50 Fun Facts About Ron Weasley

What is the name of the ramshackle family home where Ron grows up?

The Burrow is so crooked that it seems to be held up by magic, yet Harry, fresh from the Dursleys, calls it the best house he has ever been in.

Who was cast as Ron in May 2025 for the HBO Harry Potter television series?

Alastair Stout was picked alongside Dominic McLaughlin's Harry and Arabella Stanton's Hermione after open auditions that drew tens of thousands of children.

As the trio's only member raised among wizards, Ron has to explain which insult, aimed at Hermione, to Harry?

Mudblood, a foul name for a witch or wizard born to Muggles: Ron was so angry at Malfoy for using it that he tried to curse him, only for his broken wand to backfire.

In 2014 Rowling called Ron and Hermione's romance a form of what?

Wish fulfilment: Rowling said she put them together for reasons that had little to do with literature, and that the pair would probably need a bit of counselling.

In the giant chess game guarding the Philosopher's Stone, which piece does Ron replace?

A knight: Ron lets the white queen take him so that Harry can checkmate the king, and Dumbledore later awards him fifty House points for the game.

Who intercepts Ron's letters to Harry during the summer before second year?

Dobby the house-elf held the letters back in the hope that Harry, thinking his friends had forgotten him, would not want to go back to Hogwarts.

What does Mrs Weasley send Ron after his rule-breaking arrival at Hogwarts in second year?

A Howler: the letter bellows her telling-off across the breakfast table in a magically magnified voice, and fear of getting another stops Ron writing home for a new wand.

What is Ron's worst nightmare, which he confronts in the Forbidden Forest?

Spiders: Ron has dreaded them ever since his brother Fred turned his teddy bear into one when he was a small child.

What comes to Ron and Harry's rescue deep in the Forbidden Forest in Chamber of Secrets?

The enchanted car, which had driven itself off into the forest after crashing into the Whomping Willow, bursts in and carries the boys to safety.

Where does the trio find the missing Scabbers in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Hagrid's hut: Scabbers turns up hiding in a milk jug, after Ron had fallen out with Hermione in the belief that her cat Crookshanks had eaten him.

Scabbers turns out to be which Death Eater in disguise?

Peter Pettigrew had spent twelve years hiding as the Weasleys' pet rat, letting the wizarding world believe that Sirius Black had murdered him.

Where is Ron stuck while Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius?

The hospital wing: Ron had been knocked out on the way back to the castle, so Harry and Hermione rescue Sirius and the hippogriff Buckbeak without him.

Which Quidditch star leaves Ron in awe at the World Cup?

Viktor Krum: Ron's hero worship of the Bulgarian Seeker turns to jealousy the moment Krum takes Hermione to the Yule Ball.

Who is Ron's date to the Yule Ball?

Padma Patil was a blind date arranged through her twin sister and Harry, and it went badly: Ron ignored her all evening to glower at Hermione and her partner.

In the Triwizard Tournament's second task, Harry must rescue Ron from where?

The lake: each champion's hostage is the person he or she would sorely miss, and for Harry that person is Ron.

Which brother advises the new prefect Ron to ally himself with the Ministry's new teacher?

Percy, who had broken with the family to side with the Ministry, put the advice in a letter that also urged Ron to drop Harry; Ron took no notice.

Which position does Ron play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?

Keeper: Ron's early fumbles inspire the Slytherins' taunting song Weasley Is Our King, which the Gryffindors then take over as his victory anthem.

What does Harry pretend to slip Ron before a match in Half-Blood Prince?

A luck potion: Harry only pretends to tip Felix Felicis into Ron's breakfast drink, and Ron plays brilliantly on borrowed confidence alone.

Whom does Ron kiss during the post-match celebration in book six?

Lavender Brown: she took to calling him Won-Won, and before long Ron was desperate to end things but could not work out how.

What do the chocolates Ron eats in March of sixth year contain?

A love potion: Romilda Vane had spiked the Chocolate Cauldrons for Harry, but Ron ate them by mistake on his birthday and fell madly in love with her.

What does Harry force down Ron's throat to save him from the poisoned mead?

A bezoar, a stone from a goat's stomach that counters most poisons: Harry knew the trick from a note scribbled in the Half-Blood Prince's old textbook.

Who unknowingly serves Ron the poisoned mead?

Slughorn had meant the bottle as a Christmas present for Dumbledore, so the poison reaches Ron only by accident; Harry suspects Draco Malfoy of planting it.

Whose possession is the locket Horcrux in when the trio raid the Ministry?

Dolores Umbridge had got the locket off the thief Mundungus Fletcher and passed it off as a family heirloom to prop up her own pure-blood credentials.

What object inherited from Dumbledore helps Ron find his way back to his friends?

The Deluminator: on Christmas morning Ron heard Hermione's voice coming out of it, and the light it gave off when he clicked it led him back to his friends.

In Deathly Hallows, Ron returns just in time to rescue Harry from what?

Drowning in an icy pool: Harry had dived in after the Sword of Gryffindor, and once he is safe Ron uses that sword to destroy the locket that drove him away.

Who makes off with the Sword of Gryffindor during the bank break-in, leaving Ron to seek basilisk fangs instead?

Griphook had demanded the sword as his price for helping the trio break in, then made off with it in the chaos rather than wait to be paid.

Which Horcrux does Hermione destroy in the Chamber of Secrets after Ron opens it?

Hufflepuff's cup: Ron got them into the Chamber by imitating the Parseltongue he had heard Harry use on the locket, and Hermione stabbed the cup with a basilisk fang.

In the Deathly Hallows novel, what finally prompts Hermione to kiss Ron for the first time?

He worries about the elves: mid-battle, Ron says they should get the house-elves out of the kitchens, and Hermione drops her armful of basilisk fangs to kiss him.

Ron and Neville team up to bring down which of Voldemort's fighters in the Battle of Hogwarts?

Fenrir Greyback, the werewolf who had savaged Ron's brother Bill a year earlier, is brought down by Ron and Neville as the battle reaches the Great Hall.

What are Ron and Hermione's children called in the epilogue?

Rose and Hugo: as Rose boards the train for her first year, Ron jokes that she will be disinherited if she is not sorted into Gryffindor.

After the Harry Potter books ended, Rowling said the adult Ron went to work at which business?

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes: Rowling said Ron first became an Auror alongside Harry, then joined his brother George at the joke shop, which went on to thrive.

Rupert Grint applied to play Ron after seeing the open auditions reported on which BBC children's show?

Newsround: Grint, a fan of the books who had never acted professionally, applied after its report and was invited to audition, landing the part aged 11.

What unusual item did Rupert Grint send in when he applied to play Ron?

A rap he had written himself on why he was perfect for Ron: the video won an 11-year-old with no professional experience a meeting with the casting team.

Why did Rupert Grint say he skipped the character essay that director Alfonso Cuarón set the trio?

Ron wouldn't do it, Grint told him, and Cuarón agreed that he plainly understood his character; Emma Watson had handed in by far the longest essay.

Which tiny, overexcited pet does Ron acquire at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban?

Pigwidgeon the owl was Sirius Black's way of making up for the loss of Ron's rat; Ginny chose the name, and the bird refused to answer to anything else.

In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, what job does Ron's wife Hermione hold?

Minister for Magic: Hermione runs the wizarding government, which makes Ron's wife the boss of his best friend, since Harry heads Magical Law Enforcement under her.

In Cursed Child's altered timeline, which milestone do Ron and Hermione miss?

Time-travelling Albus and Scorpius leave Ron falling for Padma Patil at the Yule Ball, until the timeline is restored.

What colour are Ron's eyes, according to Rowling?

Blue: when fan sites asked in 2005, Rowling was startled to find she had never said so, then listed all three: Harry's green, Ron's blue, Hermione's brown.

Which Quidditch team has Ron supported all his life, its colours plastered across his bedroom?

The Chudley Cannons last won the league in 1892, and the club has since changed its motto to: let's all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.

What does Ron see himself as when he looks into the Mirror of Erised?

Head Boy and Quidditch captain, holding the cups: as Dumbledore explains, a boy always overshadowed by his brothers sees himself standing alone as the best of them.

Who played Ron in Comic Relief's 2003 spoof The Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan?

Jennifer Saunders played both Ron and J. K. Rowling, and her Hermione, Miranda Richardson, went on to join the real films as Rita Skeeter.

What is Ron's middle name, taken from one of his uncles?

Bilius: the uncle he is named after is the one Ron says died within a day of seeing a Grim, the black dog that wizards dread as an omen of death.

What did Rupert Grint, the films' Ron, say was his earliest ambition in life?

Ice cream man: when the Potter money came in, Grint made the childhood dream real by buying his own ice cream van.

Which Guinness World Record did Rupert Grint, the films' Ron, break on joining Instagram in 2020?

Fastest to one million followers: a first post with his newborn daughter got him there in four hours and one minute, taking the record from Sir David Attenborough.

Which broomstick do Ron's parents buy him as a reward for being made a prefect?

Cleansweep Eleven: it was Ron's first new broom after years on an old Shooting Star, and he rode it onto the Gryffindor Quidditch team that same year.

What happens to Ron as the trio Disapparate in a hurry after their raid on the Ministry?

He is splinched: part of his upper arm is left behind in the rush, and Hermione stops the bleeding with essence of dittany.

Rupert Grint, the films' Ron, starred from 2019 to 2023 in which Apple TV+ horror series?

Servant: Grint played Julian Pearce for four seasons, and its showrunner M. Night Shyamalan then cast him in the thriller Knock at the Cabin.

Who plays Ron's twin brothers Fred and George in the films?

James and Oliver Phelps had no acting experience when they skipped school to go to an open audition for the first film.

Ron's eldest brother Bill works as a curse-breaker for which institution?

Gringotts: the wizarding bank sent Bill to Egypt as a curse-breaker, until he asked for a desk job in London so that he could join the fight against Voldemort.

On his first journey to Hogwarts, Ron tells Harry he already owns about five hundred of which collectible?

Chocolate Frog cards: Ron was still missing Agrippa and Ptolemy, and Rowling later said he ended up on a card himself, which he considered his finest hour.