Ron Weasley

Early Life (1980-1991)
Ronald Bilius Weasley, more commonly known as Ron, was born on March 1st, 1980, to Arthur and Molly Weasley, at the Burrow.

He has five older brothers-- Bill Weasley (born November 1970), Charlie Weasley (born December 1972), Percy Weasley (born August 1976), Fred Weasley (born April 1979) and George Weasley (born April 1979)-- and one younger sister, Ginny Weasley (born August 1981).

His favorite Quidditch team is the Chudley Cannons, because he very much liked the color orange as a child, and by the time he was old enough to figure out that they lost all the time, his siblings had begun to make fun of him for being a loser and picking a losing team because of that. Ron, as he does with all things, decided to stick with it in the hopes that Chudley would get ahead someday.

As a child, his best friend was Harry Potter.

First Year (1991-1992)
Ron received his letter in June of 1991 and immediately accepted his attendance offer.

He met Hermione Granger, the third member of the Golden Trio, on the train, as she walked into the compartment he shared with Harry and asked after a mutual friend's missing pet. Ron, much to the displeasure of his parents, got up to quite a lot of mischief with his two new friends, including a (failed) midnight duel with Draco Malfoy, the discovery of the Mirror of Erised, and the search for who exactly Nicolas Flamel is.