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Hagrid was born on 6 December 1928 to Mr Hagrid, a wizard, and Fridwulfa, a giantess, and grew up in the West Country of England, near the Forest of Dean, where he acquired his distinctive accent.

When Hagrid was about three, his mother returned to her Giant colony, leaving his father to raise him alone. 

Hagrid’s father was thrilled when his son was accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Hagrid began his education in 1940 in which he was Sorted into Gryffindor House. During his third year, Hagrid acquired one in what would be a long line of dangerous pets: a young Acromantula, which he named Aragog. 

That same year, fifth-year student Tom Marvolo Riddle, who would go on to become Lord Voldemort, opened the Chamber of Secrets and unleashed a far more dangerous monster, which Riddle used to attack and petrify a number of Muggle-born students until he finally caused the death of a girl named Myrtle Warren. When the school was threatened with closing, a consequence highly undesired by Riddle, the boy found out about Aragog and turned Hagrid in as the culprit; he even further slandered Hagrid with accusations of raising werewolf cubs under his bed and running off into the Forbidden Forest to wrestle trolls. Hagrid protected Aragog and helped him flee to the Forbidden Forest; however, he was shortly thereafter expelled from Hogwarts, a fate that he was relieved that his father never knew of, having died during Hagrid’s second year.

Following his expulsion, the Ministry of Magic forbade Hagrid from practising magic and destroyed his wand. The then-Transfiguration teacher Albus Dumbledore, who was convinced that Hagrid was innocent, nonetheless convinced then-Headmaster, Armando Dippet, to give Hagrid the job of Gamekeeper and allow him to remain a resident of the school. Hagrid continued to do magic using his pink umbrella, which contained the broken fragments of his wand or perhaps even his entire wand intact, which may have been repaired by Albus Dumbledore with the Elder Wand.

Sometime after being expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Hagrid joined the original Order of the Phoenix in the 1970s. At the abrupt end of the First Wizarding War, Albus Dumbledore sent Hagrid to rescue a one-year-old Harry Potter from the ruins of his house in Godric’s Hollow, after Lord Voldemort murdered both James and Lily Potter in 1981. Using Sirius Black’s motorcycle, he brought Harry Potter to Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall, who were waiting to deliver the boy to his only remaining family — Lily’s Muggle elder sister, Petunia, and her husband Vernon Dursley. Sometime after being expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Hagrid joined the original Order of the Phoenix in the 1970s.

Early in the 1984–1985 school year, Hagrid rescued a student from Devil’s Snare. He also met Ben Copper. Around this time, he also got a puppy. Shortly before one of his birthdays, Hagrid lost one of his pets, and stopped being as cheerful as he usually was. Around this time, Dumbledore recruited Jacob’s sibling to help throw him a huge birthday party to cheer him up and show just how much everyone appreciated him. At some point before this, he saved a seventh year’s life, made a first year feel welcome at Hogwarts, and baked Rock Cakes to cheer up a third year.

After Harry was accepted to Hogwarts in 1991, Hagrid was given the task of finding Harry, as Harry’s uncle Vernon was doing everything in his power to prevent his nephew from receiving his Hogwarts acceptance letter. On Harry’s eleventh birthday, Hagrid found the Dursleys and Harry in an extremely isolated Hut-on-the-Rock, and accidentally broke the door down from the force of his knocking, much to Vernon and Petunia’s intense displeasure; Vernon threatened him with a gun, demanding that he leave, only for Hagrid to contemptuously seize the gun and twist it into a knot like it was rubber.

Not only did Hagrid show Harry some of the first real kindness he had ever known, bringing him a birthday cakeand generally caring about Harry’s comfort and happiness in a way the Dursleys would never have even considered, but he also revealed to Harry that he was a wizard. In retaliation, he attempted to turn Harry’s spoiled bully of a cousin, Dudley, into a pig, but only managed to give the boy a pig’s tail. However, Hagrid credited this to Dudley being so much like a pig already, that there was not much left to do. Once it was confirmed that Harry would be attending Hogwarts, after Hagrid decidedly ignored the Dursleys’ protests, he helped Harry find his bearings in the magical world by taking him to Diagon Alley, through the Leaky Cauldron, to buy his school necessities. While in Diagon Alley, Hagrid took Harry to Gringotts Wizarding Bank to withdraw some funds from the Potters’ vault, and to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone from high-security Vault 713, to be transported to Hogwarts for even safer keeping. Hagrid also bought Hedwig, a snowy white owl, for Harry’s eleventh birthday. He comforted Harry about his upcoming attendance at Hogwarts school and provided him with a ticket detailing the date, time and place that he would need to catch the Hogwarts Express. Not only did Hagrid show Harry some of the first real kindness he had ever known, bringing him a birthday cakeand generally caring about Harry’s comfort and happiness in a way the Dursleys would never have even considered, but he also revealed to Harry that he was a wizard. In retaliation, he attempted to turn Harry’s spoiled bully of a cousin, Dudley, into a pig, but only managed to give the boy a pig’s tail. However, Hagrid credited this to Dudley being so much like a pig already, that there was not much left to do.

In the spring of 1992, Hagrid met a hooded man (Quirinus Quirrell in disguise) at the Hog’s Head and was enticed to play a game of cards when the mysterious person bet a dragon egg. Assuming the man was a dragon dealer and fellow dangerous creature enthusiast, and under the influence of a fair amount of mead, Hagrid was convinced to divulge details about Fluffy, the three-headed dog Hagrid had lent to Dumbledore to help guard the Philosopher’s Stone. Hagrid secretly took care of the egg, until the night he hatched, Hagrid was initially blind to the chaos that the hatchling caused, but eventually, Harry, Ron, and Hermione convinced him to allow Norbert to be taken to a dragon sanctuary by friends of Ron’s brother, Charlie, who worked with dragons. After learning that Voldemort had attempted to steal the Stone using the information Hagrid gave him while drunk, Hagrid was distraught with guilt, but Harry assured Hagrid that he did not blame him. As an apology, Hagrid spent the time that Harry was unconscious sending off owls to some of his parents’ old school friends, assembling an album full of wizarding photos of Harry’s parents for him.In the spring of 1992, Hagrid met a hooded man (Quirinus Quirrell in disguise) at the Hog’s Head and was enticed to play a game of cards when the mysterious person bet a dragon egg. Assuming the man was a dragon dealer and fellow dangerous creature enthusiast, and under the influence of a fair amount of mead, Hagrid was convinced to divulge details about Fluffy, the three-headed dog Hagrid had lent to Dumbledore to help guard the Philosopher’s Stone.

During the 1992–1993 school year, Hagrid showed public disdain for the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart, although he never did so for any other teachers. In 1993 Hagrid was sent to the wizarding prison, Azkaban, when the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened. It was assumed he was the one who reopened the Chamber because his expulsion from Hogwarts was for the same occurrence. Even with Dumbledore backing Hagrid, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge insisted on taking Hagrid anyway. So on the same night Dumbledore was asked to step down as Headmaster by the school governors, Hagrid was escorted to Azkaban. However, he was able to help Harry and Ron solve the mystery surrounding the Chamber, by advising them to “follow the spiders.”

Following the spiders led the boys to Aragog, the Acromantula believed to have attacked students during the 1942-1943 school year, and his family. Though Harry and Ron barely escaped the encounter with their lives, they managed to obtain some valuable information over the course of their conversation with Aragog: the monster within the Chamber had nothing to do with Hagrid, and the girl it had killed in the 1940s had died in a bathroom.

n the 1993-1994 school year, Hagrid became a professor of the Care of Magical Creatures. For his first lesson, Hagrid taught his third-year students about hippogriffs. After explaining the proper way to greet a hippogriff and choosing Harry to demonstrate, Draco Malfoy caused trouble by insulting the hippogriff Buckbeak, even though Hagrid had warned the class to treat the creatures with respect. Buckbeak attacked Draco, and the Ministry of Magic issued an order for Buckbeak’s execution after a hearing in which Lucius Malfoy’s pull at the Ministry was demonstrated, the incident also damaging Hagrid’s self-confidence; later lessons focused on tamer creatures like flobberworms. Buckbeak’s attack on Malfoy was later used during the Triwizard Tournament by Rita Skeeter to give Hagrid a very bad reputation. An appeal took place on 6 June 1994, but this was to no avail, and Buckbeak was to be executed at sunset that night. Before the execution, Harry, Ron, and Hermione visited Hagrid to console him, and they left just before the executioner arrived. Knowing Buckbeak’s position, and the exact timing of the start of the execution, Harry and Hermione were able to save Buckbeak by going back in time with Hermione’s Time-Turner, allowing them to rescue Buckbeak after the Ministry team sent to execute him had confirmed his location while Hagrid and Dumbledore were under observation, thus guaranteeing that neither would be blamed for Buckbeak’s rescue/escape. Delighted at the escape of his beloved pet, Hagrid spent the whole night celebrating with a large bottle of what may have been Firewhisky.n the 1993-1994 school year, Hagrid became a professor of the Care of Magical Creatures. For his first lesson, Hagrid taught his third-year students about hippogriffs. After explaining the proper way to greet a hippogriff and choosing Harry to demonstrate, Draco Malfoy caused trouble by insulting the hippogriff Buckbeak, even though Hagrid had warned the class to treat the creatures with respect. Buckbeak attacked Draco, and the Ministry of Magic issued an order for Buckbeak’s execution after a hearing in which Lucius Malfoy’s pull at the Ministry was demonstrated, the incident also damaging Hagrid’s self-confidence; later lessons focused on tamer creatures like flobberworms. Buckbeak’s attack on Malfoy was later used during the Triwizard Tournament by Rita Skeeter to give Hagrid a very bad reputation. 

During Harry’ s fourth year at Hogwarts, between the 1994 and 1995, Hogwarts hosted the Triwizard Tournament, which had as competitor Beauxbatons School whose headmistress was the giantess: Madame Maxime. Her and Hagrid were involved in a sort of romantic relationship being her the first giantess Hagrid will met, in fact he’ll be in charge of taking care of her horses the Abraxans, which only drank single malt whiskey and required particular magical cure. During the year Hagrid, being the teacher of Care of Magical Creatures, will start to show his bent towards particular creatures, letting Harry, Ron and Hermione’s class to bred the Blast-Ended Skrewts: newly hatched Skrewts looked like pale, slimy deformed shell-less lobsters or scorpions. They had legs sticking out at odd angles. They were about six inches long and smelled strongly of rotten fish. Sparks flew out of their rear ends every so often, which propelled them forward a few inches. The males had stingers and the females had suckers on their body to suck blood^. The skrewts do not hibernate during winter. breeding the Skrewts at the beginning of September, and had several hundred. By the following June, he only had one, which was the one that was placed in the maze. Hagrid never discovered what they ate. They often killed each other off, so it is not surprising they died so quickly. It is unknown what became of the last Skrewt. He also brought several Nifflers to look after, which made Ron pretty happy because of their talent in finding coins.

Hagrid also offer Maxime to dance with him at the Yule Ball, where right after in the gardens he confided in her his life story, revealing to her that he is a half-giant, assuming her to be one as well because of her massive size. She was offended by the insinuations that she was part giant, and left him heartbroken. Rita Skeeter, in her Animagus beetle form, overheard Hagrid’s confession and reported it in the Daily Prophet. After receiving a fair amount of hate mail, Hagrid hid in the seclusion of his hut, while Professor Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank temporarily took over Care of Magical Creatures, and attempted to resign from his position as Professor. Dumbledore refused to accept Hagrid’s resignation, and he was eventually convinced to come back and teach by Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

When Albus Dumbledore learned of Voldemort’s rebirth, he sent Hagrid and Madame Maxime as envoys to the giant colonies of north-eastern Minsk, in the hopes of dissuading the giants from joining Lord Voldemort’s side in the coming war. Bearing gifts of eternal Gubraithian Fire and a goblin-made battle helmet, they eventually won over the Gurg, Karkus. However, the Death Eaters that Voldemort had sent on the same mission engineered an uprising. This uprising was led by the giant Golgomath, who beheaded Karkus and usurped his position. Golgomath then ordered his subordinates to attack Hagrid and Maxime and forced them to flee. Hagrid subsequently found that his mother had died years ago, and the existence of his half-brother Grawp, who was having a hard time within his colony as he was considerably smaller than most giants. Hagrid insisted on bringing Grawp back to Hogwarts due to this and presumably to prevent Grawp from being enslaved by Voldemort alongside the other giants. Grawp, however, was highly resistant to the idea and had a general tendency to be violent. Thus Hagrid and Grawp made the journey back to Scotland separately from Madam Maxime.

About halfway through the school year, Hagrid returned from his mission for Dumbledore with his half-brother, Grawp. In 1995, Dolores Umbridge was brought in as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and later became the first and only Hogwarts High Inquisitor. Hagrid barely excused himself for his long absence from Umbridge’s tyrannical questioning and was surprised that he would be subjected to her inspection soon afterwards. Hagrid resumed his teaching post, beginning with a lesson about Thestrals. Despite their rather off-putting appearance and the inability of most of the class to see them, Hermione found these lessons far more useful than Hagrid’s typical classes. Regardless, early in 1996, Professor Umbridge put Hagrid on probation after supposedly finding his lessons unsatisfactory by her standards, despite Hermione’s every effort to make sure Hagrid’s curriculum was geared toward preparing students for the upcoming O.W.L.s. Umbridge’s harsh judgement was largely due to her distaste for “half-breeds,” and it was only the resistance she met from Headmaster Dumbledore that kept her from firing Hagrid altogether. When confronted by the trio about this revelation, Hagrid attempted to make light of it (nearly concussing Professor Vector with his fist as she went past) but was consistently jumpy and nervous at the prospect of being sacked. However, once Dumbledore was forced to leave in order to shield Harry from punishment for establishing Dumbledore’s Army, Hagrid feared that he would be driven out by the new Headmistress Umbridge. In preparation for this, he introduced Harry and Hermione to Grawp. Grawp took an immediate liking to Hermione, whom he called “Hermy,” and Hagrid asked the two of them, along with Ron, to take care of Grawp in his absence.

Upon Dumbledore’s departure, general chaos reigned within the school, as the students became determined to make Umbridge’s job as hard for her as possible; Lee Jordan even released a couple of nifflers into her office, for which she blamed Hagrid. Umbridge finally attempted to have Hagrid forcibly removed from the premises, and possibly arrested, when she brought several Ministry officials to his hut in the middle of the night so as not to cause a commotion with the students due to their earlier presence at Sybill Trelawney’s dismissal. Hagrid refused to go quietly and took on the officials, whose attempts to Stun him proved fruitless thanks to his giant blood. Fang came to his master’s aid until one of the wizards Stunned him, prompting Hagrid to lift the culprit bodily from the ground and throw the unfortunate soul ten feet away. While all of this was being witnessed by the trio’s Astronomy exam, Professor Minerva McGonagall came charging out of the castle demanding that Hagrid be left alone and, in a disgustingly cowardly move, was seriously injured after being hit by four simultaneous Stunning Spells without warning. Enraged at this dishonourable conduct and the injury of his friend and colleague, Hagrid knocked out two more of his assailants before fleeing with his unconscious dog. Aurors were sent to search for Hagrid, but he successfully evaded capture by hiding in the same cave that had previously proved a useful hiding place for Sirius Black. Once Dumbledore was reinstated as the Headmaster of Hogwarts and Umbridge permanently removed from the school, Hagrid was welcomed back to his post.

“And Odo the hero, they bore him back home

To the place that he’d known as a lad,

They laid him to rest with his hat inside out

And his wand snapped in two, which was sad.”

The following year with the N.E.W.T.s coming Harry, Ron and Hermione had to choose if carrying forward Hagrid’s classes or not: When Hagrid found out that none of his sixth-year Gryffindor students chose to continue past their O.W.L. level of Care of Magical Creatures, he initially misinterpreted this as a reflection of his students not liking him, as opposed to his questionable teaching. Hagrid eventually came to forgive Harry, Ron, and Hermione, understanding that their N.E.W.T. classes were difficult with massive work loads (and after Hermione confirmed that they could not have managed his classes with Time-Turners, as they had all been smashed during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries); his anger abated completely when he was overcome with worry about the failing health of Aragog. When Aragog died in 1997, he asked Harry, Ron and Hermione to help him bury the dead Acromantula’s body, though the heightened security around the castle with Voldemort’s confirmed return made that difficult. He asked for Harry’s help who under the effect of the Felix Felicis met Horace Slughorn, who was so happy to have the chance to take some of the Acromantula vemon for himself, later he and Hagrid got drunk over a Firewhisky bottle which led them to sing “Odo the Hero”, until Hagrid fell asleep, which allowed Harry to retrieve Slughorn’s memory about Tom Riddle.

During Albus Dumbledore funeral Hagrid was charge of carrying his body to his tomb, almost breaking down several times, and later Hagrid and Grawp were seen comforting one another. Hagrid was among the thirteen members of the Order of the Phoenix, led by Alastor Moody, that made up the Advance Guard. The Advance Guard was in charge of moving Harry Potter out of the Dursley home before his seventeenth birthday; Knowing that any Death Eaters watching out for them would assume the most skilled Auror would be moving with the real Harry, Alastor Moody took Mundungus Fletcher, while Hagrid was given the important task of protecting the real Harry in the side-car of Sirius Black’s motorcycle. Arthur Weasley had helped Hagrid make several adjustments to the bike, including adding a button that produced dragon’s fire, one that produced a net, and another that produced a solid wall, all of which materialised behind the bike by expanding out of its exhaust pipe. Hagrid was able to keep the Death Eaters at bay with the help of the modifications on his bike and Harry’s wand-work, but when Harry discovered one of the attacking Death Eaters was an imperiused Stanley Shunpike, he made the unusual move of using the Disarming Charm. 

During the summer of 1997, Hagrid was present at Harry’s seventeenth birthday party. He gave him a mokeskin pouch which held objects retrievable only by the owner. Hagrid also attended Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour’s wedding, accidentally sitting in the wrong spot (and destroying a number of chairs) before finding the correct place to sit. Once back at Hogwarts, Hagrid continued his job as gatekeeper and Professor of Care of Magical Creatures. At the request of new headmaster, Severus Snape, Hagrid was placed in charge of students who had been assigned detention. Detention with Hagrid consisted of work in the Forbidden Forest, which was far safer than detention with Amycus and Alecto Carrow. Later that year, Hagrid narrowly escaped arrest after holding a Support Harry Potter party in his hut. He then went into hiding, presumably in the mountains, with his half-brother, Grawp. His escape was reported hours later on the radio programme Potterwatch. During the summer of 1997, Hagrid was present at Harry’s seventeenth birthday party. He gave him a mokeskin pouch which held objects retrievable only by the owner. Hagrid also attended Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour’s wedding, accidentally sitting in the wrong spot (and destroying a number of chairs) before finding the correct place to sit.

Hagrid returned to Hogwarts with Grawp for the final battle. He rushed out onto the grounds to prevent injury being done to the Acromantula who had swarmed out of the Forbidden Forest and were climbing up the walls of the school. He was taken captive by the Death Eaters. When Harry appeared in the forest Hagrid shouted for him to run. After Harry’s apparent death at the Dark Lord’s hands, Hagrid was forced to carry Harry back to the castle. As the supposed “victory party” approached the castle, Hagrid rebuked the centaurs for refusing to involve themselves in the fight but was eventually reduced to sobs over the loss of Harry. When fighting resumed at the arrival of reinforcements, which included Buckbeak and Hagrid’s herd of tame Thestrals, as well as the centaurs, Hagrid threw Walden Macnair against the wall of the Great Hall, possibly recognising him as Buckbeak’s intended executioner. Hagrid was among the first to approach and congratulate Harry after Voldemort’s ultimate defeat. He was seen in the Great Hall among the other survivors of the battle.

Hagrid was still working at Hogwarts by 2017, at 89 years old, owing to the natural longevity of wizardkind, which also meant that he would likely have an extremely long life by Muggle standards. He invited Harry and Ginny’s youngest son, Albus, to his hut for tea, just as he had done during Harry’s first year. Hagrid never married, despite his reciprocated attraction to Madame Maxime, as she was ultimately too sophisticated for them to be a good match. In 2019, Hagrid led the members of the then recently established Statute of Secrecy Task Force seeking a career as Magizoologists, welcoming them by saying that he could sense they were going to sign in as he was able to see that they shared a curious spirit and ensuring them that, although being a Magizoologist was far from easy, they could succeed if they had the spirit to withstand the difficult trials and could recover. He first took them to the Diagon Alley to buy several robes and other essential pieces of equipment required to handle beasts and creatures for increased durability before proceeding to successfully teach the Stamina Charm, (despite his own being “less-than-perfect”), and allowed them to help him handle several live Fire Crabs. The primary takeaway they got from this, however, was a boost in their tolerance of pain.  He also gave those who chose to became an Auror an elective to raise their defenses against Beasts.

Dobby was the Domestic Elf of the Malfoy’s Family, which treated him particularly bad, in fact they always remembered him to punish himself. After becoming aware of the plot of his master to re-open the Chamber of Secret, he found the courage to warn Harry Potter, and tried to prevent him to return to Hogwarts.

On September 1st 1992, Dobby closed the 9 3/4 platform barrier, seeing that harry managed to reach Hogwarts anyway by the Ford Angila he bewitched the Bludger during Harry’s Quidditch Match.

In the Hospital Wing, while Harry’s bones arm were growing back, Dobby gave him other hints, about the plot that was going on. After that Harry defeated the memory in Riddle’s Diary in the Chamber Of Secret, understanding that the Diary was Lucious Malfoy’s, he hide a sock between the pages, so when Malfoy ordered Dobby to carry the diary, he found the sock becoming so a free elf.

After this Dobby became super aware of the importance of his freedom, probably the only domestic Elf in history, he started working in the kitchen of Hogwarts, for one Galleon a week. While working there Hermione founded the S.P.E.W. an organisation aimed to support Elf’s rights, she started knitting hats which she hide all over the castle hoping that the Elf working in the kitchen would catch them up and be set free, but instead Dobby started collected them all, not to give her displeasure, but also sure that the other elf didn’t want to be set free.

During the Triwizard Tournament, in the second task, Dobby kept asking Harry if he could do anything to help him, so Harry charged him with the task to find him a way to breath underwater for an hour; Barty Crouch Jr. disguised as Alastor Moody tricked Dobby into stealing the Gillyweed from Snape’s personal pantry. (Even if this scene in the film is completely different, in fact is Neville who gives the Gillyweed to Harry.)

During the fifth year, while busy with the Dumbledore’s Army lessons, Harry started thinking that Malfoy was up to something, but couldn’t really focus on him, so he found another way to keep an eye on him, he asked Dobby and ordered Kreacher, being his formal master, to watch Draco for him, Dobby was so pleased and excited about the task Harry had given him, that didn’t sleep on his job.

During his work in the kitchen of Hogwarts had the occasion of becoming friend with Aberforth Dumbledore, who was the one that sent Dobby to Malfoy’s Manor to save Harry: there Dobby, being a magical creature and so not precluded to any magical force, was able to apparate inside the bewitched cellar, saving Luna, Mr. Ollivander, Griphook and Dean Thomas (also not present in the films) taking them to Shell Cottage. He then came back to help Harry, Ron and Hermione, announcing his return by have a chandelier fallen on Bellatrix, while disapparating with the three of them, Bellatrix threw a knife which managed to pass through, and hit Dobby in the stomach.

Harry, deeply grieving, decided to dig Dobby’s grave by hand without using magic. Ron Weasley and Dean Thomas joined Harry and laboured with him in digging the grave. They placed Dobby’s body in the grave and gave him socks, shoes, and a hat. Standing over Dobby, Luna Lovegood gently closed his eyes and thanked him for rescuing her and the others. Bill Weasley filled in the grave, while Harry used Draco’s former wand and carved “HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF” on a flat rock he placed on the burial mound.

Ronald Bilius Weasley was born 1 March, 1980, to Arthur and Molly Weasley (née Prewett), at the height of the First Wizarding War. During this war his maternal uncles Fabian and Gideon Prewett, both members of the Order of the Phoenix, were murdered while fighting a group of four Death Eaters led by Antonin Dolohov. He has five older brothers — Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George — as well as his younger sister, Ginny, grew up in The Burrow on the outskirts of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon, England. Fred and George once transfigured Ron’s teddy bear into a giant spider, sparking his arachnophobia. On another occasion, the twins nearly got him to make an Unbreakable Vow, which finally made their father truly furious (and Fred would later state that his left buttock has “never been the same since” after the row that ensued). They also once got him to eat an Acid Pop which burnt a hole through his tongue.

Ron began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 at the customary age of eleven. He was Sorted into Gryffindor House, like every other Weasley. On his first trip on the Hogwarts Express, Ron met and became friends with the famous wizard Harry Potter. Harry let him share his carriage on the Hogwarts Express and purchased a large amount of wizarding snacks from the Hogwarts Express food trolley to share with him. Later on, Harry would stand up for Ron against Slytherin bully Draco Malfoy and Ron would elect to be his second for a midnight duel.

Ron and Harry first met Hermione Granger on the train but Ron did not particularly take to her. Ron, especially, was annoyed by what he saw as Hermione showing off her knowledge of magic, such as when she corrected him on the pronunciation of the incantation Wingardium Leviosa. Prior to the Hallowe’en feast, Ron said that she was a know-it-all and did not have any friends. Hermione overheard and went running to the girl’s bathroom in tears. That evening, during the Hallowe’en feast, it was announced that a mountain troll was loose in the school. Ron and Harry came to Hermione’s rescue after hearing that she was in trouble, and she, in return, lied to protect them from Professor McGonagall. The three then became friends.

During their first year, the three of them learnt that the Philosopher’s Stone was being hidden in Hogwarts and sought to protect it from being stolen by Severus Snape, whom the young wizards believed to be working for Lord Voldemort. Ron’s talent in Wizard’s Chess allowed them to pass one of the obstacles protecting the stone, which was a life-sized game. Ron sacrificed himself as a game piece so Harry could place the enemy king in checkmate, allowing Harry and Hermione to move on. Ron was awarded fifty House points by Albus Dumbledore for “the best played game of chess that Hogwarts has seen these many years,” allowing Gryffindor to win the House Cup for the first time in seven years.

Having not heard from Harry Potter during the whole summer of 1992, Ron, Fred and George Weasley, in a planned scheme to rescue him from Privet Drive. At the start of that year’s school term, Ron and Harry missed the Hogwarts Express due to the tricks of Dobby the house-elf and were forced to use the Ford Anglia to travel to Hogwarts. At the end of their journey, the car failed, causing the boys to crash-land into the Whomping Willow. They were nearly killed when the tree shook, and the car jettisoned them and took off into the Forbidden Forest, where it remained. Ron’s wand was damaged in the crash, causing him problems for the entire school year. It backfired when Ron attempted to curse Draco Malfoy in payback for calling Hermione a “Mudblood”. When they thought he was the heir of Slytherin, Hermione brewed the Polijuice Potion and Ron and Harry drank it up as Crabbe and Goyle.

Ron showed incredible bravery during the course of their investigation by venturing into the Forbidden Forest to an Acromantula den led by Aragog, in spite of his extreme fear of spiders. When he and Harry learned that Ginny (Ron’s younger sister) was dying in the Chamber of Secrets, they raced to save her, planning to give their information to Professor Gilderoy Lockhart. When the pair discovered that the professor was attempting to flee, they drew their wands on him and forced him to join them as they ventured into the Chamber of Secrets. Shortly after Ron, Harry, and Lockhart entered the Chamber, Lockhart attempted to wipe their memories in order to get out of the Chamber and take credit for their efforts in a bid for fame. Unfortunately for him, he used Ron’s damaged wand, and the spell backfired, causing permanent amnesia in Lockhart. Ron was left behind to tend to Lockhart, as Harry delved deeper into the Chamber, saving Ginny and defeating Salazar Slytherin’s basilisk. Ron was honoured with a Special Award for Services to the School, as well as earning two hundred House points for Gryffindor for his work concerning re-sealing the Chamber of Secrets.

The following summer Ron’s second year at Hogwarts, the Weasleyswon the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw. Ron and his family used the money to travel to Egypt to visit Ron’s eldest brother, Bill. News of their lucky break made the Daily Prophet, and Ron sent that newspaper clipping and a Sneakoscope to Harry for his thirteenth birthday. They met on the last day of the summer, when Ron and his family visited Diagon Alley with Harry and Hermione and took up rooms in the Leaky Cauldron in preparation for catching the Hogwarts Express.

During their stay at the Leaky Cauldron, Ron shared a room with his brother Percy. Unfortunately, this led to a fight. Percy believed that Ron had taken his Head Boy badge, which had actually been stolen by Weasley twins Fred and George. Harry found the twins hiding, enchanting the badge to say “Big Head Boy“. Later, Ron was also accused of smudging a picture of Percy’s girlfriend, Penelope Clearwater with tea. Upon starting the term, the third years began taking new lessons. Ron and Harry had chosen Divination and Care of Magical Creatures, the pair quickly decided that Divination was not a class they really liked and that the professor, Sybill Trelawney, was a fraud. Ron’s first Care of Magical Creatures was a disaster. While Ron’s first lesson of Defence Against The Dark Arts with Remus Lupin made Ron immediately thought that he was a great teacher. On Hallowe’en, Ron and Hermione went on their first Hogsmeade trip, they visited every building in Hogsmeade and brought back loads of sweets from Honeydukes for Harry. Just before Christmas, Rubeus Hagrid received a complaint from the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures about Buckbeak the hippogriff. When he shared this incident with Ron, Harry, and Hermione, the trio promised to do everything in their power to help defend Buckbeak. On Christmas Harry received a Firebolt, and Ron implored Harry to try it; When Hermione’s cat Crookshanks attacked Scabbers, Ron’s rat, the two seriously argued menacing the trio’s friendship, a few weeks later they were making up when suddenly Scabber’s disappeared, Ron blaming Crookshanks fired up again the quarrel.

One night in Gryffindor’s tower Ron heard a ruffling in the curtains, he woke up suddenly to find Black standing over him with a knife. This incident made Ron famous among the other students, but he soon came back down when Hagrid scolded him and Harry about their treatment of Hermione. The very night of Buckbeack execution the trio went to Hagrid’s hut to keep him company, leaving just before the act, Hagrid returned Scabbers to Ron, which he was keeping in a jar. When they heard what sounded like the killing, Ron, Harry and Hermione set off for Hogwarts in a slight state of shock. Before they made it back there, Scabbers began to squirm in Ron’s hands and escaped. Not wanting to lose his rat again, Ron chased after Scabbers with Harry and Hermione behind him. He caught up to Scabbers, but not before they were in the shadow of the Whomping Willow tree. He looked up to see a large black dog bearing down upon him. The dog dived at Ron and gripping Ron’s arm in its mouth, it dragged him into the Whomping Willow. To try and stop the dog from pulling him further, Ron tied his feet around a tree branch, but the dog’s grip was so powerful his leg snapped. When the dog reached the Shrieking Shack, it let go of Ron and revealed itself to be Sirius Black. Sirius ambushed Harry and Hermione, disarming them when they entered the room where Ron was being held hostage. Ron’s leg was seriously injured that night, and Hermione and Harry had to help him out of the Shrieking Shack. When it was decided that Pettigrew should be turned over to the Dementors, Lupin splinted Ron’s leg, and the assembled company left for Hogwarts. Along the way, the full moon broke out, and Lupin began to transform into a werewolf. In the skirmish, Pettigrew stole Lupin’s wand, stunned Ron, and escaped into the moonlight. Hours later in the Hospital Wing where he was recovering both from his broken leg and Pettigrew’s attack, Ron was told that Harry and Hermione had managed to save Sirius and Buckbeak from the Dementor’s Kiss with Hermione’s time turner. As a replacement for his lost pet, Sirius sent Ron a tiny owl, which Ginny immediately named Pigwidgeon because she thought the name was “sweet“; annoyed and disgusted at this, Ron tried to choose another name, but it was too late, so he settled for using the nickname “Pig”.

In the summer of 1994, Ron invited Harry and Hermione to accompany the Weasleys to the Quidditch World Cup, which was being held in Britain for the first time in decades. Before the match beginning Ron bought a Victor Krum’s walking figure, since he was cheering for the Bulgarian Team, a few minutes later he saw an Omniocular. A device which allows you to replay the action of Quidditch and see them in rallenty. Ron went crazy about it, and was desperate because he had already spent all his money on Krum’s figure, Harry decided to buy it as a gift to him. That night, while the Irish supporters were still awake celebrating their victory, trouble began. Some Death Eaters who had managed to avoid imprisonment in Azkaban, attacked the camp where Ron and his friends and family were staying. Running off into the woods, Ron, Hermione, and Harry quickly lost Fred, George and Ginny, but they did find Draco Malfoy. Malfoy meanly suggested that Hermione, being a Muggle-Born, could easily be targeted by the Death Eaters, causing Ron to insist that she and Harry join him in going deeper into the woods. Soon they reached a patch of woods giving off a silver glow, where the trio found a few Veela witches surrounded by admirers. Ron was entranced and stated that he would create a broom that would fly to space. They had reached an empty clearing when they heard an unknown person cast the Dark Mark. On 1 September, Ron and his friends departed for Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts Express. That evening at the Welcoming Feast, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would host the Triwizard Tournament. Ron found himself caught up in dreams of being a Triwizard Champion, but he was snapped back to reality by his fourth year classes. In Care of Magical Creatures, Hagrid had his students tending to Blast-Ended Skrewts, and in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Ron was impressed by the new professor, “Mad-Eye” Moody, when he taught the class about the three Unforgivable Curses. Having discussed the possibility of somehow outsmarting the Goblet of Fire and the Age Line that Dumbledore had cast around it, Ron was surprised to find that Harry’s name had come out of the Goblet of Fire. Jealous of the fact that Harry always seemed to receive all the attention, Ron refused to accept that Harry didn’t put his name in the cup. He even went as far as to accuse Harry of cheating his way into the tournament. After the argument, he and Harry stopped talking to each other, and Ron began hanging out with other Gryffindors like Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan.

When Ron heard Harry talking to someone one night, he went down to see who it was since Harry didn’t tell him about such a thing. Ron was deeply offended when Harry accused him of trying to spy on him and when he told him who he talked to was none of his business to the point where he tried to get Harry to tell him who he was talking to by accusing him of practising for an interview. This only made Harry throw one of Draco Malfoy’s badges at him and tell him he could wear that during the First Task. This made Ron realise that he had lost Harry’s trust and respect to the point where Harry no longer saw him as a friend. Ron and Harry did not talk to each other again until after the First Task of the Triwizard tournament. Seeing just how much danger was involved in the First Task, Ron realised Harry would never have put his own name into the Goblet of Fire, and the two became best friends once again. Soon after the first task, Professor McGonagall told Ron and the other Gryffindor boys about the traditional Yule Ball, held during the Triwizard Tournament. While all students above fourth year scampered around trying to find dates, Ron and Harry found it hard to ask girls to the ball. Struck by the beauty and charm of Fleur Delacour, the Triwizard Champion from Beauxbatons Academy and a part-Veela witch, Ron asked her to attend the ball with him, but fled in embarrassment without waiting for an answer. He also offended Hermione by not asking her, and then by suggesting that she did not have a date and thus could accompany him. He ended up going with with Padma Patil, who was really embarrassed about Ron’s “traditional” prom robes.

During the Yule Ball, Ron and Harry also overheard Hagrid telling the Beaubaxtons Headmistress Olympe Maxime that he was half-giant. On 24 February, Ron was put into an enchanted sleep and tied up at the bottom of the Black Lake, to be “rescued” by Harry as part of the second task of the Triwizard Tournament. When he found out that Harry had stayed behind to save Fleur’s sister Gabrielle Delacour as well, Ron jokingly took him to task, but was impressed when Harry was given extra points for “outstanding moral fibre“. Fleur thanked Ron and Harry in turn for helping save Gabrielle, kissing both of them on the cheek. Ron gained much attention from the other students due to his being taken hostage for the task. He proceeded to exaggerate the events of what happened until Hermione called him on it. Early in the spring, Ron joined Harry and Hermione in visiting Sirius Black, who had taken to hiding in Hogsmeade. Seeing Harry returning with Cedric’s dead body, Ron was eager wanted to question Harry about Diggory, but he was told off by Molly Weasley who, along with his brother Bill Weasley, had come to watch Harry. Ron was furious with the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, when he refused to believe Harry and Dumbledore, and calmed Molly when she was shocked by Black’s appearance in the room. Ron did not go against Harry’s story when he finally heard it, sticking by his best friend.

After Voldemort rose to power and the Second Wizarding War began, Dumbledore reformed the Order of the Phoenix. Ron and Hermione who were staying at the Orden headquarter felt sorry that they were ordered by Dumbledore to not tell Harry anything about it. Ron, Harry and Hermione stayed at Grimmauld Place throughout August. In late August, Ron and Hermione were made a Gryffindor prefect, for which Molly and Arthur gave Ron a new Cleansweep Eleven. Bound by their prefect duties, Ron and Hermione were separated from Harry on the Hogwarts Express and could only join Harry in his compartment for the last part of the journey. When they arrived, Ron expressed concern that Hagrid was not at the welcoming feast and was suspicious of the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Dolores Umbridge. Late in September, one evening when Harry returned from detention with Professor Umbridge, Ron, somewhat reluctantly, joined Hermione in convincing that Harry teach his fellow students defence against the dark arts. Late in October, students had their first visit to Hogsmeade. There, Harry, Ron, and Hermione met with several students who were interested in learning proper defence. Ron defended Harry against Zacharias Smithwhen questions rose, and was among the first to sign the recruitment parchment. On the way home from Hogsmeade, Ron became upset when he learned from Hermione that his sister Ginny was dating Ravenclaw student Michael Corner. The following morning, Ron awoke to find that suddenly, by order of Professor Umbridge, all student groups had been disbanded including the House Quidditch teams, but he was mollified when Harry said they would continue with their secret group, which Ginny named “Dumbledore’s Army” during their first meeting, mocking the Ministry of Magic’s fears of student uprisings.

In the weeks following the first Dumbledore’s Army meeting, Quidditch season arrived. Ron had nervous issues prior to the first match against Slytherin. They had made badges saying “Weasley is our king,” which Harry decided could not mean anything good. In an attempt to distract Ron from the Slytherins, Hermione kissed him on the cheek for luck, effectively stunning Ron. Ron’s play was abysmal, and it was not helped by the Slytherins’ new song also entitled, “Weasley is Our King“. Following the game Ron wanted to resign, but learned he could not, as Harry Potter, Fred, and George Weasley had been banned from Quidditch for life. Frequent Dumbledore’s Army meetings, O.W.L. homework, and his prefect duties took up most of Ron’s time as the holidays approached. Following the last meeting of the term, Ron was amazed at Harry’s “romantic” tale, earning him a stern talking to from Hermione who suggested that Ron had “the emotional range of a teaspoon.” That night, Harry witnessed Ron’s father, Arthur Weasley, being attacked by Lord Voldemort’s snake, Nagini. When Harry’s story was confirmed by Dumbledore and McGonagall, Ron, his siblings, and Harry were immediately sent to the Order’s Headquarters, so they could look in on their father’s convalescence, and there they spent the Christmas holidays, joined by Hermione the next day.

During their first trip to St Mungo’s Hospital, Ron overheard “Mad Eye” Moody thinking that Harry had been possessed by Voldemort. Ron was worried when Harry became quiet after the visit and wanted to talk to Harry about it. He got his chance after Hermione arrived and convinced Harry to come downstairs. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny told Harry how worried they had been and managed to confess that he was not being possessed. They had an enjoyable holiday, but on their second visit to the hospital, Ron learned the truth about the torture of Neville Longbottom’s parents. Throughout the term, Ron continued to learn defensive and offensive magic from Harry. He also stayed on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, despite his very poor performances. Due to Quidditch, he missed the Valentine’s Day visit to Hogsmeade. Though, he was impressed that Harry went public and hopeful that people might believe Harry when The Quibbler came out. Soon after Trelawney’s sacking, Marietta Edgecombe, a friend of Ravenclaw Student Cho Chang’s who only reluctantly joined Dumbledore’s Army, told Umbridge about the group, but was unable to give up any pertinent information once she saw a jinx activate on her face. Ron was able to escape when Umbridge, raided the Dumbledore’s Army headquarters, but he was incensed when Professor Dumbledore was forced out of the school. He was also wary when his brothers Fred and George Weasley said they were going to do their part for Professor Dumbledore. After Fred and George’s secret escape from Hogwarts, Ron was certain that his mother would blame him, but he was saved from this fate when Harry revealed that it was he who financed Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.

Ron played in the final Quidditch match of the season, though Harry and Hermione did not watch, as Hagrid finally revealed the source of his injuries to them. Ron played better, and Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup. Ron was unable to settle to his studies the following day, but Harry and Hermione brought him down with Hagrid’s secret injuries. Soon, their Ordinary Wizarding Level exams were upon them. Ron managed to do very well, but he made a few mistakes. He joined the fight at the Ministry to retrieve the prophecy, which ended up in Harry’s Godfather, Sirius Black, death.

During the summer following the battle, Ron learned he had received seven O.W.L.s, only failing Divination and History of Magic. Ron learned that his brother Bill was engaged to Fleur Delacour. While this annoyed his mother, sister, and later Hermione, Ron took to defending Fleur and if she surprised him, he would still take on that dumbstruck look. Ron would suffer much personal turmoil in his sixth year. Harry was named Gryffindor team captain. Ron was nervous about Quidditch try-outs, but beat out Cormac McLaggen in saves, partly because Hermione cast a Confundus Charm on McLaggen in retaliation for him insulting Ron and Ginny. He was also envious when Harry and Hermione were invited to the Slug Club, while the new Potions professor Horace Slughorn ignored him, and when attention was paid to him, Slughorn usually got his name wrong. During this time, Ron showed brief flashes of jealousy about Harry and Hermione’s closeness. He would take exception whenever Hermione complimented Harry on something Ron thought was equally due to him. Ron was temporarily mollified about this when Hermione asked if he would like to attend the club’s Christmas party with her, and he agreed, but thought it was only as friends. Ron was also worried over his sister’s increasing involvement with boys, and after stumbling upon her kissing Dean Thomas, he blew up at her. In retaliation, Ginny belittled him for his complete inexperience with the opposite gender, declaring that Harry and Hermione had also snogged people. The siblings treated each other coldly afterwards, and Ron was so bothered by this — and by the revelation that Hermione had kissed Viktor Krum almost two years earlier — that he began to perform poorly in Quidditch. He also began to treat Hermione with a cold indifference, which confused her. He even offered to resign from the team. To boost his confidence, Harry pretended to pour the Felix Felicis into Ron’s pumpkin juice at breakfast. Harry even allowed Hermione to see the vial, so she would object to the cheating. This convinced Ron that he had an edge in the game, which caused him to play excellently. However, when after the match Harry revealed it was a trick, Ron rounded on Hermione and accused her of having no faith in his abilities.

Shortly thereafter, Ron began his exhibitionist relationship with Lavender Brown. Hermione, incredibly angry and hurt by Ron’s vindictive actions, conjured a flock of canaries to attack him; the birds scratched Ron badly, and he and Hermione stopped talking to each other. Hermione attended the Slug Club’s Christmas party, she had originally wanted to attend with Ron but went with his hated rival, Cormac McLaggen, while Ron snogged Lavender in public and made fun of Hermione’s behaviour in Transfiguration class, reducing her to tears. By Christmas break, however, Ron was becoming disenchanted with his relationship with Lavender, who had become increasingly possessive, annoyed him with the nickname “Won-Won,” and gave him a gift of a necklace that said “My Sweetheart“. Hermione did not come to the Burrow for the holidays, as she usually did, and Ron made an attempt to speak to her after returning to school, but she ignored him. On 1 March 1997, Ron ate chocolate that he believed to be one of the presents for his 17th birthday, but was in fact a gift from Romilda Vane to Harry spiked with a love potion. He became so obsessed with her that Harry had to bring him to Horace Slughorn’s office to brew him an antidote. After the antidote, Professor Slughorn offered them a glass of mead to celebrate, Ron was the first to drink and collapsed to the ground. Luckily harry acted fast placing a Bezoar in his mouth saving his life, Ron stood several days in the Hospital Wing where he received the company of Ginny and Hermione.

On Monday 10 March Ron and Harry, who suffered a cracked skull from a mishit Bludger during the match, were able to leave the hospital wing, although Ron did not tell Lavender this. His subsequent avoidance of Lavender and simultaneous spending more time with Hermione made Lavender suspicious; after she spotted him and Hermione leaving the boys’ dormitories, seemingly alone (Harry was with them, but under his Cloak of Invisibility), Lavender ended the relationship, much to Ron’s relief. On the night of the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Ron took Felix Felicis on Harry’s instructions, along with Hermione and Ginny. Those three were joined by Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, whom Hermione had summoned using the D.A. coins. While Hermione and Luna monitored Professor Snape’s office, Ron and the others watched the Room of Requirement. Ron fought in the battle and survived without any major injuries, thanks to the Felix Felicis. He was shaken by his oldest brother Bill’s scarring at the hands of the vicious werewolf Fenrir Greyback. Shortly afterwards, Ron attended the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, where he comforted a sobbing Hermione. He and Hermione informed Harry of their intention to accompany him on a quest to locate and destroy the Horcruxes of Lord Voldemort, forgoing their seventh year of school.

In late July, he participated in the Order’s operation to remove Harry from his childhood home, taking Polyjuice Potion to be one of the “seven Potters.” He flew with Nymphadora Tonks; they were pursued by at least three Death Eaters during the battle, including Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange. Ron stunned one of the Death Eaters in the face while flying. Ron reassured Hermione by nuzzling her back slightly upon landing as she had been quite worried about him and he was saddened at the death of “Mad-Eye” Moody. He was also saddened by the death of Harry’s beloved pet owl Hedwig, over which he comforted Harry. Ron became concerned when Harry had a vision of an imprisoned Garrick Ollivander being brutally tortured by Lord Voldemort in the cellar at Malfoy Manor. Once Ron, Harry, and Hermione were all convened at the Burrow, they made plans to leave, much to the displeasure of Ron’s worried mother. During the preparations for Bill’s wedding, Mrs Weasley set Ron, Harry, and Hermione to separate tasks to prevent them from planning. On Harry’s seventeenth birthday, Ron gave Harry a copy of Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches. Later that evening, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour visited the Burrow to dispense the contents of Dumbledore’s will. He questioned the trio, and Ron let slip that they had no idea why Dumbledore would bequeath anything to him. Ron received Dumbledore’s Deluminator.

The trio attended the wedding for which, all summer, they had been forced to prepare the Burrow; the marrying couple was Ron’s older brother Bill to Fleur Delacour on 1 August. Ron was irked and jealous that Viktor Krum was a guest, especially since he immediately complimented Hermione, who Ron quickly asked to dance shortly afterwards. When Viktor Krum asked who he thought was Barny Weasley (though it was really Harry in disguise) about the pair, he was somewhat disappointed to learn that they were “sort of” together, but not officially a couple. The celebrations were interrupted with the news that the Ministry of Magic had fallen to Voldemort, and Hermione Disapparated herself, Ron, and Harry away from the danger to Tottenham Court Road. This was the starting point to the trio’s adventure and search for the Horcruxes they needed to bring down Lord Voldemort. After they arrived at Luchino café they were ambushed by Death Eaters Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle there and a skirmish broke out. After stunning and wiping the memories of the Death Eaters, the trio took refuge in Harry’s inherited house 12 Grimmauld Place left to him by Sirius Black. There the trio learned the true location of the Horcrux by Kreacher, and received the visit of Remus Lupin, who told them that he and Nymphadora were going to have a baby. The project a plan to enter the ministry and steal the Horcrux, they used the Polijuice Potion left from Mad-Eye Moody, and became three members of the Ministry, Albert Runcorn and Mafalda Hopkirk. Ron, disguised as Reginald Cattermole. Ron soon had to separate from the group since the Death Eater Yaxley, asked Cattermole to stop the rain in his office. The three of them re-united in the Department of Mysteries where Hermione and Harry managed to grab the Horcrux, and immediately after followed by Dementors left for the Hall. Ron splinted him-self escaping through Disappartion, and they had to leave Grimmuld Place as hide out.

Afterward, weeks passed with no further progress. This, as well as the locket’s negative influence, caused great tension and animosity amongst the group of friends. When he wore the locket, Ron was sullen and suspicious, lashing out at his friends and continuously complaining. Ron abruptly abandoned his friends one evening after getting into a fight with Harry over the additional task of locating Godric Gryffindor’s Sword in order to destroy the locket. He accused Harry of having no plan and of not being very concerned about Ginny, whom they had learned was punished back at Hogwarts. When Ron asked if Hermione was going with him and she told him that she was staying, he accused her of choosing Harry over him, and left, despite Hermione screaming and crying for him to come back. As soon as he was outside the influence of the Horcrux, Ron came to his senses and tried to return. However, he had a run-in with Snatchers first, who interrogated him. Ron claimed to be Stan Shunpike, and then took an opportunity to escape. He apparated numerous times to try to find Harry and Hermione, splinching fingernails off at one point, but could not find them. He then went to stay with Bill and Fleur at their new home, Shell Cottage. Soon after Christmas, Ron used the Deluminator Dumbledore bequeathed him to locate his friends. Ron made his way to the Forest of Dean, where he arrived just in time to rescue Harry from drowning in a semi-frozen pond. When Ron attempted to use Godric Gryffindor’s Sword to destroy the locket, horrible incorporeal images of Harry and Hermione came forth which cruelly mocked Ron about his many insecurities, including his fears that Hermione would choose Harry over him. This brought Ron to the point of tears. However, Ron successfully stabbed the Horcrux with Godric Gryffindor’s Sword. Afterwards, Harry took Ron aside to assuage his fears about Harry and Hermione. Saving Harry’s life earned him Harry’s forgiveness, but Hermione — who was unaware of what the Horcrux had done — was still furious with him for his abandonment for some time and attacked him mercilessly upon sight until Harry cast a Shield Charm to stop her.

The trio learned of the existence of the Deathly Hallows from Xenophilius Lovegood. Xenophilius, worried for his daughter Luna, who was being held hostage by Death Eaters, tried to capture the trio. They narrowly escaped, Hermione engineering it in a way that preserved Ron’s alibi of being sick at home. During the Easter holidays of 1998, the trio was captured by a gang of Snatchers led by Fenrir Greyback after Harry accidentally broke the Taboo curse on Voldemort’s name. Hermione hit Harry in the face with a Stinging Hex in order to disguise him. Harry, Hermione, and Ron quickly lied and gave fake names; Harry being Vernon Dudley, Hermione being Penelope Clearwater, and Ron being Stan Shunpike. Ron was beaten (his mouth extremely bloody) and was then forced to use another name, Barny Weasley. This was due to the Snatchers already knowing who Stan Shunpike was. The Snatchers also found Godric Gryffindor’s sword in their tent, there was no explaining that. They were then brought to Malfoy Manor, where Lucius Malfoy attempted to get his son to identify Harry. Draco said that he did not know whether it was Harry or not, but immediately recognised Ron and Hermione. The trio then meet with Bellatrix Lestrange, whom separated them. Ron tried to persuade Bellatrix to take him for questioning instead of Hermione. She responded that she would interrogate him next if Hermione died during questioning, as “blood-traitor was next to mud-blood in her book“. Ron was forced into the dungeon with Harry, Dean Thomas, and the goblin Griphook. In the dungeon they found Luna and Mr Ollivander, whom were captured in 1996.

The group was saved by Dobby, who was sent by Aberforth Dumbledore. He freed Harry and Ron to run upstairs to save Hermione, who managed to lie under torture about where they had obtained Gryffindor’s Sword. Ron disarmed Bellatrix after she avoided a chandelier dropped by Dobby, and pulled Hermione from the wreckage of the fallen chandelier, Disapparating them both to Bill and Fleur’s home Shell Cottage. They stayed there with Luna, Fleur, Bill, Mr Ollivander, and Griphook. He attended the burial of Dobby, where he humbly gave him his shoes and socks. At the cottage Hermione recovered and she, Ron, and Harry planned to break into Gringotts Wizarding Bank in order to take Hufflepuff’s cup, and a Horcrux, within the Lestrange Vault. Griphook the goblin agreed to help them in exchange for Gryffindor’s Sword. Ron, knowing that the sword was needed to destroy Horcruxes was reluctant to let Harry part with it. Harry suggested that they delay handing the sword over until the Horcruxes were destroyed. As the planning went forward, Ron along with Harry and Hermione found Griphook to be increasingly distasteful. On the morning of 1 May, 1998, they broke into Gringotts with Hermione disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange, Ron as a fictional foreign wizard named “Dragomir Despard,” and Harry under his Invisibility Cloak with Griphook. As they were headed down into the vaults, the Gringotts defences (the Thief’s Downfall in particular) were set against them, and Ron’s disguise melted away. Once in the vault, it was discovered that all the treasure had Geminio and Flagrante curses put on them. Although they were betrayed by Griphook, the trio obtained Helga Hufflepuff’s cup and escaped the wizarding bank on the back of a dragon.

After getting off the dragon escaping from the wizarding bank, Ron saw Harry having one of his visions. He was told that Lord Voldemort finally knew that they were hunting Horcruxes and that the final one was at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione apparated under the Invisibility cloak to Hogsmeade looking for a way into Hogwarts. They were soon cornered by Death Eaters set to watch the town. Ron drew his wand ready to fight them, but Harry suggested that advantage lay in stealth and that attacking would give away their position. Once the Death Eaters ordered Dementors to search the town for the trio, Harry was forced to perform the Patronus Charm. After Harry’s Patronus chased away the Dementors the trio found refuge in the Hog’s Head. A heated discussion with the proprietor followed, who turned out to be Aberforth Dumbledore. The discussion revolved around Harry’s mission and the seeming defeat of the Order of the Phoenix. After this they were lead into Hogwarts by a badly beaten Neville Longbottom, whom in Harry’s absence became the defcto leader of the D.A. They arrived in the Room of Requirement and found that the reformed Dumbledore’s Army was hiding out there. Harry whom had developed trust issues, did not like the idea of allowing the other DA members to help. Ron persuaded Harry to let the others do so anyway. While Harry searched for Ravenclaw‘s diadem, Ron and Hermione entered the Chamber of Secrets to retrieve basilisk fangs. Ron mimicked the Parseltongue he had heard Harry use to open Salazar Slytherin‘s locket and succeeded in gaining entrance to the Chamber. Hermione used the fangs to destroy the Horcrux of Hufflepuff‘s cup, and they then reunited with Harry. When Ron expressed desire to evacuate the house-elves from the Kitchens, Hermione, who had always been concerned for creatures so often mistreated by society, was so touched that she ran, nuzzled and kissed him, much to Ron’s delight.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione entered the Room of Requirement to find Ravenclaw’s diadem, but were ambushed by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. When Crabbe unleashed a cursed fire, the trio escaped by means of broomsticks; Harry saved Draco, and Ron and Hermione saved Goyle. They then witnessed the death of Ron’s brother Fred in combat, which devastated Ron, who wanted revenge. Hermione managed to calm him by reminding him that they would have to fight on their way to finding Nagini, Voldemort’s final Horcrux. The trio made their way to the Shrieking Shack, and witnessed the snake kill Severus Snape on Voldemort’s orders. While dying, Severus Snape’s memories leaked out of him, which Harry collected into a glass phial to latter view in the headmaster’s office. Following his alleged death, the battle resumed, and Ron and Neville Longbottom brought Fenrir Greyback down together. Ron witnessed Harry defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all, and survived the battle without serious injury.

Ron never received a seventh year of education at Hogwarts. Sometime between 1998 and 2006, Ron married Hermione, and later the couple had two children: Rose and Hugo. Ron was also the godfather and uncle of Harry and Ginny’s oldest son. At some point, Ron, Harry, and Hermione were all featured on Chocolate Frog Cards for their accomplishments, which Ron considered his “finest hour“.

Instead of completing his education, he moved on to become an Auror (along with Harry) at the Ministry of Magic. Their work in the Ministry revolutionised the Auror department, and along with Hermione the trio helped “make a new world” for the wizarding community. Two years after he started at the Auror Office, he left to help his brother George at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley. His decision to do so was questioned by Rita Skeeter, who thought that Ron was tired of standing in Harry’s shadow, and wrote in her gossip column that Ron was likely mentally ill (this must, of course, be taken with more than a small pinch of salt due to Rita’s habit of writing scathing lies in articles), having said himself that the Horcrux hunt had “took its toll” on him.

Ron, Hermione and their children Rose and Hugo all attended the final of the 427th Quidditch World Cup in the Patagonian Desert in July 2014, alongside Harry, Ginny, James, Albus, Teddy Lupin, Neville, Hannah, Luna, Rolf, Bill, Fleur, Victoire, and potentially others. Ron also became close with Harry’s children, one of whom, James, was his godson. Lily Luna Potter and Ron’s son were close in age and good friends, as were Ron’s daughter and Albus Severus Potter.

In August of 2017, Ron, having settled into a rotund middle age, obtained a Muggle driving licence. He also admitted putting a Confundus Charm on the Muggle driving inspector because he had forgotten to use his wing mirror properly, excusing this mistake because casting a Supersensory Charm would be more effective. That year, he and Hermione sent their daughter off for her first year at Hogwarts, and Ron encouraged Rose to be Sorted into Gryffindor House and to beat Scorpius Malfoy in marks. He hugged Hugo gently.