The Entire Weasley Family Tree From Harry Potter Explained

The Weasleys have become well known in popular culture thanks to their prominence in the "Harry Potter" franchise, but there's a lot that casual movie-goers don't know about this clan of pure-blood, red-headed wizards. In "Harry Potter" lore, a book called the Pure-Blood Dictionary was published in 1930, intended as a round-up of all the pure-blood wizarding families left in Britain. The Weasleys were named as one of the so-called Sacred Twenty-Eight, though that's not something you'll ever hear them bragging about. In fact, the Weasleys distanced themselves from the book upon its publication and were quick to question its sources: they insisted that they had been mixing with Muggles for years.

From this moment forward, the more fanatical pure-blood families viewed the Weasleys as traitors, something they wore like a badge of honor. "We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard," Arthur Weasley told Lucius Malfoy after he mocked his family for "associating with Muggles" in the film version of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." In the book, he physically fights Malfoy. As "Harry Potter" fans know, Arthur isn't just tolerant of Muggles; he is borderline obsessed with them. His fascination with the non-magic folk meant his kids grew up respecting Muggles, but Arthur wasn't the first Weasley to make a stand against the pure-blood mania taking root in the dark corners of the wizarding world.

Get ready to know your Weasleys, because we're breaking down four generations of the family tree.

Just like all their kids would be, Arthur and Molly Weasley (née Prewett) were both sorted into Gryffindor House. It was the early 1960s when they began attending Hogwarts, but things weren't that different. Students snuck out after dark (Molly once revealed that she received a telling off when she returned to the girls' common room at four in the morning after a late night stroll with Arthur), and Gryffindors fought with Slytherins. Away from Hogwarts, anti-Muggle sentiment was swirling, and Arthur and Molly had only been out of school for a couple of years when the First Wizarding War began.

Molly would later reveal that a lot of couples got married when the war broke out. "It's all this uncertainty with You-Know-Who coming back, people think they might be dead tomorrow, so they're rushing all sorts of decisions they'd normally take time over," she revealed in chapter five of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," adding: "It was the same last time he was powerful, people eloping left, right, and center." She went on to clarify that she and Arthur "were made for each other" and would have married anyway. They tied the knot at the onset of the war and had seven children over the course of the conflict, which began in 1970 and officially ended in 1981. Molly's brothers Fabian and Gideon Prewett (both members of the original Order of the Phoenix) were murdered by Death Eaters during the war.

Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour had three kids after getting married: daughters Victoire and Dominique Weasley, and a son, Louis Weasley. Little is known about the younger two, but we know much more about firstborn Victoire Weasley, who got her name because she was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts (it means "victory" in French). Victoire has the distinction of being the last character introduced in the "Harry Potter" book series, causing quite the stir with her younger cousins during the epilog. As the extended Weasley family descended on Platform 9 3/4, the blonde witch (she takes after her mother) was spotted "snogging" Teddy Lupin, son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks.

Part-werewolf, Teddy lost his parents during the Battle of Hogwarts, and Harry Potter would become a father figure to him in the years that followed. He was already seen as part of the family, though marrying Victoire (something the cousins were clearly very keen on) would have made it official. Teddy and Victoire were still an item when the Weasley clan attended the Quidditch World Cup in 2014. "Mr. and Mrs. Bill Weasley might like to know that their beautiful, blonde daughter Victoire seems to be attracted to any dark corner where Master Lupin happens to be lurking," trashy journalist Rita Skeeter wrote in her column. "The good news is both of them seem to have invented a method of breathing through their ears."

Born in 1976, Percy Weasley is Arthur and Molly Weasley's third eldest son. A busybody who often clashed with his siblings, Percy was a Prefect and later Head Boy at Hogwarts, so it was no surprise when he landed a job at the Ministry of Magic upon graduation, following in his father's footsteps — not that he wanted to be like his dear old dad. Arthur Weasley had long been in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office, something Percy put down to a lack of ambition. The motivated rookie worked under Minister for Magic Barty Crouch Snr. in the Department of International Magical Co-operation to begin with, and he would later become Junior Assistant to his successor, Cornelius Fudge.

Percy fell out with his family big time when the Second Wizarding War began. Fudge refused to believe that Lord Voldemort was back, and Percy backed him, calling his dad an "idiot" for siding with Dumbledore. He moved out of The Burrow (the Weasley family's quirky country home) and into a London flat, where he was closer to work. Percy even returned his knitted Christmas jumper after his mother mailed it to him. He would ultimately redeem himself in the Battle of Hogwarts, joining the fight against the Death Eaters.

After Voldemort's defeat, Percy continued to work for the Ministry and became Head of the Department of Magical Transportation. He married a woman named Audrey, and they had two daughters, Molly and Lucy Weasley.

George Weasley lost an ear during the Second Wizarding War, but that pain was nothing compared to the loss of his twin brother. The Weasley family was utterly devastated by Fred's death, and so was Harry Potter. He and Ron Weasley wanted to find and kill as many Death Eaters as possible when they learned that Fred was dead, though Hermione Granger reminded them that the ultimate revenge would be to find Voldemort's final Horcruxes and destroy him for good. Anyway, Percy Weasley had that covered — he was fighting alongside Fred when he died, and, after moving his brother's body to the great hall, Percy flew into a rage, running off in pursuit of Death Eater Augustus Rookwood.

No other Weasleys were lost during the remainder of the battle. George would later pay tribute to his fallen twin by naming his son after him. He had two kids with none other than Angelina Johnson, his former teammate on the Gryffindor Quidditch team (Fred and George both played as beaters for their house). Angelina actually attended the Yule Ball — the Christmas party thrown in honor of the Triwizard Tournament champions — as Fred's date in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." She and George would bond over their shared loss, tying the knot and starting a family: son, Fred Weasley II, was followed by a daughter, Roxanne Weasley. George also honored his brother by keeping Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes going.

Born in 1981, Ginerva "Ginny" Weasley was the first female Weasley in generations, though she would add another girl to the clan when she had kids herself. Ginny developed a crush on family friend Harry Potter when she was a young girl and in time those feelings would come to be reciprocated. Harry officially became part of the Weasley family when he married Ginny, and the couple had three children: James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter, and Lily Luna Potter, named after Harry's mother and the couple's school friend, Luna Lovegood.

The Weasleys were always a Quidditch family, but they saved the best player for last. Ginny was a chaser and later as a seeker for the Gryffindor team, and she would go pro after leaving Hogwarts, playing for the Holyhead Harpies (an all-female team founded in 1203). She hung up her broomstick when she and Harry decided to start a family, but she remained involved with the sport, landing the role of Quidditch reporter at the Daily Prophet.

When the Weasleys attended the 2014 Quidditch World Cup final in Argentina, Ginny was on the job. She covered the event live alongside Rita Skeeter, who seemed more interested in the presence of Ginny's "publicity-hungry" husband. Skeeter was "taken unaccountably ill with what some are calling a jinx to the solar plexus," said Ginny. By 2020, Ginny was running the Prophet's Quidditch content as the paper's sports editor.