First Chapters, Plots, Hooks, leads, or grabbers.

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Obliviate CoS Style.

Chapter 1. Aftermath of the Confrontation of the Chamber of Secrets.

03/01/2016

I don't own the Harry Potter verse. Just playing.

Summary: Harry and Hermione are in the Great Hall for a dinner to celebrate a Special Service to Hogwarts awards presentation and overhears an excited Lavender ask Ronald how he saved his sister Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets. It was Ronald's big moment to shine.

Ronald has another bad experience due to his greed plus the effect Voldemort has on his fears and jealousies.

HHr NLLL

- Harry Potter. Obliviate CoS. -

Hermione had been the last to be unpetrified, and she was annoyed at the smirk on Professor Snape's face as if he had done that on purpose. Contrary to medical opinion Hermione had remained conscious while she was petrified, and had done a lot of thinking about the magical world, and what had happened in the castle over the last two years. She would have gone mad if not for her Harry visiting her very day, and informing her what was happening, what they were learning, and sharing details of his sad life. A sad life that she was going to change today.

It was late when she arrived in the Great Hall halfway through the main course of the celebration dinner where Dumbledore had already presented a Special Service to Hogwarts award gold shield to Harry and Ronald for their courageous deeds to save Ginny Weasley from certain death down in the Chamber of Secrets as well as just a brief mention of terminating the thing (Basilisk) that had been terrorizing the castle without the headmaster's expressed permission, plus completely not mentioning stopping Tom-mort from returning or the part Lucius played in the disaster. But Dumbledore had kept that little bit of gossip just between Harry and himself. No point giving away that useful little secret when he could use it to blackmail the ponce.

Hermione's entrance into the Great Hall was a real show stopper as she spotted Harry right across the Great Hall, and charged towards him with her bushy long hair billowing in the wind, and hugged him to death. While only giving Ronald a distracted wave as he was dragged off by Lavender and Parvati. Harry had a big smile on his face as she sat down next to him, and started asking all the questions she had not been able to ask while petrified. So many questions without pausing for an answer or even to breathe.

Ronald was so pleased that Lavender had asked him to sit with her and Parvati Patil. He had already noticed the quickly developing and future Big Boobs Brown, and wanted her to get to know the real Ronald Bilius better. He took his Special Services Award burnished gold shield that he shared with Harry with him, and followed his fangirls further along the Gryffindor table, leaving Harry and Hermione alone together.

"Ron Ron." Lavender gushed as she held onto Ronald's big strong arms. "Can I see your Special Services to the School Award burnished gold shield?"

"Oh this old thing." Ronald said as he polished his name again with a clean part of his sleeve, and presented it to Lavender.

"Oh Wow!" Lavender gushed and started to read the inscription. "For a Special Service to Hogwarts; Be it known that Ronald Bilius Weasley with the assistance of Mr H. Potter did at great risk to their lives saved a fellow student from a certain painful death."

Ronald had a very wide grin as he was chuffed that Dumbledore had put his name first on the burnished gold shield, and let him hold on to it to show his mother.

"Oh wow Ron Ron, you are so brave." Parvati flushed.

"Yes Ron Ron; tell us again how you saved your poor sister Ginny down in the Chamber of Secrets?" Lavender gushed.

"Well as you know I had a little help from Harry when we confronted that chickenhearted scoundrel Lockhart trying to escape the school. Could you believe it? The coward was going to run away, and leave my sister to die!" Ronald started and the story got more exciting as he got to the part where he pushed Lockhart down the drain pipe.

"Better you than me." Ronald gestured with a poke of his broken wand in his hand.

Ronald played up his part as he told them of jumping down the dark drain and landing on all those bones, slime and dirt. He showed them the slime and dirt he still had on his grubby boots, the hem of his robes and under his finger nails, causing Lavender and Parvati to squeal and shriek as he waved his fingers in their faces and tried to rub it off on them.

"Then the evil dirty rotten Slytherin." Ronald continued.

"Lockhart? You mean Lockhart don't you?" Lavender corrected.

"Yes him, that is what I said." Ronald said annoyed at the interruption that was interfering in his grand tale. "That Slytherin Lockhart jumped on me while my back was turned, and snatched my wand." Ronald said as he acted out the fight he had with the slimy git, and demonstrated on a loaf of bread how he beat him to a pulp.

"But it was my cunning plan all along to trick the pathetic fool to take my broken wand." Ronald said with glee. "And it worked! The moron told us how he was going to obliviate me and Harry, and use this tale for his next book; Secrets from the Chamber."

"Mr Weasley!" Professor McGonagall called from the head table as she feared where this was going, while silence descended on the Great Hall as the rest of the students stopped talking and turned to watch what was happening. Harry and Hermione knew that this would not end well, while Draco had a big sneer on his face as he watched the red-haired dunderhead make a bigger moron of himself.

Ronald was so excited telling his favourite part of the tale to his favourite fangirls that he went further to add some dramatics. So he stood up with one grubby boot of the bench seat to re-enact what happened next as he held up his broken bent wand and pointed it at Harry with a gleaming smile on his face.

"Mr Ronald Weasley!" Professor McGonagall called from the head table again.

Ronald's ears went Prewett Rage red as he ignored the interruptions to his amazing dramatic tale. This was his moment to shine and he was just getting to the best part.

"The adventure ends here, boys!' The slimy git declared and then said that he would take a bit of this snake skin back up to the school, tell them that he was too late to save the girl, and that me and Harry had tragically lost our minds at the sight of her mangled body, 'you first, POTTER,' the dirty rat said — 'say good-bye to your memories!' " Ronald excitedly recounted.

"MR RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY!" Professor McGonagall shouted again more urgently from the head table as she could see what was going to happen next, while Professor Snape had an evil gleeful grin at the thought of all the points and detentions against Gryffindor he was about to take and give. Gryffindor wouldn't be winning the House Cup again this year. While the headmaster wondered if he could encourage the moron to hit the muggleborn instead of Harry. She was getting too close to his weapon. With a wave of his hand and using his mind to project his will, the moron's wand was now pointing directly at Hermione.

Obliviously ignoring everyone except the enraptured attention of his fangirls, Ronald dramatically raised his Spellotaped wand high over his head, pointed it at Hermione, and yelled, "OBLIVIATE!"

"NO!" Screamed Hermione and Harry as he flung his arms over his head and turned to protect Hermione sitting next to him.

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"KABOOMY!"

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Thankfully the wand only exploded with the force of a tiny little bomb, and Ronald was the only one to take the full force of the blast.

Harry couldn't believe that the moron had just cast the memory charm at him in the Great Hall in front of everyone with his broken bent Spellotaped wand. Particularly after Ronald had been told never to use it again. But it was the only wand he had, and he had to impress his fangirls.

Hermione was shocked as she watch Ronald tell his version of the tale, and then stupidly stand up to re-enact Lockhart's thwarted attempt to obliviate Ronald and her Harry. She felt great as Harry moved to protect her from the curse as she could see the look of jealous anger on Ronald's Prewett Rage red face as he pointed his wand directly at her. But fortunately the broken bent Spellotaped wand had exploded and Ronald had been blown back by the blast, clear over the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuffs tables, and right across the Great Hall to ram into the Slytherin table landing on top of his most favourite Slytherin; Draco Malfoy, crushing his ribs into the table and pushing his face into the bowl of custard pudding splattering it all over the Slytherin students.

There was stunned silence in the Great Hall only to be broken by some groaning and a hated voice.

"One hundred points from Gryffindor, Potter, for cursing the pathetic dunderhead!" Snape screamed as he quickly made his way to his godson.

"I didn't do it!" Harry yelled but was ignored by professor Snape as he rushed to Draco's aid.

McGonagall saw red at Snape's bullying of one of her lions, and screamed. "Denied! Mr Potter had nothing to do with that!"

"Now Minerva, I am afraid..." Dumbledore started to say as he gave her a disappointed look for upsetting Severus, but the glare in her Scottish eyes froze the words in his mouth.

McGonagall followed Dumbledore as he turned to follow the path Snape had cut through the crowded hall.

Harry was surprised how quickly Snape, McGonagall and Dumbledore reacted when Ronald and Malfoy was hurt. Where were they when he was fighting for his life in the Chamber of Secrets, (Oh, Harry wouldn't have gotten any help from the Hogwarts professors. Harry's parents are all dead, so they couldn't be on the Hogwarts Board of Governors like Draco's dad can, to threaten,bully,blackmail or bribe all the professors!),he wondered.

Ronald was laying on top of Draco, and he was quickly pushed off onto the floor by Crabbe and Goyle. Dumbledore waved his wand and raised up Ronald to stand.

Snape fussed over Draco muttering, "Potter will pay when his father hears about this!"

Draco only had a few of broken bones but he will live. Snape quickly sent him off to the hospital ward with Madam Pomfrey, Crabbe and Goyle, and then wondered where Lucius Malfoy was as the other members of the Board of Governors of Hogwarts was present for the Special Service Award Presentation.

Ronald on the other hand was physically unharmed, and had a completely blank look on his stunned anserine face as he looked around at everyone. He saw the strange looking black robed bat with greasy hair and the Merlin impersonator in a bright purple robe with yellow stars who looked absolutely ridiculous with his long white beard wrapped over his shoulder waving a stick at him, and he burst out laughing.

"What a mob of freaks! A greasy hair bat and a Merlin wannabe!" Ronald laughed while the shocked hall drew its breath.

His laughter filled the silent Great Hall until Ronald noticed he was in a large antechamber full of children in long black robes with sticks, and then his ears went bright Prewett Rage red as he got very angry.

"WHERE THE BLOODY FREAKEN HELL AM I?"

"Language Mr Weasley!" Professor McGonagall snapped.

"One hundred points from Gryffindor and detention every night until you graduate, Dunderhead." Added Snape with vicious glee.

"Who are you calling a dunderhead, you greasy hair bat? And you can shove your detentions, you bloody freaking wanker!" Ronald yelled back and then his eyes went blank as he couldn't remember who he was.

"WHO THE BLOODY FREAKEN HELL AM I?"

Dumbledore silenced Ronald with a waved of his wand, while he carefully hid his anger as he realized that his spy on the Boy-Who-Lived had just so foolishly completely wiped his own memory just like that dunderhead Lockhart.

"See to Draco, Severus." The headmaster instructed as he guided the silent screaming red-haired dunderhead back to his office where he would desperately try to restore the moRon's memories.

Harry and Hermione watched in silence as the professors dealt with Draco and Ronald. Harry couldn't believe that he had not noticed Ronald's behaviour before. It was the same jealous opinionated angry loud mouth Ronald but now he had obliviate himself of the knowledge of magic, witches and wizards, he was calling them freaks just like his magic hating aunt, uncle and cousin. And he wonders how he could have possibly been friends with the moron. And he felt ashamed how he had allowed the bigot to bully his Hermione.

He said to himself, 'Never Again!'

- Harry Potter. Obliviate CoS. -

The lost of their so-called friend brought Harry and Hermione closer together as they drew strength and comfort from each other. Hermione implemented the changes she had thought about while she was petrified, and took Harry home to meet her parents. They had a great Durzkaban Free summer together, and shared it with Dobby, Neville and his girlfriend Luna.

Dumbledore had tried to recreate Ronald's memories but had ended up frying the moRon's brain because he argued so much, as he wanted better memories where he was the hero and not the comic relief sidekick.

Dumbledore was away at the International Confederation of Wizards the day Madam Pomfrey gave up trying to treat Ginny and Ronald at Hogwarts. Their needs were beyond her skills and she sent them for better care at St Mungo's where the Malfoys had taken their son.

So the Weasleys never got to visit their oldest son William but spent a boring summer at St Mungo's where their winnings in the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw was put to good service paying for the mind healing and counseling for Ginny, and the long term care of Ronald who joined Lockhart who is currently a resident of the Janus Thickey ward (a secure closed, long term ward for patients with permanent spell damage) at St. Mungo's Hospital.

Unfortunately for Dumbledore, Molly had found out about the Basilisk, the diary, Tom-mort, and more importantly who had set up her daughter, and she quietly told Narcissa whom she had accidentally run into at St Mungo's, what she thought about the Malfoys.

Once the cat was out of the bag Dumbledore was quick to save himself, and dumped it all on Lucius. When Dumbledore had confirmed what the red-haired harridan was saying, and she saw the look guilty in Lucius' eyes, Narcissa took out her wand, and expressed her disappointment of her imbecile of a husband by casting a Reducto hex at Lucius' nether parts, and then divorced him, taking all the Black family dowry with her.

When the Pure-bloods families discovered the deadly danger Lucius had put their children in at Hogwarts, Lucius suddenly discovered what Harry had felt when everyone turned on him over the matter of the Heir of Slytherin. Even his former Death Eater comrades had had enough of the pompous fool. What was left of the Malfoy gold was not going to save him this time.

After the remains of Lucius' body were found, the Ministry turned the sheeple's attention back on Dumbledore, and he lost all of his positions. But it was losing the headmastership for good that finally broke the old wizard as he insisted that only he could guide Harry to his destiny, and he finished his days with his new best mates; Ronald Bilius and Lockhart as they planned the painful death of Harry Potter, and world domination for the Greater Good, while they had a friendly discussion who would be the greatest of them all.

While Severus Snape saw his chance to escape two dark lords and ran for it. Never to be seen again.

Needing someone else to blame after Dumbledore went to St Mungo's, Fudge focused the public's attention on the wizard who had betrayed the Potters: Sirius Black. Fudge knew that Black never had a trial so he decided to give him the most grandest show trial of all, and then have him ceremoniously thrown through the veil so he could seize all of the Black fortune. There was no one to stop him after Lucius' demise.

The late former Undersecretary Umbridge had taken great delight in showing the members of the press the Veil in the Death Chamber where Black would be thrown through after his fair trial. Unfortunately Rita Skeeter tricked her into demonstrating how the veil worked.

"How does the Veil worked Madam Undersecretary Umbridge?" Rita asked innocently with idolization.

With unbridled glee Umbridge replied as she demonstrated. "The Victim just walks through the arch and into the Veil like thus and..."

"Poof!" Rita finished gleefully as the pink toad had accidentally touched the Veil with her hand and was sucked through. Now Rita had the last chapter of her new tell all book; The flies and croaking of the Toad, warts and all.

(Bless you, Rita Skeeter! - not something I'd ever thought I'd write in a beta or a review of a Harry Potter fic).

So with all of Fudge's grandstanding, it came as a great shock that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's second in command, Sirius Black, was found to be completely innocent but the Ministry had new target. The Rat!

But the Rat had escaped and was in hiding. Then Minister Fudge remembered the last member of the Unlawful Manipulative Junta. Former Minister Millicent Bagnold had already departed on her next Great Adventure while Dumbledore was in St Mungo's most secure ward. That left Barty Crouch to face the wrath of the sheeple. Minister Fudge assembled a team of one hundred Hit Wizards and Aurors plus the press to capture the early morning raid. He proudly led the assault on Number 13 Mt Crumpit Drive, Whotterville. But it quickly turned into another disaster as they discovered that there were two Barty Crouchs at home and neither wished to go quietly. Sadly both Barty Crouchs perished along with the Minister and three Hit Wizards.

The Rat didn't last long after he sought sanctuary with his former owner in the Janus Thickey ward at St. Mungo's Hospital, and was accidentally eaten by one of the patients. (No prize for guessing who, but he said it tasted like a furry chicken. Well he does have a cast iron stomach, wasn't sick at all and was still hungry. Hospital food still sucks even in the Magical World.)

Without the rat to care for him, Wraithmort wasted his days chasing rabbits to possess in the forest of Albania while planning world domination and his comeback tour. His Horcruxes would not stop him from dying of old age. More importantly for the dark lord, Lubricious Lucius was the only one who knew where all the stolen gold was buried that Voldemort would need for his return.

Without Lubricious Lucius to maintain the rage of the Pure-blood Agenda the Death Eaters grew old and faded away.

Without Dumbledore to maintain the Greater Good, the rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin dissolved completely away, and everyone got their happy ever after, while Harry's scar never itched again.

Not even a little bit!

- Harry Potter. Obliviate CoS. -

The end.

Thank you for reading.

The words in red are the thoughts and wisdom of my Beta; Alix33. Thank you.