Ron and Hermione have been friends since the Sorcerer’s Stone, fighting alongside all of Harry’s battles. “Stay close to me,” he asks his parental phantasms. Their love has been a cornerstone of the franchise, from Harry’s envisioning of them in the Mirror of Erised that shows his true desires, to his final moments before sacrificing himself in the woods. Lily then grows to love James, while Snape continues to love her from afar “always.”Įven as Snape’s perspective throws a wrinkle into James and Lily’s romance, it doesn’t change how their parental love has defined Harry. When we see Snape’s memories after his death, we find out how Lily and Snape had first been friends before she ever met James Potter. In this relationship, we see just how James and Lily went through the same experiences of love and jealousy as the young protagonists. In Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Severus Snape ( Alan Rickman) - upon his death - tells Harry, “You have your mother’s eyes.” Throughout the series, we see how James and Lily’s love is embodied in Harry. Like Molly and Arthur Weasly, James ( Adrian Rawlins) and Lily’s ( Geraldine Somerville) love for each other and their son Harry, even after death, is another enduring romance of the franchise. When Harry returns to Hogwarts with Cedric’s dead body, everyone is shocked, and Cho is visibly devastated. When Harry and Cedric make it to the end of a maze, they are transported somewhere else and meet Peter Pettigrew ( Timothy Spall), who is commanded by Voldemort to kill Cedric. In the midst of dances and games, the resurrection of the Dark Lord looms in the background of Goblet. Their romance is made tragic, however, by the end of the Triwizard Tournament. In the same way the Yule Ball accentuated couples like Hermione and Viktor Krum, Cho and Cedric made for an endearing couple. Even if she had feelings for Harry, which clearly carry over into Order of the Phoenix, her relationship with Cedric was quite adorable, but brief. In Goblet of Fire, Harry develops a crush on Cho and even asks her to go to the Yule Ball, but she had already said yes to Cedric. While Cho and Harry’s romance was cute while it lasted, Cho Chang would have never been with Harry if not for Cedric Diggory.
Molly and Arthur aren’t the only adult couple on this list, as we’ll see other parental couples whose love and romance prove fruitful and influential over the younger protagonists. In fact, it is because of Harry that Arthur Weasly is found alive after an attack by Voldemort’s snake Nagini in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, their marriage may not have the flare of teen angst and love triangles, but their love and care for each other, and their children, demonstrates the franchise's thematic importance of family - and not necessarily by blood, as Harry becomes an honorary member of the Weasley household. They even served as pseudo-parental figures for Harry, often inviting him to their farmhouse at the start of the school year or for Christmas. With seven children between them, Molly and Arthur clearly have a romance that has endured throughout the years. Ron’s parents, Molly ( Julie Walters) and Arthur ( Mark Williams), have been in the franchise since the very first film. Even as their celebration was abruptly ended by the arrival of Voldemort’s Death Eaters, Bill and Fleur’s romance served as one of the reminders of what Harry and his friends were fighting for.
Who could fault them? In such dark and dire times, Bill and Fleur’s romance gave Part 1 of the franchise’s finale a sense of hope and light, a place where many of our major characters could experience love and joy. While the two were mostly side characters throughout the franchise, their off-screen romance came to the forefront at the start of Deathly Hallows: Part 1.Įven in the midst of being hunted under Voldemort’s new regime, Bill and Fleur go through their wedding at the Weasleys’ farmhouse. On the other hand, before he was Kylo Ren’s right-hand general in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Domhnall Gleeson was part of the Wizarding World as one of Ron’s older brothers, Bill Weasley. Before reuniting with her Potter-alum Robert Pattinson in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, Clémence Poésy played Fleur Delacour, who made a splash with her first appearance in Goblet of Fire as one of the witches representing the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in the Triwizard Tournament.
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