March showers gave way to April flowers. After a tiny amount of testimony, a judge granted Arthur Weasley's petitions for divorce and to distance the other two from the rest of the family. Molly and Ron were instructed to use her maiden name, Prewett. Ginny was notified she could no longer use the Weasley name for anything as well. She wondered what keeping Rowle's name would cost her. Molly debated on not telling Ron, but realized his exploding at his trial could be rather damaging. He took it better than she expected, "This is what you meant by choices, isn't it?"