‘I need parent more like Weasley’s’

• Bonnie Wright and Make Andrew Lococo’s son Elio turns 2 in September 2025
• Like mom, Wright, who played Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter Movies, says she has a lot of admiration for her parents’ commitment to the screen for her children and the environment, which makes her think, “Oh, yes, I have to parent more like Weasley’s”
• To become a mother has also changed how Wright looks at Harry Potter movies and books, because it is “heartbreaking” to imagine that your child is going through what harry is doing

As Bonnie WrightS son approaches toddler age, the actress has plans to take notes from her Harry Potter parents!

Since he became a mother, the actress and the environmental activist – who played the youngest Weasley Sibling, Ginny, in all eight Harry Potter Movies -As that her admiration for parents on the Molly (Julie Walters) screen and Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams) has only grown.

“I have been very, very committed to strengthening a lot of things around the climate and our environment, and I feel like Weasley’s, for me, is probably the most sustainable magic family ever,” says Wright, 34, people before April 30 Harry Potter and the cursed child View at New York City’s lyric theater.

The magic family of nine continues Wright, “Do everything themselves-knit their sweaters, they make hand-me-downs.”

“Molly Weasley is definitely an environmental activist,” she adds. “So I think what she stands for, what Weasley’s stands for, I am,” Oh, yes, I have to parent more like Weasley’s. ”

She also admires the honest and caring nature of the proud parents – especially when it comes to the series’s title hero.

“I love everything they stand for in the sense that they are just honestly themselves. They really don’t care about people who judge them,” explains Wright. “And I believe for Harry, they give him this unconditional love he has never had before.”

“And I also only love the relationship they have, like Molly and Arthur Weasley just seem to be such a sweet loving couple,” she adds. “They know what is happening. They’ve figured it out.”

Wright – who share son Elio Ocean Wright Loco1, with husband Andrew lococo – also says that motherhood has “certainly” shaped how she interprets the story of Harry Potter.

What hits particularly hard now, she says, is “just that idea, especially, by Harry not to have his parents, and kind of how heartbreaking it must be to imagine (for) your own child.” Not to mention the whole Cursed childA story that focuses strongly on Harry’s relationship with his and Ginny’s son, Albus.

“I think this piece is this kind of tribute to his parents, and I think it’s a really special thing,” she tells People. There is a lot in the Broadway show, says Wright, “About parenting and the next generation, and how when your children go to school you have to let them like to fly and be their own.”

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For Elio, who turns 2 in September, that day is a long way away – although his Hogwarts letter may come as soon as 11 years. In the meantime, however, Wright is pleased to just soak every moment.

Her first and a half years as a mother, she tells People, has been “just wild”, especially when Elio approaches toddler age.

“A few words come, but he is such a relocation and he is climbing. He is just more in the world. It’s so fun because now the imagination comes in,” says Wright about Elio, adding that it “just feels like I’m in my nature – I love stories and imagination.”

This “era and moment” is the family of three in now, she adds, “it brings it to life, and so it’s just really exciting for me.”