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Arthur and Molly Weasley with their children in Egypt.

"My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."
Draco Malfoy on the Weasley family[src]

Weasley is the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family, though the most recent generation has many non-pureblood members[1]. The Weasleys are related to many other wizarding families, including the Blacks, Prewetts, Longbottoms, Crouchs[2], Delacours, and Potters, as well as the Muggle Granger family. Many members of the Weasley family are red-haired and sorted into Gryffindor house upon attendance of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The family home, known as the Burrow, is located just outside Ottery St. Catchpole, in Devon, England. Thus, the Weasleys live near other magical families such as the Diggory, Fawcett, and Lovegood families.[3]

Recent Family History

"The Death Eaters know Ron's with you now, they're bound to target the family -- don't apologize. It was always a matter of time, Dad's been saying so for months. We're the biggest blood traitor family there is."
Bill Weasley to Harry Potter in 1998[src]
Theburrow

The Burrow.

The Weasleys, unlike many other pure-blood families, willingly associate with Muggles, Muggle-borns and half-bloods, and do not consider themselves superior to others because of their blood status. Thus, elitist pure-blood families such as the Malfoys and the Blacks consider them "blood traitors" and treat them with disdain; Cedrella Black was even disowned by her family for marrying Septimus Weasley[2]. The Weasleys' views led to their support of the Order of the Phoenix during the First and Second Wizarding Wars. During the height of the latter conflict, the Weasleys were placed under surveillance by the Voldemort-controlled Ministry of Magic because they were "blood traitors", and eventually had to go into hiding.[4]

The Weasleys tended to have large numbers of children; an unusual trait for wizarding families, according to Draco Malfoy[3]. The most recent generations of Weasleys have been considered poor by wizarding standards[5], though this likely changed with the great commercial success of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes and the successful careers of various family members. By the twenty-first century, many Weasleys and their relatives worked for the Ministry of Magic, including Arthur Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ron Weasley and his brother-in-law Harry Potter as Aurors, and Hermione Weasley née Granger high up in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement[6].

Family Members

Molly and Arthur Weasley's Family

Arthur Weasley, one of three sons of Septimus Weasley and Cedrella Black, presumably met Molly Prewett while they attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1960s. They married soon after finishing school and went on to have seven children, whom they loved but did not spoil. All of those who were of age, except Percy, eventually became members of the reinstated Order of the Phoenix.

Weasley Family in Egypt

The 'Daily Prophet showing the Weasleys in Egypt.

Other Weasleys

Hermione Prophecy

Hermione Weasley née Granger

Weasley Relatives

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Harry Potter

Family Tree

           Septimus  ┬  Cedrella
            Weasley  │   Black
                     │
              ┌──────┴──────┐
              │             │
 Molly  ┬  Arthur      Two brothers
Prewett │
        │
┌───────┴────────┬───────┬──────┬───────┬──────┬──────────────────────────┐
│                │       │      │       │      │                          │
Bill ┬ Fleur   Charlie   │     Fred     │     Ron ┬ Hermione    Harry ┬ Ginny
     │ Delacour          │   (d. 1998)  │         │                   │
     │                   │              │         │                   │
 ┌───┴───────┬───────┐   │              │      ┌──┴──┐         ┌──────┴─┬─────────┐
 │           │       │   │              │      │     │         │        │         │ 
Victoire Dominique Louis │              │     Rose  Hugo    James II   Albus    Lily II
                         │              │                      
                         │              │                      
                         │              │                      
                       Percy ┬ Audrey  George ┬ Angelina       
                             │                │ Johnson
                         ┌───┴───┐        ┌───┴───┐
                         │       │        │       │
                       Molly    Lucy   Fred II  Roxanne


Author's Comments

Weasleys

Ronald, Ginny, George and Fred Weasley.

J.K. Rowling has said that unlike with many other characters, Ron Weasley's name always remained the same. She has remarked that the surname Weasley is derived from the weasel, which is also Arthur Weasley's Patronus. About the family's name and characteristic red hair, she commented:

"In Britain and Ireland the weasel has a bad reputation as an unfortunate, even malevolent, animal. However, since childhood I have had a great fondness for the family mustelidae; not so much malignant as maligned, in my opinion. There are also many superstitions associated with redheaded people and most state that they are in some way unlucky (Judas Escariot was supposedly red-haired), but this is nonsense; I happen to like red hair as well as weasels."[7]

Behind the scenes

Notes and References