Tropes - Characters

## The Quartet

* Harry James Potter - the titular protagonist who is thrust into the Wizarding World, facing many conflicts throughout the story.
* Ronald Bilius Weasley - the first friend Harry meets in the Wizarding World, and the youngest son of the Weasley Family.
* Felicity Charlotte Black - a pureblood witch and the daughter of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.
* Hermione Jean Granger - a muggle-born witch prodigy who becomes another of Harry's best friends.

"*Why is it, when something happens, it is always you four?*"
— McGonagall

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Flick Black, and Hermione Granger, the four main characters. They became friends in the first book and, over the course of the series, they have endured and suffered in seven years more than most people do in a lifetime, but they have only become closer over the years. They spend more time together than they do with anyone else, and whenever there is a problem, they always try to solve it together.

While Harry is nominally The Leader of the four person team, he, Ron, Flick, and Hermione often defer to each other. Harry and Flick are cousins, and in the future, the four all become family in the legal sense, as Ron marries Hermione and Harry becomes Ron's brother-in-law through his marriage to Ginny, so Hermione is Harry's sister-in-law.

* Badass Crew: Every book they take on things that would be considered challenging to experienced wizards, and survive all of them, starting with a troll in the first book, and ending with the Final Battle in the seventh. Harry is accomplished at Defence Against the Dark Arts, quick on the draw, and more than capable of holding his own against more experienced wizards, Ron is a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, Flick is [insert trope here], and Hermione is a Badass Bookworm.
* Best Friends-in-Law: In the end, Ron marries Hermione and Harry marries Ginny (Ron's sister), making Ron and Hermione Harry's in-laws.
* Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Flick is the blonde, Ron is the redhead, and Harry is the brunette.
* Break the Cutie: Each of them have been through some heartbreaking moments in the series.
* Character Development: The quarter each mature, in their own way, by the end.
	+ Harry goes from a naive, inexperienced young boy who had a "Black and White" concept regarding the houses of Hogwarts (eg. Slytherin = bad, Gryffindor = good) to a hardened, battle-ready, powerful adult wizard who now sees the "Greys" in all of the Houses. In fact, he told his son, Albus, that it didn't matter to him (or Ginny) if he was chosen to be a Slytherin.
	+ Ron as of Book 7. Being forced away from his usual comfort zone, facing his greatest fears in the form of one of Voldemort's horcruxes, and the war in general really made Ron a more mature and sensitive individual.
	+ Flick [something about her starting the series as being impulsive and rash but eventually learns to think before she acts].
	+ Hermione does undergo some subtle development. She starts off as a bossy, insecure, neurotic, rule-abiding little girl, best exemplified by equating being expelled from school with *being killed*. By the 5th book, she will now do as much rule breaking if it's to help her friends, family, and the wizarding world.
* Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Harry is famous and Flick is well liked so they both qualify as the Cool friend to Ron and Hermione who are not particularly popular on their own.
* Despite the Plan: The usual sequence goes along the lines of "Hermione comes up with The Plan, the quarter puts it into motion, things go horribly wrong and Harry steers things to at least partially successful completion, either by adapting successfully or just straight up improvising." Lampshaded in the last film: "*Hermione, when have any of our plans actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose!*"
* Fire-Forged Friends: The troll incident is what forms their friendship; others solidify it.
* Four-Temperament Ensemble: [sanguine is Flick, chloeric is ron, melancholic is hermione, phlegmatic is harry. might all change around]
* Good Parents: They all become this to their children in the epilogue. Ron and Hermione are doting and loving to their daughter (Rose) and son (Hugo). Flick is [insert parent information here]. Harry with Ginny are supportive parents to their three children (James II, Albus, and Lily) and tell their middle child that they won't disown him or be disappointed if he gets sorted into Slytherin.
* Interclass Friendship: Harry is implied to be somewhere between very and obscenely rich. Ron is a member of the poorest family depicted in the novels. The issues of class are played down in that Harry was raised by muggles and more or less a Spear Counterpart to Cinderella in that he lived as a poor servant to a rich step-family but then gets pushed forth into celebrity-superhero-dom. The class issues don't become part of their dynamic until book four, where Harry casually admits that he forgot about missing Leprechaun gold. Ron mutters that if he got a sum of that much gold he would certainly notice it missing.
* Kid Hero: Until they become full grown adults in the seventh book. Deconstructed since they are forced to deal with things that greatly interfere with their social lives and suffer trauma aplenty, especially Harry.
* Like Brother and Sister: Harry views Ron, Flick and Hermione as his adopted brother and sisters, something Harry reiterates occasionally. It causes some tension with Ron due to his own romantic feelings in Hermione in *Deathly Hallows* until Harry and Ron have a very intense argument about it.
* Nice Mean and In Between: Downplayed, as all four are kind and heroic individuals, but Harry, being a compassionate, warmhearted All-Loving Hero, is hands-down the nicest one of the group, though he is still able to stand up to meaner characters whenever he doesn't want to put up with their crap. Ron is prone to easily losing his temper and can get jealous, especially if anyone other than him does anything romantic with Hermione, though he does become more and more sensitive as the series goes on. Flick [insert here about her having snark and being incredibly prone to snapping at someone she doesn't like, but is very kind to those who deserve it]. Hermione, while having moments of being bossy and somewhat vain about how smart she is, is still a pretty level-headed and well-meaning person and does know when to be kind and who to be kind to if ever they need it.
* Red Baron: All of them receive their own title by the end of the series:
	+ Harry - "The Boy Who Lived"
	+ Ron - "The King"
	+ Flick - "The Girl Who Cheated Death"
	+ Hermione - "The Brightest Witch Of Her Age"
* Red is Heroic: In the films they wear red-and-gold ties as part of their school uniforms, as Gryffindors, and Harry wears a red sweater during the crux of *Philosopher's Stone*.
* Took a Level in Badass: All four of them become stronger in some way by the end.
	+ Harry goes from a bullied and timid kid to a pretty reasonable all-round badass by book four at the latest. You could argue he takes a further one of these in the final book, going to his death calmly, then just as calmly offering the man who killed his parents and a lot of his friends a chance at redemption, admittedly almost certain that he wouldn't take it.
	+ Ron is a more emotional/mental variety. In the first book, he went from not even calling Voldemort by his full name to insulting the man himself in the finale.
	+ Flick [insert something about her becoming the best dueller in the school/or the most powerful witch?]
	+ Hermione started off as a girl who would never have dreamed of breaking the rules. Come Book 7, she will use any illegal skill to ensure success for her and her loved ones. A more standard example of the trope in the fact that she becomes a very good fighter only in the later books.
* Tragic Dropout: Harry, Ron and Hermione are forced to leave Hogwarts in what would have been their seventh year in order to hunt down the horcruxes and avoid getting killed by the new Death Eater regime. That said, Harry and Ron downplay this since they weren't the best students to begin with and their lives turn out okay in the end (they both become Aurors). Hermione is an outright subversion since she does return to Hogwarts and graduates offscreen after Voldemort's defeat.
	+ Flick was almost this as she had planned to join the others on the horcrux hunt but realised that she wanted to go back to Hogwarts to help protect it from the Death Eaters.
		- She is later forced to dropout when she is kidnapped and "killed".
* Tragic Keepsake: Each of them received a memento from Dumbledore in Book 7, which happened recently after his death. See their character sections for specifics.
* True Companions: They are closer than siblings, and even closer than lovers. Their loyalty to each other is absolute.
* Vitriolic Best Buds: All of them fight, but Ron and Hermione bicker the most.
* Walking the Earth: To find the horcruxes.
* Weirdness Magnet: Lampshaded more than once; why *does* everything interesting or dangerous happen to them?
	+ From the *Half-Blood Prince* film.
	**McGonagall:** Why is it, when something happens, it is always you four?
	**Ron:** Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself the same question for six years.
	+ Lampshaded by Ron as early as book one, when he sarcastically asks what it would be like to have a peaceful life.
	+ Also lampshaded by Harry when Hermione tells him that Malfoy could use his prefect privileges to make Harry's life difficult. Harry sarcastically wonders what it would be like to have a difficult life.
	+ At the end of *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*:
	**Ron:** Do you think we'll ever just have a quiet year at Hogwarts?
	**Hermione:** No.
* With Friends Like These...:
	+ Harry, Ron and Flick row with Hermione, Ron more often than the others. Harry and Ron row only twice, for a month in book four and when Ron leaves for a month in DH. Flick rows with Harry only once in book four. Which, given that the heroes are between 11 and 18 years old during the course of the series, is not exactly unbelievable.
	+ Harry is usually the peacemaker. Hermione plays peacemaker once and can't stand it, and Ron never has to because mostly when Harry fights with Hermione to the point of not speaking with her for longer than a few hours, it's because he sides with Ron. The most memorable exception to this was when Hermione turned in the broom that Sirius sent Harry. That time, Ron sided with Harry. [need to add in flick stuff]

### Harry James Potter

**Portrayed by:** Daniel Radcliffe (films), Joshua Herdman (Gregory Goyle disguise in *Chamber of Secrets*), David O'Hara (Albert Runcorn disguise in *Deathly Hallows: Part 1*)

**A-E:**

* Academic Athlete: Played Straight, but it is rather subtle compared to his father. He's an exceptionally talented Quidditch player and while when it comes to academics Harry is Brilliant, but Lazy, he still often achieves above average marks outside of Defence Against the Dark Arts, in which he gets perfect marks and Potions (Snape's the teacher in the first five years). When he applies himself he moreover achieves Exceed Expectations or higher O.W.L.s in Defence Against the Dark Arts (he and Flick both get the highest O.W.L.), Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures and even Potions, which is noted to be a fairly exclusive class. It's worth mentioning that many of Harry's bad grades in Potions can be chalked up to Snape's vendetta against him. Snape actively sabotages Harry's work multiple times, including one instance after Harry views Snape's Pensieve where Snape nonchalantly destroys his work and subsequently gives him a zero out of spite.
* The Ace: Harry's considered, by his peers, to be the best in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and a naturally gifted Quidditch player. And while it is not the focus of the narration, he achieves rather high marks on his O.W.L.s and has never failed his exams. A proof of his skill is his ability to use the Patronus, while several of his fellow students manage to perform it, even Corporeal, Harry and Dumbledore are the only two people able to repell a full swarm of Dementors on their own. And has been able to perform rather Powerful Wandless Magic under highly stressful situations. Harry is a case of Brilliant, but Lazy.
* Achey Scars:
	+ The lightning-shaped scar created by Voldemort starts aching whenever Harry is close to him, and in the later books, whenever Voldemort is feeling a particularly strong emotion.
	+ The "I must not tell lies" scars on his hand that he received from detentions with a Sadist Teacher in his fifth year tingle when he thinks of her.
* Acquainted with Emergency Services: Harry doesn't go a full *year* during his time at Hogwarts without spending time in the hospital wing, something lampshaded by Madam Pomfrey. "Oh, it's you, is it? I suppose you've been doing something dangerous again?"
* Action Dad: Becomes the Head Auror and father of three by the year 2017.
* Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. Harry is badass enough in the books but the movies make a bit more of an effort to characterise him as an Action Hero.
	+ In *Philosopher's Stone*, Harry is barely able to hold off Quirrell, with the effort nearly proving fatal. In the film, Harry kills Quirrell with relative ease, and is still on his feet before being downed by Voldemort's soul when he escapes.
	+ When confronted by Snape in the Shrieking Shack in *Prisoner of Azkaban*, Harry sends him flying into the wall with an Expelliarmus from Hermione's wand, which is supposed to be more difficult with a wand that hasn't chosen him. In the books, this same effect was achieved by him, Ron, Flick, and Hermione trying to disarm Snape simultaneously.
	+ In *Order of the Phoenix*, his duel with the Death Eaters in the Ministry had him fumbling spells a few times including reversing his own spell by accident. The film portrays him as being far more competent overall.
	+ The final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort in *Deathly Hallows* had them involved in Circling Monologue with a single spell shot by both. In the final movie, Harry held his own fairly well against Voldemort for about the final twenty minutes.
* Adaptational Comic Relief: Inverted, as Harry's Deadpan Snarker tendencies from the books are toned down in the films.
* Adaptational Personality Change:
	+ In the sixth book, Harry isn't exactly keen on following Dumbledore's instructions to get close to Slughorn and often neglects the assignment in favour of other things like Quidditch. In the film version, Harry takes Dumbledore's orders much more seriously and gladly works to gain favour with Slughorn outside of class.
	+ Also in the sixth movie, his reaction to Romilda Vane's advances are changed from the book, where he found her rather off-putting, especially because she is an Alpha Bitch to his less popular friends and because her attraction towards him was only because he was The Chosen One. In the movie, while her negative qualities are not shown, his Hormone-Addled Teenager aspect is played slightly more and he finds her attractive enough to consider taking her as his date and when Hermione points out she only wants him because he is The Chosen One, he replies "But I *am* The Chosen One", which earns him a Dope Slap.
* Adaptation Dye-Job: Harry has green eyes in the book, but they are blue in the movies. His hair is also dark brown instead of black. Initially, the plan was for Daniel Radcliffe to wear green contact lenses, but he had an allergic reaction to the lenses he was given. Averted in the video game adaptations of the first four books as well as *Quidditch World Cup*, where his eyes *are* green. A reasonable number of related materials, such as the Lego sets and official artwork also retain his black hair.
* All-Loving Hero: Harry's greatest power is capacity for love, compassion, empathy, and general decency. In spite of being raised by a family that treated him with anything but affection, Harry did not come out full of resentment or hatred against his adopted parents, or Muggles or the world at large (unlike Voldemort, Snape, and even the young Dumbledore, who were unable to get past their Freudian Excuse). He is willing to go out of his way to help even those he is not entirely friendly with or actively dislikes, and in the end, he was even willing to offer *Voldemort* one last warning to save himself, because even after everything Voldemort did to him, he still wasn't consumed by hatred to make his enemy suffer a Fate Worse Than Death.
* All of the Other Reindeer:
	+ Public opinion of Harry in the Wizarding World oscillates between hero worship to complete rejection at the drop of a hat. But Harry is not particularly saintly in his isolation.
	+ Harry was an outcast in the Muggle world too because of the Dursleys' rumours about his behaviour and because Dudley and his gang bullied anyone who befriended him.
* Allergic to Evil: His lightning-bolt scar burns whenever Voldemort is close to him or feeling strong emotions - negative or positive - and in book four, Voldemort just touching him causes him *horrible pain*.
* Always Someone Better: Unintentionally this to Ron. As he points out repeatedly to Ron, Flick, and Hermione, most of the adventures he goes on is stuff that he barely scrapes by, he considers his fame both harmful and unmerited, and that the crazy stuff he goes through ends up being perceived as far cooler than it actually was.
* Amazon Chaser: He really started falling for Ginny when he noticed her feisty attitude and Quidditch skills. This is more pronounced in the fifth film. During a D.A. meeting, when Ginny casts a Reducto that *obliterates* the dummy they were practicing on, Harry looks at her with a proud smile. Later on, when Ginny masters a corporeal horse Patronus, Harry's response is a very proud "Fantastic, Ginny!"
* Ambiguously Bi: The books are written from Harry's perspective but by a straight woman. So there are more than a few occasions where Harry mentions how attractive some of his friends... or enemies... or strangers are.
* Amicable Exes: A scene in the eighth movie indicates that he and Cho have become this.
* Ancestral Name: Harry takes his middle name after his father, James, and he mostly takes after his dad in terms of appearance, hobby and general temperament.
* Animal Motifs: Stag (his Patronus), associated with gentleness, compassion, nobility, virility, strength, rebirth and resurrection.
* Anti-Hero: At first and for most of the series, he is unambiguously good and heroic, even if he is more than a bit snarky and an Anti-Hero who isn't above lying, eavesdropping, and generally being an occasional "trouble-maker" in school, even during the earlier installments. Then Harry got Darkier and Edgier along with the series, doing things that become much more questionable as time goes on, even when they're being used to reach goals that are unquestionably heroic, and became a Pragmatic Hero.
* Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He went on to become the youngest head of the Auror Office in history. It isn't hard to see why... he saved the Philosopher's Stone, defeated Slytherin's Basilisk, learned how to make a Patronus when only 13, escaped Voldemort seven times, survived the Second Wizarding War, while more experienced wizards (like Sirius Black, Alastor Moody, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, and Albus Dumbledore) didn't, defeated more Death Eaters than one can count... yeah, he definitely qualifies.
* The Archmage: Zig-Zagged and Downplayed Trope. While he is no academic genius, it should be noted that he is highly capable academically, and in the practical area he has mastered every spell that has been put in front of him. By the age of 26 he is in charge of the supposedly most elite wizard hunters in England, hinting that he is more powerful than them. So this trope is not completely undeserved.
* Awesome by Analysis: Harry is very perceptive when he actually put some effort on it. For instance, when Kingsley modified Marietta's memory, Harry takes notice of the spell flying behind his back and Kingsley murmuring something, and when he recognised the effects of the Memory Charm in Marietta, Harry realised what happened in like five seconds. Take note that, besides Dumbledore, nobody else noticed what Kingsley did.
* Babies Ever After: Harry has three children (two boys and one girl) with Ginny by their adulthood.
* Back from the Dead: Harry Potter is technically the only person in the franchise who has ever truly come back from the dead, though it's made clear he's not actually in the afterlife. After Voldemort uses the Killing Curse on him in the Dark Forest, he winds up in the limbo between life and death, due to Voldemort using Harry's blood to revive himself in the fourth book. Harry is even offered a choice to either come back to life or move on to the next life if he wants to. He ultimately chooses the former, so that he can stop Voldemort once and for all.
* Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Harry's abuse by the Dursleys was highlighted thanks to the fact that they made him sleep in the cupboard under the stairs.
* Badass on Paper: Harry views *himself* as one of these. The event that made him famous happened when he was a baby, and when, in the *Order of the Phoenix*, he gets asked to teach a defence against the dark arts club, he argues that all of his other achievements have been either through luck or from getting a lot of help. He begins to grow out of this in the seventh book, as he is now the one taking the fight to Voldemort, and his previous experiences fighting against the Dark Arts help him realise what has to be done. On a real inspection, Harry is closer to a real prodigy rather than Teen Genius Hermione; while he does not shine academically, that does not mean he is a bad student and does decently on his O.W.L.s. He has also mastered spells that should not be mastered by any normal, or even above average Wizard (Like the Patronus or the Unforgivables) and his skill at flying is rather unnatural for a person who had never touched a broom before (though we later learn that Sirius Black had given him a broom for his birthday when his parents were still alive.)
* Badass Teacher: Harry has shown tremendous skill in teaching others. Having mastered many spells at a young age, Harry successfully passed them onto others even when he was still a student himself, giving proper instructions and corrections on how to perform many fields of magic, ranging from the relatively simplistic Disarming Charm to the highly advanced Patronus Charm. Harry's effectiveness as a teacher led many, some even older than him, to choose him over a Ministry-installed professional, and he even returned to Hogwarts to give occasional lectures.
* Bad Powers, Good People: Harry can do magical skills that most of the wizarding society find to be tied with evil.
	+ He speaks Parseltongue, the language of snakes. Most people think Parseltongue is an evil power, because several evil wizards (Voldemort being the most recent and bigger example, Salazar Slytherin the most famous) not only spoke it, but used it for nefarious purposes. Harry becomes ostacised for having this power, and only uses it for good, most notably to rescue his future Love Interest Ginny Weasley. He loses this power after defeating Voldemort.
	+ Harry's also capable (from a power standpoint) of using the "Unforgivable Curses": Imperius, Cruciatus, and Avada Kadavra, spells considered pure evil and worthy of life imprisonment. However, he has only used the first two either to complete his mission of finding the Horcruxes or in the defence of another person. And for obvious reasons, he *never* uses Avada Kedavra.
	+ He was also capable of using Sectumsempra, which Snape (its inventor) describes as very advanced dark magic, on his first attempt with enough skill to cause severe lacerations on Draco Malfoy's face and body, though he didn't know what the spell was and was horrified.
* Because Destiny Says So: Zigzagged. Harry's destiny has been predicted by a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, but according to Dumbledore, it's only self-fulfilling because Voldemort *insists* on fulfilling it and Harry himself has no intention of turning away from it.
**Harry Potter:** It all comes to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or-
**Dumbledore:** Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! We both know it!
* Because I'm Good At It: Unlike many examples Harry's job as an Auror is a moral one, since he hunts Dark Wizards. But like many examples, he is a man of many talents, from Quidditch to a skilled teacher. Yet Harry's life has been fighting Dark Wizards and Dark creatures since the age of eleven and has never stopped, because at the end of the day (as Ginny implied) that is what fulfils him.
* Because You Were Nice to Me: Harry will *always* remember the kindness and support of his friends.
	+ His animosity with Malfoy was kicked off when the other boy insulted Hagrid (who was the first person in Harry's life to show him any kindness), and it only worsened when Malfoy taunted Ron, Harry's first ever friend.
	+ While he was initially weirded out by Luna like most of the other students, he soon takes a liking to her because she was one of the very first ones (outside of his closest allies) who believed in him about Voldemort returning.
* Beta Couple: He and Ginny get together faster and don't argue as much as Ron and Hermione. The only reason they even broke up was because, between Dumbledore's death and the upcoming mission to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes with Ron and Hermione, Harry had no idea if he was going to live past the war. It was all but stated that if they both survived, they would get back together.
* Beware the Nice Ones: He may have a big heart, but Harry is quick to anger whenever his friends are attacked.
* Big Good: He becomes this in *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*. Even though he does not exactly lead anyone, he continues to inspire hope and is a rallying point for the students of Hogwarts, Dumbledore's Army, and the Order of the Phoenix. In the practical sense, however, Moody and, after *he* dies, Kingsley, seem to be Dumbledore's designated successors.
* Big Man on Campus: Zigzagged throughout the series. His status as a Living Legend, his Quidditch talents and the fact that he's considered to be very good-looking in later books make him quite popular in general. There have also been times when the student body and the larger wizarding world shunned him - such as when he was accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets, and when Cornelius Fudge made him the target of a smear campaign - but each time he eventually regained his popularity after disproving the slander against him.
* Birds of a Feather: With his main love interest Ginny. Both are very strong and very passionate. Both have a great proficiency in Defence Against the Dark Arts, both love to play Quidditch, both are Leos, both have a darker sense of humour, and both are considered very good-looking, enough to attract many people of the opposite sex. Ginny is also notably the only girl of Harry's generation who, like Harry, personally suffered at the hands of Voldemort at a young, vulnerable age.
* A Birthday, Not a Break: Most of Harry's birthdays aren't nice. Particularly his twelfth (in which he ends up locked in his room as punishment for something he didn't do) and his seventeenth (because Rufus Scrimgeour interrupts his birthday party with Dumbledore's will, which sours it). Many of his early birthdays are implies to be less than satisfactory, as his relatives do not bother to get him real gifts.
* Black-and-White Insanity: Justified in that this is common at Harry's age, but Sirius eventually has to spell out to him that the world isn't divided between good people and Death Eaters. For example, while Snape is not at all a nice guy, Harry is perpetually suspicious of everything he does from the first book onwards because of his own dislike for him, and it actually leads to significant problems later in the series. On the other hand, Dumbledore's portrait calls Snape out for his attitude towards Harry, explaining that his actions had made him completely untrustworthy; add to that that Harry finds out that Snape is the one that told Voldemort the Prophecy and Snape ultimately kills Dumbledore, and Harry's hatred and distrust in the final book is seemingly justified - until he discovers the truth behind Snape's killing Dumbledore.
* Blemished Beauty: He has his iconic lightning-bolt scar that is seen more as a badge of honour than a deformity.
* Blessed with Suck: Harry and his fame. Being rather shy, he gets stared at and even mobbed in public, has his personal life blown out of proportion, particularly in fourth year, and has to deal with wannabe hangers-on (especially when he's old enough to date) and people - like Snape - who assume that his fame has made him arrogant. Worst of all, his fame is for surviving when his parents didn't.
* Blind Without 'Em: Though he seldom drops his glasses. In the film *Prisoner of Azkaban*, there are a few moments of blurriness coinciding with Harry getting his glasses knocked off when the Whomping Willow sends him flying. When she transforms into Harry with polyjuice potion at the start of *Deathly Hallows*, Hermione comments on how poor his eyesight is.
* Blunt "No": In *Prisoner of Azkaban*, after Aunt Marge insults his dead parents too many times, Harry's Power Incontinence causes her to inflate like a human balloon and float out the window. In the ensuing chaos, Harry grabs his luggage and departs the Dursley house, but Vernon angrily confronts him and demands that he bring back Marge immediately. Harry bluntly refuses and says, "She deserved what she got."
* Book Dumb:
	+ Downplayed; he's more Brilliant, but Lazy, but he still gets by mostly by practice and reliance on Hermione, aside from a few isolated moments like doing his homework when he's stuck at the Dursleys'. After the first book, he never seems to read any books for pleasure or information, and continues to rely on Hermione, Flick, and Ron for Info Dump well into his sixth year despite having been part of wizard culture for some time now.
	+ This becomes a plot point in book four; the Moody-disguised Crouch in his speech to Harry at the end, when explaining how he manipulated Harry into winning the tournament, noted that he often felt handicapped by Harry's stupidity. He noted that the solution to get past the merfolk in the Second Task was in a book he gave to Neville and all Harry had to do was ask Neville, since he knew perfectly well that Harry wouldn't read any books or gather knowledge on his own.
	+ As an Auror, Harry ignores paperwork so he can gather information in the field and do work from there.
* Boring, but Practical: The Disarming Charm, *Expelliarmus*, which becomes Harry's signature move. It does Exactly What It Says on the Tin, causing the target to drop whatever they may be wielding. It is fairly dull, basic, and unimpressive compared to most over spells, but given that wizards are basically helpless without a wand, it's an instant win if executed correctly. This does come back to bite him in the ass during the beginning of *Deathly Hallows*, in which the Order distributes several of its members, disguised as Harry, across several teams so that the Death Eaters will have a harder time finding and killing the real thing. When Harry disarms a supposedly Imperiused Stan Shunpike, his use of the spell tips off the other Death Eaters, and quickly alerts Voldemort to his location.
* Brainy Brunette: Often described as having "jet black hair" like his father and despite his lazier tendencies, Harry is actually quite perceptive and is known to be bright.
* Break the Cutie: At the age of one, his parents die and he gets attacked and scarred permanently and then gets shipped off to his abusive aunt and uncle's and discovers at age 11 that his guardians had lied to him all his life. He goes to Hogwarts, he discovers that the world of magic isn't so much an escape but another place where he is constantly in danger of death and other losses, and more or less faces the fact that he's powerless and a pawn to more powerful interests.
* Brilliant, but Lazy: He's struggled with his Potions and Transfiguration classes, but his O.W.L. scores demonstrated that he's actually rather good at them. There are subjects that he is legitimately bad at, but his lack of skill in Divination and History of Magic don't affect him in the story. In-universe, Harry has been described as bright, but not exceptionally so, being a Jack of All Stats. However, he's certainly as talented a wizard as his parents were described to have been when it comes to Defence Against the Dark Arts.
	+ Harry is considered to be one of the best duellists among the students by the time he's in his fifth year. He still gets owned by more experienced wizards, however, and gets handed down a Curb-Stomp Battle from snape, though to be fair, Harry has JUST returned from a fight against literal zombies and witnessed the Death of Dumbledore and had to fight the Death Eaters in the Castle to get to Snape. He is also the best in the year (possibly the entire school) at Defence Against the Dark Arts.
	+ It's also made clear one reason he's so bad at Potions is because Snape is his teacher. During his O.W.L. Harry's narration notes that the class is much easier without the pressure of Snape waiting to find something to punish him for. Also worth noting, when Snape finally stops being his Potions teacher, Harry immediately becomes far better at the subject, even outperforming Hermione. Technically this is due to the textbook he used in his sixth year having annotations, effectively making it a cheat sheet. However it's worth considering that this book was annotated by Snape himself. Therefore, he was still being taught by Snape, it just seems that Harry does infinitely better when Snape isn't breathing down his neck.
	+ He also has a natural affinity for flying. He's able to ace riding a broomstick on his first time, despite the teacher having to leave before she could tell him all of the basics. (It's implied he showed a natural talent for flying even as a *one-year old*.) He then manages to upgrade to the considerably faster Nimbus 2000 and Firebolt without any trouble. He even does well when it comes to taming and riding flying animals, such as Hippogriffs and Thestrals, and then getting a rather High Mark in Care of Magical Creatures O.W.L., hinting that he is rather skilled in that area.
	+ On a closer inspection, it is not that Harry, Ron, or Flick are "lazy" so much as the fact they hang around Hermione, who has obsessive studying habits. Harry, Ron, and Flick study reasonably hard, and it has never been stated that they fail their classes. They are just reasonably applied students, with other interests aside from schoolwork.
* Broken Ace: Most people in the wizarding world perceive him as The Ace while his relatives perceive him as worthless. Harry develops major insecurities as a result.
* Broken Hero: He's nice to people despite being emotionally abused by his aunt, uncle, and cousin.
* Broken Pedestal: He undergoes this at some point or the other with each of his adult role models. Sirius, his father, Dumbledore... fortunately they all become Rebuilt Pedestals in the end.
* Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: With Ginny. This starts in *Order of the Phoenix* when Harry is brooding and moody over the aftermath of Cedric's death, almost no one believing him about Voldemort's return, and being terrified over the possibility of Voldemort being able to possess him. Ginny manages to give him some comfort by having him actually talk about his fears, which helps him, somewhat. This continues in the next book, when Ginny offers him a comforting shoulder after Dumbledore's death.
* Bully Magnet: In the first book, it's briefly mentioned that Harry was this trope at the Muggle school he attended before Hogwarts. His situation large improves when he gets to Hogwarts, but then he gets the ire of Draco and Snape, his teacher.
* But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
	+ Ginny getting possessed by Lord Voldemort was this for Harry, more or less in hindsight. It was *not* for Ginny. This leads to a What the Hell, Hero? moment when Ginny calls him out for it.
	+ This also undermines some of the tension between him, Ron, Flick, and Hermione. He can't appreciate that being an orphan and being raised by the Dursleys like an indentured servant, and later finding out that he's independently wealthy as a result of his inheritances, makes it easier for him to become a free range wizard than it is for people with family who are worried about them.
	+ Harry has a much easier time than either Ron or Hermione at adapting to the hunger and deprivation that the group endures in book seven, because such things were just a fact of life for him while he was being raised by the Dursleys.
* ... But He Sounds Handsome: Inverted in the film adaptations. Whenever Harry talks about himself, whether in disguise or to people who don't know him, he won't say anything positive:
	+ In *The Chamber of Secrets*, while disguised as Goyle, he uses himself as an example of someone who's worse than Dumbledore.
	+ In *The Half-Blood Prince*, he calls himself a "tosser" when a Muggle waitress asks who Harry Potter is.
* Butt-Monkey: He goes through a lot of crap over seven books.
* Byronic Hero: He is a handsome young man, with very intense emotions and a temper to match, and at time his passions work against him. He is a highly powerful Wizard and also very intelligent. His life is tragedy after tragedy, yet he has the strength to keep going.
* Cain and Abel: The Abel to Dudley's Cain, even though they're cousins, not brothers.
* Clashing Cousins: Harry and his arch-nemesis Voldemort are very distant cousins, due to the former being descended from Ignotus Peverell and the latter from his older brother Cadmus Peverell.
* The Cassandra:
	+ Harry, with his claims that Voldemort has returned, is made a pariah by the wizarding government throughout *Order of the Phoenix*. When he tries to contradict the Ministry's stance in Umbridge's presence, she punishes him by forcing him to repeated write "I must not tell lies" with a Black Quill, eventually scarring his hand permanently.
	+ It happens again even after he's revealed to be right about Voldemort. He becomes convinced that both Malfoy and Snape are Death Eaters and is met with significant scepticism, with Lupin even suggesting Harry is simply determined to hate Snape because of his animosity with James Potter. He's correct about Malfoy, but Snape turns into a subversion when it turns out he was The Mole for Dumbledore the entire time.
* Celebrity is Overrated: Harry is deeply uncomfortable with the fame he has within the magical world and dislikes the spotlight, preferring to be treated like any other wizard. This is partially due to a combination of his age and due to the events in question as most people wouldn't want to be known for the night their parents were murdered.
* Chekhov's Skill: More of a survival adaptation than a learned skill, but he was frequently Denied Food as Punishment when living with the abusive Dursleys, allowing him to more easily cope with hunger pangs. When travelling with Ron and Hermione during *Deathly Hallows*, he's more able to deal with the lack of food than either of them.
* Chick Magnet: Ginny, Cho, Gabrielle, Romilda Vane, and Moaning Myrtle. Not to mention two unnamed girls that tried to ask him to the Yule Ball in *Goblet of Fire*, possibly Parvati Patil at one point, and in the movie adaptation of *Half-Blood Prince* a Muggle waitress at a café. Hermione Lampshades it in *Half-Blood Prince* by telling him that he's "never been more fanciable".
* Childhood Friend Romance: Harry eventually marries Ginny Weasley whom he became friends with in his second year of Hogwarts.
* The Chosen One: Harry is given this nickname by the press by the beginning of *Half-Blood Prince*, due to his connection to the prophecy. Like such people as Scrimgeour and Snape, he's less than amused. He is literally the Chosen One in that Voldemort assumed he was the subject of the prophecy and chose him as his adversary by attacking him, leading to a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, but the press does not understand this.
* Chronic Hero Syndrome: AKA "his saving people thing." This is eventually exploited - with tragic results - by Voldemort.
**Hermione:** This isn't a criticism, Harry! But you do... sort of... I mean - don't you think you've got a bit of a - a - saving-people thing?
* Closet Sublet: He provides the current page image for a reason.
* Conveniently an Orphan: Played with, since his home situation is not really "convenient."
* Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: At Hogwarts, Harry is the Cool friend to a bunch of students who, with the exception of Flick and Ginny, are not quite popular on their own. This includes Ron, Hermione, Luna, and Neville. The only time Harry feels upset about this is in book five where he has a crush on Cho Chang who is the most popular girl in school, but then in book six he gets over it and dismisses Luna's complaints about people expecting Harry to be around people cooler than them.
* Cool Loser: Harry's famous, a pretty nice guy, and is regarded as a hero. Yet in *Chamber of Secrets*, he's ostracised because he can talk to snakes, in *Goblet of Fire*, he's ostracised for apparently cheating his way into participating in the Triwizard Tournament (when really it was someone else who sneakily put his name in the goblet and it's established that cheating is basically impossible), and in the next book, he's looked down on because he's the only one who notices that *there's a frickin' war going on*. In the sixth book, he *does* become popular again and mostly enjoys it, but finds it annoying when someone like Romilda hits on him.
* Cool Teacher: He secretly teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts during his fifth year. Several characters subsequently praise his teaching ability, including Hermione and Ernie Macmillan. Even Fred and George Weasley, who disregarded their schoolwork and rebelled against teachers at every opportunity, comment positively on Harry's teaching skills.
* Crazy Jealous Guy: Harry didn't act on it, of course, but he was secretly angry at Dean whenever he kissed, held, or spent time with Ginny. He was also jealous when Cho told him that Cedric had asked her to the Yule Ball first but only acts on it by ignoring his actual date, Parvati, during the Yule Ball.
* Crime of Self Defence: In *Order of the Phoenix*, he risks breaking The Masquerade by using magic to protect his cousin and himself against Dementors, and is put on trial for this. In this case, the government in question is waging a propaganda war against Harry, and is twisting the law in order to punish him as much as possible and make him look like a delinquent. When the defence proves Harry was in a situation where the options were breaking The Masquerade or having his soul ripped out of his body, the Ministry spun the story to make it sound like he got off on a technicality. And then it turns out that one of their particularly nasty members is secretly responsible for the attack in the first place, precisely to provoke him into using magic so they could prosecute him for it.
* Cruel Mercy: He and Flick convince Remus Lupin and Sirius Black to spare Peter Pettigrew. Not to protect him, of course, but so he can have his soul sucked out by the Dementors (and prove Sirius Black's innocence).
* Dark and Troubled Past: Parents murdered at one, a decade of abuse from his relatives, a bullying cousin, and a psychopathic murderer out to kill him.
* Dark Is Not Evil: Masters spells that have been associated with dark magic.
* Deadpan Snarker: Perhaps one of his most defining traits, mostly in the books. If you try to be smart with Harry, he normally has an insult to hit you right back with.
**Vernon:** Listening to the news! Again?
**Harry:** Well, it changes every day, you see.
	+ Also shown in other occasions, such as this exchange in *Half-Blood Prince*:
	**Harry:** Yes.
	**Snape:** Yes, *sir*.
	**Harry:** There's no need to call me "sir", professor.
	+ He's definitely snarkier in the books, with the above lines of dialogue being two great examples. That said, he does get some great lines in the films, like this one from *Chamber of Secrets*:
	**Harry:** *[after nearly being run over by the Hogwarts Express and hanging out of the Ford Anglia]* I think we found the train!
* Death Seeker: Subtly implied to be one after Voldemort's return.
* Deceased Parents Are the Best: He grew up hearing nothing but bad things and lies about his parents from the Dursleys, only to learn from Hagrid that both of them were heroes in the wizarding world. This ends up feeding his curiosity about his family, and he associates a lot of special significance to objects or events concerning his parents, and wholeheartedly comes to believe that he would have had a happy childhood had it not been for Voldemort, which the small flashbacks and glimpses into his early life (Lily's letter in *Deathly Hallows*, and Voldemort seeing James playing with Little Harry before attacking Godric's Hollow) confirms.
	+ When he first receives the Cloak of Invisibility from Dumbledore on behalf of James, Harry, rather than sharing it with Ron and Flick, seeks to use it to tour and explore Hogwarts on his own because of the special connection to his father's relic. On that same night, he discovers the Mirror of Erised, which is the first real glimpse Harry ever received of his parents, since he didn't grow up with photographs. At the end of *Philosopher's Stone*, Hagrid provides him an album of photographs that he made by calling everyone who had seen and known his parents and it becomes one of Harry's prized possessions. Of course, eventually, thanks to Pensieve Flashback, he comes to see his Parents as People, that his father had his flaws and virtues, and that it took a while for his mother to return James' affections and befriend Sirius and the other marauders.
	+ This is also an underlying tension between him and Ron. Ron is constantly filled with angst about his Middle Child Syndrome and his baggage with his father and mother, while Harry for his part loves being part of the Weasleys' extended family while at the same time, thanks to his parents' inheritance, does not have to worry about money and supplies. From Ron's perspective, Harry is getting the best of both worlds, while Harry chides Ron for his jealousy of his "fame".
* Decoy Backstory: An In-Universe example. Harry was told by the Dursleys that his parents were killed in a car crash and got his scar from it. Harry vaguely remembers a big green flash and supposes this must be the crash. Then Hagrid came along to tell Harry that his parents were actually killed by Lord Voldemort, who gave the scar on his forehead. We the readers already know this because we were there for the prologue.
* Denied Food as Punishment: He was often on the receiving end of this from the Dursleys. Surprisingly, in *Deathly Hallows*, it's noted that since he often went through periods of near *starvation*, Harry is able to go for longer without eating than Ron and Hermione.
* Deus Angst Machina: To cut short seven books worth of angsting, fate seems to have no other reason for his existence than finding any and every available opportunity to abuse and torture him physically, mentally, and emotionally.
* Disney Death: At the end of book seven.
* Disney Villain Death: Not to Harry, but both of his broomsticks. His Nimbus 2000 in book three, which falls right into the Whomping Willow. His Firebolt in book seven during the ambush.
* Dissonant Serenity: Doubly, with respect to both others and himself. Harry's temperament and propensity for recklessness are among his chief faults, yet as he notes in *Deathly Hallows*, he tends to get calmer the more everyone else freaks out. Half a lifetime of dodging death by a hair seem to have effectively rewired his panic response, so much that past a certain threshold, his breash temper reverses and he ends up being shockingly clear-headed.
* Dude, Where's My Respect?: Hogwarts student and the wizarding world in general turn on Harry at the drop of a hat, despite Harry having saved both several times.
* Early Personality Signs: When Harry was just a baby, he loved flying around on a toy broomstick that he got from his godfather Sirius for his first birthday. He would grow up to become a gifted Quidditch player.
* Earn Your Happy Ending: He goes through a *lot* of physical and emotional pain across the books, but by the end of the series, he's in a loving marriage with three kids, and has a happy life.
* "Eureka!" Moment: While Hermione does the grunt work research, Harry is generally the one who ends up putting the clues together at the end. Unlike other examples of this trope, he doesn't normally get any particular source of inspiration, but rather simply gets focused enough to solve the given problem when things get really bad.
* Evil Is Not a Toy: Discovers this in the sixth book when he casts the spell Sectumsempra on Malfoy without knowing what it does beforehand. He's horrified to discover that it vivisects the target.
* Experienced Protagonist: By the final book, Harry has grown into his magical prowess to become one of the most powerful and skilled wizards in history.
* Eye Motifs: Harry has his mother's green eyes. This probably reflects his "deepest nature" being more like his mother than his father, or at least that's what Dumbledore wants Snape to believe. While Dumbledore told Harry in books 1-4 that he was very much like his father, and he connects more to his father, most of what we see of him and know of Lily suggests that beyond the surface, he really is more like his mother, particularly in terms of befriending outcasts like Luna, as she had Snape (though with Lupin, James wasn't short of that himself).

**F-K**

* Family Eye Resemblance: Harry is often told he has his mother's eyes, so often that he can finish the phrase himself. As Snape dies, his last words to Harry are "Look at me..." (in the books), or "You have your mother's eyes..." (in the films), so he can see the eyes of his beloved, Lily, one more time. (barf)
* Family of Choice: He wants nothing to do with his surviving muggle blood relatives and the feeling is mutual on their part until Dudley's character development. Instead, he considers Ron and Hermione his adopted brother and sister, and the Weasleys take him in as one of their own.
* Famous Ancestor: Averted. Pottermore reveals information about his ancestry that confirms that Harry is the first prominent Potter in wizarding history. His ancestors did work in creating well-known healing remedies which made the family fortune, while Ralston Potter and Henry "Harry" Potter played a part in advocating pro-Muggle legislation, but nothing amounting to more than a footnote. Indeed, despite being directly from Ignotus Peverell (through his grand-daughter Iolantha who married Linchfred of Stinchcombe, the Potters weren't considered among the Sacred Twenty-Eight.
* Fatal Flaw: Harry's "saving people thing" gets him into trouble. He's willing to do anything in order to save the people he cares about, and he has a matryr complex that keeps him from asking for help or back-up at times when it would really be a smart idea. He does this to keep the people around him safe, but it tends to really work against him. Voldemort uses this to manipulate him into doing things that lead to Sirius's death. This also makes it very easy for Harry's enemies to lead him into traps.
	+ Secondarily, his Ineffectual Loner tendencies (which really stem from a desire to protect his loved ones from danger). These reach their peak during the fifth book, but this is also the point where he starts to grow out of them.
	+ His inability to master Occlumency (granted, he is suffering from PTSD and has an incompetent teacher), and by extension his inability to control his emotions during Book Five, causes *a lot* of problems for Harry and people around Harry throughout the series, resulting in Harry getting manipulated more than once, making reckless decisions, alienating people close to him, and even getting people killed. It's no coincidence that when he does defeat Voldemort, he's not only willing to rely on others for help, but he's able, by then, to fully close his mind against Voldemort and to calmly form a plan instead of reacting.
* Tying all of the above, his impulsiveness in general which he pretty much displayed since Book One, and has only gotten worse as the series progressed, resulting in his failure to master Occlumency and his very poor grasp of his emotions in Book Five. Combining this with his Chronic Hero Syndrome has often led to disastrous results.
* Fighting Fingerprint: *Expelliarmus!* See Boring, but Practical.

**L-R**

* The Lancer:

**S-Y**

* Save Our Students:

### Felicity Charlotte Black

* Academic Athlete: [insert something about her being an incredibly talented quidditch player but also incredibly smart. include her owl grades]
* The Ace: [very gifted at quidditch and the most powerful witch of her age. she gets high marks on her owls]
* Ancestral Name: Flick takes her middle name after her mother, Charlotte, and she mostly takes after her mum in terms of appearance, hobby and general temperament.
* Animal Motifs: [patronus is a fox?]
* Back From the Dead(?): text
* Bad Powers, Good People: [able to use the unforgiveables from a power stand point. cant remember if I ever do have her use them]
* Death Faked For You(?): text
* Beware the Nice Ones: [something about her being nice and having a big heart but always willing to fight for her friends and is deadly when she does so]
* Birds of a Feather: [With her main love interest Fred. Both have a great proficiency in Charms, both love to play Quidditch, both love to have fun and play pranks, and both are considered very good-looking, enough to attract many people of the opposite sex]
* Break the Cutie: [mother died when she was one. father sirius died in ootp, father remus died in dh as well as her pseudo-sister tonks. she was kidnapped in dh and forced into hiding and the death eaters told everyone she was dead and she couldn't tell anyone the truth because they'd be in danger. fred dying]
* Childhood Friend Romance: Flick falls in love with Fred Weasley whom she became friends with in her first year of Hogwarts. However due to Fred's death she eventually marries Neville Longbottom whom she also met during her first year.
* Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: At Hogwarts, Flick is the Cool friend to a bunch of students who, with the exception of Harry and Ginny, are not quite popular on their own. This includes Ron, Hermione, Luna, and Neville.
* Cruel Mercy: She and Harry convince Remus Lupin and Sirius Black to spare Peter Pettigrew. Not to protect him, of course, but so h can have his soul sucked out by Dementors (and prove Sirius Black's innocence).
* Dark Is Not Evil: Masters spells that have been associated with dark magic.
* Deceased Parents Are the Best: [mother died when she was one. father sirius dies in ootp. father remus dies in dh]
* Disney Death(?): text
* Faking the Dead(?): text
* Not Too Dead to Save the Day(?): text
* Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated(?): text