Ron Weasley

Ronald Bilius Weasley, better known as Ron Weasley, is one of the main characters in the Harry Potter saga. He is the best friend of the protagonist and Hermione Granger. Created by the British J.K. Rowling, Ron first appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), and is described as a tall, thin red-haired boy, with large hands and feet and a covered face. of freckles. He also has blue eyes and a long nose. On the big screen he has been played, for ten years, by actor Rupert Grint.

History

He attended his first year at Hogwarts, where he meets Harry and Hermione, and helps Harry save the Philosopher's Stone, testing his wits on the giant Wizarding Chess. The following years he remains very close to his two friends, Harry and Hermione, due to various dangers that arise at Hogwarts and outside of it. Probably one of his greatest adventures with his friends is the one in which they embark in search of Voldemort's Horcruxes and which they manage to destroy. He also participated in the final battle of Hogwarts, where he lost one of his brothers.

Family

He is the sixth of seven Weasley children. He is the son of Arthur and Molly Weasley and brother of Bill, Charlie, Percy, the twins Fred and George, and little Ginny.

His father works at the Ministry of Magic, while his mother is a housewife. Bill works for the wizard bank in Egypt and Charlie breeds dragons in Romania. Percy is an assistant to the Minister for Magic and the twins end up opening the joke shop Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Finally, his little sister Ginny ends up being the captain of the Quidditch team The Harpies of Holyhead.

Poor but honest, the Weasley brothers have always bought second-hand things, despite the fact that Aunt Muriel is very well off, having a mansion where they end up hiding from Voldemort and his henchmen. The paternal grandparents are Septimus Weasley and Cedrella Black, while the maternal are Ignatius Prewett and Lucretia Black.

Married to his friend Hermione, the couple have two children: Rose and Hugo Granger-Weasley.

Personality

He is a character characterized by being faithful, honest, prudent, funny, jealous, sarcastic, somewhat curmudgeonly... but above all a loyal friend.

He loves chess, Quidditch, jokes and being with Harry and Hermione. He hates spiders, some Slytherins (eg Draco Malfoy), the second hand clothes he has to wear and Hermione correcting him.

He is good at magic chess and strategy, imitating voices and accents, and flying on a broomstick. He is overprotective of his sister Ginny. He sins of jealousy and is very insecure due to the merits accumulated by his brothers and the poverty of his family.

Ron is very optimistic and somewhat carefree, although he sometimes has a hard time dealing with the fact that his family doesn't have a lot of money. This makes many of his things worn and old, since he inherits them from his older brothers, and some Hogwarts students despise him for it, especially Draco Malfoy and the Slytherins.

He oscillates between insecurity in himself and rampant optimism, which reveals an immature and developing personality, without diminishing his other virtues. Harry is forced in his sixth year to raise his spirits before a Quidditch match, making him believe that he drank a potion, "Felix Felicis"; which gave results doing a spectacular job as a guardian.

Many of his qualities work in opposition to Harry's. While Harry is an orphan and has more money than he needs, Ron comes from a big family who loves him, but he is very poor. Also the fact that Harry is famous causes Ron to occasionally feel jealous of the attention his friend receives, as he himself would like to stand out in some way. In the fourth book, this causes them to have a fight, when Ron mistakenly thinks that Harry is always looking for the spotlight. His inferiority complexes, being less outstanding than his brothers (for being neither a brilliant student, nor an excellent Quidditch player, nor the son his mother always wanted) are the main force that motivates him to develop. in addition.

He's very jealous when it comes to Hermione Granger, even though he never wants to admit it.

A fun fact is that his last name "Weasley" It seems to come from the animal "weasel", in Spanish it refers to the genus of mustelas, to which the weasel belongs, characteristic for its reddish fur, like the Weasley family. In addition, this also refers to his father's patronus taking the form of a weasel.

Intervention in the plot

Since his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Ron has become Harry's best friend. Like him and Hermione, he belongs to Gryffindor house. In the first book of the series, Ron meets Harry Potter at King's Cross station while the latter is looking for the entrance to platform 9 3/4. Once inside the train compartment, they receive an unexpected visit from Draco Malfoy. Malfoy offers his friendship to Harry, who turns it down, as Malfoy has insulted Ron. From that moment Harry and Ron become very good friends; their friendship grows stronger with each year they spend at Hogwarts and they overcome the difficult tests that come their way with each challenge.

In his second year, he and Harry ride Ron's dad's flying car to school. And this is only the first of the many adventures of the school year, because during this they will visit giant spiders and save Ginny from certain death. Ron is very upset when Hermione is found in the hospital wing after being petrified.

Until the third year, he keeps as a pet a rat named Scabbers that had previously belonged to his brother Percy. After what happened with Scabbers in the third of the books (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) where they discover that Scabbers is actually Peter Petigrew, who betrayed Harry's parents. Sirius Black gives him another pet, a small, nervous brown owl. The little owl was named Pigwidgeon by Ginny, Ron's little sister, but Ron shortened the name to Pig.

Coming into their fourth year, Ron and Harry have their first serious fight after Harry was chosen to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, due to Ron resenting him for not trusting him enough to telling him that he had cheated on the Goblet (even though Harry didn't cheat), but after several weeks they reconcile. It is also here where the clearest episodes are seen with Hermione, since she gets very angry when she sees her dating Viktor Krum at the Christmas ball, which causes her first scene of jealousy towards her, showing that perhaps there is more than just friendship. among them. It is Ron, along with Hermione, who are Harry's main supporters in the Triwizard Tournament, and in the aftermath of his tragic encounter with Voldemort.

In his fifth year Ron is appointed Prefect of Gryffindor along with Hermione, and plays Quidditch as the team's guardian, in this book Ron shows a bit of his insecurities, such as his fear of making a fool of himself in matches, and that his twin brothers laugh at him for being a prefect. It is also in this year that Ron shows his loyalty to Harry by ignoring the request of his older brother (Percy) that he stay away from him because he considers him a bad influence.

In sixth year, Ron is jealous of his sister Ginny about her possible boyfriends and dates, and is upset when he finds her making out with her boyfriend at the time (Dean Thomas), and considers that she changes boyfriends too often, for another He wouldn't mind at all if she and Harry became a boyfriend because he's her friend, but given his attitude, Harry thinks he'd get in trouble for it. It is in one of these confrontations with his sister that she finds out a piece of news that would deeply embitter him: Hermione had kissed Viktor Krum when they were together in the fourth year. This is why Ron begins to treat Hermione coldly, and in an attempt to get revenge he begins dating Lavender Brown (with whom he begins his relationship the night he wins his first Quiditch match of the year) who turns out to be an overly girlfriend. Effusive, and corny, Hermione's jealousy is evident and she stops talking to her for months. Prior to this, they had been on very good terms as Hermione had invited him to be her date for an 'Eminence Club' Christmas party, but he ended up bringing Cormac McLaggen because she thought it would annoy everyone more. Ron though was relieved that their date was not successful. After some time, it can be seen that Ron is becoming disenchanted with his relationship with Lavender.

On his birthday, Ron has an accident where he consumes poisoned mead and ends up in the infirmary. Hermione forgets their disagreement to be by his side, until Lavender arrives and sees her, and begins to yell question what she was doing there and Hermione responds by saying that she "I'm her best friend", and so it begins an argument in which Lavender says that it is his girlfriend, not her; but Ron wakes up and names Hermione, so Lavender runs away crying. After this episode, a more cordial relationship between Hermione and Ron is seen, which leads to them being friends as before. His relationship with Lavender doesn't last long after his reconciliation with Hermione, due to his girlfriend's constant bouts of jealousy, and that she caught them leaving the sixth-year boys' dormitory together (Harry came down wearing the invisibility cloak) for what he thought wrong and immediately ended their relationship. Following this, Ron takes part in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower in which Professor Dumbledore was killed.

In seventh year Ron accompanies Harry, along with Hermione, to look for Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, almost halfway through the book Ron abandons them because of the bad thoughts that the locket caused him, returning with them, thanks to the deluminator that Dumbledore leaves him an inheritance, and destroys the Horcrux (the locket) with Godric Gryffindor's sword. He fights in the Battle of Hogwarts alongside his friends, and opens the Chamber of Secrets to pick up Basilisk fangs to destroy a Horcrux, the Cup, which Hermione destroys. At the end of the book he is seen married to Hermione and has two children, Rose and Hugo.

Romantic interests

Throughout the books, a tension has been noticed between the characters Ron and Hermione, which has led to the suspicion that there is something more than friendship between the two of them, especially from the scenes of jealousy (on the part of of Ron) in the fourth book in which Hermione dates Viktor Krum, a famous Quidditch player, champion of the Durmstrang school in the Triwizard Tournament and Ron's greatest idol, until Krum begins to take an interest in Hermione, spending a lot of time spending time with her and asking her to the Yule Ball, at which Ron stages his first really forceful jealousy scene, in which she tells him, "If you didn't want me to come with him, why didn't you invite me?"

Ron tells Hermione he's "fraternizing with the enemy," and addresses him as "Vicky". Out of his jealousy, he even breaks a Viktor figurine that Ron bought at the Quidditch World Cup.

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Harry found an arm under the bed, which still had parts of Krum's Bulgarian robe.

In the sixth book he dates Lavender Brown, one of the reasons Hermione is a little 'elated' about him. in this book. The relationship is very superficial, she affectionately calls him "Ro-Ro or Won-Won" and she gives him a thick gold chain with the inscription & # 34; My love & # 34; as a Christmas present. On his birthday, Ron eats some love potion-filled chocolates made by Romilda Vane for Harry. Harry takes him to Horace Slughorn's office to give him the antidote and is accidentally poisoned. Already in the infirmary with Hermione's company and teachers, Lavender arrives and annoyingly asks why Hermione is there. She is she replies that she is her best friend, until she starts waking up Ron and starts speaking in an incomprehensible way. Lavender says that he senses her presence, until Ron tells Hermione. This causes Lavender to run out of the hospital wing crying and Professor Severus Snape to say "Oh my love". Harry is hidden under the Invisibility Cloak.

In the seventh and final book, as promised, he accompanies Harry, along with Hermione, on their quest for the Horcruxes. His adventure ends up seeming frustrating, as they must flee from Death Eaters across the country, and he ends up abandoning his friends, leaving Harry in despair and Hermione in tears.. During that book, Ron and Hermione's relationship, until then always full of differences, fights and jealousy, hits a huge change since Dumbledore's funeral, and due to the hint of war, which conveys the idea that every moment can be the Finally, they are very affectionate with each other and have numerous proofs of love during this year such as sleeping holding hands, hugging when they are afraid, more jealousy from Ron towards Krum or dancing together at Bill Weasley's wedding and Fleur Delacour. Regretful for his outburst, he returns to his friends. Harry realizes Ron's deepest fear: a possible relationship between Harry and Hermione. Harry tells her that he sees Hermione as a sister to hers and that she feels the same way. Clarified this, Ron will seal his love with a passionate kiss to Hermione just before the battle of Hogwarts (although in the movie it happens in the Chamber of Secrets, after destroying Helga Hufflepuff's Cup).

Epilogue

Years later, he marries Hermione Granger, with whom he has two children: Rose, who is as smart as their mother, and Hugo, who apparently looks a lot like their father, and their friendship and loyalty to Harry continue. being unbreakable. Ron becomes an auror, but he doesn't like that job and he goes to work with George (only him, as Fred is killed in the second battle) at the joke shop in Diagon Alley, with great success.