Bill Weasley
William Arthur "Bill" Weasley is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. The character is the eldest son of Molly and Arthur Weasley and the brother of Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny.
Information from Rowling has put the character's birth date as 29 November, 1970.[1][2] Bill attended Hogwarts as a Gryffindor from 1982 to 1989, becoming both a prefect and Head Boy. Later, he worked for Gringotts Bank in Egypt as a Curse- Breaker (meaning that he took Arithmancy at Hogwarts, and must have passed the subject, as it is revealed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in the chapter Career Advice that Gringotts Curse-Breakers must have an O.W.L. at this subject)
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Bill returns to Britain to work for the Order of the Phoenix. After a year of knowing Fleur Delacour and a lot of "private lessons" in English, Bill proposes to Fleur and she accepts. In Half-Blood Prince, Bill and Fleur are engaged to be married, and the summer before Harry and Ron's sixth year of school Bill brings his fiancée to get to know his family.
Prior to the events in the sixth book, he is described as being a good looking young man (when Fleur sees him in The Goblet of Fire, she is impressed and eyes him with "great interest") and has long red hair tied back in a ponytail and single fang earring. In fact, Harry notes that a guy like Bill would not be out of place at a rock concert, and Harry is surprised that Bill (perfect student, prefect and Head Boy at Hogwarts) is so unlike Percy. Bill's unorthodox looks make his mother Mrs. Weasley despair, although everyone else is fine with it. Ginny especially looks up to her eldest brother. Bill fought bravely in the battle in Hogwarts which takes place at the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but did not escape unscathed. The werewolf Fenrir Greyback savaged Bill, albeit in his human form, and caused lycanthropy contamination to an unknown, partial extent. According to Remus Lupin, who is also a werewolf, this was not enough to cause actual transformations, though Bill has apparently developed a liking for extremely rare steaks and is left with a deeply scarred face. His and Fleur Delacour's plans to marry are unchanged, Fleur declaring that she does not mind the scars and that she has always considered the English to over-cook their meat in any case; this attitude has gained her a lot of respect from Bill's otherwise disapproving family, especially Bill's mother.
Richard Fish played the role (for a brief cameo) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bill so far has yet to appear in any other film adaptations of novels which feature his character.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it states that his name is a contraction of "William" and his middle name is Arthur. He is also, aside from Ginny, the only Weasley who typically says "Voldemort" instead of "You-Know-Who". He marries Fleur in the book and participates in the resistance against Voldemort. He and Fleur provide safe haven for Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna Lovegood, Dean Thomas, Ollivander, and Griphook after they narrowly escape Malfoy Mansion.
In the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which occurs 19 years after the final battle against Voldemort, Bill and Fleur's eldest child Victoire appears.[3] She is seen kissing Teddy Lupin, the 19-year-old orphan son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks. One of her younger cousins, James Potter II, remarks that he hopes Victoire will marry Teddy Lupin so that he would really be a part of the family.
See also
References
- ^ Birthday Archive
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- ^ Brown, Jen (2007-07-25). "Finished Potter? Rowling tells what happened next". MSNBC. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
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