Potterheads Gush Over Harry and Ron’s Bromance and Its Effect on Their Characters’ Development in a Heartwarming Discussion

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 27, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Sometimes the friendships in a series have a lot more significance than the romantic relationships, and Harry and Ron's bromance is the perfect example of that.

The friendship between these two is so underrated and honestly does not get enough attention. The two boys have been there for each other more than any other character in the story – since the very first book, they were willing to risk their lives to save the other, they both faced their worst fears just the help the other, and they never gave up on each other, even when they faced the hardest challenges. And that is just the tip of the iceberg, as their story has so many debts that simply blow my mind every time I discover a new one. Much like what happened when I stumbled upon this Reddit threat, in which Harry Potter fans discuss the beautiful bromance of Harry and Ron, and its manifestation in different plots and elements in the series.

Scroll down to read the discussion yourselves. After that, click here for a magical collection of Harry Potter memes.

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    I can't not love these two
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    goodboylupin The reason Harry never truly grasps the depth of Ron's insecurity about being least loved until witnessing the destruction of the horcrux is because Ron has been Harry's most loved since the day they met.
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    thebiwholivcd my favorite bit in harry potter is when a gangly freckled ginger child with an old pet rat and patched jeans and dirt on his nose awkwardly sits down across from a scrawny underfed lil kid with baggy clothes and broken glasses and lightning carved onto his face and they both think 'i must protect this boy'
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    mostlyronweasley Reporter: So how does it feel to be the sidekick alongside our hero of the wizarding world? Ron: (is used to being called the sidekick so many times he just doesn't care anymore) Oh, it's very- Harry: (cuts in) It's very honourable; you have no idea how lucky I am to be able to fight alongside Ron Weasley himself, he is an amazing hero, my idol, I strive to follow in his footsteps. Reporter: ... Ron: (resisting happy tears)
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    lullabyknell Harry: I know it's late and I am just going to spew a whole bunch of right now, but stay with me on this, because I think I might be on to something. Ron: Alright, mate, go for it. Harry: I think that THIS year I should be more proactive. Hermione: Oh, yes, please. Harry: I think I should try to kthe Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher BEFORE they try to k me. Ron: ...It's worth a shot. Harry: I know, right? Hermione: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
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    Avaracious7899 · 6 days ago • One of the things I love the most about Ron and Harry's friendship is what is essentially the basis of it: They make the other feel "right" in each other's feelings. With Harry, Ron, and by extension Ron's family, give Harry not just the love he was denied, they make
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    Harry feel normal, which exactly what he wants feel. After all the terrible treatment at the Dursleys, and Harry not being the type to hunger for being "special" because of it, what Harry always wanted was just to be normal and have a loving and happy life. Just a
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    regular but positive slice of life. Ron gave Harry his first real touches of that when they first met. With Ron, Harry gives him, in a sense, perspective on his own insecurities and assumptions, in particular about being "special", "extraordinary", or "great". Harry being famous, but not liking it and
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    also showing some of the downsides of it (the rumors about him being the Heir, how easily people turn on him even in his first year, etc.) gave Ron a valuable life lesson that "fame isn't all it's cracked up to be". Harry also gives Ron a better perspective on famous people when he explains that he actually had had a pretty
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    S life experience, what with the hand-me-down clothes. In a sense, Ron was that ordinary kid who craved to be extraordinary out of genuine ignorance of what that really would look like, and being Harry's friend gave him that better look behind the curtain and perspective on it that he sorely
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    lacked. His brothers were successful and talented, and things worked out GREAT for them, and that was pretty much the extent of Ron's idea of greatness, that it was something to strive for because it will get you everything good, but Harry's more nuanced experiences with greatness helped Ron learn it wasn't that simple. Like, imagine a
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    Ron who never got that lesson, and tried to be something amazing...but it went bad. How devastated would that Ron be that what he'd put so much of himself into blew up in his face so massively? Tragic.
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    Harry and Ron truly are an exceptional friendship, both because of the general closeness and understanding they give each other that any good friend does, but also that they give each other what they needed the most in life, and without even trying to do any of it.
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    Hermione also gets a lot out of both boys being her friends, with her being shown that her intellectual accomplishments aren't everything, and being smart isn't the only way to fit in. After all, the boys saved her and remain friends with her not because she's smart, but because they care
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    about her and simply want to be friends with her, Hermione, for who she is, not what she does, and that's Warts and All, not just the best of her. No matter what, they love her dearly, even if she can be a massive pain sometimes.
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    JelmerMcGee · 6 days ago When he hugs Molly, after she gives him her brother's hand- me-down watch for his 17th, always gives me so many feelings.
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    Rich-Hope-2480 · 6 days ago Same! Molly apologizes for the secondhand watch but I think it means more to Harry because it belonged to Molly's family member
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    ThrowawayThestral · 6 days ago Gryffindor The first pic made me tear up a little bit, go. It's been 12 years since I first read those books and it still feels the same.
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    nish007 6 days ago It's criminal how little they show the friendship of Harry and Ron in the movies.
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    • MeemoUndercover 6 days ago Slytherin Their friendship is what drew me to the series tbh.
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    Inside-Program-5450 - 5 days ago If I may borrow from my other example of such exemplary brotherhood for a moment: "There's no Potter without Weasley"
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    CarlottaMeloni · 5 days ago Agreed. Also that Harry always saw Ron as lucky, to have a family, love, friends and it probably just didn't occur to him that someone so lucky could also have such deep insecurities. He was able to pick up on Hermione's insecurities
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    a bit better because he didn't perceive her to be a Ron kind of lucky (or just didn't see it) - surrogate parents, tons of siblings, emotional security, confidence to make friends.
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    Impossible-Beach-516 5 days ago Ravenclaw Poor Hermione was the third wheel.
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    purpleKlimt. 5 days ago The funniest thing about the trio dynamic is that both Harry and Hermione love Ron the most, yet he feels like he's not worthy of either. Such a realistic portrayal of teenage insecurities.
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    itslevi-Osa OP. 5 days ago Gryffindor Yep. One of the things that make me love Ron, he's just realistic lol. Also, when you look at what Horcrux-Riddle had to say in DH, it just makes so much sense, why he's insecure. He's the youngest Son who was originally meant to
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    be a girl but wasn't, so he's technically like the middle child. All his brothers achieved all that there is to be achieved, so there's nothing that makes him special, he's just Ron. It doesn't stop there. At Howgarts, he's best friends with the chosen one, a.k.a the most
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    famous bloke in the school (and later in the Wizarding world) and the brightest witch of their age. (who happens to be the smartest of the three, in terms of book smart)He wasn't being paranoid, his life was e. At least when you look at it that way.
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