Full Name: Harry James Potter.
Nick Names: The Boy Who Lived, Saint Potter (Draco Malfoy), The Chosen One, Undesirable Number One.
Citations: Harry is mentioned in Modern Magical History, The Rise
and Fall of the Dark Arts, and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century.
Place of Birth: Godric's Hollow, England.
Birthdate: 31 July 1980.
Ancestry: Half-blood.
Location of Childhood Home: Four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey.
Siblings: None.
Spouse: Ginnevra Molly Weasley.
Children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, Lily Luna (Later).
Godfather: Sirius Black ; he does not have a godmother.
Pet: Hedwig the owl, killed in the Battle Of The Seven Potter's in July 1997. He also owns Buckbeak (renamed 'Witherwings'), but the Hippogriff
is cared for by Hagrid.
House-elf: Kreacher, who was inherited from Sirius Black.
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor.
Awards, etc: Quidditch Cup; Special Award for Services to the School ; Triwizard Tournament Champion.
Quidditch: Seeker for Gryffindor
House team 1991 - 1997 (youngest player for a House team in a hundred
years). Captain of the team during his sixth year.
Other Affiliations: Dumbledore's Army, Gryffindor Quidditch Team.
Earned 7 OWLs (9 attempted): Astronomy A; Care of Magical Creatures E; Charms E; Defense Against the Dark Arts O; Divination P; Herbology E; History of Magic D; Potions E; Transfiguration E. These grades qualified Harry for a career as an Auror.
Career: While in school, Harry decided he wanted to be an
Auror, and his wish came true. After Voldemort was killed, new Minister
of Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt asked Harry to become
an Auror. Harry reformed the Auror Department and became its Head in
2007
Patronus: Stag, clearly referring to his father's Animagus form.
Boggart: A dementor.
Worst fear/memory: Harry relives the death of his parents when dementors are close by.
Amortentia (love potion) smells: "treacle tart,
the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he
thought he might have smelled at the Burrow.
Criminal? Harry was named "Undesirable Number One" by
the Death Eater-controlled Ministry. A ten-thousand-Galleon reward was
set for his capture.
Appearance: Harry is a near-spitting image of his father, having jet black, untidy hair, but his brilliant green eyes are identical to those of his mother. Harry's physique as a boy was described as "small and skinny", with a thin face and knobbly knees, due to his poor quality of life in his childhood. In time, he would grow to be "within an inch" of his father's height, and James was often described as tall. Harry wears round-rimmed glasses; his father also wore glasses.
Upon Harry forehead, covered by his unruly black hair, is a scar shaped like a lightning bolt. The scar is a result of the failed Killing Curse cast on him by Lord Voldemort when he was an infant. It burned painfully whenever Voldemort was near Harry or feeling particulary strong emotions, but this ceased after Voldemort's death. After his fifth year at Hogwarts Harry has another scar, shaped as the words "I will not tell lies" etched on the back of his hand, which never faded.
Personality: Harry is, as his sorting into Gryffindor suggests, brave, loyal, and selfless. He willingly went to what he truly believed to be his death at the hands of Lord Voldemort because he believed that this was the only way to defeat the Dark Lord. Harry is also marked by what Hermione Granger once deemed a "saving-people thing" — he will go to great lengths and take great risks in order to help others, particulary his loved ones. Notably, this was taken advantage of by Voldemort in 1996, when he lured Harry to the Department of Mysteries by making him believe that his godfather was in danger. Harry is also very strong-willed, unafraid to stand up for himself and able to resist the Imperius Curse at a young age. The Sorting Hat remarked that Harry was resourceful, determined, and lacked a regard for rules — Slytherin qualities.
However, Harry has also been accused of being arrogant, in particular by Severus Snape, and can be hot-tempered and impulsive. This can sometimes make him rude to authority figures such as Professor Snape and Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, and irritable even with his friends. Harry was prone to moodiness at least during his adolescence, though this is likely the result of the great emotional stress and trials he endured during this period. J.K. Rowling has noted that Harry's lack of emotional control is what undermined his ability to learn Occlumency. Despite being clever, Harry also lacked intellectual curiosity, rarely putting forth effort into school work; for example, he relied on the notes of the "Half-Blood Prince" to get ahead in his sixth-year Potions class rather than devoting time to studying.
Harry's greatest strength, though, is his great capacity to love, despite having a miserable childhood of neglect. Harry is fiercely loyal to and protective of his loved ones, and that love was what allowed him to overcome Voldemort.
Skills: Harry has many skills, some he takes for granted.
- Wand: Holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple; an unusual combination. It is the "brother" to Lord Voldemort’s wand, in that both contain a feather from Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes. This wand was broken during the escape from the Bathilda Bagshot's house, and Harry was wandless until Ron returned with a blackthorn wand he had captured from snatchers. The blackthorn wand was noticeably clumsy and less powerful. Luckily Harry was able to win Draco's, Bellatrix's and Womtail's wands during the escape from the Malfoy mansion. Of the three, Draco's (hawthorn and unicorn hair, 10 inches, reasonably springy), was the friendliest so Harry used this one until he could fix his original holly wand.
- Other devices: Invisibility cloak, Marauder’s Map, Pocket Sneakoscope, two-way mirror, two-way mirror shard, Sword of Gryffindor, Resurrection Stone, Elder Wand.
- Harry is "particularly talented" in Defence Against the Dark Arts - appears to be resistant to the Imperius Curse and Veelas can cast spells without a wand, senses the presence of others - Harry was able to hold his own against Death Eaters even at a young age; during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he was the only one of the six D.A. members to be neither injured nor incapacitated. Harry also survived multiple confrontations with Lord Voldemort himself, eventually defeating him.
- While in school, Harry decided he wanted to be an Auror, and his wish came true. After Voldemort was killed, new Minister of Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt asked Harry to become an Auror. Harry reformed the Auror Department and became its Head in 2007.
Broomstick: Nimbus 2000 (1991-3), Firebolt (1994-97).
- Harry showed immediate command of a broomstick, which made him a naturally good Seeker in Quidditch. His flying ability also aided him in the Triwizard Tournament, when he had to steal a golden egg from a Hungarian Horntail, and during the Battle of Hogwarts, during which he managed to escape a Fiendfyre inferno in the Room of Requirement.
Scar: Although Harry might not have seen his scar has a skill, it gave him power from Voldemort himself.
- Parselmouth: Because he carried a piece of Voldemort's soul within himself, Harry was able to speak and understand Parseltongue from 1981 to 1998. After that soul fragment was destroyed, Harry lost this ability, which he was glad for.
- Insight into Voldemort's mind: Also due to the piece of Voldemort's soul in him, Harry was able to see into Voldemort's mind and through his senses from time to time. He sometimes used this ability to monitor what Voldemort was doing. However, it was a dangerous ability to have as well; Voldemort once used it, along with Legilimency, to plant a false vision in Harry's mind of Sirius Black being tortured, which he used to lure Harry to the Department of Mysteries.
Master of the Deathly Hallows: Harry was master of all three of the Deathly Hallows for a time. Harry overpowered and disarmed Draco Malfoy during a skirmish at Malfoy Manor. Because Draco was unknowingly the master of the Elder Wand, which he had taken from previous owner Albus Dumbledore, the wand's allegiance turned to Harry when he disarmed him, despite the wand being in Voldemort's possession at the time. Dumbledore left Harry the Resurrection Stone to Harry in his will, contained in the Golden Snitch that Harry had caught during his very first Quidditch match. The Cloak of Invisibility was rightfully Harry's, as it was passed down to him through the generations of the Potter family from its original owner, Ignotus Peverell, who was Harry's ancestor. The Resurrection Stone was lost in the Forbidden Forest in 1998, while Harry returned the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb that same year. Harry kept the Invisibility Cloak, as it was an heirloom of his family.
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