Hugh Weasley

"*That's Uncle Hugh. He used to be a banker at GalloLoans before it closed down. Now he's a walking mid-life crisis. My mum hates him. He's Dad's favourite, naturally. They usually go out to drink together on Saturdays.*"
—Ginny Weasley shows off her family photo album to Aquila Black
**Hugh Weasley**(born **12 February**, **1946**) was an English pure-blood wizard and the second eldest son of Septimus and Cedrella Weasley. He was the brother of Leonard and Arthur Weasley, and the grandson of Octavius Weasley, Hortensia (née Jiggers), Arcturus Betelgeuse Black, and his wife Lysandra Black (née Yaxley). For a long time he was a banker at GalloLoans, Inc., and often worked with goblins for a living. He was close to his nephew, Bill, and his niece, Ginny Weasley.

During the Second Wizarding War, despite not being an inducted member of the Order, Hugh shared their sympathies. He once lied under oath to the Ministry's Muggle-Born Registration Commission in 1997, in order to claim a friend of his niece as his illegitimate son. Hugh ended up rescuing the boy from a possible Azkaban prison sentence for a bogus wartime claim that Muggle-borns were stealing magic from ordinary witches and wizards. He also attended the wedding of his nephew, Bill Weasley, to Fleur Delacour in the summer of 1997. While there, he got extremely drunk at the party and confused Harry Potter for his own son, Evan, whilst Harry Potter was disguised under Polyjuice as a red-haired muggle.

## Biography

### Early life (1946-1970)

Hugh Weasley was born on 12 February, 1946, to Septimus and Cedrella Weasley (née Black). Before his birth, his mother had been disowned for marrying his father, a "blood traitor," as her family (the Blacks) believed strongly in the notion of pure-blood supremacy. Hugh had two brothers, an older brother Leonard, born in 1944, and Arthur, his younger brother by four years, who would be born in 1950.

#### Hogwarts years (1957-1964)

He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from September 1957 to June 1964. Like the rest of the Weasley clan had been for generations, Hugh was sorted into Gryffindor House upon arriving at the school. Whilst there during his seven years, he played Quidditch as Keeper on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

#### Marriage (1964)

He got married in 1964, at the age of eighteen, just after leaving school. His girlfriend turned-fiancée, Chantilly Chittock, was already pregnant at the time, which was a widely-spread family scandal. Chittock dropped out of Hogwarts in her seventh year when she found out, and immediately upon leaving Hogwarts, Hugh moved to Chudley in Devon to live with her family instead, as his rather conservative mother, Cedrella, did not approve of the Chittocks, who were said to have supported the Squibs' Rights Marches. Hugh's elder brother Leonard also sided with their mother, but his father, Septimus, and younger brother had different opinions. However, Hugh was adamant that he do right by Chantilly, and the two were wed in Chudley, Devon, in July 1964.

Their oldest son, Barnaby Weasley, was born in August 1964, about a month after the wedding. They didn't have another child until the spring of 1969, when their younger son, Evander was born.

#### First Wizarding War (1970-1981)

Hugh was present when his little brother, Arthur Weasley, married Molly Prewett right out of school and played the role of a groomsman. During the course of the war, Hugh's brother and Molly had seven children: Bill in late 1970, Charlie in 1972, Percy in 1976, twins Fred and George  in 1978, Ron in 1980, and the first daughter to be born into the Weasley family in generations, Ginny, in 1981.

### Later life (1981-1990s)

For most of his adult life, Hugh Weasley was an employee of GalloLoans, Incorporated, and his usual task was to handle meetings with the Goblins and approve loans when his supervisor was not available. Their office was located in Diagon Alley, London. His younger son, Evander, married Violet Stanhope in 1986. Hugh became a grandfather in 1987, when Evan's son was born. They had a second child, named Eleanora Weasley, in 1989.

#### Second Wizarding War (1995-1998)

Hugh attended the wedding of his nephew, Bill Weasley, on 1 August, 1997. He got extremely drunk at the party and confused Harry Potter for his own son, Evan, whilst Harry Potter was disguised under Polyjuice as a red-haired muggle. During the same wedding, which took place at the Burrow, the home of Arthur Weasley in Ottery St. Catchpole, Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus arrived informing the guests that the Ministry of Magic had fallen to Voldemort and his Death Eaters. The current Minister for Magic Scrimgeour was brutally tortured and murdered. Death Eaters then interrupted the reception and the Weasley family was placed under constant watch.

This mainly affected Hugh's brother, Arthur and his wife, Molly, and his seven children, as Hugh's brother and sister-in-law were members of the second Order of the Phoenix, an organisation designed to combat Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

#### Ministry visit (1997)

Hugh Weasley visited the Ministry of Magic on 10 August, 1997, intending to publicly visit his brother Arthur during his lunchbreak. He noticed a younger-looking teenager get off a muggle bus at Whitehall, London, and the boy did not look as if he knew how to use the Visitor's Entrance (which was a red telephone box). Hugh watched him idly for a few moments before he showed the boy, who identified himself as Stanley Ingham, the number to access the Ministry Atrium.

Stanley told Hugh that he was a muggle-born, and that the Muggle-Born Registration Commission wanted him for questioning because of a bogus claim that he stole another witch's or wizard's magic, which Stanley maintained his innocence. He said that because he couldn't prove there was a Squib in his family's history to turn in with his questionnaire, he would probably be arrested and expelled from Hogwarts. Hugh offered to lie and refill-out Ingham's form for him and claim falsely he was Ingham's biological father.

Because of his red hair and freckly complexion (as well as Hugh's insistence that the boy was his son, conceived out of an affair in 1981), Stanley ended up being able to return to Hogwarts for his sixth year, where he joined the resurgence of Dumbledore's Army, which he'd been apart of in his fourth year. Even though the Weasley family were being watched, Hugh sent a secret message to his recently-graduated granddaughter, Eleanora, who was able to testify to the court that she knew about the affair.

His wife, Chantilly, called him both brave and stupid.

## Personality and Traits

Hugh Weasley was a person who seemed prone to outrageous behaviour, and is implied to have been an alcoholic. Despite this, he was a handsome, if but aged man, as described by Aquila Black and Harry Potter, with red hair, and blue eyes, which are typical Weasley traits. At the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, Hugh got so drunk that he spent the night wondering if the polyjuiced Harry Potter was his son, Evan Weasley. For most of his adult life he had worked at GalloLoans, Inc., a financial firm which used lending as its only business model. He would most likely have not utilised his full potential as a wizard in that job, instead working with Goblins, and inspired Bill Weasley as a child with stories about them.

Hugh Weasley married his girlfriend, Chantilly Chittock young (at aged eighteen) because they were expecting a baby together, proving how much family meant to him. As an older adult he could be an extremely reckless person however, as seen by his choice to defend Stanley Ingham, a muggle-born classmate of his niece Ginny's, to whom he had no relation. Hugh's choice to claim the boy as his own on a form and lying under oath was a selfless decision: he risked revealing his sympathies to the Order had the Muggle-Born Registration Commission decided he or Ingham's claim was untrustworthy. His recklessness which he displayed during the Second Wizarding War, in the small action of protecting someone else to fight against corrupt injustice, displayed that Hugh, like his brother Arthur, fought for what he believed in.

He was a Gryffindor at school, and he played Keeper (much like his nephew, Ron Weasley) for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team back when he had been at Hogwarts.

## Physical Appearance

Like many other members of the Weasley family, Hugh had bright red hair. He had blue eyes, and also possessed the tall, thin build that was also inherited by his brother Arthur, and nephews Bill, Percy, and Ron.

## Etymology

Hugh comes from the Germanic element *hug*, meaning "heart, mind, spirit". It was common among Frankish and French nobility, being borne by Hugh Capet, a 10th-century king of France who founded the Capetian dynasty.