Ginny Weasley

Ginevra Molly Weasley (Ginny) is the youngest child of the Weasley family and the only daughter.

Ginny is the youngest child and only daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley (CS3), and the first girl born to the family in several generations (JKR). Though consistently underestimated by her family, she is a powerful witch (OP6) and also quite popular (HBP24). She has bright brown eyes (CS3) and vivid, flaming red hair, worn as a long mane (OP4, very apt for a lion-hearted Gryffindor). When her jaw is set, her facial resemblance to the twin brothers Fred and George is striking (OP33).

Though she had been anxious to go (PS6), Ginny’s first year at Hogwarts School was a stressful one, as she was regularly possessed by Tom Riddle and forced to open the Chamber of Secrets (CS18). At the end of the year she was taken into the Chamber, with the intent that she would be sacrificed to make Riddle’s memory fully human, until Harry Potter destroyed the diary – a Horcrux – with a fang from Salazar Slytherin’s basilisk, and she was revived (CS17).

From her first meeting with him, Ginny was quite taken with Harry (CS2), and according to her it was a romantic interest she never lost (HBP30). Relationships with Michael Corner (OP16) and Dean Thomas (HBP6) didn’t work out, and when she finally caught Harry’s eye, it was for good – they began dating (HBP25) and, though separated for a year while Harry hunted down Lord Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes (HBP30, DH7), they were eventually married (DH/e, BLC, CC1.1).

Ginny is all at once savvy, snarky, and very self-confident. She once told Harry that she believes almost anything possible, “if you’ve got enough nerve” (OP29), and follows through on that belief. Despite being perpetually “too young” and overprotected by her mother, Ginny also flatly refused to be left behind, either when Harry took off for the Department of Mysteries (OP33) or when Voldemort announced his intention to attack Hogwarts (DH31). She named ‘Dumbledore’s Army‘. She is a wicked mimic, skewering everyone from Dolores Umbridge to Fleur Delacour to her brother Ron.

Ginny’s sixth year at Hogwarts must have been a nightmare. Muggle-born students were excluded, Severus Snape was headmaster and avowed Death Eaters given professorships. Ginny worked with Neville Longbottom to revive Dumbledore’s Army and organize the student resistance (DH16). During her sixth year at Hogwarts, Ginny, Luna Lovegood and Neville tried to steal the Sword of Gryffindor from Headmaster Snape’s office; for punishment they were told to help Hagrid with something in the Forbidden Forest (DH15). During her Easter holidays, Death Eaters discovered that Ron was not sick in bed with spattergroit and the whole family moved to Aunt Muriel’s house where it was safer (DH24, DH29). Ginny didn’t return to school until it was attacked by Voldemort in May.

As Ginny was underage, she was supposed to stay in the Room of Requirement during the Battle of Hogwarts. When Harry needed the room to look for the Ravenclaw tiara, however, Ginny joined the fray. Later, when she was attacked by Bellatrix Lestrange, Ginny’s mother counterattacked and killed her psychopathic cousin (DH36).

After leaving Hogwarts, Ginny went on to play Quidditch professionally for the Holyhead Harpies, later retiring and settling down as a Quidditch senior editor for the Daily Prophet, which better allowed her to care for a family (BLC). Ginny married Harry Potter, and she and Harry have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna, who made both their parents and their grandparents proud (DH/e, YL, CC1.1). Ginny is the editor of the Sports Pages of the Daily Prophet by the time their son Albus is in his fourth year at Hogwarts (CC1.12).