Ronald Bilius Weasley
On this page:
- Name meanings
- The Weasley Family
- Appearance
- Ron at Hogwarts
- Skills, etc.
- General profile of Ron Weasley
- Ron in the movies
NAME MEANINGS
Birth name: Ronald Bilius Weasley.
'Ronald' name meaning: Ronald=Old Norse Rögnvaldr: "Having the
Gods' Power"
'Bilius' meaning: Bilius=bilious, one of the four Medieval "humors"
(temperaments), indicating anger and peevishness. Ron takes his middle name from
his Uncle Bilius.
'Weasley' meaning: Weasley=like a weasel? JKR: "In Britain and Ireland
the weasel has a bad reputation as an unfortunate, even malevolent, animal.
However, since childhood I have had a great fondness for the Family
Mustelidae; not so much malignant as maligned, in my opinion"
The 'Running Weasel' fallacy: There was not a legendary chess
player named 'Running Weasel!' This story is a fan rumor and not based on
mythology or history.
Other names: Dobby calls him 'Wheezy,' Luna calls him 'Ronald' instead of
'Ron,' and Lavender Brown calls him 'Won-Won'. Ron's copy of
Advanced Potion-Making got inscribed 'Roonil Wazlib' when his quill
malfunctioned. Slughorn calls Ron 'Rupert' by mistake.
FAMILY
Birthdate: 1 March 1980
Ancestry: Pure-blood.
Mother: Molly (Prewett) Weasley.
Father: Arthur Weasley, Head of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office,
Ministry of Magic.
Aunts, Uncles: Uncle Bilius, who saw a grim and died a week later.
Cousins: Mafalda, a cousin who never made it into the books
Siblings: Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, and Ginny.
Grandparents: Grandfather who originally owned Ron's "old and battered"
wizard chess set
Childhood: Raised by loving, protective parents.
Location of childhood home: 'The Burrow,' near Ottery St. Catchpole,
Devon.
Pet: Initially Scabbers the rat (until 1994), then Pigwidgeon ('Pig'), an
owl.
APPEARANCE
Eye color: Blue.
Hair color: Flaming red.
From the books: "He was tall, thin and gangling, with freckles, big hands
and feet, and a long nose" . "He was almost as tall as the twins already…".
Tattoo? Nah. It was a joke of Ginny's. She told the boy-obsessed girls in
her year that Ron had a Pygmy Puff tattoo, but she "didn't say where."
RON at HOGWARTS
First year: 1991.
House: Gryffindor
Quidditch: Gryffindor Quidditch keeper.
Earned 7 OWLs: Astronomy, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms,
Defense Against the Dark Arts , Herbology, Potions and Transfiguration. Unlike
Harry, Ron received no Os (Outstanding).
Failed Divination and History of Magic.
Awards, etc.: Special Award for Services to the School;
Prefect.
Organizations & affiliations: Dumbledore’s Army.
Dates, flirtations, etc,: Ron attended the Yule Ball with Padma
Patil in his fourth year and enjoyed a superficial relationship with
Lavender Brown in his sixth year.
SKILLS, ETC.
Wand: Initially used Charlie’s old wand. There is conflicting
information about his second wand. According to PA4, it is 14" willow containing
1 unicorn tail-hair, but according to Jo's website it is Ash.
Broom: An old Shooting Star until late 1995, then a
Cleansweep 11 in 1995.
Devices: Wizard chess set, flying turquoise blue Ford Anglia.
In the "Chamber of Secrets" movie, the license plate is 7990TD.
Career: Wants to be an Auror.
Skills: Chess, analysis and strategy. Tends to be wrong when he
is serious, right when he is joking.
Hopes (Mirror of Erised): Ron sees himself as Head Boy, holding
up the house cup and the Quidditch cup. He is Quidditch captain too.
Patronus: A Jack Russell terrier.
Boggart: A spider.
Handwriting: "untidy scrawl"
General
Profile of Ron Weasley
Ronald Bilius Weasley is the sixth of Molly and Arthur's sons. He is currently
attending Hogwarts where he is the best friend of Harry Potter. Ron has a
generally positive outlook on life but struggles with feelings of having to live
up to five older brothers who have made their mark on Hogwarts one way or
another.
Ron also finds himself frustrated with being poor. "Why is everything I own
rubbish?" he exclaims when he is faced with second hand dress robes with lace on them and a maniacal little owl who chokes on owl treats.
Ron and Harry find themselves at odds occasionally and have even spent some
weeks not speaking to each other, but Ron is a devoted friend and helper for
Harry. Ron's skills at chess helped Harry pass through McGonagall's enchanted
chess set guarding the Philosopher's Stone. He lied for Harry when Snape caught
Harry with the evidence of an illicit visit to Hogsmeade in their third year,
saying he'd brought the Zonko's stuff back for Harry on a previous visit.
After Hagrid lost Buckbeak's case, Ron took over responsibility for the appeal
from Hermione, who was strained to the breaking point from her class load, and he was deeply offended over the Committee's unjust handling of the
final hearing. He urged Harry to protest to their Head of House or the
Headmaster when Umbridge gave Harry sadistic detentions.
Ron has been very supportive of Harry as he's been plagued by feedback from
his mental connection with Voldemort. His questions after a post-Quidditch
practice vision helped them both analyze how much information Harry was getting,
and he gave Harry some intelligent advice, although Harry refused to take it. He's taken action to snap Harry out of a couple of overpowering
nighttime visions, and protected Harry from having his problems become public
property via the other boys in their dormitory.
Ron
seems to be developing an interesting and possibly romantic relationship with
Hermione, but for now it's in the arguing and teasing stage. He was highly
annoyed that Hermione went to the Yule Ball with Krum, but never got around to
asking her himself. He ended up going to the Ball with Padma Patil, but he was
so busy glowering at Hermione and Krum that Padma abandoned him to dance with
some boys from Beauxbatons. Ron didn't seem to mind in the least.
Ron is an avid Quidditch fan; his favorite team is the Chudley Cannons and
his bedroom at the Burrow -- an attic room at the top of the stairs -- is
plastered with posters of the team. Ron's broom, however, like everything else
he owns was a hand-me-down Shooting Star which is "frequently outstripped by
passing butterflies". In August of 1995, however, Ron became a prefect and
was rewarded by his mother with a new broom, a Cleansweep Eleven. That fall he
tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and was made Keeper.
Ron gets plenty of teasing from his older brothers, particularly Fred and
George. When he was made a prefect during the twins' last year at Hogwarts, they
resumed their old habit of calling him by baby-talk nicknames, something they
hadn't done since his first year. They taunted him for awhile about whether he
would try to give them detention, but Hermione indirectly put a stop to the
worst of that.
When Ron was three, he broke Fred's toy broomstick, and Fred retaliated by
changing Ron's teddy bear into a giant spider, while Ron was holding it. Ron's
been terrified of spiders ever since, although he can tolerate working with dead
ones in Potions. After encountering Aragog in the forest, Ron was so
afraid he threw up in Hagrid's pumpkin patch.
Ron joined Hermione and a group of other students in forming a group to study
Defense Against the Dark Arts from Harry during his fifth year. As a member of
Dumbledore's Army, as they called themselves, Ron fought in the Battle of the
Department of Mysteries. He was wounded in that battle and spent some days in
the Hospital Wing recovering afterwards.
RON
WEASLEY in the MOVIES
Ron is played by Rupert Grint.
posted by Harry Potter
