Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry’s descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.
To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution
To move to action by warnings, advice, or convincing argument Persons can often be motivated to act merely by the sincerity or passion of one encouraging them to do so The words exhort and exhortation are found 32 times in NW <<Therefore he also gave many other exhortations and continued declaring good news to the people >> (Luk 3: 18)
If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it. Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence He exhorted his companions, `Try to accomplish your aim with diligence'. = urge + exhortation exhortations ex·hor·ta·tion Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough, nor are exhortations to reform. to try very hard to persuade someone to do something = urge exhort sb to do sth (exhorter, from exhortari, from hortari )