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"So, all in all, not one of Ron’s better birthdays?"
Fred Weasley regarding Ron's very unlucky birthday[src]

Ronald Weasley's seventeenth birthday took place on Saturday 1 March 1997. He received many gifts from friends and family including the traditional watch from his parents and a set of new Keeper's gloves from Harry.[2]

History[]

George Weasley: "This isn’t how we imagined handing over our present."
Fred Weasley: "Yeah, when we pictured the scene, he was conscious."
George Weasley: "There we were in Hogsmeade, waiting to surprise him —"
Fred and George Weasley grimly expressing their unhappiness over Ron's birthday[src]

While Ron was opening his presents, he found a box of Chocolate Cauldrons, and was unaware that they had been discarded by Harry, and spiked with Love Potion. Ron ate a few of the Chocolate Cauldrons and fell in "love" with Romilda Vane. After noticing Ron's odd behaviour, Harry Potter took him to Horace Slughorn's office. There, Slughorn gave Ron the antidote. Afterward, Slughorn felt that Ron needed a pick-me-up. He gave Ron a glass of oak-matured mead, from a bottle that he had originally intended as a Christmas present for Professor Dumbledore.[2] Unbeknownst to him, the mead had been poisoned by an Imperiused Madam Rosmerta.[3] Ron fell, but luckily, as the Half-Blood Prince's book had fallen into Harry's possession, Harry thought to shove a bezoar down Ron's throat, saving his life.[2] Fred and George pointed out that it was not one of Ron's better birthdays.[1]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 19 (Elf Tails)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 18 (Birthday Surprises)
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 27 (The Lightning-Struck Tower)
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