The farce Ron had caused did not have too serious an impact, but it still hurt Miss Lavender Brown's feelings and affected the Potter family as well.
As a couple close to Ron, Harry and Ginny found themselves in an extremely awkward position over the matter.
Harry and Ron had once been friends who had faced life and death together. No matter what was said about this, Harry would feel as though he had done something wrong. So whenever he met Ron at the Ministry of Magic, he did not dare mention anything personal, afraid the atmosphere between them would suddenly turn stiff.
Would their friendship be thrown into turmoil again because of this? Harry did not know, nor did he want to find out.
But he knew that if Ron dared to do anything, his friendship with Hermione would most likely be over for good.
No matter what, that was not an outcome Harry wanted to see. He and Ginny had seriously discussed the matter.
Hermione obviously knew that Ron had a crush on her. Otherwise, she would not have chosen to use Ginny to hint that Ron should give up when faced with the difficulty, all to spare him the embarrassment of being rejected and preserve the three of them's friendship.
But that did not seem to have been of much use. And Fred and George had torn away Ron's last shred of dignity, leaving everyone who knew about it exceptionally awkward.
Somehow, the matter reached Hermione as well. After learning the whole story, she wrote Harry a letter and discussed how they could make Ron give up his unrealistic fantasies without damaging the friendship among the three of them.
In the end, at Albert's suggestion, Hermione wrote Ron a letter herself to address the matter.
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