2017-03-01 Wed

‘“Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in his crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing his examiner’s reflection. (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix).

Ronald Bilius Weasley, the sixth son of Arthur and Molly Weasley, was born today on 1st March, 1980. He went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 and was sorted into Gryffindor house where he became best friends with Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. He is one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series.

Together, ‘The Golden Trio’ faced many challenges during their adolescence, including keeping the Philosopher's Stone from Professor Quirrell, saving Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets, forming Dumbledore's Army, and fighting in numerous battles of the Second Wizarding War: including the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (1996), Battle of the Astronomy Tower (1997), and Battle of the Seven Potters (1997). Ron also became a Gryffindor prefect and a Keeper on the Gryffindor Quidditch team during his fifth year at Hogwarts. He skipped his last year of school in order to accompany Harry and Hermione on a hunt to destroy all of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, during which he lost his brother Fred, a loss which devastated him and his family.

After the war, Ron became an Auror and helped reform and revolutionize the Ministry of Magic. After two years as an Auror, he went to work at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes with his brother George. He and Hermione eventually married and had two children, Rose and Hugo Granger-Weasley. Ron was also named the godfather of James Sirius Potter, his sister Ginny Weasley's and Harry Potter's eldest child.

La Poste du Mali (Republic of Mali) issued this 750 franc stamp of Ronald Weasley in 2014 with a spider on his head, who, by the way, wants him to tap dance.