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The Trio break into the Voldemort-controlled Ministry in November, then travel for weeks before overhearing Griphook’s talk with Ted, Dean, and Dirk Cresswell which prompts the fight between Harry and locket-influenced Ron. The Silver Doe incident where Ron comes back occurs shortly enough after Christmas that it is still the Christmas holidays when the reunited Trio goes to visit Xenophilius, as Ron proclaims that “Luna will be home”.

Sibling culture is all of you piling on the same idiot you hate.

Bonus:

Now compare this to the HBP film, where Ron asks a price on an item in the store and the twins eventually end up doubling the price because “[he’s their] brother”. Of course you can and are meant to see this and their exaggeratedly contemptuous looks as a joke – but again, it’s one where the audience is encouraged to laugh at Ron rather than with him. And it’s a joke that is terribly OOC for any Weasley to make, tone deaf to the fact that the Weasleys are poor. Fred and George would never mock Ron for his lack of money, not when they themselves are only in business because of Harry’s donation. Not only that, but the movies leave the gift of the new dress robes out completely, meaning that the only direct impact on Ron of the twins’ success is to be ridiculed.