Ron carefully slid a bottle to his sister and he gave a large heavy sigh.
"Well, that did not go as planned exactly. Ladies, I apologize. I am very sorry. I solemnly swear never to try to start any sort of civil interactions with former classmates who are unsavory. So say I," and he lifted his butterbeer in a salute to his girlfriend and his sister and tipped it back to take a long drink. When he put it down, he grinned at first Ginny and then Hermione, "Come on! I swear I saw that going so differently in my mind. I'd say hello, he'd say hello, and then it would be done. Alas, that was not to be."
Ron glanced at Hermione and then looked to Ginny to answer her question, "I don't know exactly. Now I am pretty sure I will have to do something fairly spectacular for making such a git of myself. What about a nice meal? Or will some sort of public flogging appease you two?"
He smiled at Ginny, and then used his leg to bump Hermione, hoping she was not too irritated with him not to give him a second chance.