Harry’s first friend on the train and the youngest Weasley son. He is loyal, jealous, and braver than he thinks, from the chessboard under the trapdoor to the return that destroys the locket.
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- 1980-03-01
Ron Weasley is born
Ron Weasley is born on 1 March 1980. - 1991-09-01
Harry boards the Hogwarts Express
Platform 9¾, the scarlet train, and a boy named Ron in the compartment. - 1991–1992
First year: the Philosopher’s Stone
Quirrell shares his body with Voldemort. Harry becomes the youngest Seeker in a century. The Stone is destroyed with Quirrell. Voldemort flees again. - 1992–1993
Second year: the Chamber of Secrets
Ginny, Colin, and Luna’s year arrives. Lockhart teaches nothing useful. The diary possesses Ginny. Harry destroys it with a basilisk fang. - 1993–1994
Third year: the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sirius escapes. Lupin teaches Defence. Harry casts a Patronus. Pettigrew is exposed and runs. Sirius remains a wanted man. - 1995-02-24
The second task
The champions dive into the lake for the people they would miss most. - October 1995
Dumbledore’s Army
Hermione proposes a student group. They meet in the Room of Requirement and learn actual Defence from Harry. The name is her joke and their banner. - 1997-03-01
Ron is poisoned
On his seventeenth birthday Ron drinks poisoned mead meant for Dumbledore. Harry keeps him alive with a bezoar. - 1997-07-31
Dumbledore’s will
On Harry’s seventeenth birthday Scrimgeour brings the bequests: the snitch, the sword that the Ministry will not hand over, and the Tales of Beedle the Bard. - 1997-08-01
The wedding, and the Ministry falls
Bill and Fleur marry. The Patronus comes during the reception: Scrimgeour is dead and the Ministry has fallen. The trio flees to Grimmauld Place. - 1997-09-02
The Ministry raid
Polyjuiced, the trio enter the Ministry, take the locket from Umbridge, and are forced on the run when their cover breaks. - Autumn 1997
Ron leaves
The locket wears them down. Ron goes. He will come back. - 1997-12
Godric’s Hollow, the sword, and the locket
A trap at the cottage breaks Harry’s wand. Nagini is waiting in Bathilda’s body. Later Snape’s doe leads Harry to the sword in a frozen pool. Ron returns and destroys the locket. Luna is taken from the train to pressure her father. - 1998-03
Malfoy Manor; Dobby dies
The taboo on Voldemort’s name gets them caught. Dobby rescues them and dies on the beach. In the same stretch of weeks Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes the Elder Wand. Xenophilius Lovegood has already tried to trade them for Luna. - 1998-05-02
The Battle of Hogwarts
The trio breaks into Gringotts for the cup. At the castle the diadem is destroyed, Neville kills Nagini, and fifty-odd defenders die, among them Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Colin. Harry walks into the Forest and comes back. Voldemort dies in the Great Hall on 2 May 1998. - 2017-09-01
Nineteen years later
On 1 September 2017 Harry and Ginny send James, Albus, and Lily to the train. Ron and Hermione send Rose and Hugo. Draco sees Scorpius off. Neville teaches. Luna is off studying creatures. The platform is busy and ordinary.