The warm smile was unexpected. Ron knew what women were like when they were upset. They glared, they huffed, and they declared war on him by giving him the silent treatment until he either apologized (never!) or they got tired of ignoring him. Arguing with Hermione all the time had seen to upping his level of understanding toward women when they were furious with men. He knew what they wanted. Apologies, flowers, poems written on scrap bits of parchment about how they were nothing without that superior woman-like figure in their lives. Basically, they wanted a bunch of pansy nonsense that Ron wanted nothing to do with. But this was different. Steph was smiling at him and, in doing so, she managed to completely throw Ron off guard without even intending to do so. "Ah...yeah. Yeah, that's good." Ron smiled a bit, then looked away. "And you don't really need to bother him about it. I handled the situation." He grinned a little more. "You should've seen his face when he realized that I gave him those rabbit ears." It was a good thing that Ron had managed rabbit ears too. Quite honestly, he had been more far more likely to make Tim's head explode than properly execute the transfiguration of any part of his body. Ron just wasn't all that great at Transfiguration back in school, see? So having done so had been a pretty huge risk, though Ron wouldn't exactly admit that to anyone. Though if Tim's head had exploded, Ron was pretty sure that it would have been well deserved. It wasn't his fault that the Muggle boy was insane.
"Yeah?" Ron perked up a bit more at the sight of her sandwich. Stealing some of her food was a lot more appealing than having to bother with making something for himself. "That's a small group compared to the lot that I came out here with. Where's everyone else?" Ron didn't mind that he had come up here with a bigger group. Personally, he was relieved that he had. It made being able to goof off and be lazy a lot easier when there were so many people for that Bobby guy and those Winchesters to focus on.