Harry Potter

### Personality

Brave, loyal, strong-willed, prepared, protective, unafraid, modest, likable, hot-tempered, independant, prideful, loyal, full of love, friendly

### Appearance

Tall, has black hair, green almond shaped eyes

### Occupation

Student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (formerly)
 Head of Auror Office (formerly)
Guest lecturer on Defence Against the Dark Arts
 Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement

### Affiliations

Potter family
Weasley family
Albus Dumbledore
Dumbledore's Army
Order of the Phoenix
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Gryffindor
Gryffindor Quidditch team
Slug Club
British Ministry of Magic
Auror Office
Department of Magical Law Enforcement

### Goal

Defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all (succeeded)
Help the Order of the Phoenix defeat the Knights of Walpurgis to win the British Wizarding civil war and the Second Wizarding War.
Imprison Delphini for her crimes. (succeeded)

### Home

4 Privet Drive (formerly)
Gryffindor Tower (formerly, during the school year)
Potter Household

### Pets

Unnamed cat (in childhood)
Hedwig (owl)

### Enemies

Voldemort, Death Eaters, Dolores Umbridge, Quirinus Quirrell, Barty Crouch Jr, Bellatrix Lestrange, Peter Pettigrew †, Sirius Black † (briefly), Marjorie Dursley, Cornelius Fudge, Gilderoy Lockhart, Andromeda Tonks (briefly), Pansy Parkinson, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Marcus Flint, several Slytherins, Delphini, Fenrir Greyback, Severus Snape (formerly), Nagini, Peeves (sometimes), Acromantulas, Aragog, the Basilisk, Rita Skeeter, Kreacher (formerly), Lucius Malfoy (formerly)

### Likes

Having a family, his friends, being with Ginny, loyalty and honor, being in his cupboard

### Dislikes

Harm to his loved ones, Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort, losing a loved one, being mistreated by the Dursleys

### Fate

Goes to Cedric's grave with Albus and reconciles their father-son relationship

### Quote

Come on Tom, let's finish this the way we started it... Together!

**Harry James Potter** is the titular main protagonist of the *Harry Potter* franchise by JK Rowling.

Being one of the most powerful wizards of his generation, Harry was prophesied to defeat, the self-proclaimed dark lord Voldemort, along with the support of his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. After defeating Voldemort, he married his true love, Ginny Weasley and had three children, James, Albus, and Lily

In the film adaptations, Harry is portrayed by Daniel Radcliff, with his younger selves portrayed by the Saunders triplets and Topy Papworth in the eighth film of the series. In the play, *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, he is portrayed by Jaime Parker.

## Background

Before Harry's birth, a prophecy was made by Sybill Trelawney, stating that a boy born at the end of July would bring about the end of Lord Voldemort and end his reign of tyranny. This prophecy refers to the unborn son of Lily Evans and James Potter. This motivates Dumbledore to have the Potters move into a cottage in his old hometown, Godric's Hollow.

Born on July 31, 1980, Harry Potter was the only child and son of Lily Evans and James Potter. After being born, Sirius Black was made Harry's godfather. When Harry was a year old, his parents were killed by the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. During which, his mother sacrificed herself in between Voldemort and her toddler son. He was also an accidental horcrux.

Harry was rescued by Rubeus Hagrid before people began swarming the house in Godric's Hollow. Sirius once attempted to take baby Harry, as guardianship would be passed down to his godfather. However, Hagrid refused because Harry was supposed to go to his maternal family. Reluctant, Sirius gave Hagrid his flying motorcycle for them to travel faster. An orphan, Harry was left on the doorstep of the Dursleys by Albus Dumbledore, who knew Harry had to live with Petunia, the only living blood relative of Lily's for her sacrificial protection to live on with Harry's aunt. He was emotionally abused by his aunt's family, and neglected by the Dursleys.

### Concept and Creation

When creating Harry, JK Rowling had the idea of the Harry Potter books and his character when she was waiting for a train to come in Manchester, England to London in 1990. She stated that the idea of "this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me". . Harry was eventually made into an orphan when Rowling's mother passed away.

JK Rowling called Wart from *The Sword in the Stone* novel by TH White as Harry's "spiritual ancestor."  She had also given him glasses as a clue to his vulnerability.

In the first draft of *The Philosopher's Stone*,  after his parents' deaths at the hands of Voldemort, Rowling intended for Harry as a baby to be found by Mr Granger, the father of Harry's future best friend, Hermione. Finally, she gave Harry her own birthday date: July 31st but instead of being based on a  real life person, he came out a part of Rowling. Since the beginning of the series, Harry and Ginny were always meant to end up together, which is why Hermione and Harry were never put together in the final novel.

In the films, Harry is portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe in all eight films, making him one of the fourteen characters to appear in the film. Like in the book, Harry was meant to have green eyes, as Daniel was going to wear green eye contacts. However, Radcliffe was alergic to the contact lenses. Instead, the filmmakers let Radcliffe have his natural eye color. Also, Daniel had dark brown hair as opposed to Harry's black messy hair from teh film

### Powers and Abilities

* **Love:** One of the strongest magic known to Wizard kind, this was Harry's strongest forms. Despite having a loveless relationship with his family, Harry loved everyone he was close too, whether it was romantic or platonic . He first experienced real romantic love for Ginny Weasley (his crush on Cho not counting.
* Defence against the Dark Arts: Had been considered well-verse in defence against Dark magic.
* **Dark Magic:** When a piece of Voldemort lived inside of Harry, he could enter his mind and feel a Horcrux nearby and could also feel the pain when one was destroyed, featured in *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:Part 2.*
	+ *Harry* could speak **Parselmouth**, speaking in the snake language. He was able to open the Chamber of secrets with this type of language.

## *Harry Potter* film series

### *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*

Harry is haunted from the last year, watching Cedric get killed by Voldemort in front of him. While watching a family of muggles, he is suddenly faced by Dudley and his Gang. As a storm comes nearer, Dudley and Harry run for home but are suddenly attacked by Dementors, leading Harry to be forced to cast a Patronus to save him and his cousin.

This results in Harry being expelled from school; however, Dumbledore is able to arrange a hearing for Harry to repeal the expulsion. He spends most of the summer at 12 Grimmauld Place and is saved from expulsion. He attempts speaking to Dumbledore after the trial but his professor walks by.

### *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*

Following the events of Sirius Black's death, Harry inherits all of Sirius' possessions including 12 Grimmauld Place and Kreacher, Sirius' house elf. He is visited by Dumbledore and accompanies Albus to Horace Slughorn to recruit him for his job at Hogwarts. Slughorn takes immediate liking to Harry, as he knew Lily when she was a student of his (Slughorn's).

### *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*

A couple of weeks after Dumbledore's death, Harry is still grieving for his fallen mentor. He travels to the Burrow with Hagrid as six other Harry Imposters (Harry's friends), but find Alastor Moody was killed in action and George lost his ear. He attempted to leave to finish wat Dumbledore started, but Ron caught Harry and was able to convince him to return to the Burrow. During the wedding of Bill and Fleur, it is interrupted by Death Eaters, causing them to flee to 12 Grimmauld Place, and found Kreacher spying on them. Kreacher and Dobby returned with Mandungus Fletcher, where he told them he gave the locket to Dolores Umbridge. Under the influence of Polyjuice Potion, Harry knocks Dolores out with the stunning spell and stole Slytherin's Locket around Umbridge's neck. They go into the woods and on the run.

Overcome by the negative affects of the Horcrux, Ron abandons his friend and girlfriend. Harry and Hermione are now alone, feeling lost without Ron. They visit Godric's Hollow, where Harry visits his mother's and father's grave. There, they visit who they believe to be Bathilda Bagshot, and think she has the sword of Gryffindor but is actually Nagini in disguise. The snake attacks them, but Harry and Hermione manage to get away to the Forest of Dean. However, Harry gets knocked out whilst his wand his destroyed in the skirmish.

While taking his watch, Harry is guided by Severus Snape's patronus to where he hid the real Gryffindor Sword. Harry dives in for the sword but is suddenly choked to unconsciousness by the locket he wore but Ron had saved his friend and destroyed the Locket as they return to Hermione, who is overcome with anger when Ron approaches her. They go to Xenophilius's home, learning the tale of the Three Brothers. Xenophilius attempts to hand them over but the trio escape. However, they find themselves caught by Snatchers. To protect Harry, Hermione uses a spell that disguises him into a different person. They find themselves locked in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor with Luna, Mr Ollivander and Griphook the Goblin and hear Hermione's loud screams from Bellatrix torturing her. During the battle at Malfoy Manor, Harry easily disarms Draco, earning legience from the Elder Wand. Though they escape, Dobby is killed by Bellatrix Lestrange as Harry breaks down crying for the loss of another friend and proclaims to bury him without magic. After burying Dobby, Harry and his friends, Hermione and Ron go to Gringotts, the wizard bank, to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault and steal Hufflepuff's cup with Griphook helping them enter, but ultimately betrays them. However, the trio are able to free and ride a captive dragon, and can escape, but lose the sword in the process. The trio are aided by Aberforth Dumbledore and sneak into Hogwarts. Voldemort learns of Harry's return and orders the young man to turn himself over or risk the lives of everyone at the school.

During the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry goes to Helena Ravenclaw for her mother's diadem and learns it is in the room of requirements while he had sent Ron and Hermione to the Chamber of Secrets with a Basilisk fang and destroys Hufflepuff's cup. He and his friends also save Draco Malfoy and the only companion who survived after they caused a fire in the Room of Requirement. Harry sees a mortally wound Severus Snape after witnessing Nagini attacking him. Snape gives Harry a memory and tells him to pour the memory into Dumbledore's pensieve, where Harry learns Snape had loved his mother, Dumbledore was already dying and that he (Harry) was incidentally turned into a Horcrux and must be killed by Voldemort himself. Before he goes off to die, Harry summons the spirits of his mother, father, godfather, and Remus Lupin and goes to face Voldemort alone, allowing him to kill him. During this exchange, Harry decides to stay in the world of the living when Dumbledore tells Harry to pity the Living, not the dead. Returning to the world of the living. Harry reveals to Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother, that her son still lives. Harry pretends to be dead but later goes off to face Voldemort in a two-way duel, which ends with Harry's success after Nagini is killed by Neville Longbottom. With the elder wand, Harry fixes his wand, but snaps the Elder Wand in half and throws it far away.

## References

1. ↑ "J. K. Rowling Official Site – Section Biography"
2. ↑ http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0800-guardian-bio.html
3. ↑ http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1200-readersdigest-boquet.htm