Ron Weasley

Ronald Bilius Weasley

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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.

Timeline of Ron's life

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1980
March 1 - Ron Weasley born (CR)

1983
The infamous "teddy bear" incident: "If you must know, when I was three, Fred turned my - my teddy bear into a great big filthy spider because I broke his toy broomstick...You wouldn't like them either if you'd been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs and..."

1991
September 1 - Ron comes to King's Cross with his mother, his sister, and brothers Fred, George, and Percy. He meets Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express when he can't find an empty compartment and he asks if there is room in Harry's. From this chance meeting a strong friendship begins to develop..
September 12 - first flying lesson for Gryffindors and Slytherins
October 31 - Hermione is rescued from a Mountain Troll by Ron and Harry. The three become friends.
December 25 - Ron and Harry spend Christmas together; Harry receives an Invisibility Cloak.

1992
spring: Ron is bitten by a baby Norwegian Ridgeback named Norbert. He spends some time in the Hospital Wing.
first week of June - Harry, Hermione, and Ron follow Quirrell after the Philosopher's Stone, overcome the various protections, and defeat Quirrell/Voldemort's attempt to steal the Stone
September 1 - Ron and his friends start their second year at Hogwarts; Ron and Harry travel to Hogwarts by means of a flying car
September 2 - Ron receives a Howler from his mother
September 5 - Ron's Slug Curse backfires and he ends up belching slugs for an hour or so
October 31 - 500th Deathday Party for Nearly Headless Nick
December 25 - Ron, along with Harry and Hermione, takes Polyjuice Potion

1993
May 24 - Ron and Harry go into the Forest, following the spiders, and encounter Aragog
May 29 - Ron and Harry enter the underground passages of the Chamber of Secrets
June 26 - Ron tries to call Harry on the telephone
Summer - Ron and his family visit Egypt
August 31 - Ron meets Harry and Hermione in Diagon Alley. They are all staying at the Leaky Cauldron.
September 1 - Ron and his friends begin their third year at Hogwarts, which is now surrounded by Dementors

1994
June 6 - at sundown, Ron is taken by Sirius Black to the Shrieking Shack, where it is discovered that Ron's pet rat Scabbers is really Peter Pettigrew in disguise. Ron is attacked and injured by Lupin who has changed into a werewolf.
Monday, August 22 - Ron attends the Final of the 422nd World Quidditch Cup, along with Harry and Hermione; he has saved his pocket money all summer in order to be able to splurge
September 1 - Ron and his friends start their fourth year at Hogwarts
October 31 - November 24 - Ron and Harry have a falling out and don't speak to each other until after the First Task
December 25 - Yule Ball, 8 PM until midnight, Ron's date is Padma Patil. Ron ends the evening by having a blazing row with Hermione about Viktor Krum.

1995
February 23 - Ron is put into a Bewitched Sleep by Dumbledore and is carried to the bottom of the Lake to serve as one of the hostages for the Champions in the Second Task. He is brought to the surface the next day by Harry.
summer - Ron spends his time at the headquarters of The Order of the Phoenix, 12 Grimmauld Place
August 31 - Ron is made Prefect and gets a new Cleansweep racing broom
September 1 - Ron travels to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express
September (second week?) - Ron is made Gryffindor Keeper
October 5 - first meeting of Dumbledore's Army in the Hog's Head

1996
May 30 - Gryffindor beats Ravenclaw
June - Ron takes O.W.L.s
June (after last O.W.L.) Ron and others of Dumbledore's Army fly to the Ministry of Magic on thestrals, go into the Department of Mysteries, and fight a battle with a group of Death Eaters. Ron is wounded, but survives.

Quotes by and about Ron Weasley

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From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

"I’m the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left – Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy’s a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they’re really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it’s no big deal, because they did it first."

"We're nearly there," he muttered suddenly. "Let me think -- let me think..."
The white queen turned her blank face toward him.
"Yes..." said Ron softly, "it's the only way ... I've got to be taken."
"NO!" Harry and Hermione shouted.
"That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! I take one step forward and she'll take me -- that leaves you free to checkmate the king, Harry!"

From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"Don’t talk to me," Ron said quietly. [...]
"Why not?" said Hermione in surprise.
"Because I want to fix that in my memory forever," said Ron, his eyes closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret ..."

"Look," said Hermione patiently, "it’s always you who gets all the attention, you know it is. I know it’s not your fault," she added quickly, seeing Harry open his mouth furiously. "I know you don’t ask for it ... but – well – you know, Ron’s got all those brothers to compete against at home, and you’re his best friend, and you’re really famous – he’s always shunted to one side whenever people see you, and he puts up with it, and he never mentions it, but I suppose this is just one time too many...."

Harry seized one of the POTTER REALLY STINKS badges off the table and chucked it, as hard as he could, across the room. It hit Ron on the forehead and bounced off.
"There you go," Harry said. "Something for you to wear on Tuesday. You might even have a scar now, if you're lucky.... That's what you want, isn't it?" (GF19)

"I can’t come with you," said Hermione, now blushing, "because I’m already going with someone."
"No you’re not!" said Ron. "You just said that to get rid of Neville!"
"Oh did I?" said Hermione, and her eyes flashed dangerously.
"Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!"

From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry's thoughts: Ron had not asked Dumbledore to give him the prefect badge. This was not Ron's fault. Was he, Harry, Ron's best friend in the world going to sulk because he didn' have a badge, laugh behind Ron's back, ruin this for Ron when, for the first time, he had beaten Harry at something?

In Divination class: "Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?"
"Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.

Weasley cannot save a thing,
He cannot block a single ring,
That's why Slytherins all sing:
Weasley is our King.

Weasley was born in a bin,
He always lets the Quaffle in,
Weasley will make sure we win,
Weasley is our King.

Weasley is our King,
Weasley is our King,
He always lets the Quaffle in,
Weasley is our King.

As they climbed the staircase, the photos of various Healers called out to them, diagnosing odd complaints and suggesting horrible remedies. Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergoit.
"And what's that supposed to be?" he asked angrily, as the Healer pursued him through six more portraits, shoving the occupants out of the way.
"'Tis a most grievous affliction of the skin, young master, that will leave you pockmarked and more gruesome even than you are now --"
"Watch who you're calling gruesome!" said Ron, his ears turning red.
"The only remedy is to take the liver of a toad, bind it tight about your throat, stand naked by the full moon in a barrel of eels' eyes --"
"I have not got spattergoit!"
"But the unsightly blemishes on your visage, young master --"
"They're freckles!" said Ron furiously.

"Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet."

A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again.

"You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them."

"But now?" said Ron tentatively.
"Well now –" said George.
"–what with Dumbledore gone–" said Fred.
"–we reckon a bit of mayhem–" said George.
"–is exactly what our dear new Head deserves," said Fred.

Weasley is our King,
Weasley is our King,
He didn't let the Quaffle in,
Weasley is our King.

Weasley can save anything,
He never leaves a single ring,
That's why Gryffindors all sing:
Weasley is our King.

"And from now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell out die, Ron, die -- I'm just chucking them in the bin where they belong."

Harry: "How did you get away?" asked Harry in amazement, taking his wand from Ron.
"Couple of Stunners, a Disarming Charm, Neville brought off a really nice Impediment Jinx," said Ron airily, now handing back Hermione's wand too. "But Ginny was best, she got Malfoy -- Bat Bogey Hex -- it was superb, his whole face was covered in the great flapping things. Anyway, we saw you heading into the forest out of the window and followed. What've you done with Umbridge?"
"She got carried away," said Harry, "by a herd of centaurs."

From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Ginny: "Whatever you've heard from Ron is a big fat lie."