2。1 Most Obvious Personalities of Young Ron。

2。1。1 Timidity and Braveness 

The first three books: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, describe the characters’ lives before they are Grade Three。 During this time, the most obvious personalities of Ron are timidity and braveness。 His timidity is embodied in the fear of strict teachers and terrifying monsters, especially spiders。 “Quite a few people screamed。 A giant spider, six feet tall and covered in hair, was advancing on Ron, clicking its pincers menacingly。 For a moment, Harry thought Ron had frozen。”(Rowling, 1999: 138)

However, when he needs to help best friend, no matter how scared he is, he will forget fear to take adventures。 In the second book, their best friend, Hagrid was caught as a scapegoat。 In order to find out the real murder, Ron had to go to the dangerous forest with Harry and battle with spiders, the most terrifying insects to Ron。

When he and his friends come across danger, the first thought of him is giving up his life in order to protect his best friends。 “‘If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us too!’ he said fiercely, though the effort of standing upright was draining him of still more color。”(Rowling, 1999: 339) Although Ron knows the person he faced to is a merciless murder, the first thing he wants to do is dying for friends。 

2。1。2 Reasons for Personalities

In this period, he is not really brave。 His courage is always linked to the self-sacrifice and loyalty of friendship because he is still too weak to protect his friends。 Different from Harry, Ron has friendly family members and a peaceful living environment, so he is naughty and naive, like all immature children who do not understand the hardships of life。 On the other hand, curiosity to the unknown things, strong sense of justice and loyalty to friendship makes him much more valiant than other immature children。 

2。2 Most Obvious Personalities of Teenage Ron

2。2。1 Inferiority, Jealousness and Impulsiveness

From the fourth to seventh books: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron grows into a teenager。 He lacks confidence, since his best friends was so excellent, as a savior of magic world。 The first cold war between Ron and Harry is as follows:

“Yeah?” said Ron, and there was no trace of a grin, forced or another wise, on his face now。 “You want to get to bed, Harry。 I expect you’ll need to be up early tomorrow for a photo-call or something。” He wrenched the hanging shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, staring at the dark red velvet curtains, now hiding one of the few people he had been sure would believe him。 (Rowling, 2000: 287)论文网

Accompanying a hero, Ron is inferior and jealous of Harry’s fame for many times, which is the reason that he quarrels with Harry, although he knows Harry’s innocence。

The second quarrel happens on the way for destroying the third Horcruxes3。 Since Ron has never suffered these difficulties such as homelessness, hunger and enemy’s chase, he begins to be impatient on the way。 It is Ron’s impulsiveness that leads to their huge argument:

An invisible shield expanded between her and Harry on the one side and Ron on the other; all of them were forced backward a few steps by the strength of the spell, and Harry and Ron glared from either side of the transparent barrier as though they were seeing each other clearly for the first time。 Harry felt a corrosive hatred toward Ron: Something had broken between them。 (Rowling, 2007: 309)