Ron Weasley

{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em"\n|colspan=2|\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor=#ffcc00|Ron Weasley\n|-\n|Gender||Male\n|-\n|Eye Colour||Unknown\n|-\n|Hair Colour||Red\n|-\n|House||Gryffindor\n|-\n|Blood Purity||Pureblood\n|-\n|Affiliation||Dumbledore's Army\n|}\nRonald "Ron" Bilius Weasley is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of children's books.\nRon Weasley, with Hermione Granger is one of Harry Potter's two best friends at Hogwarts.\nAll characters (except Luna Lovegood) call him "Ron" rather than "Ronald".\nRon is the son of Arthur and Molly Weasley, and brother of Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George and Ginny. Ron's father is the head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts at the Ministry of Magic, but doesn't earn much. Consequently, most of Ron's possessions are hand-me-downs, a fact he is sensitive about. Ron and Harry meet while Harry is searching for Platform 9 3/4, and share a compartment of the Hogwarts Express, where Ron shows Harry his pet rat Scabbers, and Harry shares some sweets with Ron. Ron likes to play Wizard's Chess and teaches Harry how to play. Ron suffers from arachnophobia from when his brother Fred turned his teddy bear into a spider when he was little. He shares his dormitory at Hogwarts with Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas. As of 2004, Rupert Grint plays Ron in the three released Harry Potter films, and is scheduled to continue the role for at least one more. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Ron's love of — and skill in — chess prove useful when one of the defences guarding the philosopher's stone is a giant Wizard's Chess board. Ron sacrifices himself, though later recovers, to win the game. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron's wand is broken when he crashes his father's flying car into the Whomping Willow. The wand later backfires at crucial moments, first when Ron tries to curse Draco Malfoy for calling Hermione a mudblood, and later when Professor Lockhart tries to use it to remove Ron and Harry's memories. Ron also faces his fear of spiders when he and Harry encounter a colony of them in the Forbidden Forest. Ron was so terrified by his encounter with Aragog that he became mad at Hagrid for sending them into the forest. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Ron gains a new pet, Pigwidgeon the owl, when his rat Scabbers is revealed to be the animagus Peter Pettigrew. Ron becomes keeper of the Gryffindor quidditch team in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; though not initially successful, he later improves. Ron shows some jealousy over his friend, Hermione, which some argue is a proof that she is his romantic interest.\nWhether she returns these feelings is debated, but most of the evidence suggests that she does:\nshe has shown jealousy over Ron's interest in Fleur Delacour and seems quite happy to argue with him constantly throughout the books despite their strong friendship, which is seen by many fans as unresolved sexual tension. See also:\n*Weasley family \nCategory:The Weasley Family\nWeasley, Ron\nWeasley, Ron\nWeasley, Ron