- Ron: "She's got to be joking. . . . She can't honestly think I'd wear ..."
- Harry: "Nice. Classy. You should definitely wear it in front of Fred and George."
- Ron: "If you tell them, I — I — I’ll —"
- Harry: "Stutter at me?"
- — Ron Weasley and Harry Potter upon seeing the necklace[src]
In 1996, Lavender Brown sent her boyfriend Ron Weasley a necklace for a Christmas gift. It was a thick gold chain, with large gold letters spelling “my sweetheart”.
Ron was shocked when he received it, astonished and appalled that Lavender could think he would ever like such an item. He showed it to Harry Potter, who was staying with Ron at the Burrow during the Christmas holidays that year; Harry burst out laughing and jokingly threatened to tell Ron's older brothers Fred and George about it. Ron immediately shoved the necklace under his pillow. When Ron later laughed at the gift Harry received from Kreacher, a parcel full of maggots, Harry declared that he preferred it to the necklace Ron had received, which made him quiet at once.[1]