I hate how the later movies focused soooo much on Harrys/Hermiones friendship and neglected Rons and Harrys friendship terribly. So many scenes that were actually about Harry/Ron in the books were giving to Hermione. For example: Book: Ron and Harry were alone in private when RON found out that Harry has a scar on his hand (from Umbridge) It showed how he cared about Harry. Movie: All three sit together while HERMIONE found out that Harry has a scar on his hand, meanwhile Ron said just one sentence.... why they included Hermione for no reason in the first place? Iit was originally a pure Harry/Ron moment. Book: Ron said to Harry: "We are with you Harry, whatever happens." at the end of Book 6. It showed how motivated he was to help harry with the horcruxes. Movie: Harry and Hermione talk about the horcrux and have a conversation, meanwhile Ron sit somewhere in the background and said NOTHING. Book: Ron protected Harry from Sirius with a broken leg. Movie: Hermione protected Harry from Sirius.... Book: When Ron left in Deahly Halllows, it was (like you said already) a HUGE shock, we read from harrys point of view how terribly he felt when his best friend left. It was the moment when something broke between the trio as a whole, cause Harry and Hermione barely talked with each other for weeks and seemed emotionally helpless without ron. Movie: Harry and Hermione danced with each other and had fun... the whole dynamic and balance of the trio was runied by this happy moment. Cause this moment didn't showed that Ron was the heart of the trio. And they left the ultimative bro-hug between H/R in Deathly hallows, although it was a huge significant moment of their friendship. Book: Harry didn't told Ron and Hermione that he faces Voldemort in the forest, only Neville knew. Movie: Harry told them and Hermione hugged him and seems really sad, meanwhile Ron was just in the background and did and said NOTHING. Book: Harry and Hermione have a brother/sister bond, they have their up an downs with each other, also Harry doesn't always understand hermione and is sometimes annoyed by her. Harry likes her very much, but for Harry Hermione isn't the same as his best friend Ron. Movie: Hermione seems to be harrys veeeery bestiest friend by heart, they have no disagreements and conflicts with each other, all seems very unrealistic and over the top for me... Book: It is about Harry Potter and TWO impotant side kicks by his side. Movie: It is about Harry and Hermione.... and a hanger-on whos name is Ron.

Honestly something that bothered me as the movies progressed is I didn't feel like the trio grew closer and stronger like it did with the books but I never could quite place what was missing. You are completely right about Ron being the gooey sentimental glue that holds them together. When he left in Deathly Hallows it was truely heart breaking and the movie couldn't quite capture the same impact

I completely agree with you. But I think the most offensive change that the movies did to Ron was in the scene were Bellatrix tortures Hermione. When that happens in the books Ron lost it completely: he begs her to take him instead, and when he's taken to the cell he can't stop screaming and kicking.... you can feel his pain and his love for Hermione. But in the movies...He Doesn't do Freeaking anything!!! I can totally get why people that only saw the movies don't understand why Hermione married Ron. By robbing Ron of his charm they not only destroy him as a character, but they also ruined the hole Ron/Hermione dynamic. Being a hardcore Harry Potter fan (as the nerd rage in this comment clearly indicates), and as the years goes by, I find it harder and harder to re watch the movies, just because I can't stand the way they slowly but firmly destroyed Ron. haha!!

I am so angry they even took the 'If you want to kill Harry you'll have to kill us first" line from him and gave it to hermoine... I mean come on. It was one of my favorite Ron moments. It's a moment, a 13 year old stands on his broken leg, telling a mass murderer who just escaped prison that if he wants to kill his best friend he will have to kill him first. It's just amazing.

Ron is such an underrated and important character in the Harry Potter series. In the movies, he's so overlooked and portrayed as an idiot most of the time. He's basically just there for comic relief and it's so annoying because he's such a great character and so much more than that.

I blame Steve Kloves. He's a major Hermione fanboy & turned her into a Mary Sue to the detriment of Ron's character. 😤

I've recently started my re-read of the books and i'm on GOF now. This time around i'm really noticing how Chivalrous Ron is. And not JUST to his friends. There are tons of throw away lines about Ron helping people, even outside his house. A fresh example for me is at the beginning of fourth year while the castle is undergoing a deep cleaning to impress the new visitors. Filch is in a fowl mood and trying to discipline students for breathing loudly and when they come across a group of 1st year Ravenclaws, he stops to warn them not to go down the corridor where Filtch is. HE's always pulling neville out of the trick step, and helping first years avoid peeves, but all of these lines are more like background candy. "The three rounded a corner out of the dungeons, Hermione whispering furiously to Harry while Ron warned a group of 1st year Ravenclaws about Filch." And that's just strangers. That's not even counting the times he helps his friends, like standing on a broken leg to yell at what he'd thought was mass murderer Sirius Black that he'd have to go through him to get to Harry. Ron is always picking up books for people who drop them, especially Hermione, but also anyone else who needs it. HE's just a very considerate person.

in the movies ron was the joke. he was cowerd stupid and heartless. and i think the most annoying thing to me that they did in the movies were in DH2 when harry was going to voldmort and was saying goodbye to them ron just stood there letting his freind go to death while in the book harry wear his cloak so ron and hermione dont see him because he knew they will not let him go alone and would go with him even if it costs their lifes

So if Ron's the heart of the trio, does that mean Hermione's the brain and Harry's the soul? :) I totally agree with you on every point btw. Ron's a shallow joke machine in the movies, Hermione's a flawless witch with perfect hair - and they both lose every ounce of charm they had in the books. Hermione panicking and losing her cool and Ron defusing the situation with common sense was vital in the books. Half their dynamic is missing in the movies! Also, Ron and Harry are so close that, even with the rift between them in the Goblet of Fire, Ron's still the person Harry would miss most in the second task... Not Hermione. She is Harry's other best friend for sure, but in GOF Harry even notes that their friendship isn't as easy as it is with Ron. You'd never guess that in the films -_-

The movies even went out of their way to make Hermione more attractive.. I know Emma Watson was attractive all on her own and that couldn't be helped, but her hair went from bushy to curly to just plain straight by the final movie. Hermione was always too busy studying till 3 AM and worrying over classwork and helping Harry to focus on taking care of her hair, and the movies completely ignored this fact.

ron is my favorite character in the books

"Its all Hermione" - Thats a good summary of the movies in general. I do like the movies. I think they work wel las an adaptation but the characters is the weakest spot of the movies. Hermione did not just take away traits of Rons character but also of Harr'ys character. If i would only know the movies i would think: "Well Hermione knows and does everything. Harry's got his Scar and fame which is useful and Ron is also around." And this is not an accurate thing to think if you compare those characters to their bookversions...

I think the Devil's Snare scene is forgivable, since they cut Snape's Challenge, and they wanted Hermione to still have the solo victory she had in the book. Ron had the chess match, Hermione had the riddle, and Harry had the final chamber. the Devil's Snare and the Winged Keys in the book were team efforts. So Harry actually got two solo victories in the movie rather than like in the book. Movie Hermione is the fan fiction version of her. Beautiful, curves in all the right places, curly hair not bushy, trendy non-uniform clothes, all-knowing, and unable to pick an emotion in one scene. Even Ron's _temper_ is given to her. The problem is that Steve Kloves has gone on record saying Hermione is his favourite character. Because of this, Hermione gets played out a lot, and he clearly doesn't like Ron and Ginny, since he goes out of his way to downplay them and play out the relationship between Harry and Hermione. Ginny and Ron both suffer a lot in the movies from the writer's clear disdain for them. Presumably, he hates them for the same reason Harmony shippers hate them- they get in the way of Harry and Hermione's (non-existent) romance. I mean Romione and Hinny come out of _nowhere_ in the movies because of the writing and the lack of chemistry.

Ron has never been my favorite character out of the Golden Trio, but the differences between him in the books and him in the movies are just ridiculous. And while I love Hermione, part of her charm for me was that she was this awkward, ridiculously smart girl who always had her nose in a book, and I identified with that. She didn't necessarily understand social interaction, but she worked on it. She didn't know how to do her hair or her makeup, but she taught herself, or learned from the other girls in her year. Giving her Ron's best traits and moments makes her into an Everyman character that we're all supposed to identify with, but it also diminishes her actual importance in the trio, and makes Ron's presence fairly superfluous in some places. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the three main characters are codified in certain episodes by the parts of Buffy's psyche they're meant to represent. Buffy herself is the soul, Xander is the heart, and Willow is the mind. In the books, Harry is the soul, Ron is the heart, and Hermione is the mind. Giving Hermione the heart coding as well as the mind in the movies pulls apart the idea of the magical three who unite to save the day--something JKR was clearly going for right from the start. Basically, Ron is important and he shouldn't have had his usefulness and purpose transferred to someone else because it breaks the narrative structure and character arcs set up very early in the source material.

Ahhh I agree so much with everything you said! They massacred Ron's character in the films and I'll never be over it. It really annoys me how they completely diminished his character because one of the directors (can't remember which one) was an admitted Harmony shipper (gross) and so gave all the screentime to them and treated Ron like an incompetent inconvenience, when Ron is SO IMPORTANT. They really simplified the trio to make them the Hero, the Girl and the Spare which is so aggravating. The films made mistakes of a lot of things, Ron probably being the biggest one.

I've never felt so appreciative of Ron. I've always loved him and how realistic he is, but I've never fully appreciated his qualities until now

I was never a fan of Hermione, because of the fact that she got Ron's lines from the book. I always loved Ron as the book character and I hated how they made him like I believe you said, the butt of all the jokes, but in truth he was a real leg that both Harry and Hermione stood on.

Yes yes yes! Thank you! Ron was flawed, and could be mean, but so could Hermione and Harry. And it was his good side that often helped the reader understand WHY he behaved badly sometimes. For example, its easier to understand his picking on Hermione sometimes when you understand she picks on him right back, and its easier to understand his resentment towards harry in book 4 and 7 when you understand more about his home life and how he isn't catching a break despite all the good things he does. Honestly I was more frustrated with Hermione's characterization then Ron's though. It's because Hermione was portrayed as being able to do no wrong that Ron ended up looking so bad by comparison. I remember just foaming at the mouth during the last movie when she starts telling Dumbledore's brother about his sister Ariana, just yelling at the screen, "How would you even know that Hermione? That was a private family matter, not written in any wizarding books! Being book smart doesn't mean you know everything!"

Book!Ron is one of my all time favourite characters. I agree with everything you said, so much of his humour was much more clever in the books as well. I can only hope in a few years we might get a tv series that doesnt change anything about the story/characters. Ginny, the powerful, independent book-version, would be awesome. Also more of Neville's family story and Remus. Just.. so much more of everything but the right way.

I totally agree, they Made Hermine a Mary Sue in the movies at the expense of Book Ron and I am so SO glad you mentioned that character's deficiencies and weaknesses makes for interesting arcs and developments.

I agree completely! He is one of the most loyal characters in literature, and I feel like a lot of that was taken away in the movies. He also comes across as kind of dumb and an idiot, but he never felt any dumber than Harry in the books--actually, especially in the early books, Harry comes across as the "dumb one" a lot because he knows nothing about the wizarding world. And that's all there to make the reader feel a connection to Harry, and identify with him, because he is, in a sense, just like us--new and ignorant to the Wizarding world. Ron, and his family, provide so much for both Harry and Hermione. Even though Hermione has great parents, they sort of get left behind for her, because they almost exist in another reality. She needs the Weasleys just as much as Harry. By the later books, she's around The Burrow just as much as Harry, sometimes even more. There is just no way that Voldemort could have been defeated if Harry, Ron, or Hermione were any less than they were in the books.

People always talk about how mean and how much of a jerk Ron is, but they never mention that Harry and Hermione could also be mean in the books.

I am also so damn mad that they never mentioned in the movies how jealous Ron was because he felt like his mum and family loved Harry more. Ron's always been this 6th son that was supposed to finally be a girl. He's never been intelligent like Percy, brave like Bill or bold like charlie. He wasn't as popular as Fred&George. And then there's his best friend, being THE Harry Potter. And of cause he's afraid his family's gonna like him more. But he still doesn't hesistate to share his damn family with harry.

And I hated it when they destroyed the Malfoy house scene. God that was such a disappointment. In the books Ron would have literally tore the tower down brick by brick with his own hands. The screams of Hermoini could not let him breath. He was so impaitient, he was shouting, banging the gates, shouting and screaming from downstairs. When finally the gates opened and Wormtail died, Ron was the first to jump out of dungeon. He pounced at the Malfoys, like literally. He was the one who snatched away the wands first and shot at those damn wizards. What they showed in movie was BLASPHEMY. Love Ron ❤Always....

ugh Steve Kloves assassinated Ron!

This just sums up all my feelings. I feel like the writers/directors had an agenda and that didn't include Ron. What's more annoying is that I think Rupert Grint would've been awesome at portraying the Ron from the books.

I agree with you. I feel they did a very poor portrayal of Ron in the movies. I also think Hermione was just too strong in the movies; she not only got a lot of Ron's lines, knowledge and ideas, but she also took some of Harry's. Both Ron and Harry come off as less intelligent and quick thinking in the movies. One example is when they are trying to get out of Gringotts, in the books, Harry is the one who gets the idea to escape on the dragon and in the movies they have Hermione come up with the idea. I know I've noticed other things when I watch the movies, but I haven't seen them in a while, so that's all I can think of at the moment. I wish they'd left more lines and ideas with who they belonged to in the books when they did the movies. Though I agree that Ron was the most maligned in his movie portrayal (at least of the trio, they also did a bad job with Ginny).

This is now, officially, my favourite video ever! Ron has always been my favourite character and despite how much I did like the movies and thought the casting was perfect, I dislike them every time I think about how much they crapped on Ron's character and put Hermione on a ridiculous pedestal. They took away all of Ron's great characteristics and moments and either gave them to Hermione or just left them out completely. They did the opposite with Hermione where all of her flaws and bad moments were ignored and completely left out. I honestly think the reason why Ron is the least popular is because people have movie Ron in their heads and forget or don't know how great he is in the books. Hermione's changes in the movies annoyed me greatly because they basically turned her into a Mary Sue which I think is insulting to a character who is so rich and three dimensional.

I guess that’s what happens when you turn what is essentially a series of mystery books into a series of teen drama/thrillers. That, and having a director and screenwriter later on who apparently couldn’t set aside their favorite ‘ship long enough to at least be as close to the books as possible in the context of a film.

All that was true. The only similarity between book Ron and movie Ron is that they're both adorable!

I can now see why Book Hermione might've actually been attracted to Book Ron rather than how it was portrayed (& felt by the actors) in the film.

Dang, as I get older I love Ron more and more. He’s the most realistic of the trio. Not everyone can be the Chosen One, and even though I was very much the Smart Girl, I related to Ron too. He was basically the ideal best friend for anyone: protective, has common sense, good sense of humor, and loyal. It’s also important for kids to know that it doesn’t matter if they’re ‘chosen’ or the most brilliant kid, or the most talented, or most creative. #RonWeasleyDefenseSquad2K19

Ron was definitely the glue that held the trio together. He balanced out Hermione, who could be rather severe when it came to studying, rules, etc.; and he balanced out Harry, who dealt with some pretty heavy stuff throughout the series but had Ron there to keep his spirits up. Ron provided levity, fun and warmth which are all things very much needed when things get dark. He was fiercely loyal, both to Harry and Hermione, and despite the coward they often portrayed him as in the films, he was quick to jump to the defense of both of his friends. Ron, not Hermione, was Harry's #1 best friend...Hermione was #2 despite what the films would have you think. They ruined Ron in the films and did a lot of damage to Hermione as a character too (she's basically flawless in the films which IS NOT the case in the books). That is why I will always prefer the books over the films.

I love this video. I hate how Ron gets so much hate and he doesn't deserve it. He's a great friend. and such an important part of the trio and I think the movies take that away I also think Hermione is such a better character with her flaws.

Completely agree and I feel that this also affected the actor's future roles. So many people found Ron annoying and saw Rupert Grint as that annoying side kick character with no desirability. Huge mistake on the part of the directors.

You put all of my thoughts into a wonderful video, now if only you could do one for Ginny. Another thing that I think speaks highly to the friendship between Ron and Harry is that Ron is the person that Harry has to save during the Triwizard Tournament. This really showcases how much of a friend he is to Harry and how loyal and faithful he is. Harry truly cherishes Hermione's friendship, but Ron is his number one person and I feel like that is lost in the movies. When his lines and actions are given to Hermione it lessens Harry and Ron's friendship, which is such a great part of the books.

Please do this with Ginny!!!

the difference in a nutshell: book ron is a character we all love. he's essential to the trio's dynamic, he provides emotional support and his knowledge about the wizarding world is very useful. movie ron is completely disposable comic relief. that's it. that's the thing.

In all honesty, the changes in the first two didn’t bother me as much. For the sake of flow and plot they are excusable. The first film with the devil’s snare though was given to Hermione seeing as her own moment with the potion was cut, Ron retained his usefulness with identifying the type of key needed to open the door as well as the chess board and also telling Harry to go on alone setting the stage for most of his future encounters with destiny. Now what happened starting from Prisoner of Azkaban is anyone’s guess. People responded to Emma Watson. It’s the same thing happening now with Rey in Star Wars. Though Prisoner is one of my favourites cinematically, followed by Order of the Phoenix, it’s certainly the start of a downfall in true adaptation quality. Then it passed to David Yates and it just became about empire building and money.

I always feel like Ron was often overlooked and left aside. I think that's so unfair. He, along with the rest of his family, provides the first real "family experience" Harry's ever got to have. He was like a brother to Harry, he was always loyal, willing to listen and protect those who he loved. He's *so* underrated.

Ron is actually my favorite character out of the series, mostly because he feels natural. Despite being involved in "unusual" events throughout, Ron seem to have a more normal life than most other people at Hogwarts

Everyone kept bitching on how Hermione's dress is a different color in the movies but when they fucked up ron and Harry's character and made Hermione this perfect goddess in the films, no one batted an eye

They turned Hermonie into a Rey essentially. Absent of flaws, nigh completely dependable almost to a fault, ironically. She made Ron nearly obsolete. Whichs sucks because I love Ron and I feel he gets the worst portrayal in the movies as you said, the butt of all jokes and a coward mostly

I have a crush on both book-Ron and movie - Ron but mostly on book - Ron. I like him more than Harry :)

I'm really glad you did a whole video about Ron; it made a whole lot of sense and kind of made me realise how I myself had underestimated these qualities in him to a certain extent. But I feel that this is one part of a much broader problem that the films had in relation to the original story. In my opinion, the films didn't do the book any justice -- they focused much more on the big action sequences and other things that are superficially impressive and treated all the in-between scenes that had to do with how the trio's relationship developed and the nuances of the emotional journey each character goes through like an inconvenient series of notes that had to be shown in order for the blockbuster scenes to make sense. The most important thing for me about the stories told in the books was the growing pains of the characters who are arguably at the most sensitive and vulnerable age a human can be at, and that's what makes the whole thing so magical. It's not just the wizarding world that is an amazing experience in itself; it's how Harry and his friends feel about the world and situations they find themselves in that made it so personally and intimately engaging to so many readers. It really felt like the movies didn't know how to or care about conveying that, and only tried to portray the stories from the outside in; and without that emotional landscape, it's difficult to care about anything else that happens.

The movies make me want to bunch Steve Kloves on the nose, not gonna lie. Robert Grint was robbed of a chance to portray a wonderful character, he did great with what he had but if the writing had been better, he could have done so much more. Ron is my favourite character in the books. The prevalence of movies' effects on the fandom make it impossible for me to read 95% of all Harry Potter fanfiction.

Ron was a really nice character. As you said movies just made him a comic relief. Although he made jokes in the books as well, he cared for both Harry and Hermione when they were. busy taking care of the world. In the PoA movie, Ron constantly made fun of Hermione for taking too much classes at once but in the books he also asks her frequently if she is able to take all the pressure and advises her to reduce some classes. Ron became quite useless (I've heard movie fans say this) but in the books, he is as essential as Hermione. In the books too, what made him a jealous was being surrounded by people who are praised more than him , so it is very natural to lose confidence .But in the movies they just show Ron being randomly jealous of Harry because Harry looks cool and he doesn't.

something I don't understand is that why people send Ron a lot of hate and think he is useless! he is supportive and loyal he is the one that's always with Harry in every situation and never leaves him alone. he doesn't deserve hate, he has a perfect character and if he wasn't in the story, the tale would have been incomplete. AND in the movies, they didn't pay much attention to Ron's character and how he really is in the books and I think that is really cruel! thanks for the video I think this is going to help a lot for the ones that don't know how he really is and maybe hates would go away who knows! ♥♥♥

I grew up with the movies and when I was 13 I wanted to know more of the Harry Potter world so I started to read the books. Wow they changed my opinion on characters like Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Snape, even Harry and so much more. It's just atrocious what they did in the movies. I hate Steve Kloves for butchering Ron and Ginny for his favour of Hermione and Harmony. He stated that Hermione was his favourite character and that he shipped Harmony. Look at GOF and you will see how he tried to show a subtle Harmony pairing. Wtf for goodness sake, he should had let Rowling do her job. Moreover I feel like JK let herself be influenced by the movies. Comments like that she thinks that writting Romione was a mistake etc. (I also feel like later book Hermione was quite similar to movie Hermione)

In my opinion movie herminoe comes off as too perfect, she’s just too unrelatable and doesn’t really have all of her book quirks which really made her character.

Ron got the short end of the sick but all three weren't right in the movies. Hermione's too flawless; brave, literally knows everything, perfect hair. In the books she's smart and studious but lacks Harry's in the moment courage/daring, can be socially awkward. Harry ends up a blank protagonist, not memorable just 'the chosen one', in the book's he's brave and moral to a ridiculous degree, he'd give up his life for a stranger. Ron is the glue of the trio in the books, the only one with a wizard upbringing, he's Harry's family, the most sociable. Equally he suffers from being so much in other's shadows. This kind of complexity didn't make it into the films, much to their detriment. The video really pinpointed the issue with 'the balance' being skewed- Ron is a right off but even Harry suffers & ultimately the main problem is Hermione being overpowered. In the books, situations feel they require all three. In the film's Hermione could have handled everything alone.

The movies showed like only 10% of Ron's shining moments in total, 50% of him was being a comic relief, and 40% of him was about being a jeaulous, mean jerk. I hate when People say that Ron wasn't a good friend for Harry and wasn't loyal, just because what happened in GoF or DH. Ron was in DH extremely effected by the horcrux, he wasn't himself. This fact people tend to forget. in GoF he did a mistake by not believing Harry at first, but people also forget that he was only 14 years old and was always neglected because of his older brothers. Ron is an incredible friend, who was willing to sacrifise himself for Harry and not just once, who gave him a second home with the burrow and the feeling of a loving family, who helped him with the horcruxes and followed him through all the adventures, Who protected him from Sirius or who saved his life from the frozen lake. I wish more people could see the many great things he did for Harry.

Some of this is explained by Hermione's legolas effect in the movie. The movies gave her the same treatment the lord of the ring gave legolas... an infallible badass

I have huge issues with how they changed Ron and Hermione's characters. A lot has been said about Ron, but this ties into the changes made to Hermione's character, I feel. Because in the books (especially the earlier ones), Hermione isn't really extremely courageous, at least not in quite the same way as Harry or Ron are. Sure she's strong, but she freezes up and panics a lot in dangerous situations. So why is she in Gryffindor, then? Because she is super brave and willing to take on anything and everything in her way when it comes to fighting for her ideals. In my language (German), we have a word for that - "Zivilcourage", which basically translates to "civil courage" and means you have the courage to stand up for what you believe in, especially when it comes to stepping up to help or defend others against a sort of status quo. The films gave Hermione a lot of "traditionally courageous" scenes that were mostly taken from Ron, and cut out the major storyline where Hermione's bravery really shines - namely the fight for houseelves' rights. I think the films wanted to make her into too much of a "perfect" character - beautiful, intelligent, fearless; when she's only one of those in the books. They erased (almost) all of her flaws for the films, or the parts that make her a bit "edgy" and therefore a much more rounded character. They could easily have shown how courageous she is in terms of her ideals, and instead chose to make her traditionally fearless at the expense of Ron. So I'm not at all happy about how they handled that.

Ron's the key to all this. He's a funnier character than we've ever had.

I was so sad about Ron's portrayal in Cursed Child! You raise a lot of valid and important points and I totally agree with all of them. I'm not a big fan of the movies, especially because they gave lines to the wrong characters. I mean, if you're taking a line from a book, why not give it to the correct character? I really like what you say about the balance between the trio. I think this also applies to the 'intelligence' of the three. What I really like about them is that all three are smart and intelligent in different ways. Hermione of course has the 'traditional' intelligence that stems from a broad general knowledge and reading a lot of books. Harry is really good at DADA and reacting in dangerous situations. And Ron knows all of these little things, as you said. And I mean, he BEAT PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL'S CHESS SET when he was 11. Just saying.

Dude guys Ron is so awesome and my second favorite character besides Hermione. He is so funny and protective, he always makes me smile. He is my fictional boyfriend so nobody can take him from me! He always has the cutest hair and smile. All around Ron is an awesome guy.

So... All the good stuffs of Ron were given to Hermione as she got enlightened in the movies more . I read only the third book, The prisoner of the Azkaban , from which I spotted the difference between movie and book. And Ron is the most favorite character of mine. That's why I always get offended watching the movies that Ron is being so less important and underrated Character ......😢

Ah, my beloved Ron. He gets such a bad rap, and it's completely undeserved. I mean, what I wouldn't give to have a friend like him. I blame the movies for that. Honestly, my favourite relationship in the books is his and Harry's friendship. I cried many times when I read the books, but oddly, the place I remember crying the most (I had to put the book down for a while) was in DH when Ron came back ... when he and Harry hugged. God, that just broke me. I like the movies in general and for many reasons. I don't mind when adaptations are different from the source material. But changing Ron's character was their biggest mistake. It doesn't matter what you do in a movie adaptation, as long as the essence isn't lost. And I'm afraid Ron's was.

I was annoyed by the way Ron was done too. Ron, Neville and Draco got shafted in the movies.

3:50 - So Hermione is the head of the team, Harry is the face of the team, and Ron is the heart of the team. Clearly Neville was the biceps. ...They didn't show themselves until way late in the game, though, 'cause Harry's a scrawny git.

Ron actually was a really annoying character for me for a while...until I came to realize that he really was the heart of the gang. Like, Harry was the action, Hermione the brains, but Ron, Ron was always the one who wasn't afraid to kinda let his emotions comes first. I guess I originally found that kinda annoying but now I've come to appreciate that it's what made the character trio work.

I needed to watch this video and read these comments after just seeing the movies... *sigh of relief* the whole world hasn't gone mad after all.

Ron has always been my favorite character in the Harry Potter series, it breaks my heart when people say Ron is the worst character and not a good friend.

The movies and directors want to make her seem very perfect, simple things such as her not knowing what "mudblood" is, not having very much confidence on a broomstick, or freaking out of Devil's snare makes us see how nobody is perfect, not even Hermione, and this is, in my opinion, one of the best HP themes! It always makes me more happy and less insecure, and that is a huge reason Hermione is one of my favorite characters! I love imperfect Hermione! And I agree with you that Hermione being imperfect makes her interesting! In the movies, Hermione knows what a mudblood is and INCREDIBLY rides a broomstick, and she doesn't freak out in the devil snare scene... Which is stupid, ok, it makes her seem incredibly perfect.

I loved that ron was more affended then hermione regarding the mudblood line it is brilliant that ron who knows all about the nitty gritty of the wizarding world would know that word and it is telling of his personality that he was quock to react-- and that hermione had no clue what was going on was both hilariously badass in an unintentional sort of way and it was also telling as it layed out both the fact that books with the word mudblood are restricted and that hermione who only knows of the wizarding world through the the words on a page it is brilliant piece of layered writing that combines exposition, character moments character development and conflict development-- its world building and fantasy writing at its subtle finest i think

Honestly I completely agree with all of your points in this. All of the trio were chopped up in the movies and then shuffled about until Ron got all the bad traits, Harry got very few (Angst, being the main one, which isn't really a trait so much as a state), and Hermione got all the good ones :| It's just really quite sad.

Everything you said was so true! I've been rereading the books recently and there are SO many scenes with Ron that I read and I can tell HOW his character would've been changed or when things would've/were given to Hermione.

Remeber in the early 2000s when ron was the favorite character

I love both the book versions and the movie versions of the characters for different reasons. I still treat them as separate intellectual properties because they are! The book versions are obviously the best because we want our characters flawed, warts and all.

Book Ron has the most scars out of the trio

Another fantastic video, loving the HP chats. I do really love the movies but yeah, poor Ron did get the short straw a bit. Another thing that I wish they had included a bit more in his movie-incarnation is that this kid was from a poor family, he had to go without things or have second (or third) hand ones. His socioeconomic background was such a big part of what shaped him as a character in the book but the movies gloss over it a bit, leaving out things like the goblin gold in GOF, a real shame because it made his moments of jealousy towards Harry that bit more understandable, and Ron all the more wonderful because though he was sometimes embarrassed, frustrated or resentful about it he never stopped being generous, like you said, opening his home and his family life to his friends who had a lot more than him materially. Ron is just fab really.

Such a good video, you definitely boiled down the most prominent differences! I've always focused more on book/movie Hermione being different, but you're right you can't have one without the other. In general I just love how flawed and different to one another the characters are in the books, which is always refreshing when compared to the movies. It makes me sad when people say they don't like Ron but love Hermione purely based on the movies...it's like you're missing out by not seeing their true potential/identities!

She’s a Mary Sue in the movie.

Some great points there on Ron who is also the character I empathise most with in the series. But more than three movies, I believe J.K. Rowling herself is to blame for what Ron became. Ron was all that you said till book 4. Post that though, I got a sense that Rowling herself didn't know how to build Ron as a character and just stuck to the easier comic relief mode. There was hardly anything notable that Ron could do in the last three books. He had to be shown as being inferior to the other two. He definitely should not get an Outstanding in the OWLs, Dumbledore made him a prefect only because he didn't want to put more pressure on Harry, he had to have terrible times as a quidditch keeper unlike Ginny who was a Winner from there time she sat on the broom..... So on and so forth. JKR made him a caricature and there movies just picked on it.

I only now fully notice that the reason why I never particularly liked Ron is that I probably got his book and his movie version all mixed up! Because when you talked about how Ron actually is as a character I thought 'hm, that actually sound a lot like me'. So I guess the movies are just too much of a present thing in my head to really love Ron. As sad as that is. Also I would love you to do a HP chat about Lupin (anything about him really cause he is my favourite character) or about Charlie, the left out Weasley brother!

I hate HP movies. I just hate them. I HATE how they portrayed Harry, Dumbledore and Snape in the films (especially Harry) For example: when Harry and Dumbledore returned from the cave, in the books Harry is purposefully jinxed by Dumbledore so he can't intervine but movie Harry DID NOT DO ANYTHING. HOW ON EARTH HARRY POTTER WOULD NOT JUMP INTO ACTION WHEN ONE OF HIS DEAR ONES IS IN DANGER?!?! IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! And also WHY DO THEY HAVE TO INTRODUCE THIS WEIRD SEXUAL TENSION BETWEEN HIM AND HERMIONE IN THAT DANCE SINCE AFTER RON'S DEPARTURE ?!? JUST NO! Those are not my characters Sorry if this is not gramatically correct but since English is not my mother tongue it's kind of difficult for me to try to make sense when something infuriates me so so so much.

I love this! Ron Weasley is my favorite character and I agree so much with this! I will forever be angry about movie Ron..

I love this video from the beginning to the end. You have adressed ALL the problems I have with movie Ron. In the books, Ron is one of my favourite characters (next to Neville and McGonagall), but my mom, who only saw the movies, started to get annoyed with Ron so much, already in Chamber of Secrets (where his being afraid of the spiders is, as well, shown to be just comic relief instead of adding to the suspense and the utter horror we are supposed to feel). When I told her how book Ron actually was, she almost didn't believe me. Oh, I really don't want to diss Rupert Grint here, because he is an amazing actor (and I would also by an ice cream van with all that money). There's only so much an actor can do with such crappy writing. On a different note, I feel like the same happened in those terrible Percy Jackson movies with Grover. In the books, he is kind of shy and nervous and loves nature, but is still brave and introduces Percy to the greek mythology. In the movie, he's a walking black stereotype (not that I have any problem with him being portraied black, since it's never made clear in the books) as well as permanently horny.

Harry was short sighted and often let his anger, not only cloud his judgment, but blind him. But at the end of the day, Ron was more of his best friend than Hermione.

I think your right that he is a little different in the movies and maybe he should have more scenes where he shows his protective side. But I have to say of all the main characters. He was the one who was best portrayed. We can talk about looks and stuff, but as you said, they didn't know how they would grow up. I really love movie Ron! And Rupert Grints portrayl. Love your videos and would also love a video about a difference between Hermionie and Harry. Aspecially the look of her, because its actually important that she wasn't that beautiful and was a little more "normal".

I cannot express my hatred for the movies. Ron is my favorite character and I hate how the movies just stripped him of all of his good qualities while they stripped Hermione of all of her bad qualities. As a Harry Potter fan and someone who’s read the books plenty of times, every time I hate the movies even more after I re-read the books.

I'm so grateful to see that other Harry Potter fans think they've butchered Ron's character in the movies... honestly, I think they shouldn't have made those movies at all. none of is especially good nor brought to life the joy I felt while reading the books, didn't do justice to the humor and heart we see in the books. I'm on a "I hate what they did to Ron in the movies" video streak at the moment because book ron is such a complex, important character reduced to a stupid sidekick in the movies.

I was so annoyed that they didn't use the complete scene where Malfoy calls Hermione a Mudblood. I wanted Fred and George trying to pound him, Alicia screaming 'How dare you!' And I really wanted Ron to explain what a Mudblood was, would've given him a more caring portrayal in the movies.

I would love a hp tv series in the vain of game of thrones or something

Now that the movies have been for years and I've had the chance to sit back and really critique them. I've come to the conclusion that the movies are terrible. Maybe they should have waited until all the books were published. Doing each book as a season with 24 episodes would have been better than trying to cram and leaving so much out in a movie. The movies are terrible I just wish they had never made them.

Maybe these differences between movie and book Ron are a major reason why people who have only seen the movies don't like hermione and ron together. Book Ron is amazing and they reduced him to nothing more than the goofy comic relief character in the movoes

Growing up Ron was always my favourite character, I cannot watch the movies anymore due to the way they portrayed Ron. Hermione is perfect and Ron is always at fault always the butt of the joke always the stupid one. I saw him as brave kind hearted funny, in reality he put up with Harry and Hermione faults and behaviours he was the glue. Almost the sam to the frodo .

You are my absolute favorite new youtuber. Your HP chats are my favorites and you say all the things I have been thinking for years.

ron is actually my baby

new subscriber here. I totally agree with you. Reading the books, I loved Ron. I could relate to his insecurities as well as his love and protectiveness for his friends and family. However I don't really like movie Ron at all. I am a big fan of fanfiction and read it all the time. I think most writers write movie Ron though. They forget how loving and gentle Ron could be. Yeah he had issues with jealousy but it was understandable in the book. in the movie he was just a jerk.

i'm so glad somebody finally started talking about this!

Wow I love this video!!! You really summed it all up so well, it couldn't have been put into better words.

Well, I have too admit that you have given me a diffrent perspective of Ron.

E x a c t l y Thank you for saying it! I could rant about this for hours.

I'm so excited to watch your older videos now that I've discovered you since the cursed child discussion =) Appreciate your videos and differenciated views.

this has nothing to do with the video but the audio was pretty low for me and i have it on full blast ??

Yes you're so right! Book Ron is totally different - I do find him hilarious but he's a much less good character. And I also don't like that they gave Hermione a lot of Ron's best moments because it made her so much more one dimensional eg at the Devil's Snare!! You're so right in this video - and I love what you said about Ron being the heart of the trio.

This. All of this. Currently rereading the books made me remember how much they fucked up Ron's character. Especially that scene with Snape wtf.

Thank you so much for doing this video, you said exactly what I always thought about book Ron vs movie Ron and Hermione book vs Hermione movie.