The greedy Ron

"Ah, hello, Ron, my name is Har..."

Never mind the gender swap for now. Since the other person had taken the initiative to say hello, he ought to at least respond politely.

But before Harry could finish...

As though he had discovered some earth-shattering secret, Ron pointed at Harry's face-or, more precisely, his forehead-with an excited expression.

"Y-y-y-you... you're..."

"You're the legendary, the legendary Boy Who Lived-Harry Potter, right?"

As though he had spotted a superstar idol, Ron completely forgot that he was still carrying his luggage.

He simply dropped his trunk, leaving it lying across the middle of the compartment, and ran straight over to Harry, bending down to look at his face.

"Wow, is that the scar You-Know-Who left?"

"I heard it was a really, really terrifying Killing Curse. No one but you ever survived that spell..."

Seeing the lightning-shaped scar on Harry's forehead, Ron looked utterly amazed.

That's incredible. Not only did he survive You-Know-Who, he even rebounded his attack and made him disappear for eleven years...

"You mean Voldemort?"

Harry raised his eyebrows, finding Ron's posture a little hard to take.

With two men, this position would have looked incredibly gay. With a boy and a girl, it looked a little too intimate...

Harry really wasn't used to it, mainly because he had never experienced it before. Given Ron's current age, it looked like he would be in for quite a few electric shocks.

"Shh!"

Hearing that name, Ron hurriedly raised a hand to stop Harry, as though he had violated some taboo.

While he was at it, he also put his trunk in a suitable spot.

"Harry, you can't say that name out loud!"

"All right."

Harry shrugged, not insisting on calling You-Know-Who Voldemort.

In this respect, Ron was still just as he had been described in the original story, treating Voldemort's name as strictly taboo.

Besides, having the other person jump every time he said something would be a real nuisance...

Naturally, Ron then plopped down beside Harry and began asking him all sorts of questions...

Ron also showed Harry quite a few wondrous things from the wizarding world.

They were all ordinary things in the wizarding world, and Harry had even encountered them many times when reading the original story.

But when Harry tore open a Chocolate Frog wrapper and saw Nicolas Flamel moving on the card...

He still couldn't help looking amazed as he stroked the wondrous little card.

Good grief, someone in a photograph could actually move as though he were alive!

That was currently completely impossible in the Muggle world.

Even in the twenty-first century, there were only animated images, nothing like the photographs of the magical world, whose subjects could move freely with such lifelike ease...

Knowing about something was one thing; seeing it was another. It felt different.

Meanwhile, Ron sat beside Harry with a goofy grin, occasionally helping himself to the Chocolate Frogs Harry had bought...

Ah, the Weasley family didn't have much money. I hardly ever get to eat many sweets...

Harry Potter is even nicer than the rumors say. He's let me have so many snacks for free. Hehe...

Ron stole a somewhat furtive glance at Harry beside him, a satisfied smile appearing on his sweet face.

She was going to be friends with the best boy in the world, Harry Potter. Hahaha~

Watching Ron happily munching on a Licorice Wand beside him, Harry felt a little helpless too.

The old Ron really had seemed a little annoying.

But now Ron had turned into an adorable little redheaded girl...

Hiss...

And after meeting Harry, Ron had not only been quite polite, but quite enthusiastic too.

Ahem.

If it was just being friends, that wasn't out of the question...

Anyway, as long as I still study properly when I'm supposed to, it shouldn't affect anything.

Yes, it won't affect anything...

"Hey, Harry, look at this. This is our headmaster, and the greatest wizard in the wizarding world today!"

Ron tore open another Chocolate Frog packet, pulled out a card, and placed it in Harry's hand.

"Albus Dumbledore. I've already got over eighty of him, so you can have this one~"

"What do you mean, I can have it? I bought this Chocolate Frog."

Harry lightly tapped Ron on the head, but Ron wasn't angry.

He merely chuckled goofily and continued eating Harry's food.

For some reason, this Chocolate Frog seems sweeter than the ones I've eaten before!

His big amber eyes wide open, Ron sat in his seat and looked around in complete relaxation for a little while.

Although she had been born into a wizarding family, everything she knew about Hogwarts had actually come from her older brothers' reports. This was Ron's first time seeing what it was really like...

Fred and George told me before that when we start at Hogwarts, we have to defeat a powerful Troll, or the school will send us home. Oh, I really don't know what to do. How could I possibly beat a Troll...?

A little worried, Ron tore open another Chocolate Frog packet with a melancholy expression.

Upon noticing Harry's less-than-kind gaze, Ron instantly switched expressions, putting on an innocent, adorable smile again.

"Hehe, the last one, Harry. I promise, the last one..."

"You..."

Harry flicked Ron's smooth forehead, feeling rather helpless too.

This was already the twelfth "last one."

Forget it. All these Chocolate Frogs aren't expensive, and I'm not short of that little bit of money. I'll just treat it as making friends normally.

"Ah, the great Harry Potter is the most generous! Hahaha!"

Ron happily narrowed his eyes, tipped sideways, and leaned against Harry without a care, continuing to eat the snacks on the table.

Harry: ???

Bro-no, Miss Weasley, what is the meaning of this?

"I'm only leaning on you. Don't be so stingy."

Ron muttered, leaving Harry unsure whether to push him away or not. He could only let Ron lean against him while he went back to reading his Hogwarts textbooks...

Honestly, the Hogwarts textbooks are pretty interesting, just like the adorable little redheaded Ron here-no, what little redheaded girl? I meant the red Fire-Making Spell...

Then, in keeping with the original story's plot...

As expected, Hermione and Neville also came to this compartment.

Upon seeing Harry, both were predictably astonished, leaving Harry already somewhat accustomed to it.

After all, Harry Potter was a legendary figure who had already gone down in history, yet here he was, right in front of them!

Anyone who saw him would have to be thoroughly astonished, wouldn't they?