Ron Weasley personality type: ESFP

The first time Ron Weasley gets to be the hero, he does it by letting a giant stone queen knock him off a horse. Eleven years old, playing life-size wizard chess, he sees the only move that wins and takes it, knowing he will be the piece that gets smashed. Remember that scene the next time someone calls Ron the comic relief.

Start with the family. Ron is the sixth son in a crowded, hand-me-down house, and he spends his school years standing next to the most famous boy alive. That makes him a textbook Six with a Seven wing, loyal to the bone and funny when nervous. Sixes need security, and Ron has little of it.

When the locket whispers in the tent that his mother wanted a daughter and that Hermione prefers Harry, it is reading his oldest fears out loud. In fourth year the same fear turns into weeks of jealous silence after Harry’s name comes out of the Goblet of Fire.

I type Ron as an ESFP, though the chess game makes him an unusual one. He lives in the moment, says what he sees, and thinks with his stomach and his wand arm at the same time. Underneath is a fierce private sense of loyalty and fairness. When Malfoy throws a slur at Hermione in second year, Ron tries to curse him so fast that the spell backfires through his broken wand, and he spends the evening burping slugs.

Abstract guesswork bores him, which is why he and Harry make up horrible predictions for their Divination homework. It also explains why long, vague worry eats him alive. Stuck in a tent with a Horcrux around his neck and no plan, Ron falls apart.

His growth is the walk back. Ron leaves in Deathly Hallows, regrets it almost at once, and follows a light from Dumbledore’s Deluminator back to his friends. He pulls Harry out of a frozen pool, then destroys the locket while it shows him every insecurity he has.

Some fans see him as ESTP, since he can be blunt and tactical. Reasonable. Still, his worst moments are wounded feelings, not cold logic. In the final battle, he is the one who remembers the house-elves in the kitchens.