look around but don't wander off too far. We aren't going to be here for long. We have a lot of things we need to get today.'' Getting their mother's permission, the children ran into the shop but very soon most of their excitement was supressed under the fact that they were in a book shop. But Ron's excitement knew no bounds, he had waited for this day for a whole year. He had pretended to learn words from his parents and brothers, he had patiently read nonsense stories like the Toadstool Tales and the Beetle and the Bard although the latter had some truth it was mostly nonsense. He even learned different languages in secret like Latin, Hebrew and Gaelic just to find a chance to make his family's life better and he had!!