Explaining what went weird with Ron Weasley

Big old analysis of how Ron Weasley from Harry Potter got the short end of the stick.

3:11 Why did this happen to Ron?
7:01 Hermione Granger
17:20 Harry Potter
25:00 The Final Example & Conclusions

 Pottermore illustrations like the ones in this video are typically drawn by AtomHawk, Jim Kay or Charlie Bowater although the website doesn't credit who exactly did what. I'm like 95% sure all the pictures I used are Charlie Bowater.

[QuinnCurio]

Update & Corrections:
🍏 I pronounced library wrong.
🍏 It's splinched not squinched. 
🍏 I was wrong about the Babbity Rabbity line it's in the books. I might think it's silly, but he says almost the same thing for similar reasons.
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[defiantaichi]

It killed me so much that Ron's reaction was so mellow in the malfoy manor. Book Ron lost his shit and was constantly banging the walls my dude.

[BlankRami]

Movie : laughing at Ron
Book : laughing with Ron

[KeyWestGlenn]

Harry: yes.
Snape correcting him: yes, sir.
Harry: no need to call me sir, professor.
He’s the boy who sassed

[BlueJay]

I hate how people take Hermione's side in the Scabbers seemingly being eaten by Crookshanks argument because like, hello??? This is Ron's pet who has been in his family for AGES. He's known Scabbers for forever and suddenly his friend's cat supposedly eats his PET and she just tells him to get over it? I feel like people overlook this because we learn that Scabbers was in fact a bad guy but like, Ron didn't know that!! Yeah I'm totally on Ron's side, especially because all he wants is an apology.

[juliab]

“Shoelace” will forever piss me off. Harry and Ginny were a pretty good couple in the book, but in the movies the two have less chemistry than Cedric and Fawks.

[jennilocke]

Ron always struck me as being more street smart. Like he has knowledge of things that you can only learn from having five older brothers.

[taekinuru]

I wanna throw out here that Rupert Grint did a decent job with what he had.

[sydneyhighfield]

10:47 There’s nothing more out of character for Ron than AGREEING WITH SNAPE just to tell Hermione that she’s a knowitall and kick her while she’s down. If there’s two things that Ron doesn’t like, it’s Snape and unfairness.

Also, what kid in their RIGHT MIND agrees with a professor IN FRONT OF EVERYONE when their friend is getting yelled at by a teacher no one likes?! Normally that would borderline social suicide.

[Pantomime]

If Rupert Grint had been given the chance to play "Book Ron", he would've been, by far, my favorite character.

[Oggystein]

The biggest thing I think is the problem with Hermoine stealing Ron's line of "If you want to kill Harry you have to get through us, " is that Ron did this while standing up with a broken leg. That's is massively huge in the realm of his loyalty to his best friend, and it was stripped away because Hermoine was given all the bad ass scenes and Ron was left as a pathetic sidekick.

[ice]

I felt so awkward witnessing Harry’s and Ginny’s moments together.
I cringe every time, it’s like something I shouldn’t be watching.
There was no real development

[gingybun]

One that irritated me the most was actually the fight with the troll in book one. Book Hermione was so scared and out of it but Ron remembered the levitating spell and made the judgement himself, beating the troll. But movie Hermione was so confident and cool headed despite almost dying and had to remind/urge Ron on the levitation spell. I really hate that.

[rinoz]

WHEN YOU GET RID
OF CHARACTER FLAWS
YOU GET RID
OF CHARACTER.

[minuteclover]

Unrelated, but they murdered nevil. He had redeeming qualities in the books by being good at herbology, but in the movies he just gets made fun of until the deathly hallows where he immediately switches to christ reincarnated

[renmakesthings]

Here’s a change no one ever talks about: Ron was the one who noticed Harry’s hand in the Order of the Phoenix, not hermione. Ron was always way more observant about Harry’s mood than hermione was. Like after the World Cup when he suggested they play Quiditch to take their minds off of everything and Hermione insisted they go to bed. He’s just better at paying attention to his friends well beings.

[BryanBagehi]

It wasn't just Ron that they turned into comic relief, but the entire Weasley family. They're all clearly highly intelligent people. The parents seem less poor and more the type of people who spend money on experiences, rather than things. When they win the lottery in book three, they take a month long trip to Egypt, rather than buy a new house, etc. They also take the family to the quidditch world cup final, which can't be cheap. The twins obviously excel at potions and sports, rather than simply the baffoons they are made to be in the movies. And Ginny just gets turned into a background character who constantly pines after Harry, while Harry ignores her. It is rather uncomfortable what the movies did to that whole family.

[shukuala]

Honestly though, Rupert Grint is genuinely a good actor.
The script screwed him over

[finnyoungman]

Basically, Ron was made mean and stupid to make Harry look nice and Hermione look smart

[dahyun]

Tbh they took all of Ginny’s personality traits and gave them to Harry or hermione as well.