Ron is very fond of eating and is also an expert in the game of Wizard Chess. Ron is brought up in a wizarding household and therefore knows a lot about the magical world when Harry first meets him. Tall and gangling, Ron has bright red hair like all his other siblings. They meet on their way to Hogwarts and instantly hit it off. Ronald Weasley is Harry Potter’s best friend. He will stop at nothing till he finds out about the Philosopher’s Stone and the people trying to steal it. He is a natural in the game of Quidditch and helps his team win their Quidditch matches. He is a very brave and inquisitive eleven-year-old boy. Harry attends Hogwarts school to learn magic and befriends Ron, Hermione, Hagrid and several others who make him feel at home.
He loses his parents at a very early age when the dark wizard Lord Voldemort attacks them at their house. He has a scar shaped like lightning on his forehead. He is a bespectacled boy with untidy hair and a lanky build. Harry Potter, also dubbed as ‘The Boy who Lived’ is the protagonist of this book. Some other characters are only mentioned briefly in textbooks that Harry studies from or are the authors of the textbooks themselves. Furthermore, many characters in this book appear for a very short period and yet are significant in later installments of the book series. Some characters are also from the muggle world in London where Harry spent ten years in Privet Drive. Characters range from students and teachers at Hogwarts to animals and other magical beings. Most of the characters in this book appear after Harry discovers that he is a wizard.