Chapter 1 - The Headache

The Chapter starts with Ronald Weasley feeling insomnia, deciding to get up and drink a glass of cold water. He starts to reminisce the day's events, and the next section of the chapter focuses on his memories of his birthday that day.

He remininsces first about the personality of each of his family members, each reflected by their behavior on his birthday. The way he was overshadowed by all his other siblings upset him, and this was why his birthday was so special to him - because it was the one day he got all the attention.

His mother's negligence is shown by how much she dotes over Ginny while ignoring him altogether, even on his birthday. As for his father, it came to the point that Ronald always felt he cared for muggles more than he cared for him.

Ronald's eighth birthday begins with him feeling enthusiastic. His mother cooks his favourite food for breakfast, which he loves. He feels saddened when he learns that his father won't be back until the evening, thus missing his birthday.

Molly then tells him that Pandora and Luna Lovegood will be arriving soon to celebrate his birthday, Ron reflects about how he feels about Luna, seeing her as the only girl he knows besides Ginny, and about how much he loves having fun and playing with her.

This is followed by Molly leaving the Kitchen to confront the twins about their pranks and Ginny feeling jealous of Ron and possessive of Luna. This is due to her feeling that Luna is her friend and Ron has no right in trying to play with her. When Ronald tries to refute her argument, Ginny leaves the kitchen to take a shower, avoiding the argument altogether.

The Twins then arrive, who give him his birthday gift - a badge of Chudley cannon - Ronald's favourite Quidditch team.

After hugging the twins to thank them, the day takes a downturn as it starts raining, preventing Ronald from playing outdoors. Ginny is still spiteful about the argument they had previously and keeps on occupying Luna's attention, keeping her away from Ron. But at this point, Ron does not care due to a severe headache he's having.

Pandora Lovegood catches on Ronald having a headache, and when Ronald confirms her suspicions, his mother confronts him about not saying anything about the pain and Ron catches Pandora putting her wand back into her bag which surprises him (1).

Pandora gives Ronald a pastry which reliefs his pain, Molly and Pandora then playfully argue which house Ron could be sorted into when he enters Hogwarts. Molly thinks he'd be a Gryffindor while Pandora thinks he could be a Ravenclaw.

As evening arrived, Arthur Weasley arrives at the burrow with a birthday cake for Ronald, after eating the cake, the Lovegoods depart to the Rookery, Arthur goes to his bed and Ron screams in pain and the plates and dishes in the kitchen all explode and Ron faints.

When Ron wakes up, he goes down to the kitchen and converses with Fred who hugs him tightly as he was afraid for Ron, Ron's headache suddenly re-emerges and he finds himself somewhere else.

Ron finds himself in a black and white hall, he finds Fred-the only coloured person in the vision- on the ground with the rest of his family crying and grieving around him, Ronald screams pleading to Fred to wake up, the vision then ends.

Ronald wakes up and finds his father asleep in the chair next to him, he assures himself that Fred is alive and that it was just a nightmare, the chapter ends with Ronald embracing his father.

(1) It is not known whether or not Pandora is Legilimens. She could have found out via diagnostic spells, but since she looked into his eyes, a key indicator of this, it was likely Legilimens.