Weasley family

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A photograph from the fictional wizard newspaper The Daily Prophet, as seen in the film series, showing the Weasleys on holiday in Egypt.

The Weasley family are a fictional family of wizards who figure prominently in the plot of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of novels. This is primarily because the youngest son, Ron Weasley, is the best friend of the series' protagonist, Harry Potter.

The Weasleys were one of the few remaining pure-blood wizarding families, though they were considered blood traitors for associating with non-pure-bloods. The Weasleys have seven children, all of whom have red hair and freckles. All of the Weasleys have been sorted into Gryffindor House at Hogwarts. All of the Weasley children, except Bill and Percy who both were Head Boy, are known to have played on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Charlie being the captain of the team for at least one of his school years. Apart from being the captain Charlie was a prefect as were Ron and Percy. Also, the Weasleys also all do work for the Order of the Phoenix, and all are members except for Ron, Percy and Ginny who as of the end of Deathly Hallows are not known to officially have been inducted into the Order. The Weasleys are a relatively poor family compared to some of the more prominent pure-blood wizarding families. They are known as blood traitors, which are wizarding families that associate themselves too much with Muggles, by the other pure-blood families that work for Death Eaters and/or Voldemort.

[edit] Family Tree

Black family

Septimus Weasley

Cedrella Black

Female Prewett

Male Prewett

Ignatius Prewett

Lucretia Black

Apolline Delacour

Monsieur Delacour

Bilius Weasley

Arthur Weasley

Molly Prewett

Gideon Prewett

Fabian Prewett

Other Children

Fred Weasley

[edit] The Family

[edit] Arthur Weasley

Harry Potter character
Arthur Weasley
Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Actor	Mark Williams
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Arthur Weasley is the patriarch of the Weasley family and married to Molly Weasley with whom he has seven children, including Ron, protagonist Harry Potter's best friend.During his time at Hogwarts, Arthur Weasley belonged to the house of Gryffindor. He is one of the three sons, another one having been Bilius, of Septimus and Cedrella (née Black) Weasley. Interestingly enough, this makes him a descendant of the wealthy and aristocratic House of Black, but his mother was disinherited for marrying into a family of wizards who were "blood traitors". Arthur is described as being tall and thin, and as having a receding hairline and wire-rimmed glasses. An affable, light hearted man, he tends not to be the authority figure in the family; his wife Molly tends to handle that area.

Arthur works for the Ministry of Magic, initially in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts office. He is obsessed with learning about Muggle customs and inventions but so far, he appears to have had little success. He also owns a large collection of Muggle stuff, and is fascinated by electricity, mistakenly calling it "ecklectricity". His department, a minor and derided subsection of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, lacked funding and his salary was insufficient to provide for a family of nine - leaving his family finances precarious. However, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he has been promoted to Head of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects. His promotion was accompanied by a pay increase.

Mr Weasley first officially appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, along with the rest of the Weasley family during the summer before Hogwarts opens. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it seems that Arthur does not fully believe the stories of Harry's abuse at the hands of the Dursleys until he witnesses what they think about Harry and the Wizarding world, before taking him to the Quidditch World Cup. After that, he takes a more active interest in Harry's welfare. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mr Weasley, who has been consistently against Lord Voldemort, is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and during one of his shifts in the Ministry of Magic he is attacked by the snake Nagini, which was acting under Voldemort's control. Harry, who is mentally connected with Voldemort, manages to see this in a vision and is able to warn the Hogwarts authorities. Arthur is subsequently saved just in time and sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

He was originally intended to die in that scene, but Rowling couldn't bear to kill him.^[1] He was also slated for death in the original draft for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows^[2]. Rowling has said that part of the reason she could not kill Arthur as originally planned was that he is one of the only good fathers in the series. But as she "wanted to kill parents," she spared Arthur's life in exchange for Remus Lupin's and Nymphadora Tonks's^[3].

Mark Williams has portrayed the character in all the film adaptations to date. While Arthur wears glasses in the books, Williams has not worn them in the film adaptations.

[edit] Molly Weasley

Harry Potter character
Molly Weasley
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Actor	Julie Walters
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Molly Weasley (née Prewett)^[4] is married to Arthur Weasley and mother of seven children. Molly Prewett was born into the pure-blood Prewett family, the eldest of three siblings, her younger brothers being Gideon and Fabian Prewett. Molly is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Harry Potter is at King's Cross train station waiting to board the train to Hogwarts; it was Molly who kindly tells Harry how to cross to the platform. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, she is furious with Fred, George, and Ron after she discovers that they flew their parents' enchanted car to Surrey to rescue Harry from his aunt and uncle who have imprisoned him in his room. At the beginning of the school year, Molly sends Ron a howler, screaming at him in anger that he and Harry flew the family car again, this time to Hogwarts.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Molly and family won the Daily Prophet draw and used the gold on a trip to Egypt to visit Bill. They returned to Britain and stayed at the Leaky Cauldron Inn with Harry and Hermione. Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arguing one night about the telling the truth about the supposed relation between escapee Sirius Black and Harry; Arthur feels Harry should know the truth but Molly, feeling the truth would terrify him, assures him Harry will be perfectly safe at Hogwarts with Dumbledore's protection, and orders Percy to keep an eye on Harry at the school.

When Harry arrives to the Burrow in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Molly finds out about Fred and George's experimenting with dangerous sweets they were manufacturing and tells them off before leaving for the Quidditch World Cup; however, after the Dark Mark appears over the sky at the World Cup campsite, Molly worries terribly for her family, and is upset for yelling at Fred and George, worried that something might happen to them after she treated them so horribly. When Harry is chosen a Triwizard Tournament champion against the rules, Molly is terrified for his safety. Later in the book, Molly believed the article biased journalist Rita Skeeter wrote about Hermione betraying her supposed boyfriend Harry Potter, but when Harry tells Molly the truth, she immediately warms up to Hermione. Molly and Bill arrive at Hogwarts to see the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament, acting as family guests to Harry; the author used that scene to reveal some information about Molly's times at school. After the return of Lord Voldemort, Dumbledore is forced to reconstitute the Order of the Phoenix, asking Molly and Bill if they and Arthur are ready to join and fight in the impending Second War; they accept the request immediately. Molly comforts Harry and, for the first time in his life, he has someone to be there for him, like a mother. At the end of the book, she promises to have Harry away from the Dursleys' as soon as possible.

Molly and the Weasleys are staying at the Order headquarters, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where she and Sirius led the decontamination of headquarters, and also fight over how much to tell Harry about the Order of the Phoenix's operations. Days later, Molly is found in the drawing room, with a boggart that transforms into her dead family members and Harry, and confesses her nightmares of losing more family members to the Death Eaters and Voldemort. Rowling states in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that Molly clashes with Bill's fiancée at this time, Fleur Delacour, and she constantly invites Tonks for dinner, efforts which led the others to assume that she was trying to get her and Bill into a relationship. Also, Molly has also grown to accept the idea of Fred and George's joke shop which they are running quite effectively. At the end of the novel, Molly rushes to Hogwarts with her husband and Fleur to tend to her son Bill, who was ferociously attacked by Fenrir Greyback; Fleur is offended greatly when Molly jumps to the conclusion she will break up with Bill due to his scarring; thus Fleur and Molly begin to see each other in a much more positive light.

At the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Molly and Arthur offer the Burrow as Order headquarters when Grimmauld Place is no longer safe. She feels immensely uncomfortable with the trio's decision to drop out of Hogwarts, and initially attempts to dissuade them from doing so. While Bill and Fleur's wedding is taking place, the Ministry collapses and Death Eaters attack the wedding guests as the protection disappeared, prompting the trio to leave. The author later reveals that the Weasleys are safe, but disguise their ghoul as Ron with an illness; however, when the cover is blown, they head for safety at the home of one of their relatives, Auntie Muriel. In the end of the book, Molly and her entire family fight in the Battle of Hogwarts. Upon seeing the death of Fred she becomes devastated, and is pushed to the edge when Bellatrix Lestrange almost kills Ginny with a killing curse. In great fury, she engages Bellatrix in an intense duel to the death, defeating her with a curse which hits Lestrange in the chest. Rowling verified in an interview that Molly had killed Bellatrix.^[5]

[edit] Bill Weasley

Harry Potter character
William Arthur "Bill" Weasley
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

William Arthur "Bill" Weasley is the eldest son of Molly and Arthur Weasley. He is also the husband of Fleur Delacour. Information from Rowling has put the character's birth date as 29 November, 1970.^[6]^[7] Bill attended Hogwarts as a Gryffindor from 1982 to 1989, becoming both a prefect and Head Boy. Later, he worked for Gringotts Bank in Egypt as a Curse-Breaker. He made his first full appearance in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where he was described as being a good-looking young man, sporting long red hair tied back in a ponytail and a single fang earring. Harry mentally noted that a guy like Bill would not be out of place at a rock concert. While Mrs. Weasley wasn't high on Bill's unorthodox looks, everyone else was fine with it. When Fleur Delacour spied Bill at Hogwarts as he and Mrs. Weasley paid a visit to Harry during the Triwizard Tournament, she eyed him with "great interest." Bill returned to Britain to work with the Order of the Phoenix in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He met Fleur at Gringotts head office in London where she was employed at the time. After a year-long relationship the couple were engaged, and Bill brought his fiancée to get to know his family.

Bill fought bravely in the first battle in Hogwarts near the end of Half-Blood Prince, but did not escape unscathed, as he was attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback. However, since Greyback was in his human form at the time of the attack, Bill suffered only partial lycanthropy contamination; according to Remus Lupin, also a werewolf, this was not enough to cause actual transformations, though Bill had apparently developed a liking for "very rare" steaks and was left with a deeply scarred face. The wedding plans, however, remained unchanged. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Fleur and Bill take part in getting Harry escorted safely from the Dursleys' house, and they witness Mad-Eye Moody getting killed by Voldemort himself, which they announce upon their return to the Burrow. The couple have their wedding there, and later provide safe haven for Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dean Thomas, Luna Lovegood, Mr Ollivander and Griphook in Shell Cottage after they narrowly escape Malfoy Manor. Both Bill and Fleur were combatants for the Order of the Phoenix during the second Battle of Hogwarts and both survived the battle. Bill and Fleur have at least one daughter, Victoire.

[edit] Charlie Weasley

Harry Potter character
Charlie Weasley
Charlie Weasley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Charlie Weasley is the second son of Molly and Arthur Weasley and is described as having a broad, weather-beaten face with so many freckles that it looks almost tanned. Charlie's build, like that of his twin brothers, Fred and George, is shorter and stockier than that of Percy and Ron, who are long and lanky. Information from Rowling has put Charlie's birth date as December 12, 1972.^[8]^[9] The books establish that Charlie attends Hogwarts from 1984 to 1991, finishing school the year before Harry Potter starts attending. At Hogwarts, he is a Quidditch Captain and legendary Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. After school Charlie chooses to go to Romania to work with dragons as a Dragon Keeper. At Harry, Ron and Hermione's request, he takes Hagrid's baby dragon, Norbert, an illegally hatched Norwegian Ridgeback, into his care in Harry's first year, and his team bring four rare species of dragon to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. During the second rise of Lord Voldemort, Charlie's task in the Order of the Phoenix is to try and rally support abroad. Charlie returns to the Burrow in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to participate in his brother Bill's wedding as best man. He enters the later part of the Battle of Hogwarts at the head of reinforcements gathered from among the friends and families of the people who have stayed at the school to fight, as well as many of the Hogsmeade villagers. He survives the battle, without serious injury.

[edit] Percy Weasley

Harry Potter character
Percy Ignatius Weasley
Chris Rankin as Percy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Actor	Chris Rankin
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Percy Ignatius Weasley is the third son of Arthur and Molly Weasley's brood of seven. When readers first meet Percy in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, he is a Gryffindor prefect; in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he becomes Head Boy (of which he is very proud). In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Percy secretly has a girlfriend - Ravenclaw prefect Penelope Clearwater.

Academically a high-performing student, Percy received twelve OWLs. When he finished school in June 1994 at the age of seventeen, this academic distinction secured him a job in the Ministry of Magic. His immediate employer was Barty Crouch Sr, the former Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement; Percy somewhat idolised Mr Crouch in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but Crouch never seemed to remember Percy's name, calling him Weatherby. When Crouch is ill, Percy replaces him as a judge in the second Triwizard Tournament task, and was also scheduled to be a judge for the final task, but was forced to attend an inquiry regarding Crouch's mysterious long absence.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Percy was promoted to Junior Assistant to the Minister for Magic by Cornelius Fudge; because Fudge and Dumbledore were at odds over Harry's claim that Voldemort returned, a dispute between Percy and Arthur erupted, resulting in Percy's subsequent alienation from his family. When Percy learned Ron was made a prefect, he sent him an owl letter congratulating him for following in his footsteps, and urged Ron to sever ties with Harry, claiming Harry is an extreme danger to Ron's prefect status and that he has told lies about Voldemort. He suggested that Ron instead pay loyalty to the Ministry and Dolores Umbridge, and even criticised their parents and Dumbledore.

In the climax of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Percy returned to his family and managed to make up with all of them, and eventually duels Pius Thicknesse in the Battle of Hogwarts, shouting at him "Hello, Minister! Did I mention I'm resigning?" but halfway through making a comment about Percy's joke, Fred is killed in an explosion, and Percy clings to the corpse and shields it from further damage. Then, Percy sprints off to pursue Rookwood, a Death Eater who he believed to have killed Fred and who was now attacking an unnamed group of students. In the last part of the battle, he and his dad work together to 'floor' Thicknesse. His final appearance is in the book's epilogue, at King's Cross Station, talking loudly about broom regulations.

[edit] Fred and George Weasley

Harry Potter character
Fred and George Weasley
Phelps twins as Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Actor	James and Oliver Phelps
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Fred and George Weasley are the identical ^[10] twin sons of Arthur and Molly Weasley. They attended Hogwarts from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to around springtime of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They are the school clowns and troublemakers, more interested in inventing new pranks than studying. Despite this, they show a high degree of knowledge and skill in creating magical jokes and tricks. Both were the Beaters on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and are very talented players. Their appearances and personalities are so indistinguishable that they can fool even their mother. Fred appears slightly more aggressive/take-charge than George. It is stated by several characters, including Professor Flitwick and Hermione Granger, that despite their poor grades and meager number of O.W.L.s, the Weasley twins are extremely proficient wizards, capable of sophisticated magic (such as spells for high-quality daydreams).

The pair provide Harry with useful assistance throughout the series; in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets they and Ron help him escape his house arrest at Privet Drive. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban they give him the Marauder's Map. In Goblet of Fire, they try to encourage Harry and Ron to find dates to the Yule Ball by letting them see Fred ask Angelina Johnson. They help Harry in Order of the Phoenix when Harry wishes to talk with his godfather, Sirius Black, by creating a distraction, leaving Hogwarts in a state of chaos. They were also members of Dumbledore's Army, a group started by Harry, Ron, and Hermione to teach practical instruction in Defence Against the Dark Arts, which Dolores Umbridge had removed from that course's curriculum. Later that year, they are banned from Quidditch and decide to abandon formal education; they do not, however, leave before paying tribute to Dumbledore by waging a virtual war against the dictatorial Umbridge. Threatened with flogging for conjuring a swamp in a corridor, they depart on broomsticks, yelling to Peeves in the process, "Give her hell from us, Peeves."

As they leave, the twins inform their fellow students of their new shop in Diagon Alley and offer discounts to students who will likewise harass Umbridge. The swamp, meanwhile, remains for some time, since Umbridge is unable to remove it and no other teacher particularly wishes to. After Professor Umbridge is driven from the school, Professor Flitwick removes it, but leaves a small bit as a tribute to the Weasley twins.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Fred and George begin selling their own jokes by owl order, under the name "Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes." Their ambition in life has always been to run their own joke shop. Harry makes this possible by giving them his winnings from the Triwizard Tournament. In The Half-Blood Prince, Fred and George continue to run their very successful joke shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, in Diagon Alley with an employee called Verity. Though Mrs. Weasley initially disapproved of their enterprises, she realised they had a natural gift and passion for their business and has since raised no objections. In fact, she is now rather impressed with how successful the twins have become since leaving school. According to their proud younger brother Ron, "they're raking in the Galleons!"

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Fred and George are members of the Order of the Phoenix and serve as two of Harry's six decoys when he escapes Privet Drive. George loses one of his ears to Snape's Sectumsempra curse (which was aimed at a Death Eater's wand hand, but missed). As the injury was caused by dark magic, it cannot be repaired. George remarks that, at the very least, he and his brother became much more distinguishable and their mother will be able to tell them apart now. During this novel, every member of the Weasley family is being watched by the Ministry of Magic (now led by Death Eaters). It is impossible for Fred and George to return to their shop in Diagon Alley to sell their products, so they begin to run another owl-order business out of their Auntie Muriel's house.

During the Battle of Hogwarts, Fred is killed by an explosion. Towards the end of the novel, George and Lee Jordan defeat the Death Eater Yaxley. According to Rowling, she always knew, intuitively, that Fred would be the one of the twins that would die, but she does not exactly know the reason.^[11] Although not mentioned in the novel, Rowling revealed in a web chat that George never fully does get over the death of Fred. However, he goes on with his life, turning Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes into a "money spinner" with Ron (who eventually leaves WWW to become an Auror).^[12] George later names his first child, a son, after his twin.^[13]

[edit] Ron and Ginny Weasley

Main article: Ron Weasley

Main article: Ginny Weasley

[edit] Extended family

[edit] Fleur Delacour

Harry Potter character
Fleur Isabelle Delacour
Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Actor	Clémence Poésy
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Fleur Isabelle Delacour is a student of Beauxbatons Academy in France, and is selected as a champion in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament. Her father is a Frenchman who is unnamed but described in the books as being round and having a short black beard; her mother is a half-Veela named Apolline, from whom Fleur and her younger sister, Gabrielle, inherited their silvery-blonde hair, pale eyes, good looks, and ability to entrance men. Fleur's Veela heritage is never explicitly mentioned in the films. According to Rowling, Fleur's name comes from the French phrase fleur de la cour, meaning "flower of the court" or "noblewoman".

During the Triwizard Tournament, Fleur is initially aloof and unfriendly. During the second task of the Tournament, she attempts to rescue her sister from the lake, but fails. When Harry rescues Gabrielle instead, Fleur becomes much warmer towards both Harry and Hogwarts in general. Fleur takes last place in the Triwizard Tournament, due to disguised Death Eater Barty Crouch Jr stunning her when she passes by the area of the maze that he is watching. She later takes a job at Gringotts, and it is here that she meets Bill Weasley, to whom she later becomes engaged (to the initial dismay of Mrs Weasley and Ginny). Bill is attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, since Greyback is in his human form at the time of the attack, Bill suffers only partial lycanthropy contamination. The wedding plans, however, remained unchanged; Fleur declares that she does not mind the scars while criticizing the English for overcooking their meat in any case; this attitude earns her a lot of respect from Bill's otherwise disapproving family, especially Mrs. Weasley.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Fleur and Bill take part in the operation to safely escort Harry to The Burrow, and they witness Mad-Eye Moody being killed by Voldemort himself. The couple have their wedding at the Burrow, but the event is interrupted when Death Eaters attack at the wedding reception after the fall of the Ministry of Magic. The newlyweds later provide a safe haven for the trio and some others in Shell Cottage, their home, after the refugees narrowly escape Malfoy Manor. Both Bill and Fleur are combatants for the Order of the Phoenix during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Fleur's attitude and style changes considerably throughout the series. Initially portrayed as a haughty, pompous student who is excessively proud of both her looks and her status, in Deathly Hallows she shows great courage, skill, and selflessness. She shows considerable protective concern for Harry after he explains to her that he has to leave Shell Cottage in order to break into Gringotts, and Harry nearly likens her to Mrs. Weasley.

[edit] Gabrielle Delacour

Harry Potter character
Gabrielle Delacour

Actor	Angelica Mandy
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Gabrielle Delacour is the younger sister of Fleur Delacour. Her age in The Goblet of Fire is estimated by Harry to be no more than eight years old, and this statement is reinforced when it is stated in The Deathly Hallows that she is eleven at the time of Bill and Fleur's wedding. During the Triwizard Tournament, in which Fleur was the champion for Beauxbatons, Gabrielle was chosen along with Cho Chang, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley, to be the underwater "bait" for the champions to rescue. Fleur did not manage to rescue Gabrielle in time because she was held back by Grindylows and was forced to return, but Harry went on to save her in addition to his own hostage.

Fleur hints in Half-Blood Prince that Gabrielle (much like the young Ginny Weasley) has developed a crush on Harry, since she "never stops talking" about him. Gabrielle and Ginny Weasley serve as bridesmaids at Fleur's wedding to Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Her part-Veela heritage begins to develop as she matures; she is called a "Fleur in miniature". She still retains a crush on Harry at that time, causing Ginny to clear her throat loudly in mild jealousy when she throws him a flirtatious look.

[edit] Auntie Muriel

Harry Potter character
Muriel
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Muriel, Molly's aunt, is a great-aunt of the Weasley children. According to Ron, she is rude to just about everyone she meets. Harry first meets her in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows during Bill and Fleur's wedding. She is described as having bloodshot eyes and a large, feathery, pink hat, making her look like a "badly tempered flamingo". She loans her beautiful goblin-made tiara to Fleur to wear. During the wedding, she starts an argument with Elphias Doge about Dumbledore's past and Rita Skeeter's "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore". Muriel first provides her house for the Order of the Phoenix so that Order members can arrive there after taking Harry from the Dursleys'. Later in the book, all the Weasleys hide in her house because they are targeted for being blood traitors. Although she makes disparaging remarks about Hermione being a Muggleborn, there's no indication that she supports any notion of blood purity.

[edit] Others

Gideon and Fabian Prewett were brothers of Molly Weasley. Both of them were members of the original Order of the Phoenix and killed by several Death Eaters, including Antonin Dolohov, not before fighting like heroes.
Septimus Weasley was the Weasley children's grandfather. He has never appeared in any of the books and is known only from the Black Family Tree, which shows that Cedrella Black was disowned for marrying him. Like his son, he is considered a blood traitor.
Uncle Bilius is never seen during the books, but according to Ron, who took his middle name, he died after seeing the Grim (an omen of death). He is described as being the "life and soul" of parties by Fred and George, who told Harry and Hermione that he'd "down an entire bottle of Firewhiskey, then run out onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his -". Ron also mentioned that he never married "for some reason".
Ignatius, a member of the Prewett family, who was married to Lucretia Black of the Black family. He is Percy Ignatius's namesake.
Lancelot, a cousin of Muriel, was a St. Mungo's Healer who found the fact that Ariana Dumbledore never received medical attention at home suspicious.
Molly Weasley's second cousin is an accountant and probably Squib. The family never talks about him. On J.K Rowling's site she explained that he has a daughter named Mafalda. She was intended to be in the Goblet of Fire plot.
Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley have been mutually attracted throughout the series, although Ginny was the first to show interest in Harry. Eventually Harry married Ginny some time after the final book and the two had three children, James , Albus Severus and Lily.
Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were best friends who were attracted to each other, started dating each other and eventually ended up married with two children, Rose and Hugo.

[edit] Grandchildren of the Weasley family

[edit] James Potter

Harry Potter character
James Potter
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

James Potter is the first-born child of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley born at least one year before his brother, Albus. He was named after Harry's father, and he is described as being similar in character to his namesake,^{[citation needed]} as well as his uncles Fred and George Weasley, with a penchant for practical jokes and general misbehaviour. Despite Harry's best efforts to keep it hidden from his children, James managed to sneak the Marauders' Map from his father's desk one night.^[14] It is, however, unknown whether he managed to get the map to work.

He seems to be quite close to his father's godson, Teddy Lupin, and his mother, Ginny, compares him to his Uncle Ron after he intrudes on Teddy kissing James' cousin, Victoire (Ron had been shown trying to interfere in Ginny's love life while they were at Hogwarts).

In the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, set 19 years after Voldemort's defeat, James is depicted leaving for at least his second year of education at Hogwarts. Although it is possible that he is anything from 12 to 17 years of age at the end of the book, his attitudes suggest that he is not much older than his siblings, and it is implied by Ginny Weasley that his first year was one before his brother Albus's.

[edit] Albus Severus Potter

Harry Potter character
Albus Severus Potter
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Albus Severus "Al" Potter is the second child of Harry and Ginny. Estimated to be born around 2005-2006, he was named after two of Hogwarts' Headmasters, Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.

In the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he is being sent to Hogwarts for the first time. Due to jokes from his elder brother, James Potter, Albus fears that he will be placed in Slytherin instead of Gryffindor, the family house. Harry reassures Albus that he will be loved no matter what and informs him that Severus Snape, one of the two Hogwarts Headmasters for whom he was named, was in Slytherin and was "probably the bravest man [he] ever knew". In addition, he reveals to Albus that he himself was placed in Gryffindor because he asked the Sorting Hat not to put him in Slytherin, something he had never told any of his children. Harry also had similar fears of being placed in Slytherin when he first went to Hogwarts.

Albus is said to look a lot like Harry, and it is also noted that, of all of Harry's children, he is the only one to have inherited Harry's mother's eyes.

[edit] Lily Potter

Harry Potter character
Lily Potter
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Lily Potter is the only daughter of Harry and Ginny. Estimated to be born around 2007-2008, she is the youngest of the three children in the family. She was named after Harry's mother, and she has red hair like her mother and grandmothers. She is two years younger than her brother, Albus.

In the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, she was accompanying her parents who were escorting James and Albus to the Hogwarts Express. Her personality seems to be similar to that of her mother Ginny, who acted similarly when she was introduced in the first book. As she saw her brothers take off on the Hogwarts express, she desperately wanted to join them as well.

[edit] Rose Weasley

Harry Potter character
Rose Weasley
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows epilogue, Rose "Rosie" Weasley is shown to be the daughter to Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. She is going off to her first year at Hogwarts. She is in the same year as Harry and Ginny's son Albus and seems to have developed her mother's sharp mind. She may also share Albus' fear of being sorted into Slytherin as she is said to look grim when her father jokes that if she isn't sorted into Gryffindor he would disinherit her. She is jokingly instructed not to be a friend of Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Draco Malfoy, and to beat him in all of their exams. Like her mother did, it is noted she wore her Hogwarts robes earlier than needed.

[edit] Hugo Weasley

Harry Potter character
Hugo Weasley
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Hugo Weasley, as seen in the epilogue, is Hermione and Ron's younger child. He is about the same age as Harry and Ginny's daughter, Lily, so he has not started Hogwarts yet.

[edit] Victoire Weasley

Harry Potter character
Victoire Weasley
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Victoire Weasley is the eldest child of Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley ^[15]. "Victoire" literally means "Victory" in French, the mother tongue of her mother Fleur (although the name is ostensibly a rendition of English Victoria). Victoire herself is only mentioned in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. James Potter (Harry's son) saw her kissing Teddy Lupin, son of the late Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, and also Harry's godson. She is either in her sixth or seventh year of Hogwarts. She is one-eighth Veela (through her mother who is one-quarter), although it is unknown if her heritage in this regard is exhibited in any manner, or if it holds sway over Teddy.

[edit] Fred Weasley

Fred Weasley is the son of George Weasley and an unknown woman. He was named after his deceased uncle, Fred Weasley. It is unknown whether or not Fred is George's only child.

[edit] Residence

The Burrow
Harry Potter location

Owner	The Weasley Family
Permanent residents	The Weasley Family
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Weasleys' home, known as The Burrow, is located in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole, also the home of the Lovegoods and the Fawcetts. Amos Diggory also lives nearby. The Burrow was used as the Order of the Phoenix's headquarters until it lost its given protection.

The Weasley house has seven floors. It is dilapidated, managing to remain standing only by magic. Despite the house's rundown appearance, Harry remarks on his first visit that it was the best house he had ever been in and it comes to be his second favourite place in the world (after Hogwarts). The well-hidden orchard nearby doubles as a Quidditch pitch for the Weasley boys and (secretly) Ginny. Real Quidditch balls cannot be used in case they escape and fly over the Muggle village.

The Weasleys own an unusual (possibly unique) clock, a manifestation of Molly's anxiety about her family's well-being. Instead of telling time, each hand has the name of a Weasley written on it and points to a term indicating their whereabouts; when Harry arrives at the Burrow in Half-Blood Prince, with Voldemort waging war on the wizarding world, all the hands are fixed on "mortal peril." It is not known where they obtained this clock, although Molly comments that she does not know any one else who owns one.

A ghoul resides in the attic of The Burrow and causes minor disruptions by groaning and banging on the walls and pipes whenever things have got too quiet. In Deathly Hallows the ghoul is magically altered in appearance to resemble Ron as cover for his absence from school.

A multitude of garden gnomes infest the garden of The Burrow.

[edit] Pets and animals

There are many pets and animals associated the Weasley family.

Scabbers, a rat who had been in the Weasley family for twelve years. He first belonged to Percy, but was later passed down to Ron. Near the end of the third book, Scabbers is revealed to be Peter Pettigrew, an Animagus and Death Eater who had once been a friend of James Potter.
Pigwidgeon (or "Pig"), Ron's small hyperactive Scops Owl, a gift from Sirius Black upon the loss of Scabbers, following the climactic events in Ron's third year.
Hermes, an owl owned by Percy, which was a gift to him from his parents for becoming a Prefect in his fifth year.
Arnold, a Pygmy Puff (miniature Puffskein) owned by Ginny and obtained from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in the sixth book.
A large frog owned by Ron.
Several chickens.
A puffskein belonging to Ron that was killed by Fred when he used it for Bludger practice, revealed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Errol, an ancient Great Grey Owl who serves as the family post owl. He has trouble carrying loads due to his advanced age, often needing help from other owls. He is often found unconscious after crashing into things or collapsing from sheer exhaustion.

[edit] Mr Weasley's Car

Arthur Weasley owned a Ford Anglia that he had subsequently enchanted; consequently, the vehicle can fly, become invisible, and carry the entire Weasley Family in spite of its formerly non-enchanted interior dimensions, among other abilities. The car is stolen by his youngest sons (the twins Fred and George and Ron) who use it to rescue Harry from the Dursleys' house. Ron and Harry steal the car again in order to return to Hogwarts after the gate to Platform 9¾ is sealed against Harry. After they arrive at school, landing in the Whomping Willow, the car flees into the Forbidden Forest.

Mr Weasley is then put under inquiry at the Ministry of Magic, because seven Muggles saw the car flying across the countryside, and nearly loses his job.

The car reappears when Harry and Ron visit Aragog in the forest: when the great spider tells his colony of acromantulas to eat Harry and Ron, the car attacks them and carries the boys to safety. Its current condition is undisclosed; Ron had commented that the enchanted vehicle had become "wild" and thus operated autonomously, like a living being.

[edit] Names

There is a running theme of Arthurian legend in some of the Weasley family names. The father is named Arthur; the daughter is named Ginevra, which is the Italian form of Guinevere; a son is named Percy, which is a shortened form of Percival, and the youngest son is named Ron, the name of Arthur's spear in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and in the "Brut" poems of Wace and Layamon^[16]^[17] (it was originally "Rhongomynyad" in Welsh legend). Their Auntie Muriel's cousin's name was Lancelot.

On her official website, Rowling explained her choice of surname and hair color for the Weasleys:^[4]

“

In Britain and Ireland the weasel has a bad reputation as an unfortunate, even malevolent, animal. However, since childhood I have had a great fondness for the family mustelidae; not so much malignant as maligned, in my opinion.

There are also many superstitions associated with redheaded people and most state that they are in some way unlucky (Judas Iscariot was supposedly red-haired), but this is nonsense; I happen to like red hair as well as weasels.

”

[edit] References

^ Jen Brown (2007-07-25). Stop your sobbing! More Potter to come. MSNBC. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-25-harry-potter-spoilers_N.htm Deathly Hallows Draft]
^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20026225/
^ ^a ^b Section: Extra Stuff Some Random Facts About The Weasley Family from Jkrowling.com.
^ "New Interview with J.K. Rowling for Release of Dutch Edition of 'Deathly Hallows'." (November 18, 2007). The Leaky Cauldron. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
^ Birthday Archive
^ FAQ section on jkrowling.com; Accessed August 6, 2007.
^ Birthday Archive
^ You said recently that Charlie was two years older than Percy. If that's so, he would have been the Seeker in Harry's first year. Can you clarify his and Bill's ages for us?
^ "I'm not Fred, I'm George ... can't you tell I'm George?" Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Page 70 (UK edition); Page 92 (US edition).
^ Rowling: I wanted to kill parents from MSNBC
^ Interview with J.K. Rowling, 26 July 2007 from TODAYShow.com.
^ Webchat with J.K. Rowling, 30 July 2007 from Bloomsbury.
^ "J.K. Rowling Web Chat Transcript", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-07-30. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323
^ http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/1069.html Bootlegbooks.com Retrieved on 04-24-07
^ http://www.geocities.com/dagonet_uk/weapdata.htm Geocities.com Retrieved on 04-24-07

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