50 Facts About Ron Weasley

Ronald Bilius Weasley is a fictional character in JK Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy novel series.

Ron Weasley is a member of the Weasley family, a pure blood family that resides in "The Burrow" outside Ottery St Catchpole.

Whereas Harry is an orphan with more gold than he needs, Ron Weasley comes from a loving but poor family.

Ron Weasley is fascinated with the famous Harry, and Harry is fascinated with the ordinary Ron Weasley.

Ron Weasley plays a vital part in the quest to save the Philosopher's Stone.

Ron Weasley receives no reply because Dobby the house elf is stopping Harry's wizard mail.

Ron Weasley becomes so concerned that he and his brothers Fred and George fly their father's enchanted Ford Anglia car to Harry's home at his aunt and uncle's house.

Ron Weasley receives a Howler from his mother, berating him for taking the car.

Later Ron Weasley is forced to come face-to-face with his worst nightmare, spiders, in the Forbidden Forest, where the two have ventured at Hagrid's suggestion.

Ron Weasley offers to help with the preparation of Buckbeak's defence, but this fails to help.

Ron Weasley, knocked out by a spell from Pettigrew, is taken to the hospital wing, and is forced to remain there while Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius and Buckbeak.

Ron Weasley is in awe of his favourite Quidditch champion, Viktor Krum.

Ron Weasley is even more excited when Krum, still a student at the Durmstrang wizarding school, comes to Hogwarts to take part in the Triwizard Tournament, a magical wizarding tournament opposing the top three magic schools in Europe.

However, when Harry, underage, mysteriously becomes the fourth Tournament champion, Ron Weasley joins the dissenters who think Harry somehow cheated his way into the tournament and feels let down; according to Hermione, this stems from Ron Weasley's latent envy caused by being left out of the spotlight shared by Harry or his brothers.

Ron Weasley and Harry panic at the prospect of having to secure dates for the event, and Ron Weasley appalls Hermione with his immature approach, particularly for failing to extend her an invitation, apparently failing until the last minute to even realise she is a girl.

Ron Weasley becomes overcome with jealousy when he sees Hermione with her date: his former idol Krum.

Ron Weasley completely fails to get the hint and remains either in denial or oblivious to the pair's increasingly obvious feelings for each other.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ron Weasley is appointed a Gryffindor prefect, much to the surprise of himself and everyone else, especially Hermione, the other new prefect.

Ron Weasley joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team as Keeper, but his nerves and confidence issues often get the better of him during practices and matches, causing the Slytherins to make up a song about how Ron will make sure Slytherin win the interhouse Quidditch Cup.

However, during the last match, Ron Weasley plays better and wins the game and the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor.

Ron Weasley is injured in the fight, but makes a full recovery by the end of the novel.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Ron Weasley, who has grown taller over the summer, attracts the attention of Lavender Brown.

Harry, the new Quidditch Captain, picks Ron Weasley to continue as Keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, over competing candidate Cormac McLaggen who is equally-skilled but has difficulty with teamwork and following orders.

Harry saves his life by forcing a bezoar, a poison antidote, into his mouth, and Ron Weasley is transferred to the hospital wing.

Attention is drawn several times to Ron Weasley's deepening relationships to Harry and Hermione, with unresolved romantic tension with Hermione being one of the main subplots of the novel.

Furthermore, Harry and Ron Weasley's friendship has strengthened to the point where Harry can tell Ron Weasley that his Quidditch performance is endangering his membership on the team without either character taking it personally.

Ron Weasley agrees to go with Harry and Hermione on the quest to destroy all of Voldemort's Horcruxes.

Ron Weasley ends up lashing out in frustration at the lack of comforts and a concrete plan, eventually leaving his friends behind.

However, when they finally mention his name, Ron Weasley, who had immediately regretted his decision to leave but was captured by Snatchers and then could not return due to Hermione's anti-Death Eater enchantments, was led to Harry's location by unknown magic within the Deluminator he inherited from Dumbledore.

Harry, a sudden believer in the fate created by his return, immediately forgives Ron Weasley and insists it must be Ron Weasley who uses the sword to destroy Slytherin's locket.

Ron Weasley begins to worry about the fate of Hogwarts' elves.

Ron Weasley takes part in the Battle of Hogwarts, witnessing the death of his brother Fred, and teams up with Neville to defeat Fenrir Greyback.

Ron Weasley has passed his Muggle driving test, despite Hermione's apparent belief that he could not do so without Confunding the examiner.

Ron Weasley is known for his humour, loyalty, readiness to defend his friends and his love of food.

When I questioned why he didn't do it, he said, 'I'm Ron Weasley; Ron Weasley wouldn't do it.

Ron Weasley was never strong footed, people see him mostly as Harry's friend; his mother had actually wanted a girl and in the last book he finally has to acknowledge his weaknesses.

Ron Weasley is given his brother Charlie's old, chipped wand, which is made out of ash and has a unicorn hair sticking out of the end.

Ron Weasley's talents are rarely shown, but he, like the other DA members, survives a violent encounter with adult Death Eaters in Order of the Phoenix, and it is implied that during the Death Eater assault in Half-Blood Prince he held his own quite well because he was being helped by Felix Felicis, the good luck potion.

In Deathly Hallows, Ron Weasley loses his original wand, and takes Peter Pettigrew's wand for his own.

Ron Weasley grew up in the family home, The Burrow, near the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon.

Ron Weasley has six siblings: his five older brothers, Bill, Charlie, Percy, twins Fred and George, and a younger sister, Ginny, each with their own distinct personality trait.

Ron Weasley is often overshadowed by his siblings' accomplishments, but this is shown to be borne out of a lack of belief in himself, rather than a lack of actual talent or skill.

The Ron Weasley family is one of the few remaining pure-blood wizarding families, though they were considered "blood traitors" for associating with non-pure-bloods.

Bill, Charlie, and Ron Weasley were chosen as the prefect of their House.

Ron Weasley was chosen by IGN as their third favourite Harry Potter character, who said that Ron Weasley's status as comic relief made him "instantly endearing" and that his frustration and flirtation with Hermione Granger was a "highlight".

Ron Weasley auditioned after seeing a segment on the BBC children's news programme, Newsround, inviting children to send in information about themselves.

Ron Weasley's performance has often been cited as the best of three main characters.

Ron Weasley was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Play at the 2017 Whatsonstage.

Ron Weasley has made several appearances in parodies of Harry Potter and pop culture:.

Ron Weasley is a regular character in Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega.