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Harry James Potter

Biographical information

Born31 July 1980Godric's Hollow [1]

Blood status Half-blood

Marital status Married

The Boy Who Lived [2]

The Boy Who Lies [3]

The Chosen Captain (byDraco Malfoy)

The Boy Who Scored (byDraco Malfoy)

Undesirable No. 1 [4]

Sweetheart (by his mother in 1998)

Moral Fiber (by Fred and George Weasley)

Plotter (by Daily Prophet)

Gregory Goyle [5] The Great Harry

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"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work

against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the

suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you

stared into a mirror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to

thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches."

—Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter.[src]

Harry James Potter (b. 31 July 1980) is a half-blood wizard, the only child and son of James

Potter and Lily Potter (née Evans), and one of the most famous wizards of modern times. In an

attempt to circumvent a prophecy that a boy born at the end of July 1980 would be able to defeat

him, Lord Voldemort tried to murder him when he was a toddler, and did murder Harry's parents when

they tried to protect him. This early attempt to vanquish Harry led to Voldemort's first defeat and the end

of the First Wizarding War. One consequence of Lily's protection is that her orphaned son had to be

raised by her only remaining blood relative, in her Muggle sisterPetunia Dursley's family, where he

was not welcomed or nurtured, but would stay alive, at least until he was 17. As the only known survivor

of the Killing Curse, Harry was already famous before he arrived at Hogwarts.

At the age of eleven, Harry learned from Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, that he was

a wizard. He began attending Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted

intoGryffindor house. While at school, Harry became best friends withRon Weasley and Hermione

Granger. He became the youngestSeeker in over a century and eventually captain of his

house'sQuidditch team, winning two Quidditch Cups as part of the team.[19]He became even better

known in his early years for protecting thePhilosopher's Stone from Voldemort and saving Ginny

Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets. In his fourth year, Harry won the Triwizard

Tournament, although the competition ended in tragedy with the death of Cedric Diggory and

the return of Lord Voldemort. The next school year, Harry reluctantly founded Dumbledore's

Army and fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, during which he lost

hisgodfather, who was a father figure to him.

Harry played a significant role in many other battles of the Second Wizarding War and hunted down

and destroyed Voldemort'sHorcruxes with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. During

theBattle of Hogwarts, he personally witnessed the deaths of Severus Snape and Fred

Weasley, and learned that Remus Lupin,Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey, and many others

had fallen as well. He encountered Voldemort and sacrificed himself, knowing that that was the only way

to destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul that was inside him. In Harry's near-death experience after

Voldemort cursed him in the forest clearing, Albus Dumbledore gave Harry advice and background

information on Voldemort. Harry chose to live, and after he awoke, he duelled Voldemort one last time,

and defeated him.

After the war, Harry became an Auror and married his best friend Ron's younger sister, Ginny

Weasley, with whom he had three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Harry

was also named the godfather of Teddy Remus Lupin. He had felt the effects of the Cruciatus

Curse and the Imperius Curse several times. He was also hit by the Killing Curse twice, but

survived. Harry is also notable for being the only known Master of Death, having united the

threeDeathly Hallows.

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Biography Edit

Family lineage Edit"Now, yer mum an' dad were as good a witch an' wizard as I ever knew. Head

Boy an' Head Girl at Hogwarts in their day!"

—Rubeus Hagrid talking about Harry's parents[src]

The Potters were an old, very wealthy pure-blood family, and Harry inherited much of his wealth

from his parents. The Potters descended from the Peverell family, an ancient wizarding line,

through Ignotus Peverell, who passed an Invisibility cloak on to his descendants. TheGaunts,

descendants of Salazar Slytherin, also descend from thePeverells, through Ignotus'

brother Cadmus, who passed on theResurrection Stone as a family heirloom in a signet ring,

making Harry and Tom Marvolo Riddle very distant relatives.

Harry as a baby with his parents.

Added by You-Know-Who

It is also probable that Harry was distantly related, on his father's side, to

the Blacks, Malfoys, Weasleys, and the Longbottoms,[20]and almost all other pure-blood

families, making him distantly related to various other wizards and witches, including Bellatrix

Lestrange,Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks, and even his own future wife Ginny Weasley,

though the degree of consanguinity is not known.[21]

Harry's maternal relatives are the Muggle Evans and Dursley families.

Childhood Edit"Maybe he thought he could persuade 'em... maybe he just wanted 'em outta the way. All anyone

knows is, he turned up in the village where you was all living, on Hallowe'en ten years ago. You

was just a year old."

—Rubeus Hagrid on Harry's parent's deaths[src]

Harry as a baby, faces death.

Added by Fairfieldfencer

Harry James Potter was born on 31 July, 1980, to James and Lily Potter, members of the

first Order of the Phoenix at the height of theFirst Wizarding War. From birth, he lived in hiding

with his parents after Lord Voldemort marked them for death. They lived in the village of Godric's

Hollow in a home put under the Fidelius Charm to keep them hidden. As part of the charm, they had

planned to make their Secret-Keeper Sirius Black, but acting on his advice, they changed this

designation to Peter Pettigrew, as they thought he would be less suspicious. In a terrible turn of fate, it

happened that Pettigrew was a spy for Voldemort. He betrayed James and Lily Potter, faked his own

death, and framed Sirius Black for everything.

Lily shields her baby fromVoldemort.Added by Pol 871

At an unknown time, James and Lily held a Christening for Harry. It was quiet and quick, and only

James, Lily, Harry, and godfather Sirius were there. It is also known that for Harry's birthday Sirius bought

Harry a toy Broomstick. The Potters are also known to have owned a cat but it is not known what

happened to the cat after Lord Voldemort's attack.

On the evening of 31 October, 1981, Lord Voldemort arrived atGodric's Hollow and ended the

lives of Harry's parents; he started with James, who tried to stand up to him; unfortunately he did not

have his wand with him and was killed immediately. Voldemort then advanced on Lily Potter, who died

protecting Harry. Her sacrificeprevented the Killing Curse from working. Her love for Harry became a

barrier protecting her son; when Voldemort attempted the curse on the child, it backfired, and instead of

killing Harry, Voldemort lost all his powers and his physical form was obliterated, but was saved from

death by his multiple Horcruxes. Harry became the only person known to have survived the Killing

Curse. The failed curse left alightning bolt-shape scar on his forehead. The scar would be a bane

and a blessing to Harry in the years to come, as it opened atelepathic link between Lord

Voldemort and himself. He became famous even at the age of one for defeating Lord Voldemort.

"To Harry Potter — The Boy Who Lived."

—Wizarding world toasting Harry Potter after Lord Voldemort's first downfall.[src]

The Potter family home under attack.

Added by Patr0nus

The house at Godric's Hollow was destroyed in the fight, and Rubeus Hagrid rescued Harry from

the ruined house. Hagrid was given specific orders to take him to his Aunt Petunia and Uncle

Vernon, but Hagrid was intercepted by Sirius Black, who pleaded for Hagrid to give the baby to him.

Hagrid refused, saying that he was under orders from Dumbledore to get Harry to Privet Drive as

quickly as possible. Sirius, though reluctant, relented and gave Hagrid his flying motorcycle to take Harry

to Privet Drive. Dumbledore left a letter explaining everything to the Dursleys, but they never relayed it

to Harry. Instead, Harry spent the next decade of his life in their strict and miserable home.

Life at Privet Drive Edit

"I'm not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out

that dangerous nonsense?"

—Vernon refusing to accept that Harry's a wizard[src]

Baby Harry left on the doorstep.

Added by Starstuff

Living with the Dursleys, Harry thought, was the worst thing in the world. As they were

a Muggle family, they had no understanding ofmagic, and even though his aunt and uncle knew about

his lineage, they wanted nothing to do with it. The Dursleys considered themselves a "proper" family and

hated anything out of the ordinary. They lied to Harry about his parents, claiming they had died in a car

wreck and that James was an unemployed drunk. They resented Harry for his magical talents, which

were sporadic, but evident. They would not even let Harry say the word "magic." They discouraged any

sort of imagination insisting upon "stamping that rubbish out" and screamed at or punished Harry

whenever something "unusual" occurred. In his youth, Harry could make strange things happen without

understanding why (as no one had bothered to tell him that he was a wizard). For instance, after his

aunt Petunia sheared off all his messy hair in fury that it would not lay flat, it grew back to its untouched

state by the next morning. Harry was punished, even though he had not done anything on purpose.

Another time, Dedalus Diggle bowed to him in a shop, and his Aunt Petunia ferociously interrogated

Harry as to how he knew the man before leaving the shop very quickly.

Harry's bedroom beneath the staircase.

Added by Margiechocoholic

The Dursleys spoiled and pampered their son Dudley and paid almost no attention to Harry. All his

clothes were ill-fitting hand-me-downs from Dudley, far too large for Harry. He was forced to sleep in

the cupboard under the stairs, while his cousin got two bedrooms to himself. They ordered Harry

around like a slave. In time, Dudley became a terrible bully of Harry. The Dursleys took Dudley and a

friend to spectacular places every year for his birthday, but they never threw Harry a party and gave him

horrible presents like a pair of Uncle Vernon's old socks.

There were two benefits to Harry's virtual imprisonment at the Dursleys' home. First, Harry's

neighbour, Arabella Figg, was a Squib working undercover for the Order of the Phoenix to keep

tabs on Harry's well-being; however, to maintain favour with the Dursleys, she was forced to mistreat him

whenever they sent him to her. And second, by returning to live with his mother's only living blood

relative, the protection that Lily gave Harry would live on. While Harry could call that place home, there

he could not be harmed. However, this charm would be broken when Harry turned 17 years old, or when

he no longer called 4 Privet Drive his home.

Harry playing with his toy soldiers in

the Cupboard under the stairs.

Added by Firefox1095

On Dudley's eleventh birthday, the Dursleys went to Zoo with Dudley's best friend Piers Polkiss.

Unfortunately for the Dursleys they had to take Harry with them, as Yvonne, Petunia's best friend, was

on holiday at Majorca, and Mrs. Figgbroke her leg. At the Zoo, Harry accidentally made the glass into

a boa enclosure disappear.

Muggle primary school Edit

"At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in

his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang."

—The reason Harry had no friends at school[src]

Harry attended a normal Muggle school along with Dudley. He did not have any friends, since all the

students were afraid of Dudley's gang. It is told that he was good at sports, even though he was the

last picked for a team; this was more because no one wanted to admit to Dudley that they liked him,

rather than because he was no good. Harry got decent, if not good, grades at school. Harry once

accidentally turned his teacher's wig blue, and once somehow found himself on the school kitchen

roof, when escaping from Dudley's gang.

If Harry had not gone to Hogwarts, he would have attended Stonewall High, a Muggle state school.

Harry's discovery of being a wizard Edit"Yer a wizard, Harry, and a thumpin' good one I'd wager, once yer trained up a bit, o' course."

—Rubeus Hagrid upon meeting Harry for the first time[src]

Harry finally receives his Hogwarts acceptance

letter.Added by Patr0nus

Harry had no birthday celebrations until the day he turned eleven, which was the same day that he

discovered the exceptional reality about his identity . The week of Harry's birthday, hundreds of letters

began arriving at the Dursley's home, addressed to him from a place called Hogwarts School of

Witchcraft and Wizardry. When the Dursleys saw the first letter was addressed as "cupboard under

the stairs," they panicked at the thought of Harry's ill treatment being observed and transferred him

to Dudley's second bedroom, which soon appeared on letters as the "smallest bedroom." When

Harry's Uncle Vernon first read the letter, he turned a pale, porridge grey out of fear that wizards were

trying to contact Harry. Because of this, Vernon Dursley tried to destroy the letters in a futile attempt to

keep Harry from his destiny. As the letters kept coming in increasingly larger quantities, the Dursleys saw

no alternative but to flee from them. The owls carrying the letters followed them wherever they went. In a

final desperate move, the Dursleysrelocated themselves to a shack on a rocky island in the edge of

the sea.

Hagrid's birthday cake to Harry.

Added by Starstuff

At midnight on Harry's birthday, Rubeus Hagrid appeared in person to find out why Harry had not

received his letter. He was infuriated by the Dursleys and explained to Harry, in spite ofVernon's

obstinate protests, that he was a wizard, how his parents died, and that he was to be sent to Hogwarts

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"That's why you're famous, Harry. That's why everyone knows your name. You're the boy who

lived."

—Hagrid on why Harry is famous.[src]

This would be Harry's first birthday celebration, and Hagrid gave him a small home made birthday cake

and an owl, whom Harry named Hedwig. Hagrid took Harry to the Leaky Cauldron, where he

learned that he was famous. He met Quirinus Quirrell, his soon-to-be Defence Against the Dark

Arts teacher at Hogwarts, the Inn-keeper, Tom, a witch named Doris Crockford, and Dedalus

Diggle, the man who had bowed to Harry several years earlier. Hagrid then took Harry to Diagon

Alley, where he learned more about his fame in the Wizarding world and that his parents had left him

a small fortune in a vault at Gringotts.

Harry makes a connection with his wand.

Added by You-Know-Who

"I remember every wand I've every sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens thatthe phoenix whose tail

feather resides in your wand gave another feather. Just one other. It is curious that you should

be destined for this wand...when its brother gave you that scar."

—Garrick Ollivander explaining to Harry about his unique wand.[src]

Harry bought his first wand from the wandmaker Garrick Ollivander that day. His wand was eleven

inches long and made of holly. The phoenix feather at the core came from Dumbledore's

phoenix Fawkes. It was crafted by Garrick Ollivander, who had also created a twin wand. This wand

had been made from yew, and contained the only other feather supplied by Fawkes . This twin

wand had long ago chosen Tom Marvolo Riddle as its wielder. Riddle, under the alias of Lord

Voldemort, ended up using this wand to attack Harry and his parents . The two wands , sharing the

same phoenix origin, had a unique connection which would prevent them from

successfully duelling against each other.

Education at Hogwarts Edit

First year Edit

Harry shows off his scar to Ron on the train.

Added by You-Know-Who

Dumbledore: "Harry, do you know why Professor Quirrell couldn't bear to have you touch him? It

was because of your mother. She sacrificed herself for you. And that kind of act leaves a mark...

This kind of mark cannot be seen. It lives in your very skin."

Harry: "What is it?"

Dumbledore: "Love, Harry. Love."

— Albus Dumbledore to Harry[src]

Harry's scar hurts during the sorting ceremony when he makes eye contact

withSeverus Snape.

Added by Rangerkid51

Harry Potter was further guided by destiny when he met his lifelong best friends Ron

Weasley and Hermione Granger while riding the Hogwarts Express. The Sorting Hat took a

while to decide where to place Harry. It considered putting Harry into Slytherin, but changed its mind at

Harry's insistence, as he had heard about the Dark Wizards who had been in the house. All three were

Sorted into Gryffindor House on their first evening at school. While Harry immediately took to Ron, he

did not immediately befriend Hermione, though he was nicer to her than Ron was. On Halloween,

aMountain Troll was let into the school. The students were sent back to theirCommon Rooms, but

Harry realised that Hermione did not know about the Troll, since she was in the bathroom crying as Ron

had made fun of her earlier in the day. Harry and Ron went to the girls bathroom and found the troll

bearing down on Hermione. After Harry stuck his wand up its nose, Ron was able to knock the troll out

with its own club. Hermione lied to the professors when they came to investigate to keep Harry and Ron

out of trouble. From that point on, the three were best friends.

Harry with his magical companion Hedwig.

Added by Andrew120

Professor McGonagall: "Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood — I've found you a Seeker."

Wood: "Are you serious, Professor?"

Professor McGonagall: "Absolutely. The boy's a natural. I've never seen anything like it."

— Professor McGonagall and Oliver Wood after seeing Harry fly[src]

Harry caught theRemembrall of Neville Longbottom.

Added by Shiruzuka2997

Harry discovered at his firstbroomstick flying lesson that he was a natural flyer. When Draco

Malfoy took Neville Longbottom'sRemembrall, Harry retrieved it using his broom to fly up and

catch it. He was so good that he was able to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team, becoming the

youngest Seeker in a century, since first year students normally were not allowed to have their

own broomsticks. Before Harry's first Quidditch match, he received the new Nimbus 2000, a top of

the line racing broom, from Professor McGonagall. During that Quidditch match,

Harry's broom was jinxed, and he had no control.

Harry playing Quidditch.

Added by H.P.Snitch

Ron and Hermione saw Professor Severus Snape staring at Harry and mumbling an

incantation. Hermione went to Snape's row and under his seat and cast Lacarnum

Inflamarae causing the end of his robes to catch on fire. As soon as Snape stopped making eye contact

with Harry, he regained control of his broom and zoomed toward the ground. On his way, he caught

the snitch in his mouth, almost swallowing it, ending the match and leavingGryffindor victorious. It was

later revealed that Professor Quirrell was the one jinxing Harry's broom, and Snape was trying to perform

a counter-jinx, much to Harry, Ron, and Hermione's surprise. Meanwhile, Lord Voldemort, long

presumed dead, was secretly mounting a return using the new Professor ofDefence Against the

Dark Arts, Quirinus Quirrell, as a host body, he was able to search for the Philosopher's Stone,

which he believed would restore him to his body and grant him everlasting life. Voldemort was thwarted

by Harry, with the help of Ron and Hermione. Harry, Ron and Hermione suffered a series of

exhausting and difficult challenges down in the Philosopher's Stone chambers in an attempt to stop

thePhilosopher's Stone being stolen. Quirell and

Voldemort in confrontation

Added by El Profeta Vespertino

Throughout the challenges the group was picked off and in the final task Harry was left on his own when

Hermione was unable to pass through, this left Harry to face Voldemort alone. Harry and Quirrell (who

had been harbouring Voldemort with him all year) fought one another and Harry killed Quirrell with the

power of love than ran through him.

The Writing on the Wall.

Added by Dumbledorefan

Second year Edit

Ron: "You're aParselmouth! Why didn't you tell us? ... Now the whole school is gonna think

you're his great-great-great-grandson or something."

Harry: "But I'm not! I can't be."

Hermione: "He lived a thousand years ago. For all we know, you could be."

— Harry finds out he's a Parselmouth[src]

Harry in his second year, during the first meeting of Gilderoy

Lockhart's Duelling Club.

Added by Rangerkid51

Harry's second year started out badly, and gradually got worse. Throughout the preceding summer, Harry

had not been in contact with any of his friends, had heard no news from the wizarding world, and had

been mistreated by his family, as usual. The evening of his twelfth birthday, Harry learned that the reason

his friends had not been in contact with him was that a house-elf named Dobby had been stopping

letters from coming to Harry. When Harry questioned Dobby as to why, Dobby told him that Harry Potter

must not return to Hogwarts. Harry refused, saying the wizarding world was where he belonged, and

Dobby set out to cause him trouble. During a business meeting betweenVernon and Mr. Mason, who

brought his wife with him, Dobby used his powers to ruin the party, and then shortly afterwards

disappeared, framing Harry for the chaos. Dobby's act of magic caused Harry to receive a warning from

the Ministry of Magic and to be imprisoned in his room by the Dursleys. Despite their efforts, Harry

was rescued by Ron and his brothers, Fred and George. Harry had packed his bags and loaded the

Weasleys' flying car. Harry and the brothers arrived at the Burrow in the early hours of the morning,

hoping not to be noticed. However, they were, and Mrs. Weasley was furious.

Harry with Fawkes.

Added by Dumbledorefan

Dobby's first attempt at stopping Harry from returning had failed, so he continued trying. When Harry and

the Weasleys arrived at King's Cross Station, Dobby sealed the entrance to Platform Nine and

Three-Quarters early and stopped Harry and Ron from passing through the wall to get on the

Hogwarts Express. However, this did not stop Harry from returning to Hogwarts, he and Ron used the

Weasleys' Flying Ford Anglia to follow the train to Hogwarts. They arrived later than they had hoped,

but all in one piece; until Ron accidentally drove the flying car into the Whomping Willow and broke his

wand.

However, Harry's year at Hogwarts was not going to get any better. Throughout the year, the new

Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, humiliated Harry repeatedly by dragging

Harry into the spotlight against Harry's will. During a duelling class led by Lockhart, Harry revealed

himself to his fellow students and members of staff to be a Parselmouth, an uncommon skill that is

normally associated with dark wizards. This brought on a great deal of trouble for Harry, since

the Chamber of Secrets had been re-opened, and it was the "Heir of Slytherin" who was deemed

responsible. Once the chamber had been unsealed, there were various attacks on Muggle-bornpupils,

including Harry's best friend Hermione Granger. These attacks were believed to have been carried out by

the heir, who many believed to be Harry, but Harry believed that Draco Malfoy was responsible. In

order to prove their hypothesis, Hermione cooked up a Polyjuice Potion that Harry and Ron used to

change to look like Crabbe and Goyle, so they could try to get information from Malfoy. They learned that

Malfoy was not the heir and that he had no idea who the attacker was. Hermione, however, did not join

the boys in this adventure as she had accidentally used a cat hair in her potion, causing her to spend

weeks in the hospital wing. Prior to Valentine's Day, Harry discovered a diary, and while writing in it,

Harry learned that the Chamber had been opened fifty years ago and that Hagrid had been accused of

the crime.

By this time, Hermione had a different theory. She believed that the monster responsible for these attacks

was abasilisk and conducted research into her theory. The morning Hermione was attacked, she

and Penelope Clearwater had been using a mirror to look around corners for any attacking predator.

Hermione had done enough research to figure that the Basilisk had been moving around the school using

the pipe system and scribbled her theory down on a scrap piece of paper torn out of a book. She was

attacked the same day, and her paralysed body was taken to the school's hospital wing.

Still believing that if Hagrid were not responsible, he could at least point them in the right direction, Harry

and Ron visited him after the attack on Hermione. From under the Cloak of Invisibility, they witnessed

his arrest by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge and the suspension of Dumbledore. As Hagrid

was being led away, he gave the pair a new clue. He told them to follow the spiders. Harry and Ron

heeded this advice, even though Ron was deathly afraid of spiders. They met Aragog who told them that

Hagrid was not responsible for opening the Chamber the first time and that the girl who died was killed in

a bathroom, leading Harry to theorise that Moaning Myrtle was the victim. A few days later, Harry and

Ron discovered the scrap of paper in Hermione's hand. Harry and Ron wondered how a big Basilisk

would go around the school undetected, and then they saw the word "pipes."

Harry (and later Ron) would soon learn that the person responsible for opening the Chamber was in fact

Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley, under the control of a memory of Lord Voldemort by writing

into his diary, forcing her to torment and vandalise the school. They also learned that she was being kept

down in the Chamber and were told that her "skeleton would lie in the Chamber forever." Determined to

rescue Ginny and hopefully catch the Heir and destroy the Basilisk, Harry, accompanied by Ron and

Lockhart, was able to locate and open the Chamber using his Parseltongue abilities. Once they got down

into the Chamber, it was not long before the cowardly Lockhart attempted to erase Harry and Ron's

memories using Ron's broken wand; however, his spell backfired, and he erased his own memory.

The Chamber roof caved in, separating Harry from Ron and Lockhart.

Separated from Ron and a now deluded Lockhart, Harry ventured on alone. Harry soon found Ginny's

unconscious body lying on the floor of the Chamber. As he hoped she was not dead, he was greeted by

Tom Riddle, who had come to a simulation of life from the memories stored in the diary. Revealing his

history and true nature, Riddle set the basilisk upon him. Harry defeated the Basilisk with the help

of Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, and Godric Gryffindor's Sword. However, Harry was bitten by

the Basilisk. Fawkes flew over to Harry and wept upon his wound. As Phoenix tears have healing powers,

Harry survived. Harry then stabbed the diary with the Basilisk fang to rid himself of Riddle, not knowing

that he had just destroyed one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Once the emergency was over, Fawkes flew

Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Lockhart to safety. Harry spoke with Dumbledore on the events that took place,

and explained to him that Ginny was not to blame and that Lockhart was a fraud. Harry and Ron both

received Awards for Special Services to the School and two-hundred points a piece for Gryffindor House.

Harry examines the Sword of Gryffindor.Added by Rangerkid51

After interpreting Dobby's strange actions in Dumbledore's office, Harry realised Lucius Malfoy was the

ultimate culprit for opening the Chamber. Before term started, he had planted Tom Riddle's diary in

Ginny's cauldron in the hope of indirectly opening the Chamber of Secrets. At this time, he did not know

the diary was one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. Afterwards, Harry was able to trick Lucius into freeing

his mistreated house-elf, Dobby, who had been attempting to protect Harry all year, by giving him one

of his socks. Malfoy was subsequently sacked as a school governor.

Third year Edit

Harry, Ron and Hermione in theShrieking Shack.

Added by Will k

"He was their friend...and he betrayed them. HE WAS THEIR FRIEND! I hope he finds me,

because when he does, I'm going to be ready! When does, I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"

—Harry, still believing Sirius Black to be the man who betrayed his parents, learns that Black is

also his godfather.[src]

In the summer of 1993, Sirius Black—who had been wrongly imprisoned twelve years earlier for

allegedly betraying James and Lily Potter to Voldemort and killing twelve Muggles—

escaped from Azkaban. This created a tense climate in the wizarding world, and many believed

that killing Harry was the object of Black's escape. As such, he was treated leniently when, late in the

summer, he inadvertently inflated his "Aunt" Marge, possibly with an Engorgement Charm. That

evening he ran away from the Dursleys, and after an enlightening journey aboard the Knight Bus, he

arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, whereMinister for Magic Cornelius Fudge was awaiting him.

After spending two happy weeks at the Leaky Cauldron, Harry met up with his

friends Ron and Hermione along with the entire Weasley family, who had just returned from a

holiday in Egypt. That night, Harry overheard Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arguing and learned of the

Ministry's fears that Harry was the target of Sirius Black.

Prior to their departure aboard the Hogwarts Express, Mr. Weasley pulled Harry aside and in no

uncertain terms told Harry not to go looking for Black. Finding only one open compartment, Harry and his

friends shared their ride with a new professor, Remus Lupin. The train suddenly stopped well before it

should have and was searched byDementors looking for Black. Harry reacted poorly to the appearance

of the dementors, passing out, and beginning a pattern that would last most of the year. The following

day, Harry and his classmates began their new classes. Among the first was Care of Magical

Creatures in which, Hagrid, the new professor, taught them about hippogriffs. Unfortunately, Draco

Malfoy had not been listening when Hagrid lectured and was injured by the hippogriff,Buckbeak. In

Harry's other new class, Divination, the professor, Sybill Trelawney made a habit of predicting

Harry's demise. On the other hand, Professor Lupin soon proved to be an excellent teacher in Defence

Against the Dark Arts, where he taught the students how to combat various dark creatures.

Harry approaches theBuckbeak the hippogriff.Added by Rangerkid51

At Halloween, the third year students went on their first visit to Hogsmeadevillage. Harry was not

allowed to go, as he had not had his permission form signed. In light of Harry's difficulties, Ron and

Hermione, who had been fighting over Hermione's new cat, Crookshanks, put aside their differences.

While his friends were enjoying themselves in Hogsmeade, Harry visited with Professor Lupin. A few

weeks later, Harry played in the first Quidditch match of the year versus Hufflepuff. In the pouring rain

and storms, the teams played until theDementors invaded the field. In their presence, Harry tumbled off

his broom fifty feet to the ground. His Nimbus 2000 was destroyed in the process. Knowing

that Gryffindor would not win the Quidditch Cup, if he continued to collapse in the presence of the

dementors, Harry asked Lupin to help teach him how to combat them.

Hogsmeade in Christmas.

Added by ADR1

Just before Christmas, the school had another Hogsmeade visit. This time Harry sneaked out of the

castle using the Marauder's Map, which the Weasley twins presented to him in his time of need.

During his illicit visit to Hogsmeade, Harry overheard a conversation between Minister for

Magic Cornelius Fudge  and several of the Hogwarts teachers. Fudge told them that Black had

betrayed the Potters and that he was still Harry's godfather. This revelation caused Harry great distress.

To relieve Harry of some of his troubles the trio went to visit Hagrid, where they learned that Buckbeak

was to be put on trial, and they promised to help his defence. Soon after, on Christmas day, Harry

received a Firebolt from an anonymous benefactor. Believing it to be from Sirius Black, Hermione

reported it to Professor McGonagall, causing Harry and Ron to stop talking to her.

Harry's first lesson.

Added by Jack "BtR" Saxon

Following the break, Lupin began his lessons with Harry. While Harry made progress, he regretted his

inability to create a true Patronus many lessons in. Soon after, Harry was given his Firebolt back by

Professor McGonagall, and Harry decided it was high time to patch things up with Hermione. However,

that same evening, Ron's rat, Scabbers, disappeared, and Crookshanks was blamed. The boys did not

reconcile with her until after the next Hogsmeade visit, when Harry was almost caught. After receiving a

stern talking to for sneaking out of the school, Harry and Ron emerged from Professor Lupin's office to

find Hermione standing there looking distraught. She told them thatLucius Malfoy had used his

influence and Buckbeak had been convicted and sentenced to execution.

The Quidditch final was soon upon them, and Harry played in the dirtiest game of his career. He managed

to catch the Golden Snitch after Gryffindor was sufficiently ahead, and Gryffindor won the Quidditch

Cup. They could not celebrate for long as finals were right around the corner. Harry did well enough in the

tests, and following his last final in Divination, Professor Trelawney went into a trance and predicted that

the servant would return to Lord Voldemort and help him return to power. The same day, Buckbeak's

appeal had taken place in the castle, where the hippogriff was, again, sentenced to death. Against the

advice of Hagrid, the trio went down to his cabin to comfort him. While there, Scabbers resurfaced. When

he discovered that the Ministry officials were on their way, Hagrid rushed Harry, Ron, and Hermione out

the back. While they made their way back to the castle, the sound of a swishing blade rent the air, and

Buckbeak was apparently executed.

Harry and Hermione use theTime-Turner.Added by Rangerkid51

Immediately afterwards, Scabbers bit Ron and attempted to escape, causing Ron to chase the rat into the

shadow of the Whomping Willow. Once there, he was attacked by a large black dog who dragged Ron

and Scabbers into a tunnel under the Willow. Harry and Hermione followed them into the tunnel, which

led them to the Shrieking Shack. There, they followed the sound of Ron and discovered him in an

upstairs bedroom, where they were ambushed bySirius Black, who was a Animagus that turned into

a dog. They were saved byProfessor Lupin, but then the situation turned on its head when he

embraced Black like a brother, and they began talking about the long dead Peter Pettigrew. When

asked to explain, they revealed that Lupin, Black, and Pettigrew went to Hogwarts with Harry's

father, James, that they had all become amimagi to help Lupin with his Lycanthropy, and that in fact

Peter Pettigrew betrayed the Potters. This was proven when Black and Lupin forced Scabbers to become

Pettigrew. After questioning he confessed, but Harry prevented Black and Lupin from killing him.

Harry casting The Patronus Charm.

Added by Big S94

Determined to turn Pettigrew over, the whole group set off for the castle. Along the way, the moon came

out from behind the clouds, and Lupin transformed into a werewolf, since he had not drunk

hisWolfsbane Potion. Seeing the danger, Black used his Animagus powers to protect Harry and his

friends, but was badly injured. When Harry and Hermione went to look for him, hundreds

ofDementors fell upon them, trying to perform the Dementor's Kissboth on Sirius and him. Sirius

quickly passed out, as Harry tried casting Expecto Patronum(using the thought that he would leave the

Dursleys and move with Sirius to try and conjure it) and tried to make Hermione think of something happy

and cast it as well, but neither could do it. The Dementor's were quickly descending on, and as Harry

finally conjured a fog Patronus, Hermione passed out leaving Harry to fight the Dementor's alone. After

trying to hold them off, Harry was quickly overwhelmed. The dementors descended on him, Sirius, and

Hermione. Then one Dementor grabbed Harry by the throat and attempted to perform the kiss on him.

Harry then heard his mother screaming in his ears, thinking that she would be the last thing he ever heard

when a mysterious figure on the other side of the lake cast a powerful Patronus sending away all of the

Dementors saving Harry, Sirius, and Hermione. Harry then began to think the mysterious stranger

was his father when he passed out. Later Harry and Hermione awoke to find themselves in the infirmary

and that Sirius was about to be subjected to the Dementor's Kiss. They pleaded with Dumbledore who

instructed them that nothing could be done without more time. With this clue, Hermione grabbed Harry

and used her Time-Turner to send them back in time. Once there, they hid out until the time was right

to rescue Buckbeak, who they saved just prior to his execution. Afterwards, they waited for the

appropriate moment to save Sirius. While they sat in the woods, Harry tried to tell Hermione that he

thought that his father might have saved them. When she reminded him that his father was dead, Harry

dropped the subject. They ran for safety to Hagrid's hut when the werewolf Lupin was on the loose, and

Harry, desperate to see who saved him, left to observe the situation. Harry arrived at the lake watching

the dementors attack his past self as he watched, until in a flash of clarity, Harry realised that he cast

the Patronus Charm that saved his life and stepping forward, Harry cast the Patronus and produced a

fully fledged stag Patronus that drove all of the dementors back saving his past self, Hermione, and

Sirius. Once reunited with Hermione the pair rode Buckbeak to Sirius's window and rescued him.

Harry returned to the Dursleys feeling as if he had accomplished nothing, but his trip and future at

Hogwarts was brightened when he received a letter from Sirius. Inside there was permission for him to go

to Hogsmeade, and Harry was delighted to have a godfather. Sirius also told him that it was indeed him

that gave him the Firebolt

Fourth year Edit

"You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you."

—Dumbledore to Harry at the end of his fourth year[src]

In 1994, Harry, the Weasley family (except Mrs. Weasley), and Hermione attended

the Quidditch World Cup. AtStoatshead Hill, Cedric Diggory and his father, Amos, joined them.

Once at the camp grounds, they met Ludo Bagman, Barty Crouch Sr. and his house-elf Winky,

and many other Hogwarts students and their families, including Seamus Finnigan, Dean

Thomas, Oliver Wood, and Draco Malfoy. They were able to see the match between the Irish and

Bulgarian national teams up close, because Harry, the Weasleys, and Hermione had seats in the top box,

thanks to a favour Mr. Weasley had done for Ludo Bagman.

The night after the match, while the Irish team's supporters were still celebrating, a group of black-

cloaked, hooded figures held terrifying celebrations of their own by suspending the Muggle camp site

manager and his family in air like twisted marionettes. On Mr. Weasley's orders, Harry fled into the woods

near the camp site, along with Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny. The group was separated in the

woods, and in the chaos, Harry believed he had lost his wand. The trio ran into Draco Malfoy, and he

all but told them that his father was among the cloaked wizards. Later, Harry learned that Barty Crouch

Jr. had stolen his wand from his pocket. While in a clearing in the woods, Harry, Ron, and Hermione

heard someone shout the incantation Morsmordre, casting the Dark Mark - a green skull with a snake

protruding from its mouth like a tongue - into the sky. Although Harry did not immediately recognise its

significance, he soon learned that the Dark Mark had evil implications. Then, Barty Crouch Sr., Amos

Diggory, and other Ministry of Magic employees apparated into the clearing and began to question Harry,

Ron, and Hermione about the Dark Mark. After Harry mentioned he had heard another voice conjure the

Dark Mark, the Ministry employees searched the area and found the house-elf Winky unconscious in the

bushes. Since Harry's wand was found in Winky's hand, Mr. Crouch fired her for shaming his family and

disobeying his orders.

Students putting their names in The Goblet of Fire.

Added by Vengerer

Harry with Rita Skeeter, discussing the Triwizard Tournament.Added by Oread

At the Hogwarts start of term feast,Professor Dumbledore announced thatHogwarts would host

the Triwizard Tournament, a recently-revived inter-school competition in which theBeauxbatons

Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute would also participate. New rules stated that only

students seventeen and older could compete. Also, during the start of term feast, Dumbledore

introducedAlastor Moody, an ex-Auror, as the newly appointed Defence Against the Dark

Arts teacher. This news was greeted with a mixture of responses, as Moody was known to be a

great Auror, a little crazy, and to have a magical eye, earning him the nickname "Mad-Eye Moody."

Around Halloween the students from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Durmstrang

Institute arrived at the school, and Viktor Krum,Fleur Delacour, and Cedric Diggory were all

chosen to represent their respective schools in this tournament. However, Harry was mysteriously chosen

as a fourth competitor, even though he was under-age and never entered his name into the Goblet of

Fire during the selection process. Many people did not believe Harry's story, includingRon believing this

to be nothing but another attempt to gain fame. This caused extreme tension between the two

friends. Hermione, on the other hand, "accepted his story without question," and assisted Harry in

preparing for the Tournament by teaching him useful spells, such as the Summoning Charm, which

Harry used in the first task of the Tournament. The champions faced three dangerous challenges on their

way to the Triwizard Cup. A few days after his name came out of the Goblet, Harry attended the Wand

Weighing ceremony. There he was cornered by the notorious Daily Prophet reporter Rita

Skeeter who asked him many leading questions and wrote an inflammatory article about him.

Harry trying to escape the Hungarian Horntail in the First

Task of the Triwizard Tournament.Added by Big S94

In the first task, each champion needed to get past a dragon to collect a golden egg. Harry received help

from Hagrid who showed the dragons to Harry. Realising that every champion but Cedrichad found out

about the dragons, Harry told Cedric about the first task, trying to level the playing field. The newly

appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Alastor Moody, witnessed Harry telling Cedric, but

did not report him. Instead he advised Harry to play to his strengths, hinting that he should use his flying

ability to get the golden egg. Four different dragons were chosen for each of the champions to

face. Fleur ended up with the Common Welsh Green, Cedric with the Swedish Short-

Snout, Viktor Krum with theChinese Fireball, and Harry faced the Hungarian Horntail. Harry

used a Summoning Charm to bring him his Firebolt and dodged the Hungarian Horntail to get the golden

egg. Harry and Viktor Krum tied for first at the end of the task. After seeing how dangerous the task

was, Ron, as well as the other students, made amends with Harry, with Ron telling him "I reckon

someone is trying to do you in." He managed to escape the first task with only an injured arm (depicted in

the film)- Harry is shown for what seems to be the space of one day sporting a sling.

Harry wears a sling to support his injured arm after the first task.

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Harry with Ron with Parvati and Padma Patil, at

the Yule Ball.Added by Oread

Between the first and second tasks, the Yule Ball, a Triwizard Tournament tradition took place at

Christmas. Ron, dismayed to discover that Viktor Krumhad asked Hermione, called her out for

"consorting with the enemy" though he and Hermione acted as if they had not fought the following day.

Harry asked his long-time crush Cho Chang to attend the Yule Ball with him but was disappointed to

learn that she had already accepted the invitation of Cedric Diggory. Harry and Ron ended up

attending with Parvati and Padma Patil, respectively. They both ended up neglecting their dates, as

Harry watched Chowith Cedric, and Ron was overcome with jealousy for Viktor Krum, who danced

with Hermione. After the Yule Ball, Rita Skeeter struck again. She had

overheard Hagrid telling Madame Maxime about his family. She then wrote an article exposing

Hagrid as a Half-giant, and he was so ashamed that he stopped teaching. Only after Harry, Ron, and

Hermione proved that they still liked him, did he return to work.

To prepare for the second task, Harry had to open the egg he won from the dragon, but every time he did,

it screeched. His rescue from that particular problem came when Cedric paid him back with the

information that he would figure it out if he "takes a bath" with the egg. Harry followed this advice; while in

the bathroom, he had an uncomfortable exchange with Moaning Myrtle, and on the way back to the

Common Room, he ran into Professors Snape and Moody. The latter informed Harry of Barty

Crouch Sr's obsession with catching Dark Wizards. Harry did learn that the second task was going

into the Black Lake to rescue "the thing they would miss most" from the Merpeople. Harry's new

problem was that he had no idea of how to survive underwater for an hour. He got his answer in the form

ofgillyweed from Dobby, who had come to work at Hogwarts. For this task, Harry had to save his best

friend Ron. When Harry reached Ron, he was shocked to find Hermione, Cho, and Gabrielle

Delacour, Fleur's sister, there as well. After Cedric and Viktor rescued Cho and Hermione, respectively,

Harry hung around, and, concerned for Gabrielle, he saved her as well as Ron, landing him outside the

hour allotted, but earning him points for "moral fibre." After the second task was finished, Harry and

Cedric were tied for first.

A month before the final task, the Champions were shown the beginnings of the challenge. They were

told the third and final task was going into a maze filled with obstacles to find the Triwizard Cup. On the

way back to the castleKrum took Harry aside to ask him something. Thinking that this was something

important, Harry went with him. Krum then asked Harry about his relationship with Hermione, in whom

Krum was deeply interested. Harry told him that there was nothing between him and Hermione and that

she was just a friend. He also told Krum not to believe anything Rita Skeeter, who had recently written

in Witch Weekly that there was a Harry-Hermione-Krum love triangle, wrote about him. That moment,

Barty Crouch Sr. appeared in the forest disoriented and asking for Dumbledore. He disappeared again,

when Harry went to fetch Dumbledore.

Harry in the graveyard at Little Hangleton, minutes

before he is ambushed by Peter Pettigrew and witnesses the rebirth of Lord Voldemort.Added by Rangerkid51

To prepare for the final task, Harry, Ron, and Hermione used vacant classrooms to practise spells and

jinxes. In Divinationclass between two of these study periods, Harry dozed off dreaming about

Voldemort and left the classroom in a disturbing fashion. Rita Skeeter had witnessed this event, and she

wrote on the day of the final task, that Harry was disturbed and dangerous. This did nothing to boost

Harry's morale, but when he spent the day with Bill and Molly Weasley, they cheered him up when

they also came to watch the final task as his substitute family. During this final event, Hogwarts

champions Cedric Diggory and Harry both showed supreme sportsmanship and cooperation despite

the tension brought on by the maze and agreed to touch theTriwizard Cup simultaneously, planning to

tie for first place. They were unaware it was actually a Portkey and were transported to the graveyard

in Little Hangleton, the Riddle family's final resting place, where Lord Voldemort was waiting. On

Voldemort's order, his servant Peter Pettigrew(aka Wormtail) murdered Cedric with the Killing

Curse. Harry Potter returns Cedric Diggory's body to Hogwarts.

Added by Cavalier One

"He's back....Voldemort's back."

—Harry to Dumbledore after returning from the graveyard in Little Hangleton.[src]

Harry was bound to Tom Riddle Sr.'s tombstone and forced to witness a ritual in which Pettigrew used

some of Harry's blood to restore Voldemort's body. At which time, the Death Eaters were

summoned to the cemetery. After Voldemort regained a full-size human form and explain his downfall and

disappearance to his followers, he engaged Harry in a duel. Voldemort then tortured Harry with Cruciatus

Curse and then tried to kill him with the Killing Curse. The nature of their wands' mystical connection

caused their magical streams to interlock, which created an effect called Priori Incantatem. After a

battle of wills with Voldemort, Harry was momentarily shielded by the echoes of Lord Voldemort's

previous victims including Harry's parents and Cedric who asked Harry to return his body to his parents,

which allowed him time to grab Cedric's body and the Portkey and escape back to Hogwarts.

It was uncovered that Barty Crouch Jr, who had willingly taken the Dark Mark as a young man, was

throughout the school year disguised as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Alastor Moody. In a

terrible turn of fate, Crouch's soul was destroyed by the Dementor's Kiss from the Dementor that

accompanied Cornelius Fudge. As a result, he could not give testimony, and the Ministry of

Magic began to dispute Harry and Dumbledore's insistence that Voldemort had returned insisting that

Dumbledore was trying to stir up trouble and that Harry was insane.

Fifth year Edit

Harry Potter before theWizengamot.Added by Oread

Molly Weasley: "All right, that's enough! He's just a boy! You might as well induct him into the

Order!"

Harry Potter: "Good, then I want to join! If Voldemort's building up an army then I want to fight!"

— Harry in 12 Grimmauld Place[src]

Potter Escapes Punishment.

Added by Seth Cooper

Witnessing Cedric Diggory's murder was very difficult for Harry, and it was not helpful that he was forced

back to 4 Privet Drive on school holidays. To make things worse than they were already, in early

August, Dolores Umbridge, then Senior Under-Secretary to the Minister for Magic, sent Dementors to

attack Harry in the Muggle town of Little Whinging, in an attempt to neutralise him. He was forced to

perform a Patronus charm to save Dudley and himself. Subsequently, Harry was formally accused of

performing under-age magic in the presence of a Muggle and was expelled, but thanks to Albus

Dumbledore's intervention, it was changed to a Harry in the

Gryffindor common room.

Added by Rangerkid51

Disciplinary hearing in front of the entire Wizengamot at the Ministry of Magic. In a further attempt

to discredit Harry, the Ministry changed the time and location of the hearing at the last minute, but Harry

was able to make just minutes late. He was threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts, but was

exonerated with help from Dumbledore, who had witnesses and legal loopholes to help him. In retaliation

against Dumbledore, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge appointed Umbridge as the new

Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher so she could spy on the school. She was later

appointed Hogwarts High Inquisitor, empowered to arbitrarily change and impose school rules

whenever she chose. More over, every time Harry spoke out of turn, or even mentioned Voldemort,

Umbridge threw him into detention, forcing him to write with her quill, that scribed a message "I must not

tell lies" onto the back of his hand. However, she presumed the message failed to sink in, as Harry

spread the word through The Quibbler about the previous year's events, thus banning him from any

more Hogsmeade visits. Albus Dumbledore leading Harry

away from the reporters after the end of theBattle of the Department of Mysteries.

Added by Firefox1095

He was surprised when Ron and Hermione were chosen to beprefects, not him, as Fred always

expected Harry to be one. It was later revealed that Ron was chosen instead of Harry, because

Dumbledore thought that Harry had "enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry's jealousy

threatened to affect his friendship with Ron, but he felt better when he discovered that his Dad was also

not chosen as a prefect at school. This suggests that Harry's desire in becoming Prefect was to emulate

his father who wasHead Boy in his day with his mother as Head Girl respectively, not to inflate a

sense of his own importance.

Harry instructs Ron and Cho Chang during

aD.A. meeting.

Added by Rangerkid51

Because Fudge stubbornly believed that Dumbledore was training an army to overthrow him, Umbridge

had the Defence Against the Dark Arts class reduced to reading textbooks. Urged by Hermione, Harry

secretly trained students in practical defensive magic. In an attempt to make light of the Ministry's fears,

the group called themselves Dumbledore's Army, or the D.A. Feeling highly anxious and frustrated

most of the time, Harry found that the D.A. was now his chief source of happiness, and the thing to which

he looked forward throughout his school day. This happiness was felt by most members, as all of them,

particularly Neville Longbottom, gained a lot under Harry's tutelage. Cho Chang became a member,

and before the Christmas holidays, she and Harry kissed under the mistletoe in the Room of

Requirement. Harry kisses Cho.

Added by Rangerkid51

 This moment was confusing to Harry, as Cho, clearly still suffering from Cedric Diggory's death, had

been crying. Cho also had misplaced jealousy towards Hermione and defended her friendMarietta

Edgecombe when the girl betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge, which caused things between her and Harry

to just "fall apart."

However, Harry took on some much more pressing worries later that night. Lord Voldemort, wanting a

"secret weapon" against Harry Potter, had heard of a prophecy hidden in the Ministry's Department

of Mysteries concerning both of them. He had been obsessing over the door to the Hall of Prophecy for

the past few months, and had been inadvertently allowing Harry to read his thoughts

through Legilimency. The link had been growing stronger for quite awhile. As a result, after falling

asleep on the night of his kiss with Cho, Harry witnessed Nagini attack Arthur Weasley in a dream,

and felt almost as if he was the snake. Realising what could happen if the link grew more powerful,

Dumbledore commissioned Snape to train Harry in Occlumency in an effort to prevent further

problems. Unfortunately, Harry did not enjoy having his mind peered into and did not focus on using

Occlumency, having indeed been extremely curious about the door. During a lesson in Occlumency,

Snape stepped out of the room, and Harry's curiosity got he best of him. He looked into

the pensieve which contained Snape's memories, and, to his dismay, found images of his father bullying

Snape. Snape himself discovered Harry's spying and refused to give him any more Occlumency lessons.

As the second term progressed, Harry's relationship with Cho became more strained. While the two did

like each other, Cho was mistakenly jealous of Hermione due to her closeness with Harry, and Harry still

felt awkward about Cho's feelings over Cedric. When Cho's friend, Marietta Edgecombe, betrayed the

D.A. to Umbridge, the members were all punished and forced to end their meetings. Harry was furious

with Marietta, but Cho insisted on defending her friend. This was the final straw; at this point, Cho's and

Harry's relationship "fell apart", and the two no longer saw each other romantically.

During the final Quidditch match of the year, in which Harry did not play (Umbridge had banned him for

life),Hagrid, who had returned to the school months into the term and very badly beaten, decided to

show Harry and Hermione why he was so badly injured. Hagrid had dragged a giant back with him from

his mission over the summer. It transpired that Grawp was Hagrid's brother and that Hagrid had been

attempting to civilise the giant, but with few results. He made Harry and Hermione promise that they

would look after Grawp should Hagrid be forced to leave the school. Hagrid was attacked and left the

school during OWL examinations, and Harry never had to go down to Grawp in the forest.

Eventually, late in the O.W.L. examinations, Harry dozed off and received a vision

of Voldemort torturing Sirius and ordering him to get the prophecy. Harry was full of mind to go to the

Ministry immediately, but Hermione advised him to check Grimmauld Place first to see if Sirius was still

there. Harry used the Floo Network in Umbridge's office to peer into Grimmauld Place, where Kreacher

stated that Sirius was gone. Unfortunately, Umbridge caught him and his friends in the act. She attempted

to extract information via Veritaserum, which Snape claimed to have used up, before resorting to the

Cruciatus curse, revealing that it was she who set the Dementors loose on him. Hermione managed to

save him by luring Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, where she was dragged off bycentaurs for

insulting them. Harry and Hermione escaped when Grawp stumbled into the centaur camp looking for

Hagrid. The trio, along with D.A. members Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Luna

Lovegood, who had assisted in Harry's attempt to contact Grimmauld Place, used Thestrals to fly to

London.

Harry in the Department of Mysteries.

Added by Daindom

"...haven't you ever wondered why the Dark Lord tried to kill you as a baby?"

—Lucius Malfoy to Harry in the Hall of Prophecy just prior to the Battle of the

Department of Mysteries [src]

Harry and Sirius during the Battle of the Department of

Mysteries.

Added by Profiteor

After reaching the Department of Mysteries, Harry led them through various rooms in search of

Sirius, without finding him. The group became doubtful until they came across a room filled with crystal

balls, later to be known as prophecies. One of the prophecies had Harry's name on it, and he picked it up,

much to the displeasure of Hermione. Upon picking up the prophecy Death Eaters appeared, revealing

that it was all a ruse to bring him there. Chaos ensued, and all but Harry and Neville were incapacitated in

the fighting. Then reinforcements from the Order of the Phoenix, alerted by Snape, arrived to help

aid in the battle. In the ensuing fighting, Sirius Black was killed by a curse from his cousin,Bellatrix

Lestrange, and fell through a mysterious stone arch. Harry, enraged, pursued Bellatrix, using

the Cruciatus Curse, but he was unable to kill her. Harry is possessed

by Voldemort.

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Voldemort appeared, enraged by the failures of his Death Eaters. For the second time, he attempted to

fatally curse Harry, who was too transfixed to even defend himself, but Dumbledore's sudden arrival

saved him. Voldemort then possessed Harry, hoping that Dumbledore would sacrifice Harry in order to kill

Voldemort. However, Voldemort was forced to leave Harry's body when Harry grieved for Sirius, which

Voldemort failed to understand. Voldemort then grabbed Bellatrix and Disapparated, but the

Minister and Ministry employees saw him first.

Back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore explained to Harry the real reason why Voldemort tried to kill him as an

infant. A prophecy stated that he was destined to defeat the Dark Lord, for he had powers Voldemort did

not: the ability tolove, something that the Department of Mysteries was trying to research in a locked

room.

As a result of the battle, the Ministry of Magic realised that Lord Voldemort had returned, and Harry

and Dumbledore were vindicated. Serious steps were taken following this change in policy such as the

sacking ofDolores Umbridge. However, this was not a sea change as the Ministry still had a mistrust

of Dumbledore.

Sixth year Edit

Dumbledore: "You are of course, wondering why I brought you here tonight?"

Harry: "Actually sir, after all these years I sort of just go with it."

— Dumbledore and Harry speak briefly of their tasks[src]

Dumbledore and Harry searching for Horace Slughorn.

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In the wake of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, in June, Harry was sent home to 4

Privet Drive for the summer holidays. There, he obsessed over his godfather's death, hardly leaving

his room and refusing meals. As the battle had taken place in the famed "Hall of Prophecy," many in

the wizarding community including the Daily Prophet began to speculate about the relationship

between Harry and that place, leading to, accidentally correct, reports calling Harry "the Chosen One."

Early in his summer, Dumbledore requested that Harry join him in some unknown adventure and arrived

to pick Harry up on a Friday, late in the evening. However, they could not depart immediately, because

there was a piece of business to attend to, Sirius's will. Much to his chagrin, Harry inherited his godfather

Sirius Black's estate, including Grimmauld Place and the Black's melancholic and half-crazed house

elf, Kreacher. They soon were off, and Dumbledore apparated Harry to the village of Budleigh

Babberton, where Harry was introduced to Horace Slughorn. In their time together, Harry and

Slughorn discussed some of the professor's old students and the improved security at Hogwarts. When

Harry and Dumbledore made to leave, Slughorn agreed to return to the school if he got a raise and a

larger office. Following their visit, Dumbledore dropped Harry off at the Burrow, where Harry spent the

rest of the summer, but not before informing Harry that he was to be given special lessons by

Dumbledore himself. Before the end of the summer, Harry received a surprise when he was

made Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry

with Professor Slughorn.

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Having learned of Professor Slughorn's propensity for hand-picking favourites, Harry experienced this first

hand when he was invited to join the Slug Club during the ride to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts

Express, he did not enjoy the experience and made to leave as soon as possible. Instead of returning to

his seat, Harry made to eavesdrop upon Draco Malfoy, who in a meeting weeks earlier led Harry to

believe that he had taken the Dark Mark. What he heard did nothing to dispel his suspicions. Arriving

late to the Welcoming Feast, due to an encounter with Malfoy, Harry learned that Severus

Snape had been promoted to Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. While this disappointed

Harry, his career as an Auror reopened, as Professor Slughorn would accept his "Exceeds Expectations"

score in Potions. As Harry had not bothered to buy a text book, Slughorn allowed Harry to borrow an old

one from the supply cabinet. When Harry examined it, he found that it once belonged to a student

identified only as "The Half-Blood Prince." The book contained copious handwritten notes that helped

Harry excel in Potions for once. In fact, his skills won him a prize from Slughorn — a small phial of Felix

Felicis.

Dumbledore pouring amemory into the Pensieve.

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Within the first week of school, Dumbledore made good on his promise ofprivate lessons. He informed

Harry that they would be viewing memories ofTom Riddle and Lord Voldemort in order to learn his

secrets and weaknesses. Dumbledore promised Harry that this information would help him survive and

would prove crucial to the eventual defeat of Lord Voldemort. In their first lesson, the pair delved into the

origin of the boy Tom Riddle in the Gaunt familyaround Little Hangleton. The Saturday following

Harry's first lesson, he assumed his Captain's duties holding open try-outs. After an arduous morning,

Harry found his three Chasers, including Ginny Weasley, two Beaters, andRon had survived as

Keeper, with Hermione's help. Throughout the fall, Harry used Quidditch to dodge Professor

Slughorn's Slug Club events, doing this because he disliked the idea and because it was kinder than

leaving Ron alone as Hermione had been invited as well.

Harry's lessons were quite sporadic that fall, and he did not have another one until after tragedy befell

someone at Hogwarts. In October, during a Hogsmeade visit, Katie Bell was nearly killed after being

bewitched to carry a curse necklace to Dumbledore. The following Monday, Harry shared his suspicions

of Malfoy with Dumbledore during their lesson, only to be rebuffed. That evening, Dumbledore focused

on Tom Riddle just as he was on the cusp of his Hogwarts years, and Harry discovered a troubled orphan

who consciously used his magic to bully and intimidate the other children. Not long after that meeting,

Quidditch season was upon them. In preparation for their first game, Harry replaced the injured Katie Bell

with Dean Thomas. The change produced some results, both expected, the team excelled on the pitch,

and unexpected, as Harry found himself in a jealous rage after seeing Dean kissing Ginny after practice.

The teams only problem was Ron who was suffering from confidence issues. In an attempt to boost Ron's

confidence, Harry blatantly acted as if he spiked Ron's pumpkin juice with Felix Felicis. Ron took the

bait and played a flawless match; however, Hermione took the bait as well and acted unkindly toward Ron

and Harry. While she made up with Harry when he told her of the ruse, Ron's sudden relationship

withLavender Brown led to continued strife.

"Oh, come on, Harry. It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more

interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable."

—Hermione on Harry's new attention from the girls.[src]

While Harry attempted to reconcile his best friends, the Christmas holidays were fast approaching and

with them the Slug Club Christmas party out of which Harry could not wrangle. Since the "Chosen

One" rumours had been printed Harry had received an unnatural amount of attention from the young

ladies at Hogwarts, specifically a fourth year name Romilda Vane. As Harry could not ask Ginny to

the party, he was left to ask Luna Lovegood to attend with him as a friend. This hugely disappointed

the gaggles of giggling girls who awaited Harry below every doorway with mistletoe. At the party, Harry

was surprised to learn that Hermione attended with Cormac McLaggen, a largeGryffindor seventh-

year whom Ron despised and told her that it served her right when he was less than gentlemanly. Later,

after Malfoy was apprehended "gate-crashing" the party, he learned that Malfoy was indeed up to

something and that Professor Snape had made the Unbreakable Vow to protect him.

Harry overhears a strange conversation between Draco Malfoy and

Snape.

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Harry: "He accused me of being 'Dumbledore's man through and through'."

Dumbledore: "How very rude of him."

Harry: "I told him I was."

— Harry and Dumbledore discussing Rufus Scrimgeour[src]

Harry's Christmas was less than enjoyable, as he was cornered by the newMinister for Magic, Rufus

Scrimgeour. Scrimgeour had been hoping to speak with Harry for months and used Percy

Weasley as his in, interrupting theWeasley family Christmas. He tried pitching Harry on becoming

the Ministry's mascot, an idea that Harry was not prepared to accept. Upon returning to Hogwarts,

Harry's sporadic lessons with Dumbledore continued. Early in January, Harry delved into a memory that

all but proved that Riddle killed his paternal family after his fifth year at Hogwarts. Then Dumbledore

showed Harry a most curious memory, a memory that Professor Slughorn had apparently tampered

with, and he gave Harry his first homework assignment: to get the real memory from Slughorn. After

impressing Slughorn using a bezoar in class, Harry tried the direct approach only to be instantly shot

down.

By 1 March, Harry had still not acquired Slughorn's true memory and had begun to grow more obsessed

withDraco Malfoy. That morning he awoke to find Ron under the influence of a very powerful Love

Potion, and he took him to Slughorn, only for Ron to end up poisoned. This was enough for Hermione to

overcome her animosity toward Ron, and the three became friends again. Ron survived, but was not fit

for the upcoming Quidditch match, so he was replaced by McLaggen. This turned out to be a bad choice

as McLaggen accidentally knocked Harry unconscious mid-match. Upon recovery, Harry had yet another

lesson with the Headmaster. In it, he was a upbraided by Dumbledore for not completing his assignment,

witnessed the young Tom Riddle kill a woman for the famous artefacts she owned, and curse

the Defence Against the Dark Arts post at Hogwarts. However, Harry still could not figure out how

to obtain the memory and focused on Malfoy. His interest was bordering on obsession, when Ron came

up with the solution to Harry's dilemma with Slughorn, Felix Felicis. In the evening, Harry took the

potion and not only obtained the memory, but solved many of his and his friends problems, including

breaking up Ginny and Dean and Ron and Lavender.

Dumbledore: "Good gracious, Harry, to what do I owe this very late pleasure?"

Harry: "Sir — I've got it. I've got the memory from Slughorn."

— Dumbledore and Harry after getting the memory[src]

Even though it was after midnight, Harry immediately went to Dumbledore with the new memory. It

confirmed Dumbledore's theory that Lord Voldemort had created multiple Horcruxes to ensure his

immortality. Together, they theorised that the Dark Lord had created horcruxes out of special objects such

as Tom Riddle's Diary and Salazar Slytherin's Locket. Before Harry left, Dumbledore promised to

let Harry join him if he found another Horcrux. With the memory found, Harry had only Quidditch and

Malfoy on his mind. In the week prior to the final Quidditch match, Harry discovered Malfoy crying in the

restroom, and a Duel ensued. With Malfoy on the verge of using anUnforgivable Curse, Harry

cast Sectumsempra, a curse with unknown effects that he found in the Half-Blood Prince's book,

nearly killing Malfoy and earning Harry indefinite Saturday detention. Unable to play, Harry waited with

anticipation as he sat through his first detention. When he arrived back at Gryffindor Tower he was

happy to discover that they had won the Quidditch Cup, and spontaneously kissed Ginny, about

whom he had been think often, when she embraced him in the post match elation beginning their

relationship.

Harry attempts to hold back the Inferi.Added by Lunalovegood30

In June, Dumbledore led Harry out of the castle in search of a Horcrux. From Hogsmeade,

they apparated to a sea-side cave, where Tom Riddle had traumatised two young children from his

orphanage in his youth. The cave was difficult to enter with a toll paid in blood, and to get to the island in

the centre of the cave there was only a small boat, only made to fit one. Once on the island, Dumbledore

found a basin that he could not remove the Horcrux from without drinking its contents. Dumbledore

extracted a promise from Harry that he would force him to drink, no matter how much he tried to persuade

him not to. With this promise, Dumbledore drank, and Harry watched as he was driven out of his mind,

but he upheld his promise. When the basin was empty, Dumbledore asked for water which Harry was

forced to get from the lake, triggering the Inferi that were waiting there. Panicking, Harry was dragged

below, but he was saved by an incredibly weakened Dumbledore.

They landed atop the Astronomy Tower to discover that Hogwarts had been invaded by Death

Eaters, but Harry's friends Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, and Ginny, who had been ordered to watch

the school lest Malfoy accomplish his nefarious goal, battled alongside members of the Order of the

Phoenix on the floor below Harry and Dumbledore, with some help from the remainder of Harry's vial

of Felix Felicis. Dumbledore had stopped Harry from fighting and froze him against a wall, hidden

underneath his invisibility cloak, so all he could do was watch. Harry witnessed the death of Albus

Dumbledore at the hands of Severus Snape, and Dumbledore's body then plummeted from the tallest

tower at Hogwarts. With Dumbledore dead, Harry was free of the spell that petrified him. He immediately

set off after Snape, petrifying a Death Eater and seeking revenge. As the Death Eaters made their way

out of Hogwarts Castle and on to the grounds, trying to reach the border where they would be able to

Apparate again, Harry pursued and faced off against Snape. Harry tried many times to defeat Snape,

even attempting weakly the Cruciatus Curse and Snape's own hand crafted spells, all with no effect. In

the process, Snape identified himself to Harry as the Half-Blood Prince and escaped Hogwarts

with Draco Malfoy and the other Death Eaters. Harry returned to the castle to find Dumbledore's

crippled and lifeless body where he was comforted by Ginny.

Harry and Ginny in 1996.

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Harry: "It's been like... like something out of someone else's life, these last few weeks with you.

But I can't... we can't... I've got things to do now... Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep

this up..."

Ginny: "What if I don't care?"

Harry: "I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral... and it was my fault?"

Ginny: "I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped... But you've been too busy

saving the wizarding world. Well... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I

knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so

much."

— Harry and Ginny break up[src]

Harry in the Headmaster's office the morning after Dumbledore died.

Added by Rangerkid51

Harry took the locket from Dumbledore's robes and was beside himself when he learned it was just a

plain bit of jewellery, a decoy; there was a note inside the locket that revealed the real Horcrux was taken

by someone called R.A.B.. It appeared to him that Dumbledore had died in vain and that they had

achieved nothing that night. Following the death of Albus Dumbledore, his funeral was carried out. Harry

was disgusted to see that Dolores Umbridge andRita Skeeter had the nerve to attend his funeral,

but he did not want to make a scene at Dumbledore's funeral and bit his tongue.

Knowing that he would have to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes and fearing for her safety, Harry

took Ginny aside, and broke off their romance. Ginny told him that she did not care about the danger of

being his girlfriend, but Harry still thought it was best if the two stopped seeing each other. He then spoke

to Ron and Hermione, who committed to forgoing their final year at Hogwarts in order to accompany him,

despite his protests.

Hunting the Horcruxes Edit

Petunia Dursley saying good-bye to Harry Potter in1997.

Added by Strady26

Hermione: "You said to us once before that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've

had time, haven't we?"

Ron: "We're with you, whatever happens mate."

— Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley vowing to help Harry in the Horcrux hunt[src]

Harry, Hermione, and Ron all remained committed to their goal to locate and

destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes. To protect their families, Hermione altered her parents'

memories so they forgot they had a daughter, and with some help from Fred, George, and their father,

Ron transfigured the family ghoul to resemble himself with spattergroit.

Battle over Little Whinging Edit

The Seven Potters.

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Hermione: "I told them you'd take it like this."

Harry: "If you think I'm going to let six people risk their lives —!"

Ron: "— because it's the first time for all of us."

— Hermione and Ron to Harry before the Battle over Little Whinging [src]

Harry Potter's wand retaliated automatically

against Voldemort during theBattle of the Seven Potters.

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Harry watches the Dursleys leave.

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Harry stayed at 4 Privet Drive for a time, but the Order of the Phoenix needed to evacuate him

to the Burrow before he turned seventeen. They sent theDursleys into hiding first; Harry was

surprised by Dudley's gratitude and goodbye. Six out of thirteen of Harry's escorts took Polyjuice

Potion to take on Harry's appearance in order to be diversions if they were attacked, despite Harry's

protests. Harry also secretly thought that he wished they would respect his body more. Upon leaving, the

group was attacked by over thirty Death Eaters. Harry rode with Hagrid on his godfather Sirius' old

motorbike, and they were attacked by multiple Death Eaters and Lord Voldemorthimself. Harry's

owl Hedwig was hit by a stray Killing Curse an unnamed Death Eater sent his way. When Voldemort

caught up with them, Harry thought this was the end, but his wand acted on its own to strike out at the

man who was both kin and mortal enemy, destroying Voldemort's borrowed wand. The chaos ended

when Harry and Hagrid passed the protective enchantments placed over the house of Nymphadora

Tonks' parents; Harry had broken several bones and was bleeding heavily.

Harry and Hagrid on Sirius Black's motorcycle.

Added by You-Know-Who

Taken inside by the Tonkses, Harry's bones were mended and his wounds were healed, although he was

still completely grief-stricken over the death of his beloved owl. After finding Hagrid safe and sound, the

pair took a Portkey to the Burrow, where he found a worried Mollyand Ginny Weasley.

Harry embraces Hermioneand Ron after Battle over Little

Whinging.

Added by You-Know-Who

Harry was relieved to see that Hermione and Ron were fine, but was shocked whenRemus

Lupin arrived with George Weasley, who had lost an ear. Everyone else arrived safely but Alastor

Moody, who had been killed, and Mundungus Fletcher, who had Disapparated as soon as the

fight started. Many amongst those gathered at the Burrow believed that they had been betrayed, but

Harry refused to believe any of those he loved would sell him to Voldemort, much to the chagrin

of Remus Lupin. Harry then stormed outside, where he was struck by a vision of Voldemort torturing

Ollivander.

Time at the Burrow Edit

Scrimgeour: "Remembered you're not at school, have you? Remembered that I am not

Dumbledore, who forgave your insolence and insubordination? You may wear that scar like a

crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time

you learned some respect!"

Harry: "It's time you earned it."

— Harry and Rufus Scrimgeour at the reading of Albus Dumbledore's will [src]

Rufus gives the testament of Albus Dumbledore to Harry.

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Harry, Ron, and Hermione just after their escape from the

ambush at the Burrow.

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Once settled in at the Burrow, Harry, Ron and Hermione helped prepare the wedding ceremony of Bill

Weasley and Fleur Delacour. The day before the wedding, the group celebratedHarry's

seventeenth birthday. Harry received a watch from Mr.and Mrs. Weasley, a traditional coming-of-age

gift, and Ginny gave him a kiss to remember her by in case he "meet[s] some veela" during the Horcrux

hunt.

Harry and Ginny about to kiss on Harry's 17th birthday.

Added by Number 1 Tonks Fan

At the party that night, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeourarrived to release the contents

of Albus Dumbledore's will. Harry was left the first Snitch he had ever caught in a Quidditch match

and Godric Gryffindor's Sword; Scrimgeour withheld this second gift, claiming that it was a historical

magical item and was not exclusively Harry's property. Noting that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the

only students mentioned by name in the will, he asked the trio why this was; the three were unable to give

him an answer.

On 1 August, Harry attended Bill and Fleur's wedding disguised as a distant Weasley cousin, Barny

Weasley. They used polyjuice potion and the hairs of a Red-haired Muggle boy from the village to

disguise him. The reception was interrupted when the Patronus of Kingsley Shacklebolt arrived and

announced theFall of the Ministry of Magic and the death of Rufus Scrimgeour. Chaos erupted and

guests started to flee, while Harry and Hermione drew their wands and grabbed Ron before

Disapparating to Tottenham Court Road.

Harry, Ron and Hermione after changing their sets of clothes

after their escape.

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There, Hermione revealed that she had planned ahead, packing supplies in her bag, which had

an Undetectable Extension Charmon it. Ron changed, and Harry put on his Invisibility cloak, and

the three then entered a nearby café to hang low for a while. Whilst at the café, Ron and Hermione

discussed the events of the wedding and Voldemort's coup. They unwittingly broke the Taboo

curse that had been placed on Voldemort's name when the Death Eaters overthrew the Ministry of

Magic, alerting Death Eaters Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle to their location. After a

brief skirmish, the trio defeated the Death Eaters, whose memories Hermionewiped at Harry's

suggestion. Harry, Ron, and Hermione then found refuge at 12 Grimmauld Place.

Infiltrating the Ministry and obtaining the locket Edit

Harry searching Grimmauld Placeshortly after his escape

from the Burrow.

Added by Steffy13

"You're going to leave here with us. Go home, grab your children, and get out, get out of the

country if you've got to. Disguise yourselves and run. You've seen how it is, you won't get

anything like a fair hearing here."

—Harry while freeing Muggle-borns from the Muggle-Born Registration

Commission [src]

Having found no leads regarding the Horcruxes over the summer, Harry discovered R.A.B. during the

trio's first morning at 12 Grimmauld Place. Once Hermione remembered that Salazar

Slytherin's Locket had been in the house during its occupation by the Order of the Phoenix, Harry

summoned Kreacher, and they learned that it had been stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. When the

trio questioned him about it, he revealed that it was now in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. On

the same day, Remus Lupin had been to visit. He asked Harry if he could join them, but once Harry

found out that Tonks was pregnant, he refused. This caused a temporary rift between the two of them.

Harry comforting Hermione by dancing with her after Ron's

departure.

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Harry disguised as Albert Runcorn.

Added by Tim Lemmens

For the following month, the trio would take turns under the Invisibility Cloak to watch the Ministry

entrance. Formulating their plans, they managed to infiltrate the Ministry. Using Polyjuice

Potion Harry transformed into Albert Runcorn. He searched Umbridge's office but did not find the

locket. He did, however, take Moody's eye from her door. Finding Umbridge trying Muggle-bornsfor

"stealing" magic, Hermione managed to trick Umbridge into revealing the locket, and she lied about how

she obtained it.

Furious, Harry stunned both her and Yaxley. He and Hermione freed the Muggle-borns who were

being held by the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, and Hermione conjured a copy of

the locket while they took the real thing. They met up with Ron again and escaped, though Yaxley

grabbed Hermione’s arm while they were Disapparating. She evaded him with aRevulsion Jinx, but the

location of 12 Grimmauld Place was revealed to him, and they were forced to abandon it as a hide-out.

But instead Hermione took them to the Forest of Dean, the location of the Quidditch World Cup.

An "Undesirable No.1" Poster.

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Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow Edit

Harry: "I thought you knew what you’d signed up for."

Ron: "Yeah, I thought I did too."

Harry: "So what part of it isn't living up to your expectations? Did you think we’d be staying in

five-star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by

Christmas?"

Ron: "We thought you knew what you were doing! We thought Dumbledore had told you what to

do, we thought you had a real plan!"

— Harry and Ron before the latter's departure[src]

Harry during the Horcrux hunt after Ron'sdeparture.

Added by Firefox1095

After securing the locket, the three friends took turns wearing it, to ensure it was not lost. The locket had a

negative influence on all of them, straining relations and causing them to all act moodily and inclined to

get into petty arguments.They overheard a goblin saying that the sword protected by Snape is a fake.

After learning that the Sword of Gryffindor in Snape's office was a copy of the real sword, and that they

would have to trace the location of the real sword, the locket's negative energy pushed Ron over the

edge. He and Harry got into a horrible row, in which Ron accused Harry of not knowing what he was

doing and not being very concerned when they learned that Ginny had been punished for attempting to

steal Gryffindor’s Sword for them, along with Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood. Ron then

abandoned his friends accusing Hermione of preferring Harry than himself.

Harry and Hermione outside the tent.Added by Smonocco

"Hermione, I don’t know what we’d do without you."

—Harry to Hermione[src]

Harry following the Silver Doe at the Forest of Dean.

Added by Profiteor

Ron’s departure left both Harry and Hermione depressed. After some listless time in which they

accomplished nothing, they decided to head to Godric's Hollow, as Harry wanted to visit his parents’

graves, and Hermione had convinced herself that Dumbledore might have entrusted the Sword of

Gryffindor toBathilda Bagshot, a magical historian who lived there and who had been friendly with the

Potters and the Dumbledores.

Hermione: "Meanwhile, we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry?

Oh yes, You-Know-Who's snake turned up, it nearly killed both of us and then You-Know who

himself arrived and missed us by about a second."

Ron: "What?"

Hermione: "Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective,

doesn't it?"

— Hermione recounting their trip to Godric's Hollow[src]

Nagini attacking Harry in Bathilda Bagshot's house.

Added by RedCard17

They arrived on Christmas Eve. After seeing the memorialdedicated to his parents, Harry and

Hermione searched the graveyard for the Potters' grave and came across the grave

ofKendra and Ariana Dumbledore and that of Ignotus Peverell. Harry was filled with regret that

Dumbledore had not shared this connection with him. Upon discovering Harry's parents' grave Hermione

called out to Harry and comforted him when he reached the grave. After placing a wreath on his parents’

graves, the two then met Bathilda, who motioned for them to follow her into her home. Believing Bathilda

wanted to give him the Sword, Harry accompanied her upstairs alone when she indicated that Hermione

should stay downstairs. Once there, she questioned Harry in what he did not realise wasParseltongue,

revealing herself to in fact be Nagini, Voldemort's snake. Voldemort had killed Bathilda and animated her

corpse to hide Nagini, who attacked Harry, biting and coiling herself around Harry. Hermione raced

upstairs and repelled the snake, while Harry’s scar burned, alerting him to Voldemort’s approach. The

pair managed to escape, but Harry was knocked unconscious and such a close call with Voldemort

caused the connection to re-open and Harry had a vision of his parents' demise. And in the scuffle,

Harry's wand was accidentally broken by Hermione's Blasting Curse.

Ron's return and the Deathly Hallows Edit

"Remember... remember Ron? When he broke his wand, crashing the car?"

—Hermione talking about mending Harry's broken wand[src]

After escaping Voldemort, Harry and Hermione camped out in the Forest of Dean, where Hermione

healed Nagini’s bite with Dittany. When they were camped out there, Harry and Hermione read parts

of Rita Skeeter's biography of Dumbledore, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore which

Hermione had stolen from the home of Bathilda Bagshot. Upon reading, Harry felt betrayed,

because Dumbledore had not shared this information with Harry. Hermione tried to convince Harry that

Dumbledore had his best interests at heart, but Harry became quite disillusioned.

Harry after being lead by the Patronus to the hiding place of

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"Ron, stab it, STAB IT!"

—Harry and Ron confronting Voldemort's locket Horcrux[src]

A couple nights later, while standing guard outside the tent, Harry was lead by a silver doe Patronus to

a frozen pool into which someone had placed the Sword of Gryffindor. While trying to acquire the sword,

the locket attempted to strangle him, but he was rescued by Ron, who had returned through the use of

hisDeluminator. After a brief skirmish with the locket's energy, Ron destroyed the Horcrux with the

sword. As Ron had saved his life, Harry forgave him for leaving, and after seeing the Horcrux torture Ron,

explained that he had no feelings for Hermione beyond that of a sibling. Hermione, who had been inside

the tent during the destruction of the Horcrux, was angry with Ron for a longer period.

Harry using Diffindo to crack the ice.

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Hermione: "‘There were once three brothers who were travelling along a long, winding road at

twilight-’"

Ron: "Midnight, our mum always told us. Sorry, I just think it’s a bit spookier if it’s midnight!"

Harry: "Yeah, because we really need a bit more fear in our lives."

— The trio while reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard at the Lovegood House[src]

The locket preyed on Ron's fear that Hermione would pick

Harry over him.

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At Hermione's request, the three friends travelled to Luna Lovegood’s home to

question Xenophilius Lovegood. They asked about a triangular symbol Dumbledore had left them to

decipher in the book he bequeathed to Hermione. After learning of the Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron,

and Hermione discovered that Xenophilius summoned Death Eaters in an attempt to persuade them to

return his abducted daughter.

Harry trying the Blackthorn wand.

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The trio escapedthe Dea th Eaters when Hermione blasted the floor open to show them Harry, but

managed to keep Ron's alibi intact by using the Cloak of Invisibility.

Xenophilius Lovegood triggering the Taboo on

purpose.

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Harry soon became obsessed by the Deathly Hallows. He spent hours each day brooding over the

possibilities forgetting about his responsibilities. He came to believe that the Resurrection Stonewas

enclosed within the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore. He also surmised that Lord

Voldemort was abroad in a search for the Elder Wand. This obsession troubled his friends, and with

the drop in Harry's attentiveness, Ron's leadership qualities flourished.

The sign of the Deathly Hallows.

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Capture and the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor Edit

"Help us! We’re in the cellar of Malfoy Manor, help us!"

—Harry screaming for help in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor [src]

After listening to a broadcast of Potterwatch around Easter 1998, Harry determined that Voldemort

was seeking the Elder Wand, and accidentally broke the Taboo on Voldemort's name. Captured by a

gang of Snatchers led by Fenrir Greyback, the trio was questioned as to their identities. Hermione

had hit Harry's face with a Stinging Hex, attempting to conceal their true identities. After Greyback

and Scabior realised that they had caught Harry Potter, the trio was taken to Malfoy

Manor in Wiltshire, England.

Harry is interrogated bySnatchers.

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When Bellatrix Lestrange learned that Harry had been caught, she sought tosummon Voldemort,

until she noticed one of the Snatchers had the Sword of Gryffindor, which was supposed to be in

her vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. From her drastic change in tone of voice and her worries that

they would all perish, Harry determined that another Horcrux was hidden there, as well. Bellatrix isolated

Hermione for interrogation and torture with the Cruciatus Curse, but Hermione lied, claiming that the

Sword was just a copy. Harry convinced Griphook, a goblin prisoner, to support this story.

In panic as one friend screamed in pain upstairs, and the other sobbed at hearing her, Harry called out for

help — a cry heard by Aberforth Dumbledorethrough a fragment of a two-way mirror in the cellar. He

sent Dobby the house-elf to rescue the prisoners. Harry had him take Luna Lovegood, Garrick

Ollivander, and Dean Thomas to Shell Cottage, while he and Ron went to rescue Hermione. On

the way, they had to fight Peter Pettigrew, whose silver hand strangled him to death when he hesitated

to hurt Harry, who reminded him that he had once saved his life. A skirmish ensued upstairs, during

which Harry took Draco Malfoy's wand from him, and he and Ron saved Hermione and Griphook with

Dobby's assistance.

Harry asks Ollivander about the Deathly Hallows in Shell Cottage.

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Escape and Dobby's death Edit

Harry: "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die-"

Dobby: "Harry... Potter..."

— Dobby's final moments.[src]

Dobby in Harry's arms seconds before his death.

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Harry digging Dobby's grave as Hermione waits holding Dobby's body.

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As they escaped Malfoy Manor by Apparition, Bellatrix Lestrange threw a silver knife to where they

were disapparating. Harry was initially relieved to realise he had managed to apparate to Shell

Cottage with Ron, Hermione, and Dobby in tow, but was horrified to see the knife protruding from

Dobby's chest before Dobby collapsed and died in Harry's arms. Harry decided that he would not build

the grave of Dobby with magic, opting instead to manually do so using a shovel; a way of both repaying

Dobby's bravery and ebbing Harry's grief. Harry, his scar now burning temptingly, seemed to

acknowledge his now learnt control of denyingVoldemort's entry into his mind, something he attributed

to his grief and love for Dobby. While digging the grave, more understanding came to Harry. He realised

that though the Deathly Hallows were tempting objects, Dumbledore had tasked him with

destroying Horcruxes. He decided to trust Dumbledore, reaffirming his faith in his mentor. During

the funeral, Luna Lovegood gave a short eulogy to Dobby, and Harry managed to say his final

goodbye to one of his most loyal friends.

Harry looks at Dobby's grave.

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Breaking into Gringotts Edit

Harry: "He can have it after we've used it on all of the Horcruxes. I'll make sure he gets it then. I'll

keep my word.... I won't be lying...really."

Hermione: "I don't like it."

Harry: "Nor do I, much."

— Harry and Hermione on Griphook's demand for Godric Gryffindor's Sword [src]

Harry, Ron and Hermione(disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange)

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Following the death of Dobby, Harry, Ron, and Hermione stayed at Shell Cottage for some time.

During their stay, the trio formed a plan to break into the Lestrange Vault to obtain the Horcrux

within, with the help of Griphook. Due to the fact that Griphook would only help in exchange forGodric

Gryffindor's Sword, Harry decided to word his request so that the handover would not take place until

after Harry had used it to dispose of the remaining Horcruxes. Although feeling guilty for the deception,

Harry knew that the sword was their only known weapon against the Horcruxes. The other residents of

Shell Cottage could not fail to notice the trio's behaviour. Bill Weasley took Harry aside and advised

Harry to be cautious when making deals with Griphook who Harry was increasingly disliking. Around the

same time, Remus Lupin came to Shell Cottage bearing tidings of new birth. He asked Harry to be the

godfather of his newborn child, Ted Lupin. It seemed as if the incident between them at 12

Grimmauld Place had never occurred.

The trio along with Griphook, entered Gringotts with Hermione disguised as Bellatrix by way of Polyjuice

Potion, Ron transfigured to look like a foreign wizard, and Harry and Griphook under the Invisibility

Cloak. Harry had to use the Confundus Charm and Imperius Curse to facilitate their entrance into

the vault, but not before their cover was blown.

The trio in the water after jumping from the Dragon's back

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Upon reaching the vault, they found the Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff'sCup. Harry, Ron, and Hermione

sustained many injuries in the vault as the contents had Flagrante and Geminio charms on them. As

they were securing the Cup, Griphook, believing that they would betray him, grabbed the Sword and ran

away, screaming that there were thieves in Gringotts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione fought off the guards

and managed to escape on the back of adragon.

Harry reaches for the Hufflepuff cup with the sword of Gryffindor.

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Battle of Hogwarts Edit

Returning to Hogwarts

Harry: "Dumbledore left the three of us a job, and we weren't supposed to tell - I mean, he

wanted us to do it, just the three of us."

Neville: "We're his army. Dumbledore's Army. We were all in it together, we’ve been keeping it

going while you three have been off on your own... Everyone in this room’s been fighting and

they’ve been driven in here because the Carrows were hunting them down. Everyone in here’s

proven they’re loyal to Dumbledore — loyal to you."

— Harry and Neville Longbottom upon the trio's return to Hogwarts [src]

Harry, Ron and Hermione during theBattle of Hogwarts.

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A vision from Voldemort helped Harry realise that the third Horcrux, whilst unbeknown to him at the

time, Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, remained at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on

their final mission to return to the school and obtain the diadem, inadvertently tripping the Caterwauling

Charmupon apparating to Hogsmeade and thereby alerting the waitingDeath Eaters to their

presence. Due to the trio being under theInvisibility cloak, however, the Death Eaters resorted to

unleashing Dementors into the streets to try to force the intruders out of hiding. Having no choice, Harry

conjured his Patronus to protect himself and his friends, automatically giving away their position and

confirming their identities (the Death Eaters having been pre-warned that Harry Potter's patronus took the

form of a stag). As Death Eaters began to close in on the still invisible trio, Aberforth

Dumbledore emerged from theHog's Head, hurriedly telling the three to enter his pub. While Harry,

Ron, and Hermione did so, Aberforth remained outside, proclaiming to the Death Eaters that it was he

who tripped the alarm (by letting his cat out) and conjured the Patronus to ward off the Dementor threat;

mockingly contradicting a Death Eater, saying that what he had seen was a goat Patronus rather than a

stag. The incensed Death Eaters believed this and retreated.

Harry talking to Snape in theGreat Hall about killing Albus

Dumbledore.

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After Aberforth re-entered his pub and home, he scolded them for coming to Hogsmeade advising them to

leave the country. After Harry engaged in a fierce argument with him, he led the grateful trio directly into

Hogwarts through a secret entrance behind the portrait of his deceased sister, Ariana

Dumbledore.Neville Longbottom, acting as their escort, then guided them into the Room of

Requirement, where they were greeted by the reconstituted Dumbledore's Army; most of which

were beaten and bruised yet ready to fight the Death Eaters controlling the school. Harry tried to tell

them that he, Ron, and Hermione only returned to find something, but Neville contacted other allies with a

call to arms. Harry was initially reluctant to allow the others to help, but in an attempt to be a better man

than Dumbledore whom he feared he was turning into and some discussion with Ron and Hermione, he

allowed it.

Harry and Luna entering Ravenclaw Tower.

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Harry hesitantly asked the room at large if they had ever heard of any sort of legendary artefact belonging

to one of the Founders of Hogwarts. Luna Lovegood then elaborated on the fabled Diadem of

Ravenclaw, pronouncing that a statue in Ravenclaw Tower depicted Rowena Ravenclaw wearing

a diadem. Harry, having no idea of what the diadem looked like, was led by Luna to the Ravenclaw

Common Room to observe the statue. Here the pair were ambushed by Alecto Carrow who pressed

her Dark Mark immediately upon noticing Harry (summoning Voldemort), before Luna stunned her

from under the Invisibility Cloak. Amycus Carrow, attempting to force his way through the common

room door (designed only to open after the door-knocker's question is correctly answered) sought the

help of Minerva McGonagall who easily allowed him entry by solving the door's riddle herself; by

which time, Harry managed to rejoin Luna under the Invisibility Cloak. Amycus, in fear of his master's

wrath suggested framing Alecto's apparently mistaken summoning of the former on the Ravenclaw

students; spontaneously devising a lie that made it seem as though the students forced Alecto to touch

her Dark Mark at wand-point. In her outrage, McGonagall strongly insinuated that Amycus was a coward

for proposing such an idea. Carrow spat in McGonagall's face in retaliation, utterly enraging Harry who

suddenly revealed himself while momentarily casting the Cruciatus Curse on the surprised Carrow,

sending him flying backwards into the wall where he crumpled and fell unconscious. Harry then told

McGonagall about the mission Dumbledore had left him, and she offered to hold Voldemort and his

invading forces off, buying him the time he needed to search for the Horcrux. All students of age, the

D.A., and the members of the Order of the Phoenix who had arrived to fight prepared themselves for

the impending siege. The Battle of Hogwarts began as Voldemort and his army approached the

outer boundaries of the school.

Harry Potter feeling Voldemort’s emotions

inHogwarts.

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Room of Requirement and Shrieking Shack

Harry: "Oi! There's a war going on here!"

Ron: "I know, mate, so it's now or never, isn't it?"

Harry: "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux? D’you think you could just – just hold it in until

we’ve got the diadem?"

— Harry breaking apart Ron and Hermione's first kiss[src]

Lord Voldemort, upon arrival at Hogwarts, demanded that the school turn over Harry, and the Battle

of Hogwarts began. Harry realised that the positioning of Alecto Carrowin Ravenclaw

Tower confirmed the Horcrux's identity. It was the lost diadem of Ravenclaw. After thinking on it for

some seconds, he went to ask the Grey Lady about the diadem. From her information, Harry surmised

that the Horcrux had been hidden in the Room of Requirement. Harry, in the meantime, was worried

about Hermione and Ron who seemed to have disappeared. They had gone into the Chamber of

Secrets, where Hermione destroyed Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup with basilisk fangs which were one of the

few weapons able to destroy Horcruxes. The trio quickly headed for the Room of Requirement where

Harry remembered seeing the Diadem the previous year. However, Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe,

and Gregory Goyle ambushed them. After a skirmish, the entire room was destroyed by the cursed

fire Crabbe unleashed but could not control. Harry managed to fly himself and Malfoy out, while Ron and

Hermione grabbed Goyle, but Crabbe perished in the flames that also destroyed the diadem.

The Trio escaping from theFiendfyre that was cast byVincent

Crabbe.

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With one Horcrux remaining, Harry, Ron, and Hermione continued their pursuit of Nagini, but before they

could go search for it, they witnessed the death ofFred Weasley. This incensed Ron and Harry, but

Hermione reminded them that only they could finish Voldemort and that to obtain the final Horcrux they

would have to do their share of fighting. They fought their way to the Shrieking Shack. Along the way,

Harry witnessed many scenes of horror. On the grounds, Voldemort's Dementors were waiting. After

having seen so much pain and death, Harry could not summon the happiness required to conjure

aPatronus. Neither could Hermione or Ron. In fact, Harry welcomed the oblivion that would come with

the Dementor's Kiss. After seeing the patronuses conjured by Luna Lovegood, Ernie Macmillan,

and Seamus Finnigan, Harry summoned the will to conjure his and managed to drive the dementors

away. Once the trio arrived at the Shrieking Shack, they witnessed Voldemort order Nagini to

kill Severus Snape, as he believed that Snape was preventing him from being the true owner of

theElder Wand. Before he died, Snape gave Harry memories to view in the Pensieve and asked him

to look into his eyes.

Upon returning to the castle, Harry saw the corpses of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks near

Fred's, and he felt devastated. He left his friends behind to use Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve,

welcoming the time in another's head.

Harry and his friends during the battle.

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Sacrifice

"Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child,

wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted

it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed

fear... He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone."

—Harry sacrifices himself[src]

Harry confronts Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest.Added by You-Know-Who

During a one-hour ceasefire, Harry viewed the memories given by a dying Snape, which revealed to him

that he had inadvertently been turned into aHorcrux himself and that Voldemort had to kill him in order

to be rendered mortal himself. Harry also learned that Snape was all along, with Dumbledore because he

loved Lily Evans, since before they started school. Heavy of heart, Harry courageously slipped off on

his own to carry out this dreadful task. He feels ghostly as he strides through the castle's empty walls,

feeling as if he already died. As Harry passes the Great Hall, he could not see Hermione, Ron, or the

other Weasleys, and no Luna. He felt he would have given anything for one last look at them, but then he

thought he would never be able to stop looking. During his way to Voldemort, he saw the corpse of Colin

Creevey and told Neville to kill Nagini, if he could. He passes Ginny, who is comforting a small girl,

and almost wishes she could sense him, but under the Invisibility Cloak, this is impossible. As he passes

Hagrid's hut on the Grounds, and emotionally remembers trips there, particularly rock cakes, Ron

vomiting slugs, and Norbert.

Harry then enters the Forbidden Forest, where he managed to get the Golden Snitch open which

said on it "I open at the close" and the words to open it were "I'm about to die" revealing

the Resurrection Stone within. Harry used it to speak to the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black,

and Remus Lupin, who offered him comfort before he met Voldemort and shielded him from the

Dementors. As Harry approached the Death Eater camp, he dropped the Resurrection Stone. Harry

offered no resistance as Voldemort struck him with the Killing Curse, thinking of Ginny before he died.

Harry being hit by oneKilling Curse casted byVoldemort.Added by Dobby4ever

However, the "death" he met was not permanent: the blood Voldemort had taken from Harry to restore his

physical form in 1995 still contained the Bond of Blood, anchoring him to life and protecting Harry from

Voldemort's curse, and his willingness to die triggered protections on the people of Hogwarts similar to

the protections he received from his mother's sacrifice. Also, since he had part of Voldemort's soul in

him, Voldemort's killing curse unknowingly destroyed the part of Voldemort's soul, leaving one Horcrux

left. Harry entered a state of limbo, where he met the spirit of Albus Dumbledore and the piece of

Voldemort's soul that had just been destroyed. Dumbledore explained everything to Harry saying that he

had "no more secrets from [Harry]." After reconciling with his mentor, Harry made the choice to return to

the physical world rather than go on to the afterlife with Dumbledore.

Voldemort face-to-face with Harry.

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"Let's finish this how we started it, Tom: Together."

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Harry woke up, but feigned death. He was assisted in this by Narcissa Malfoy, who had secretly turned

against Voldemort by telling him Harry was dead in order to protect her son, because she knew the only

way she would be permitted to enter Hogwarts was with the rest of the Death Eaters in their victory

march. Voldemort then triumphantly disgraced Harry's "dead" body with the Cruciatus Curse then forced

Hagrid to carry Harry's body back to Hogwarts, proclaiming Harry dead and demanding surrender. At first,

the surviving fighters were heartbroken, especially Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Professor McGonagall.

They screamed at the the Death Eaters in anger but remained defiant. Neville

Longbottomcourageously stood up to Voldemort, and when the latter offered Neville a rank in his Death

Eater society, Neville proudly refused and screamed "Dumbledore's Army!" to the high heavens.

Voldemort casted a Body-Binding curse, then summoned the Sorting Hat and placed it upon Neville's

head. After he announced there will be no houses and the school colours will be those loyal to Salazar

Slytherin, he burst the hat into flames. As Neville cried in pain, a distant uproar came from the direction of

the school boundaries. Centaurs, thestrals, Buckbeak the Hippogriff, and the families of the Hogwarts

students who remained to fight, plus the shop and home keepers of Hogsmeade joined the fight with a

flourish. This distracted Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and Neville was able to pull off the Sorting Hat,

and from its depths he received the Sword of Godric Gryffindor and sliced off Nagini's head in one swift,

fluid motion. Harry slipped away in the ensuing melee under the Invisibility Cloak. Death Eaters started to

fold under sheer weight of numbers as the house-elves in the kitchens joined the battle, with Kreacher at

its front, declaring war against the Dark Lord in the name of brave Regulus Black. Using his Invisibility

Cloak, Harry protected the defenders of Hogwarts from attack. Soon, only Voldemort and Bellatrix

Lestrange were the only two remaining and fighting, Voldemort duelling McGonagall, Slughorn, and

Kingsley at once, and Bellatrix duelling Hermione, Luna, and Ginny. Harry was torn between the two until

he saw a Killing Curse shot beside Ginny's ear, the latter missing death by an inch. Harry redirected his

path to Bellatrix, until being roughly knocked aside by Molly Weasley, crying "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU

BITCH!" As Bellatrix turned to her new opponent with glee, Molly duelled so fierce that Bellatrix's sneer

become a snarl and the floor around their feet became hot and cracked. Bellatrix taunts Mrs. Weasley,

before having an insane laugh, permitting Molly's deadly curse to soar beneath Bellatrix's outstretched

arm and hit her right over her heart. Bellatrix froze for a heart stopping moment, and then toppled, lifeless.

Voldemort's fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb, and Harry turned

in slow motion to see McGonagall, Slughorn, and Kingsley blasted backwards in pain, and Voldemort

directing his wand at Molly. Harry then cast a shield charm to protect her from Voldemort's wrath,

revealing himself for the final duel.

Voldemort attempting to attack Harry Potter on

the Astronomy Tower.Added by Firefox1095

Final Duel

Harry: "I don't want anyone else to help. It's got to be like this. It's got to be me."

Voldemort: "Potter doesn't mean that. This isn't how he works, is it? Who are you going to use as

a shield today, Potter?"

Harry: "Nobody. There are no more Horcruxes. It's just you and me now Voldemort. Neither can

live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good. . ."

— Harry and Voldemort face off for the final time.[src]

Harry crawling during the Battle of Hogwarts.

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Harry casts Expelliarmus.

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Unbeknownst to Voldemort, mastery of the Elder Wand, which he had stolen from Dumbledore's grave,

had not been taken from Dumbledore by Snape, but by Draco Malfoy. Thus, when Harry disarmed

Malfoy in Malfoy Manor weeks earlier, he became the true master of the Elder Wand. When Harry and

Voldemort faced off for the last time, Harry tried to tell him this and about the other mistakes he had

made. Harry also asked him to feel some remorse, which Voldemort rejected. Voldemort cast the Killing

Curse, and Harry countered with Expelliarmus. The Elder Wand refused to attack its master, and the

Killing Curse rebounded, killing Voldemort once and for all. The final duel

between Harry and Voldemort.

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Harry with the Elder Wand and Draco Malfoy's wand

shortly after defeatingVoldemort.Added by JamesSiriusPotter

Immediately, Harry was surrounded by overjoyed fellow fighters; Hermione and Ron reached him first,

and then Ginny, Neville and Luna. Victory celebrations began, but Harry soon grew weary, and Luna

created a distraction so that he could slip away under the Invisibility Cloak to find Ron and Hermione.

They visited Albus Dumbledore’s portrait, and along the way he explained everything to his two best

friends. Harry decided to prevent the Deathly Hallows from ever being reunited again by keeping

the Cloak of Invisibility, leaving theResurrection Stone where it lay in the Forbidden Forest, and

returning the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's grave, but not before using it to fix his wand.

When Voldemort destroyed the Horcrux that was Harry, Harry Potter lost the ability to

speak Parseltongue [22] , much to his relief. In addition, the scar on Harry's forehead no longer held

magical powers, nor did it ever cause Harry pain again.

Later life Edit"The scar hadn't pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."

—Harry's later life[src]

Harry Potter at age 37.

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After the end of the Second Wizarding War, Harry became an Auror at theMinistry of Magic;

new Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt permitted those who had fought in the final battle to

become Aurors without getting theirN.E.W.T.s. In 2007, Harry became youngest head of the Auror

Office at the age of 27. He helped to reform and revolutionise the Ministry along with Ron Weasley,

who also became an Auror, and Hermione Granger, who was ranked high up in the Department of

Magical Law Enforcement. At some point, all three of them were featured on Chocolate Frog

Cards for their accomplishments.

Harry and Ginny with their children Albus.

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Following the war, he aided in the care of his godson, Teddy Lupin, thus fulfilling his role that his own

godfather, Sirius Black, never got to play. By 2017, Harry had married Ginny Weasley and had three

children: two sons James Sirius, Albus Severus, and one daughter Lily Luna. In September of that

year, Harry and Ginny took their three children to King's Cross Station to see James and Albus off to

Hogwarts. There, they met Ron and Hermione, and their two children, Harry's niece Rose and

nephew Hugo. Albus expressed a fear that he might be sorted into Slytherin house, Harry told his son

he was named after two Hogwarts Headmaster's one being a Slytherin and the "bravest man he ever

knew." Harry assured him that his parents would be proud of him regardless of where he was sorted, and

told him that the Sorting Hat would take his preferences into consideration, which happened to himself.

Harry ensured that Severus Snape's portrait was hung in the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts.

[23] He also made occasional visits to the school to give lectures to the students on Defence Against

the Dark Arts.

Harry was also on "Christmas card" terms with his cousin Dudley and his family, and occasionally visited

him, which were occasions dreaded by his own children.[24] Harry also made peace with his former

rival Draco Malfoy. They were civil towards each other, however they were still not friends.

Physical description Edit

Harry in his third year.Added by KickAssJedi

"Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby. Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's

eyes."

—Rubeus Hagrid to the eleven-year-old Harry Potter.[src]

Harry was a near-spitting image of his father, having untidy jet-black hair, but his startlingly green,

almond-shaped eyes were identical to those of hismother. 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.

However, despite the neglect he suffered, Harry seems to have grown at the same rate as James, as

when he was fifteen he was within an inch of James at the same age, and when he was seventeen he

was exactly the same height his father was, and James was often described as tall. Harry wore round-

rimmed glasses, peculiarly similar to his father's glasses.

Upon Harry's forehead, covered by his unruly black hair, was a scar shaped like a lightning bolt. The

scar was a result of the failed (and famed) Killing Curse cast on him by Lord Voldemort when he

was an infant. It burned painfully whenever Voldemort was near Harry or feeling particularly strong

emotions, but this stopped after Voldemort's death and was reduced into an ordinary scar.

Harry also had a faint scar on the back of his right hand which says "I must not tell lies." This scar was

caused while Harry spent detentions with Dolores Umbridge, who forced him to use a quill that carved

the words into the back of his hand.

In addition, Harry has an oval-shaped scar over his heart where the locket-Horcrux seared his skin during

the confrontation with Nagini in Bathilda Bagshot's house, Godric's Hollow.

When possessed by Lord Voldemort at the end of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries,

Harry's eyes became somewhat glassy green in appearance.

Personality Edit"I see Harry as someone who is struggling to do the right thing, who is not without faults, who acts

impetuously as you would expect someone of his age to act, but who is ultimately a very loyal

person, and a very very courageous person. So, in as much as he has qualities that I admire

most I would say he is a good role model. That doesn’t mean that he is saintly, but then frankly,

who is? But I think you do see enough of Harry’s inner life, the workings of his mind in the books

to know that he is ultimately human, struggling to do the right thing, which I think is admirable."

—J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter was an extremely brave, loyal and selfless person who possessed tremendous strength of

character. 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 was also

marked by what Hermione Granger once deemed a "saving-people thing" — he would go to great

lengths and take great risks in order to help others, particularly 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 was also very strong-willed, unafraid to stand up for

himself and able to resist the Imperius Curse at a young age. Dumbledore once made parallels

between Harry's traits and qualities that Salazar Slytherin looked for in his own hand-picked students.

"Hmm. Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, oh

my goodness, yes - and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that's interesting... So where shall I

put you?"

—Sorting Hat to Harry Potter[src]

Harry was perfectly prepared to put his friends' needs and best interests first, shown by how he ended his

relationship with Ginny Weasley due to his being concerned for her well being, even though being with

her was the best thing that ever happened to him. The amount of trust that Harry put into his friends was

so strong that he absolutely refused to consider that any of them would betray him to Voldemort.

Considering that Harry knew a person who had betrayed all of his closest friends to Voldemort, they

being Harry's parents, godfather and Remus Lupin who was there when Harry declared his trust in him,

proves Harry's ability to Love so unequivocally.

The closeness that Harry felt for many was great enough for him to behave violently should any of them

get harmed. When his godfather was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry attacked her in a grief-

stricken rage and attempted to use the Cruciatus Curse on her. He also attacked Severus

Snape after the latter murdered Albus Dumbledore. Ironically, the only people Harry ever initiated a

duel with were Snape and Bellatrix and he only desired to do so right after they killed someone he loved.

This highlights Harry's bravery even further because Harry was fully aware that Snape and Bellatrix were

two of the greatest wizards and witches of the age but did not hesitate to harm them as soon as he was

pushed into it.

"Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-

picked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue; resourcefulness; determination; a certain

disregard for the rules [...]"

—Dumbledore to Harry Potter after defeating the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets [src]

Harry in his sixth year.Added by Remusblack

However, Harry was also accused of being arrogant, in particular bySeverus Snape (although in

fairness, Snape was somewhat biased, and Harry often found being famous and admired very difficult),

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 with his friends. Harry was

prone to moodiness 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. Harry possessed an instinctual, intuitive

intelligence that allowed him to make intellectual leaps as opposed to the logical intelligence of Hermione.

For example, Harry divined the truth about the Deathly Hallows, well before Hermione would accept it,

and although he was 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 (although he did study reasonably hard for

his Ordinary Wizarding Levels, the only set of wizarding qualifications he sat at Hogwarts). Harry

also seemed to have a bit of an obsessive personality, a trait he shared with his arch enemy Lord

Voldemort. During his sixth year, Harry became obsessed with finding out what Malfoy was doing. He

pursued Malfoy to the detriment of his other goal such as getting the memory from Slughorn. Also, while

searching for the Horcruxes, Harry became obsessed with the Deathly Hallows and did not fulfil his duty

as the leader of the hunt.

Harry's greatest strength was his ability to feel love, despite having a miserable childhood of neglect.

Harry was extremely loyal to and protective of his loved ones, and that love was what allowed him to

overcome Voldemort. Harry even claimed that he felt sorry for Voldemort because of his inability to feel or

understand love.

Remus Lupin once noted that Harry had very good and nearly always right instincts, as he was right

that Draco was up to something and that there was a Horcrux in Hogwarts.

Harry also cared very much for his children. He comforted his daughter, Lily Potter when she was upset

about not going to Hogwarts. He also made sure his younger son Albus Potter would not be teased a

lot by Harry's older son, James Potter II.

Although never as given to sarcasm or humour as his best friend Ron, Harry often displayed a dry,

occasionally sarcastic, wit. For instance, on finding out that Hermione Granger intended to take

twelve O.W.Ls, he asked her if she planned to eat or sleep at all that year. This humour often became

more cutting when applied to people Harry disliked: When threatened by Draco Malfoy and his cronies

after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Harry remarked that he supposed that "Lord

Voldemort's just a warm-up act compared to you three."

Magical abilities and skills Edit

Harry defending himself againstDementors at age fifteen.

Added by Oread

"False hope? He has achieved high marks in all of hisDefence Against the Dark Arts tests!"

—Professor McGonagall arguing with Dolores Umbridge about Harry's career[src]

Harry was a reasonably talented wizard with a number of skills that he was extremely good at.

Love : Harry's greatest power of all was his ability to love. In spite of being raised by a family that

treated him with anything but affection Harry remarkably turned out capable of very strong love. His

love for his friends caused him to feel no concern for his own well being or happiness when they

were at risk and put himself in danger many times to protect them. His love was strongest when

directed at Ginny Weasley whom was the driving force that kept him going until Voldemort was

defeated.

Defence Against the Dark Arts : Harry was extremely adept in the Defence Against the

Dark Arts, having mastered all manners of jinxes and spells, such as the Stunning

Spell, Disarming Charm, Impediment Jinxand Reductor Curse. In fact, his Stunning

Spell was so strong that opponents would get knocked out if they were hit directly. Harry also

achieved an Outstanding Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L., something that not even

Hermione achieved, a testament of his extraordinary talent in defensive magic. Indeed, Harry was

so good at D.A.D.A. that when the Ministry of Magic prevented the subject from being taught

effectively in 1995 Harry set up his own D.A.D.A. club and successfully taught the members to

defend themselves well against the Dark Arts (so well indeed that some of them were later able to

put up a good fight in the Department of Mysteries). Harry also had developed some

resistance to the Imperius Curse, demonstrated when it was first cast upon him by Barty

Crouch Jr. (disguised as Alastor Moody) during a Defence Against the Dark Artsclass in

his fourth year. Crouch cursed Harry with it four times in a row, until he could throw it off entirely.

At the end of the school year, Voldemort himself cast the Imperius Curse on Harry, which he was

able to resist, much to the astonishment of the Death Eaters who were present. Harry's natural

aptitude for resisting the Imperius Curse, and ability to resist it when cast by the most

powerful Dark Wizard in history, demonstrates an indescribable strength of will and character.

"Look at that, you lot...Potter fought! He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We'll try that again

Potter, and the rest of you, pay attention - watch his eyes, that's where you see it - very good,

Potter, very good indeed! They'll have trouble controlling you!"

—Barty Crouch Jr., under the guise of Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody on Harry's ability to

resist the Imperius Curse[src]

Duelling : Despite his young age, Harry was a very skilled duellist, being able to single-handedly

defeat Death Eaters and even survive numerous encounters with Lord Voldemort himself. He

eventually defeated Voldemort by becoming the master of the Elder Wand. In many battles of

the Second Wizarding War, he was able to incapacitate much more experienced Death Eaters,

and 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 and, along with Albus Dumbledore and Remus Lupin,

was the only fighter on their side to emerge from the battle physically unscathed, and in that time

he had defeated Lucius Malfoy and had defeated the extremely powerful Antonin

Dolohov twice. Later, in the same battle, he was able to hold his own against Bellatrix

Lestrange, who was the most powerful of all the Death Eaters. In 1997, Harry

defeated Yaxley, Fenrir Greyback, and one of the two Carrows, and briefly held his own

against Severus Snape, who was able to block Harry's attempts of cursing him by using

Legilimency. He fought off several Death Eaters in the Battle over Little Whinging,

defeated Thorfinn Rowle with a single spell during the Skirmish at Luchino Café, knocked

out Yaxley and Dolores Umbridge during the Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic,

overpowered Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy and Fenrir Greyback during the Skirmish at

Malfoy Manor, and avoided direct conflict damage all throughout the Battle of

Hogwarts (ensuring that mastery of the Elder Wand did not waver from him). He was known to

be very quick off the draw and had an aggressive duelling style, even incorporating Unforgivable

Curses. Harry was especially skilled in the Disarming Charm, and used it so much that it was

seen as his "signature spell" by many Death Eaters. His most notable uses of the Disarming

Charm were when he formed Priori Incantatem with Voldemort and when he finally killed the

Dark Lord. At the remarkably young age of seventeen, Harry became an Auror, and in 2007, was

promoted to Head of the Auror Office.

Dark Arts : Harry was one of the few non-Dark Wizards who was highly proficient in the Dark

Arts at all levels; whilst he knew simple jinxes like Flipendo and the Impediment Jinx, he could

use stronger spells such as the Blasting Curse and even attempted some of the Unforgivable

Curses with varying degrees of success, such as Imperius Curse on Travers and

a goblin called Bogrod during the 1998 Break-In of Gringotts Wizarding Bank as well as

the Cruciatus Curse on several occasions - once on Bellatrix Lestrangein 1996 (though he

failed then), another on Snape in 1997 (at which time he was prevented from completing the

incantation) and once more against Amycus Carrow in 1998, (and whilst the curse was more

successful than Harry's past attempts, it did not result in the prolonged, excruciating pain that the

curse was famous for - instead, Carrow screamed and was incapacitated). However, he has never

used the Killing Curse for obvious reasons, even in his final battle with Voldemort.

"You play as good as your father did, Harry."

—Sirius Black talking about Harry's flying talent.[src]

Harry playing Quidditch in his sixth year.Added by You-Know-Who

Flying : Harry had also inherited his father's talent for flying and forQuidditch, showing

immediate command of a broomstick in his first year, which made him a naturally good Seeker.

This was the first magical skill for which he discovered an aptitude, as he found in 1991. In fact, at

the mere age of eleven, Harry became the youngest Seeker in a century. Harry's extraordinary

flying skills aided him when he had to captureWinged Keys to get past Professor Flitwick's

challenge in thePhilosopher's Stone Chambers, and also helped him in the Triwizard

Tournament (where 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.

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, Harry was able to see

into Voldemort's mind and through his senses from time to time. He sometimes used this ability to

monitor whatVoldemort 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.

Additionally, because of their connection, Harry felt a burning pain in his scar whenever he and

Voldemort were in close proximity or whenever Voldemort felt strong negative emotions. Although

Harry failed to learn Occlumency, he did eventually have some success at blocking his

connection to Voldemort by focusing on feelings of grief, even though Albus Dumbledore told

Harry it waslove.

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, although the wand was in Voldemort's possession at the time. Dumbledore left

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 a priceless family heirloom.

Potioneer : His Potions ability is apparently better than it appears, as he is able to achieve an

Exceeds Expectations grade on his O.W.L. exam; and improves greatly during his sixth year when

he came into possession of an old potions textbook in which a talented former student

(Severus Snape) had revised many potion-making techniques. However, the usage of this

textbook was noted by both Hermione and Snape to be cheating, and when forced to hide it,

Harry's potion skills suffered. Despite this, it is noted that Harry has no problems with potions at all,

albeit for as long as Snape is not around: Harry found that he had no problems brewing a potion

when Snape was not bothering him.

Transfiguration : Harry was able to conjure ropes in his sixth year and achieved an Exceeds

Expectation grade in the subject. Minerva McGonagall herself complemented Harry on his

Transfiguration ability.

Charms : Harry also achieved an Exceeds Expectations in his Charms work. He frequently used

theSummoning Charm successfully and would occasionally cast the protective enchantments

that Hermione would use during the Horcrux hunt. Under the teaching of Remus Lupin, Harry

was able to cast a corporealPatronus charm in his third year, which was a remarkable feat and

yet another proof of his talent, given that many adult wizards were unable to cast the difficult charm

successfully. His Patronus takes the form of a stag, his father's Animagus and Patronus form.

Harry's Patronus is so powerful that, even at the very first time he successfully cast it, it was able

to drive away hundreds of Dementors.

Apparation : Harry had not earned a license to apparate but he used the ability frequently during

1997 and 1998 to great success, even when forced to apparate with only a seconds notice or while

guiding others. Harry used apparation in his sixth year to a very impressive degree to get himself

and a weakened Albus Dumbledore over an incredibly vast distance even though he was

inexperienced. Harry has stated and it is noted that he does not like the sensation however.

Non-verbal  and wandless magic: In 1995, when the Dementors attacked in Little

Whinging, Dudley had knocked Harry's wand when he punched Harry moments before. In

desperation, Harry calls out "Lumos!" Although his wand was not in his hand, the wand tip lit up.

During 1997 and 1998 Harry began using spells non-verbally and became quite proficient at it

when Snape wasn't bothering him. He used both non-verbal and wandless magic in 1991, when

he caused the glass window of a snakes cage at the zoo to vanish and again in 1993 when he

inflated Marge Dursley, although both of these occurrences were accidents fuelled by pure

anger. Few other wizards have exhibited this power,

although Dumbledore and Voldemort were among them. This further contributes to Harry's

skill, as only some of the most powerful wizards of his time were able to do so.

Care of Magical Creatures : Harry has shown on more than one occasion to have good skill

in handling numerous sorts of magical creatures. For example, he was the first in his class to tame

a Hippogriff, which he did very excellently. He befriended the Hippogriff, Buckbeak, to the

extent that Buckbeak defended him when he was in danger. He has also shown on three

occasions that he is quite competent at dealing withdragons. This is shown when he was able to

help Hagrid take care of baby Norbert the dragon, outsmart theHungarian Horntail in

the Triwizard Tournament, and tame a half-blind dragon into helping them

escapeGringotts by flying out on its back. Harry is also quite skilled at dealing with Dementors,

which he has shown on many occasions as well. Harry was also good at dealing with house-elves,

befriending Dobby and eventually freeing him, which made the little elf so loyal to him that he

gave his life to save him. He also earned the respect and loyalty of Kreacher, a difficult task.

Herbologist : Harry earned an Exceeds Expectations in Herbology, showing an aptitude in the

subject.

Detective skills: Harry, along with Ron and Hermione, is also a reasonably talented investigator.

While in school the trio had a knack for finding and exposing the truth. In his first year Harry

uncovered the truth about the Philosopher's Stone and saved it from Voldemort. Over the next six

years he would discover the Chamber of Secrets, learn of Sirius's innocence and Pettigrew's

betrayal, find the Prophecy, and hunt down and destroy all of Voldemorts Horcruxes using his

deductive skills.

Possessions Edit"He's been left a house?"

—Vernon Dursley [src]

Potter  Inheritance: When Harry's parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort, they left behind

a somewhat large savings account in vault 687 of Gringotts Wizarding Bank. This inheritance

became Harry's source of funding for all his Hogwarts textbooks, wizarding clothes, and the rest

for spending money.

Wand : As is the case with most wizards and witches, Harry's wand is among his most

valued magicalpossessions. Harry's is made of Holly, a wood with the powers to repel evil.

[25] The wand is in deliberate contrast to the wand of Lord Voldemort, which is Yew. Harry's

wand shared a twin core with Voldemort's wand, as both contained Phoenix feathers from the

same phoenix, Fawkes. Harry's wand broke in 1997during a skirmish with Nagini in Bathilda

Bagshot's house due to a stray spell cast by Hermione Granger. Harry later used the Elder

Wand to repair it.

Cloak of Invisibility : Another valued and useful possession is Harry's Cloak of Invisibility. In

his first year atHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he received it as an

anonymous Christmas gift. He later learned the gift came from Albus Dumbledore, who

obtained it in turn from Harry's father, James Potter. It was later revealed to be

a family heirloom as well as one of the three Deathly Hallows. From this Harry realises he is a

direct descendent of Ignotus Peverell, one of the three brothers who created the Deathly Hallows.

It is yet to be decided whether he would give the cloak to his oldest son, James Sirius, or his

youngest son, Albus Severus.

Hedwig with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.

Added by Webbuildertudor

Hedwig : Harry's animal companion, Hedwig was vitally helpful in delivering messages and

packages for Harry, especially while Sirius was in hiding from the Ministry. Hedwig loved Harry

dearly, showing signs by nibbling his ear or fingers, and loyally obeyed his every command (even

pecking Ron and Hermione until they answer back). Harry loved her as much as she loved him.

Hedwig was killed during the Battle over Little Whinging by a stray Killing Curse that was

most likely meant for Hagrid. Harry was overcome with grief over Hedwig's death.

Marauder's Map : One of Harry's most treasured possessions. In his third year, Fred and

George Weasley gave it to Harry while he was trying to sneak into Hogsmeade. It was

confiscated by Remus Lupin, but later returned when he quit his job. Harry kept it with him for a

long period of time, keeping it in the Mokeskin wallet from Hagrid. Harry kept it in his possession

until it was stolen from his desk by his son, James.

The Deathly Hallows: The Cloak of

Invisibility,Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand.

Added by Ardeau

Deathly Hallows : For a brief time, Harry was master of all three Deathly Hallows:

the Cloak of Invisibility, the Resurrection Stone, and theElder Wand (though he was not

in physical possession of the Elder Wand until after losing the Resurrection Stone). These three

artefacts are the most powerful magical items in all of the wizarding world and were so ancient that

they were only the subject of fairy tales. When Harry lost the Resurrection Stone inside

the Forbidden Forest, he decided to leave it there. Harry also interred the Elder Wand in Albus

Dumbledore's grave, so the power of the wand would be extinguished after Harry's eventual death.

However, the portrait of Dumbledore that hangs in the Headmaster's office advised Harry to

keep the Invisibility Cloak, since it was his father's.

Godric Gryffindor's Sword : A relic of the founder of Harry's house, the goblin-made

sword of Godric Gryffindor was left to Harry by his former Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in

his will. However, the Ministry of Magic claimed that it was not Dumbledore's to give, and that it

truly belonged to Hogwarts. Although the Ministry confiscated a replica of the sword, the true

sword found its way into Harry's possession still through the machinations of Severus Snape.

Soon after, Ron Weasley used it to destroy Salazar Slytherin's Locket, one of

Voldemort's Horcruxes. Harry lost the sword to Griphook when he, Ron and Hermione

Granger stole Helga Hufflepuff's Cup  from the Lestrange Vault at Gringotts. However,

the sword reappeared in the hands ofNeville Longbottom during the Battle of Hogwarts; he

used it to kill Nagini, and thus destroyed the last of the Horcruxes. Neville was seen sitting beside

the sword after the battle, but it is likely that it was returned to Hogwarts as a relic of the Founders,

along with the remains of the other Founders' relics.

Sirius Black's Enchanted Knife : This magical knife, with the power to open most

mechanical locks and magical seals and which Harry received for Christmas from Sirius Black, was

melted when Harry tried it on a locked door at the Department of Mysteries. The protective

enchantments on the door were far stronger than the magic of the enchanted knife.

The Firebolt.

Added by Boogieach

Firebolt  broom: During Harry's third year at Hogwarts, the Nimbus 2000 broom he'd been

riding since his first year was destroyed by theWhomping Willow, and Sirius Black replaced it

by giving Harry thefinest broom available as an anonymous gift. The broom was one of Harry's

most prized possessions for years. It was lost during theBattle over Little Whinging. It is not

known if Harry ever recovered or replaced it.

Communication mirror : Harry also owns one in a pair of two-way mirrors, given to him by

his godfather Sirius Black. The mirror was intended to be a means covert communication, but

Harry broke it out of anger over Sirius' death. Harry did not realise the mirror could still work,

although he kept a shard out of sentimentality. When Harry and several friends are captured

at Malfoy Manor, at the time being used as a headquarters for Voldemort, Harry used the shard

of mirror to communicate with Aberforth Dumbledore, who had the other mirror. Aberforth

sentDobby to rescue Harry and the other prisoners.

Fabian Prewett's watch : Molly Weasley gave Harry the watch of her late brother Fabian

Prewett for hisseventeenth birthday. It has a dent in it, but Harry kept the watch, even into his

thirties. The watch does not have arms; rather, it has stars.

Mokeskin pouch : A birthday present from Hagrid. Harry kept it with him throughout the

Deathly Hallows, and kept in it his treasures that were of no use to his search; the Snitch, the

broken mirror, his broken wand, his mother's letter and the fake Horcrux.Harry also received a

photo album, from Hagrid, which had photos of his parents and other family members.

After Sirius Black died, all of his remaining possessions were passed along to Harry. This included:

Buckbeak laying down near Hagrid's house.

Added by Animagi Prongs

Buckbeak /Witherwings': The hippogriff Sirius acquired from Rubeus Hagrid. Harry allowed

Hagrid to take care of Buckbeak/Witherwings, as Hagrid had dearly missed the creature while it

was in Sirius' possession.

The Black Family Residence:

"As you can see, Harry, Kreacher is showing a certain reluctance to pass into your ownership."

—Albus Dumbledore [src]

Located at 12 Grimmauld Place, it and all the contents and furnishings of the house,

including Kreacher (the family house-elf) became Harry's.Mundungus Fletcher would later try to

steal many of Harry's inherited possessions, including Salazar Slytherin's Locket.

Black Family Inheritance: Harry also inherited the remainder of Sirius' wealth in wizard's gold at

Gringotts. Since Sirius was disowned at the age of sixteen, it is likely that this wealth was limited to

the gold left to him by his uncle Alphard Black. However, that is open to debate because

although Sirius Black was disinherited by his family, he ended up inheriting the Black Home after

their death, which might lead us to believe in the existence of other forms of inheritance from his

family other than what his uncle left him.

Relationships Edit

Family Edit

Parents Edit

Lily and James Potter, his mother and father.

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Lily: "You’ve been so brave."

James: "You are nearly there. Very close. We are…so proud of you."

— Harry’s parents speaking to him through the Resurrection Stone [src]

James and Lily Potter died when their son was only a year old. Harry barely knew them, but

nevertheless regarded them with great reverence and fiercely defended their memory if anyone spoke ill

of them. In 1995, he punched Draco Malfoy for insulting his mother, and he frequently became furious

with Professor Snape, who taunted Harry that James was not the great man others made him out to

be. Snape was, to Harry's horror, proven right in the spring of 1996, when Harry accidentally witnessed

James bully Snape using the Levicorpus spell in one of Snape's memories, via Dumbledore's

Pensieve. However, Harry was relieved to know that his mother was a fair and kind person, who neither

participated in nor tolerated bullying, and would stand up for those in need. Remus Lupin and Sirius

Black later assured him that James had changed his ways, eventually becoming mature enough to win

Lily over.

Harry Potter attempting to hold his mother's hand (from the resurrection

stone)

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The few times he ever saw his parents were through pictures given to him by Rubeus Hagrid, a vision

within the Mirror of Erised, spectral forms which came out of Voldemort's wand during Priori

Incantatem, stored memories within the Pensieve, and again as spectral forms when he "recalled" them

during the Battle of Hogwarts, by using the Resurrection Stone. Both James' and Lily's spirits told

their son that they were tremendously proud of him, for being so brave and strong despite all the suffering

and pain that he had been forced to endure, and gave him the support he needed to sacrifice himself to

Voldemort. Harry described their presence as his courage, the very reason why he was able to keep

putting one foot in front of the other, with his mother smiling at him, and his father nodding

encouragement.

Lily Evans' dead body.

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Albus Dumbledore maintained that Harry's greatest strength was his love for his parents and the love

they had for him, and in part, this literally translated to the protection afforded to Harry by his

mother's sacrifice. Harry eventually named two of his children after his parents. After seeing his now-

ruined parents' house, Harry experienced a flashback into Voldemort's brain and saw the dead corpses of

his father and mother.

The dead body of James Potter.

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Petunia Dursley Edit

Petunia Dursley, his aunt.

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Harry: "She doesn't love me. She doesn't give a damn —"

Dumbledore: "But she took you. She may have taken you grudgingly, furiously, unwillingly,

bitterly, yet still she took you..."

— Harry and Albus Dumbledore on Petunia Dursley [src]

After Lily and James Potter were murdered by Lord Voldemort, Harry was taken in by his maternal

aunt, Petunia Dursley. Petunia had not been fond of her late sister, jealously and bitterly regarding her

as a "freak" for her magical abilities. She took out her resentment on Harry, treating him poorly and

depriving him of affection. When Harry was finally told about his Wizarding background, Petunia admitted

she had always feared he would turn out "like his parents." Though after years of neglect, Harry didn't

particularly care for his aunt either, although he was concerned enough for the Dursleys to push them to

go into hiding during the height of the Second Wizarding War. Just before departing, Petunia gave

her nephew an odd, tremulous look, and seemed to want to say something more to him than goodbye,

but ultimately just shook her head and left. She had wanted to wish him luck, and admit that her loathing

of him and his world was born out of jealousy, but years of pretending that "normal" was best had

hardened her too much.[26]

Dudley Dursley Edit

Dudley Dursley, his cousin.

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Dudley: "I don’t think you’re a waste of space."

Harry: "Well… er… thanks, Dudley."

Dudley: "You saved my life."

— Harry’s farewell to the Dursleys[src]

Harry and his cousin Dudley did not get along very well for most of their early lives.

While Vernon and Petunia treated Harry poorly, they spoiled Dudley to the extreme. Dudley constantly

bullied his much smaller cousin throughout their childhood, but did his best not to provoke him after he

found out that Harry was awizard, though the two still got into an occasional argument and trading of

insults. This changed after Harry saved Dudley from a pair of Dementors that attacked them during the

summer of 1995. When the Order of the Phoenix placed theDursleys into hiding to keep them safe

during the height of the Second Wizarding War, Dudley was the only member of the family to express

concern for Harry's safety, asking his parents why Harry was not accompanying them and where he

would go, if not with them. He also expressed remorse for his prior treatment of Harry, and the two shook

hands before the Dursleys left.

The cousins eventually reconciled as adults, remaining on "Christmas card terms" and visiting each other

occasionally. At these times, Harry's three children and Dudley's children would all play together while

their fathers would sit together quietly.[27]

Vernon Dursley Edit

Vernon Dursley, his uncle.

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"Well, I've got news for you, boy ... I'm locking you up ... you're never going back to that school ...

never ... and if you try and magic yourself out - they'll expel you"

—Vernon Dursley to Harry Potter[src]

Vernon Dursley became Harry's uncle through Vernon's marriage to Harry's Aunt Petunia. Harry lived

with the Dursleys after Albus Dumbledore appealed to Petunia and convinced her to take Harry in

following the death of thePotters. Vernon seemed to resent this fact as much as, if not more than, his

wife; he and Petunia begrudged Harry all but the meanest comforts, even forcing their nephew to sleep in

a cupboard under the stairs until shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday. Vernon seemed to take

particular pleasure in showing Harry all he was missing, while simultaneously spoiling and indulging

Harry's cousin, Dudley. In 1995, when Harry and Dudley were attacked by Dementors, Vernon

demanded that Harry leave, thinking it the only way to protect his family from Lord Voldemort, though

Petunia disagreed after receiving a Howler from Dumbledore. In1997, Harry and the Dursleys parted

ways, thus ending the protection placed on Harry by his mother's sacrifice for as long he had a "home"

with his blood relatives, or until he came of age. Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley were hidden by the Order

of the Phoenix, to be protected from the Death Eaters, while Harry was transported to

theBurrow prior to searching for Voldemort's Horcruxes. Vernon almost shook Harry's hand, but

changed his mind and left the house quickly.

Marjorie Dursley Edit

Marge Dursley, his "aunt".

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"I won't have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it.

A good thrashing is what's needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten

often?"

—Aunt Marge to Harry[src]

Marge Dursley was Vernon's sister, whom Harry was forced to call "Aunt Marge" despite only being

indirectly related to her, and despite the fact that Marge, in fact, hated Harry. She seemed to resent

Harry's parents for having "left Harry to be a burden on their decent, hard working relatives," and called

his mother the "bad egg" of Petunia's family, while assuming his father was a "good-for-nothing, lazy

scrounger" after Vernon told her James had been unemployed. She spoiled Dudley, giving him gifts and

money, while she gave Harry dog biscuits, and was overjoyed to think he was being regularly beaten

at St. Brutus' Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys. In 1993, Harry lost control of his

magic, and inflated Marge like a balloon after she insinuated that Harry's parents had a died as a result of

their driving while drunk. She was found floating near a chimney in Sheffield, and her memory was

modified by the Ministry of Magic; had the Wizarding community not been in a panic about Sirius

Black's escape from Azkaban, the incident could have resulted in serious trouble for Harry.

Ron Weasley EditRon: "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left. I know I was a — a —"

Harry: "You've sort of made up for it tonight. Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcrux.

Saving my life."

Ron: "That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was."

— Harry and Ron reconcile after Ron returns to the hunt for the Horcruxes[src]

Ron Weasley became Harry's best friend during their first year at Hogwarts. Ron, along with

his mother, brothers, and sister first met Harry at King's Cross Station, when Harry was unable to

find "Platform 9¾." Ron sat across from Harry during the train ride and the two almost immediately

bonded over the ample sweets Harry purchased from the Hogwarts Express food trolley, which

Harry happily shared when Ron was unable to afford any himself. Harry cemented his friendship with Ron

by turning down Draco Malfoy's offer to help Harry avoid making friends "with the wrong sort," after

Draco insulted Ron's family. After being sorted into Gryffindor House together and sharing the same

dormitory, the two grew even closer, and eventually gained another best friend in Hermione

Granger when they saved her from a troll on Halloween. As Ron was raised in a wizarding family, he

was often called upon to explain customs and items that were commonplace to wizards, but completely

new to Harry and Hermione, who had both been raised in Muggle society.

In the summer of 1992, after Dobby had prevented Harry from receiving any letters, Ron and his twin

brothers (Fred and George) flew their father's Flying Ford Anglia to rescue Harry from Privet

Drive. After spending a few days atRon's home, Harry and Ron were supposed to return to school on

the Hogwarts Express with Ron's other siblings. However, Dobby had blocked the entrance to the

platform, and Harry and Ron were unable to board the train. Panicking, the pair flew the enchanted car to

Hogwarts; however, they landed on the Whomping Willow and lost the car as well as broke Ron's

wand. Later on in the year, when Hermione had been Petrified by Salazar Slytherin's basilisk,

Harry and Ron ventured into the Forbidden Forest together, where they were rescued from

aclan of Acromantula by the missing Ford Anglia. Ron also accompanied Harry down to

the Chamber of Secretsthe same year to rescue his sister Ginny.

Harry helping Ron, after he has unknowingly takenAmortentia.

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Harry and Ron had a major falling out in 1994 when Harry was made aTriwizard Champion; despite

knowing it to be completely contrary to Harry's character, Ron's insecurities initially led him to believe

Harry had cheated in order to enter the tournament, but left Ron out of scheme to keep the resulting glory

and attention for himself. However, Ron soon realised how badly he had misjudged the situation and

apologised. Ron was later taken as the object Harry would "sorely miss" in the Second Task of the

competition.

Harry and Ron had an even more serious falling out in 1997, when they, along with Hermione, were

hunting Voldemort's Horcruxes; the negative energy within Salazar Slytherin's Locket affected Ron

more severely than the other two, causing him to temporarily abandon his friends before regretting his

decision, and returning to them as soon as he was able.

Ron: "What are you doing? Are you staying, or what?"

Hermione: "I... Yes - yes, I'm staying. Ron, we said we'd go with Harry, we said we'd help -"

Ron: "I get it. You choose him."

Hermione: "Ron, no - please - come back, come back!"

— Ron after an argument with Harry and Hermione.[src]

Upon his return, Ron watched Harry follow the silver doe to Godric Gryffindor's sword, and saved

Harry's life after he jumped into a lake to retrieve it. When Harry finally opened the

locket, Voldemort's soul targeted Ron, using images of Harry and Hermione's likenesses taunting Ron

and then kissing, to emotionally torture him. Ron overcame his insecurities by plunging the Sword into the

locket, effectively destroying another of Voldemort's horcruxes.

The hardships Ron and Harry faced together served to reinforce their bond, and they remained friends for

life. Ron's fierce loyalty and sense of humour often helped Harry relax and have fun even in the darkest

times of his life. The two were like brothers, and would eventually become brothers-in-law when Harry

married Ginny. Ron was the uncle of Harry's three children, and became godfather to Harry and Ginny's

eldest son, James Sirius Potter.

Hermione Granger Edit

Hermione Granger, his best friend and sister-in-law.

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"She's like my sister. I love her like a sister, and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It’s

always been like that."

—Harry talking to Ron Weasley about his relationship with Hermione Granger in 1997 [src]

Though Harry and Ron initially found Hermione Granger stuck-up and arrogant, the three became

best friends after Harry and Ron saved her from a troll in 1991, and she, in turn, lied to keep them from

getting in trouble. Her quick mind was at times the only thing that saved the three friends from potential

failure in both life-threatening and every-day situations. Out of concern for her friend, Hermione often

chided Harry for his recklessness; though this occasionally put some strain on their relationship, it often

served to keep Harry on track, such as when he briefly considered pursuing theDeathly

Hallows instead of the Horcruxes.

Harry with Hermione in 1994.

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Hermione always stuck by Harry and was fiercely protective of him, from snapping at Lavender

Brown when she doubted Harry's claim that Lord Voldemort returned to interceding when Dolores

Umbridge was about to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry. Hermione stood by Harry even

when Rondoubted him during the Triwizard Tournament, accepting his story "without question," and

when Ron temporarily left them in 1997, despite her own romantic feelings for Ron. Harry, for his part,

was quick to defend Hermione against Cho Chang's accusation of trickery, referring to the jinx placed

on theDumbledore's Army sign up list that marked Cho's friend as a "sneak."

Harry and Hermione hugging before he makes his

sacrifice.

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Though their friendship remained entirely platonic, at times their closeness engendered jealously or

curiosity in others — especially those who had feelings for one or the other, including Cho Chang, Viktor

Krum, and even Ron. When the two were briefly alone together during the search for the Horcruxes,

Harry and Hermione experienced some "charged moments," in which the two "shared something very

intense;"[28], however, each remained devoted toGinny and Ron, respectively.

As Harry himself described, Hermione was his closest female friend, akin to a sister. It could be further

said she was like his older sister, protective and always trying to keep him in line. The two were also close

enough to share their feelings with one another, Hermione regarding Ron and Harry regarding Cho

Chang and later Ginny. Through Hermione's marriage to Ron Weasley, and through Harry's marriage

to Ginny, Hermione became his sister-in-law, as well as the godmother of his oldest child.

Ginny and Harry kiss during the Battle of

Hogwarts.

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Ginny Weasley Edit"Ginny, you don't know how weird it is for her to be this shy, she never shuts up normally—"

—Ron on Ginny's change of behaviour in the presence of Harry.[src]

Ginny Weasley and Harry first met at King's Cross Station in 1991, though they did not formally

meet until the summer of 1992, at which point it became blatantly clear that Ginny had a huge crush on

Harry.

Though the feeling moderated over time, until 1995 she was too shy and nervous around him to even

speak to him comfortably; he was a celebrity in her eyes, and to him she was his best friend's little sister.

She became even further embarrassed after Harry saved her from the Chamber of Secrets in his

second year, when she had been possessed by a fragment of Lord

Voldemort's soul. Hermione helped Ginny by advising her to be more like herself around Harry, and

perhaps even see other people. Ginny took this advice, and Harry came to see her as she truly was:

strong-willed, witty and compassionate. The two became friends in Harry's fifth year.

Harry spends time with Ginny on his 17th birthday.

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After his relationship with Cho Chang "fell apart" and Harry spent a good deal of time with Ginny as

well as Ron and Hermione at The Burrow in the summer of 1996, Harry's feelings for Ginny began

to deepen and change. In his first potions class with Slughorn, the love potion Amortentia revealed he

was attracted to "something flowery he had smelled at the Burrow," which later turned out to be Ginny's

hair. After witnessing her kissing Dean Thomas, Harry started to feel jealous and fantasise about

kissing her himself, although he determinedly tried to convince himself that his feelings for her were

"elder-brotherly." He had dreams about her of a seemingly intimate nature, reflecting once that he was

very glad that Ron could not perform Legilimency.

Harry and Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets.

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Shortly after Ginny and Dean broke up, she and Harry spontaneously kissed at a Gryffindor Quidditch

Cup victory party. The two began dating, and Harry regarded this time as one of the happiest in his life.

However, after the murder of Albus Dumbledore, Harry decided to end things with Ginny, fearing

thatVoldemort would target her if he learned of their romance and knowing that he would be leaving

with Ron and Hermione to find Voldemort's Horcruxes. Ginny was upset, but accepted Harry's decision,

knowing that it was for "some stupid, noble reason."

Ginny: "I’d like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you meet

some veela when you’re off doing whatever you’re doing."

Harry: "I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest."

Ginny: "There’s the silver lining I’ve been looking for."

— Ginny kisses Harry on his seventeenth birthday.[src]

Ginny tending to Harry's wound in 1996.

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The two soon saw each other again during the summer while Harry stayed at the Burrow. For Harry's

seventeenth birthday, Ginny passionately kissed Harry as something for him to remember her by, but

they were intentionally interrupted by Ron, with Hermione in tow.

The former told Harry not to "mess [Ginny] around," as his sister had been "pretty cut up" when Harry

ended their relationship. The two were soon separated for months as Harry tracked

downHorcruxes with Hermione and Ron, while Ginny returned toHogwarts, but still harboured feelings

for one another. After Ron abandoned his friends, Harry took to staring at Ginny's dot on

the Marauder's Map, and was worried when he heard that she, Neville, and Luna had gotten in

trouble for attempting to steal Godric Gryffindor's Sword for him.

When the Battle of Hogwarts began, Harry wanted Ginny to stay out of the fighting but was forced to

ask her to leave the safety of the Room of Requirement when he, Hermione, and Ron searched it

for Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem. When preparing to sacrifice himself to Voldemort, Ginny was the

last person about whom Harry thought. Later in battle, after Ginny was nearly killed by Bellatrix

Lestrange, Harry ran at Bellatrix rather than Voldemort, though Mrs. Weasley got there first.

After Voldemort's defeat, Harry and Ginny resumed their romance. Sometime between 1999 to 2002, they

married and had three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna.

Weasley family Edit

The Weasley Family, his second family.

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"Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it...well, all I can say

is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the

Hogwarts Express, Harry."

—Arthur Weasley to Harry in the Hogwarts hospital wing after Ron accidently drank a glass of

poisoned oak-matured mead.[src]

Beginning in the summer of 1992, Harry came to spend many of his holidays with the Weasley family,

at the the Burrow. Through his friendship with Ron, and his later romance with Ginny, the Weasleys

became far more of a family to him than the Dursleys ever were.

Molly Weasley announced to Harry's godfather that Harry was "as good as" one of her actual sons,

and herBoggart - of dead family members, one after another - included Harry. She was always keen to

make sure Harry was taken care of; at one point Harry noted that she "fussed over the state of his socks

and tried to get him to eat fourth helpings at every meal." Her caring sometimes led her to become

overprotective of Harry, such as when she strongly objected to the Order members giving Harry

information regarding Voldemort during the summer of 1995.

Arthur Weasley had always enjoyed discussing Muggle things with Harry, and entrusted Harry with

sensitive information others had felt him too young to understand. Harry once saved Mr. Weasley's life,

after seeing Him being attacked by Nagini in the Department of Mysteries before Christmas

of 1995.

When Ron was poisoned in Harry's sixth year, and Harry saved him with a Bezoar, Arthur pointed out

how he had saved several members of the Weasley family, and said that it was a good day for the

Weasleys when Ron decided to sit with him on the train in 1991.

Twins Fred and George Weasley helped Harry out numerous times, including saving him from the

Dursleys during the summer of 1992 with an enchanted car, giving him the Marauder's Map in 1993,

as well as volunteering to beD.A. members in 1995 and later that same year, distracting Dolores

Umbridge so that Harry could use her office to communicate with Sirius Black. The twins, whom

Harry regarded as close friends, were also on the Gryffindor Quidditch team with Harry for four

years. Harry gave his Triwizard winnings to the Weasley twins to startWeasleys' Wizard Wheezes,

and in their gratitude for the "start-up loan," they gave Harry products from their joke shop free of charge.

Fred's death during the Battle of Hogwarts was one of the deaths that hit Harry the hardest.

Harry liked Percy Weasley the least of Ron's brothers, finding him pompous, although he was genuinely

shocked when Percy sided with the Ministry against him in 1995. Percy later came to his senses and

fought alongside Harry in the Battle of Hogwarts. When Harry saw his sons go to Hogwarts, he

thought he overheard Percy talking and "was glad to have the excuse not to stop and say hello". He was

also friends with Bill, describing him as "cool" upon first meeting him, participating at his wedding

with Fleur Delacour, and living for a month at their house, Shell Cottage. He also liked Charlie,

who helped him out somewhat during the Triwizard Tournament. In his first year, Harry heard many

times that Charlie was a great Quidditch player, and was very happy when he and his team lived up to

Charlie's reputation.

After the end of the Second Wizarding War, Harry officially became part of the Weasley family

through his marriage to Ginny.

Albus Dumbledore Edit

Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter, in the Astronomy Tower.

Added by JaumeDS

Hermione: "Harry, I'm sorry, but I think the real reason you're so angry is that Dumbledore never

told you any of this himself."

Harry: "Maybe I am! Look what he asked from me, Hermione! Risk your life, Harry!... And don't

expect me to explain everything, just trust me blindly...even though I don't trust you! Never the

whole truth! Never!"

Hermione: "He loved you. I know he loved you."

— Harry and Hermione discussing the secrets Dumbledore kept[src]

Albus Dumbledore was a mentor to Harry, akin to a grandfather figure. Dumbledore arranged for

Harry to be rescued from Godric's Hollow after his parents' murder and left him in the care of his

aunt Petunia Dursley in order to give him the benefit of the magical protection of his mother's blood. In

Harry's fifth year, he admitted to Harry that he had not told him of the prophecyconcerning himself

and Voldemort, because he wanted to spare Harry the pain and responsibility it would burden him with

for as long as possible. Though Harry was initially furious with him for the frustration he felt for being kept

in the dark, the two continued to be close. By Harry's sixth year, Dumbledore took on the role of

providing Harry with additional insights into the origins of Lord Voldemort, largely through the use of

the Pensieve. He entrusted Harry with the task of getting a final, crucial memory from Horace

Slughorn regarding Voldemort's knowledge ofHorcruxes.

Harry and Dumbledore.

Added by You-Know-Who

Dumbledore's death was greatly devastating to Harry, though he persevered in the impossibly difficult

task Dumbledore had left him of finding and destroying each of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Harry had

difficulty coping with the fact that there was much Dumbledore had not told him about his history with

theDeathly Hallows and Gellert Grindelwald; however, when he learned during theBattle of

Hogwarts that Dumbledore had supposedly planned all along for Harry to sacrifice himself, Harry

innately showed incredible faith in his mentor by serenely accepting the task. When Harry allowed himself

to be struck by Voldemort's Killing Curse, his soul entered a state of Limbo, resembling King's

Cross Station, where Dumbledore was waiting to speak with him.

"Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living. Above all, pity those who live without love."

—Dumbledore's parting words to Harry during their encounter in Limbo.[src]

The fact that Dumbledore himself was there to meet Harry in a place between life and death attested to

the bond of fellowship between them. They discussed all that had happened to Harry since Dumbledore's

death, as well as things that had remained unsaid prior to it. At one point, Dumbledore seemed to beg for

Harry's reassurance, uncharacteristically doubting some of the decisions he had made in the course of

his life, which Harry easily gave him. Though Harry had felt some resentment for how little he felt

Dumbledore had actually revealed of himself in their time together, Harry probably learned secrets and

saw a side of Dumbledore that no one else knew during the events at "King's Cross."

Harry also had a unique relationship Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes; not only was Harry's wand one of

the only two ever made with feathers from Fawkes's tail, but the phoenix found Harry in the Chamber of

Secrets, helped him kill Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, and provided Harry with the only known

antidote to Basilisk venom: phoenix tears. Fawkes's song was a source of comfort for Harry on a

number occasions before the phoenix left Hogwarts following Dumbledore's death.

Harry later named his second son Albus, after the Hogwarts Headmaster.

Lord Voldemort Edit

Harry Potter and the Dark Lord before their final duel.

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"Don’t you turn your back on me, Harry Potter! I want you to look at me when I kill you! I want to

see the light leave your eyes!"

—Voldemort taunting Harry before the duel in the graveyard.[src]

Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter's destinies were locked when a prophecyforetelling of child "with

the power to Vanquish the Dark Lord" was made and relayed in part Voldemort, who decided to act to

prevent it from coming to fruition. Though two infants fit the description of the "Chosen One," Voldemort

believed the son of James and Lily Potter posed the greater threat, as he, like Voldemort himself,

was a Half-blood. In attempting to kill Harry (and in failing to so, unintentionally embedding a piece of

his souland some of his own abilities into Harry) he effectively marked Harry "as his equal." It was only

after Voldemort attacked Harry that the latter became a Parselmouth, a trait Voldemort inherited

from Salazar Slytherin, and was able to see into Voldemort's mind on occasion—both tools that aided

Harry in bringing about Lord Voldemort's end.

True to the prophecy, Harry's parents James and Lily Potter defied Voldemort three times and, on

their fourth encounter, were killed. When Lily refused to move aside and allow Voldemort access to his

true target, her son, her willing sacrifice afforded Harry a protection so powerful, it caused the Killing

Curse Voldemort aimed at Harry to rebound. Voldemort's body was destroyed, and the fragment of soul

residing within it was forced to flee and exist in a weak, spectral form.

"There is no good and evil... There's only power, and those who are too weak to seek it..."

—Voldemort, speaking through Quirrell, in 1992.[src]

Tom Marvolo Riddle and Harry Potter in the Chamber of

Secrets.

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After the 1981 attack, Harry met Voldemort again in 1992, when the latter, sharing Professor Quirinus

Quirrell's body, attempted to steal the Philosopher's Stone from Hogwarts. As

the enchantmentguarding the stone would only grant it to someone who wanted to find but not use it,

Harry was able to do what Voldemort and Quirrell weren't. Voldemort attempted to use what he knew

about Harry to convince the boy to hand the stone over—offering him power first, but then the possibility

of seeing his parents again—and when Harry refused, he ordered Quirrell to retrieve the stone by force.

When Quirrell was unable to touch Harry without experiencing excruciating pain, Voldemort gained some

appreciation of the enduring power of Lily Potters' sacrifice, though this knowledge didn't stop him from

continuing to underestimate the power of love.

"You! You're the Heir of Slytherin! You're Voldemort!"

—Harry Potter[src]

A year later, Lucius Malfoy slipped Tom Riddle's Diary into a pile of books Ginny Weasley was

holding. Unbeknownst to both Ginny and Lucius, the latter most likely believing the Diary was simply

enchanted to open the Chamber of Secrets, a fragment of Lord Voldemort's soul possessed Ginny

and used her to free Salazar Slytherin's basilisk. When Riddle eventually brought Ginny into the

Chamber, intending to use her life to restore his own, Harry—being a Parselmouth, and thus able to enter

the chamber—followed to rescue Ginny. When Harry demonstrated the traits of a "true Gryffindor" by

once again standing up to Voldemort, Fawkes the phoenix brought Harry the Sorting Hat, from which

he was able to pull Godric Gryffindor's Sword. Harry used the Sword to stab the Basilisk, and then

plunged one of the snake's fangs into Tom Riddle's Diary; as Basilisk venom was one of the few

substances capable of causing near-irreparable damage, Harry thus unknowingly destroyed one of

Voldemort'sHorcruxes for the first time. It was also here where he first learned that Voldemort's original

name was Tom Marvolo Riddle, a fact that shocked Harry, as he originally thought Riddle was a role

model student, as many others once believed.

"'Lord Voldemort had risen again'..."

—description of Voldemort's rebirth[src]

In 1995, Harry witnessed Lord Voldemort's resurrection after he and Cedric Diggory were

transported to Little Hangleton Graveyard by way of a secret Portkey. Peter

Pettigrew murdered Diggory, and then proceeded to concoct a potion to restore Voldemort to physical

form, using one of his own hands, bones dug up from the grave of Voldemort's father, and Harry's blood.

Upon regaining a body, Voldemort attempted once again to eliminate the threat Harry posed, this time

with Harry's blood—and as such, his mother's protection—running through his veins. As Voldemort had

expected, it no longer caused him pain to touch Harry, and in his arrogance and confidence at having

overcome what he believed was the only obstacle that had prevented him from killing Harry in the first

place, he initiated a duel. Harry was able to aim a Disarming Charm at Voldemort exactly at the same

time the latter attempted another Killing Curse, and the two spells collided, causing the rare Priori

Incantatem effect. Ghost-like echoes of Voldemort's last victims, including Cedric Diggory and Harry's

Parents, emerged from his wand, and held Voldemort off while Harry escaped back to Hogwarts with

Cedric's body.

"The usual rules do not seem to apply to you, Potter. The curse that failed to kill you seems to

have forged some kind of connection between you and the Dark Lord. The evidence suggests

that at times, when your mind is most relaxed and vulnerable -- when you are asleep, for instance

-- you are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The headmaster thinks it inadvisable

for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord."

—Severus Snape discussing the connection between Harry and Voldemort's minds

Lord Voldemort and Harry during the Battle of Hogwarts.

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Having once again failed to kill Harry, Voldemort was determined to discover what was contained in the

portion of the Prophecy he had not heard, and set plans in motion to retrieve a copy of it from the

fabled Hall of Prophecy. Though Harry, as the subject of the Prophecy, would have been the only one

able to remove the record, Voldemort succeeded in getting into Harry's head, in more ways than one, with

the help of the bullheaded refusal of Cornelius Fudge, and the Ministry of Magic, to acknowledge

Voldemort's return. As the Ministry launched a smear campaign throughout Harry's fifth year at

Hogwarts, in a bid to discredit him, Harry was filled with feelings of isolation and self-doubt that made him

increasingly vulnerable to Voldemort's manipulation. After discovering that Harry had been able more

than once to see into his mind, Voldemort planted a fake vision of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, being

tortured in the Hall of Prophecy; Harry was thus lured to the Ministry in his desire to save Sirius, where

he was ambushed by several Death Eaters.

Though the record of the Prophecy was smashed in the ensuing battle, Voldemort entered the Ministry

to confront Harry once more. When Voldemort's third Killing Curse aimed at Harry was deflected by

Hogwarts HeadmasterAlbus Dumbledore, Voldemort possessed Harry, causing the boy so much pain

that he begged Dumbledore to kill them both. However, as Voldemort was incapable of feeling love, the

grief Harry felt for the death of his godfather, whom he had just seen killed in the Death Chamber,

caused Voldemort unbearable pain. Moments after Voldemort was driven out Harry's mind, the

Ministry's Aurors, along with Cornelius Fudge himself, arrived on the scene; having seen the Dark Lord

with his own eyes, Fudge was finally forced to acknowledge his return. Feeling responsible for the death

of Harry's godfather, Dumbledore finally revealed to Harry the full extent of his significance to Lord

Voldemort, as well as the significance of The Prophecy to Harry, and the depth of Lily's sacrifice.

"Did you know how I survived, sir? The night I've got this... Because of her... because she

sacrificed herself... because she refused to step aside... because her love was more powerful

than Voldemort..."

—Harry Potter to Horace Slughorn[src]

Fully confident that Voldemort would never again enter Harry's mind, Dumbledore began teaching Harry

about the origins of Tom Riddle, by showing Harry the Headmaster's own memories of the younger

Voldemort, as well as those obtained from Riddle's few surviving victims. Though Harry was disturbed to

notice many similarities between them — both were orphans who considered Hogwarts their first real

homes, and both physically resembled their fathers, as well as, to some degree, each other—Dumbledore

insisted that they differed in one absolutely crucial way; Harry had the ability to love, while Voldemort did

not.

A memory Dumbledore enlisted Harry's help to retrieve from Horace Slughorn confirmed his

suspicions of all Voldemort had done to "to go farther down the path to immortality than anyone else;"

following Dumbledore's death in 1997, Harry resolutely took up the the task Dumbledore had started of

returning Lord Voldemort to mortality by destroying his Horcruxes.

During the time he spent searching for Voldemort's horcruxes, Harry was able to see into Voldemort’s

mind whenever the latter was filled with such a strong surge of emotion that he was unable to

apply Occlumency. In December of 1998, Harry became aware of the Deathly Hallows, and

through his mental connection with Voldemort, discovered the Dark Lord was attempting to track down

the Elder Wand. Harry "watched" as Voldemort tortured and killed his way to the Elder Wand's current

location: Albus Dumbledore's tomb. Though he had initially thought to try and find the reputedly

unbeatable wand himself, the grief Harry felt for Dobby's death grounded him, and he made the

conscious decision to pursue the Horcruxes, not the Hallows, choosing not to try and beat Voldemort to

Hogwarts.

After destroying all of Voldemort's known Horcruxes, with the exception of Nagini, Harry learned during

the Battle of Hogwarts that he was, himself, a Horcrux, and thus allowed himself to be hit with

Voldemort's Killing Curse. However, when Voldemort had used Harry's blood to restore his body, he

had unwittingly bound Harry's life to his own, and as such, the curse only destroyed the piece of

Voldemort’s soul within Harry, while Harry survived.

"Be a man... try... try for some remorse..."

—Harry giving Voldemort one last chance[src]

Harry and Voldemort falling during Battle of Hogwarts.

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As the two faced off one last time, Harry urged Voldemort to feel remorse—the only known means of

repairing a fractured soul—but Voldemort reacted with disdain. Harry went on to inform Voldemort that

despite wielding the Elder Wand, he was not its master; Draco Malfoy won the wand's allegiance by

disarming Dumbledore, but Harry had disarmed Draco weeks ago. Thus, Harry was the true master of the

Elder Wand. In his fury, Voldemort made one last attempt at Harry's life, but the Elder Wand was loyal

to Harry, and the Killing Curse once again backfired on to Voldemort. Without his Horcruxes to sustain

him, this time the curse finally and completely ended Voldemort's life.

Voldemort: "Potter doesn't mean that. Who else are you going to use as a shield today, Potter?"

Harry Potter: "No one. There are no more Horcruxes. It's just you and me. One of us is going to

leave for good."

— The final confrontation between Voldemort and Harry at the Battle of Hogwarts [src]

Voldemort and Harry were also related by blood, however distantly, through their shared descent from the

Peverells (Voldemort through the Gaunts and Harry through the Potters). This made them distant

cousins.

Dumbledore described the relationship between Voldemort and Harry as follows: "You and Lord

Voldemort have journeyed together into realms of magic hitherto unknown and untested... Voldemort

wrapped your destinies together more securely than ever two wizards were joined in history...both kin and

mortal enemy..."

Rubeus Hagrid Edit

Harry with Rubeus Hagrid, his friend, protector and teacher.

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"There's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid."

—Harry, after Hagrid's return from Azkaban [src]

Rubeus Hagrid was Harry's first friend in the wizarding world. In effect, he rescued Harry twice:

once from the wreckage of his destroyed home, as a baby; second, from the Dursleys' to take him back

into the wizarding world.

Both orphaned outsiders, Harry and Hagrid shared a bond that Harry never failed to honour. He

constantly defended the half-giant against name-calling and mockery, and despite his disapproval,

helped Hagrid protect various dangerous pets and raise his half-brother, Grawp. Harry also refused to

believe Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets, when Tom Riddle's Diary showed him the

memory.

During the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, Voldemort forced a distraught Hagrid to carry Harry's

"corpse" out of theForbidden Forest, during which time Hagrid expressed his fury with

the centaurs for initially refusing to fight, prompting them to join in soon after.

In 2017, Harry's sons, James and Albus, were planning to meet Hagrid for tea shortly after their arrival

atHogwarts.

Sirius Black Edit

Sirius Black, his godfather.

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"I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good

person who bad things have happened to, you understand? Besides, the world isn't split into

good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is

the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."

—Sirius Black to Harry Potter while in 12 Grimmauld Place [src]

Filling in as a paternal figure or an uncle, Sirius Black was Harry's godfather, as well as his most

trusted confidant. When Harry's scar hurt in 1994, he acknowledged that he could tell and ask Sirius

anything without feeling foolish, hesitant, or uncomfortable. During Dolores Umbridge's dictatorial rule

over Hogwarts in the 1995–1996 school year, Sirius supported Harry's plan to teach other

students practical defensive magic, telling Harry that he and James would have done the same thing.

When Harry first met Sirius, he wanted to kill Sirius for the betrayal of his parents. When the truth was

revealed that Peter Pettigrew had been the one who sold the Potters to Lord Voldemort, Sirius still

showed immense guilt, because it had been his idea for Pettigrew to become the Potters' Secret-

Keeper.

Harry with Sirius moments before his death.

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"It was cruel that you and Sirius had such a short time together. A brutal ending to what should

have been a long and happy relationship."

—Albus Dumbledore [src]

Harry, for his part, became very protective of Sirius. Knowing that the Ministry believed him guilty of mass

murder, Harry refused to put Sirius in danger if it could be avoided. When Harry was mysteriously entered

into the Triwizard Tournament, he tried everything to convince Sirius to remain in hiding instead of

returning to England. During Umbridge's year at the school, Harry asked Sirius not to come

to Hogsmeade as Padfoot, since he didn't want to risk Sirius getting thrown back into Azkaban;

while Sirius obeyed Harry's wishes, he observed that James would have been willing to take the risk.

When Sirius was killed in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Harry at first refused to

believe he was dead. Harry was completely devastated by Sirius's death; for the following months, Harry

avoided talking about Sirius if he could; whenever the subject came up, he would distract himself in some

way to avoid joining the discussion. Very fortunately, Harry was able to move on with his life after a short

period of grieving, knowing that Sirius would not want him to shut himself away or crack up. When Harry

prepared to sacrifice himself to Voldemort in 1998, Sirius was one of the spirits he summoned using

the Resurrection Stone. Sirius assured Harry that dying was "quicker and easier" than falling asleep.

Sirius also was the one who gave Harry his first toy broomstick, as a year old baby. In a letter to Sirius,

Harry's mother thanked him and described James' impression that Harry would be a "good Quidditch

player." Sirius later gave Harry another broomstick, the Firebolt, as thirteen years' worth of presents

from his godfather.

Harry would name his eldest son after James and Sirius.

Remus Lupin Edit

Remus Lupin, his friend, protector and teacher.

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"You're the best Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher we've ever had."

—Harry trying to convince Remus not to resign.[src]

Harry's simple student-teacher relationship with Remus Lupin quickly developed into a strong

friendship, akin to the one that a kind, loving uncle and his favourite nephew would share.

Harry first met Remus when he was an infant, and again in 1993 when Remus saved him from

the Dementors on the Hogwarts Express. Remus had been appointed the Defence Against the

Dark Artsprofessor at Hogwarts that year, and soon became his favourite professor as well as a

mentor of sorts. It was suggested that Remus' classes were how Harry discovered his talent for Defence

Against the Dark Arts. When Harry continued to be badly affected by Dementors, Remus agreed to

give Harry private lessons to teach him the Patronus Charm. It was during these lessons that Harry

discovered that Remus was one of his parents' oldest, dearest friends. Although Remus attempted to

maintain a teacher-student relationship with Harry, he did act more as a close friend or a beloved uncle at

times, answering his questions patiently, sharing Butterbeer after a private lesson, assisting him in

avoiding trouble withProfessor Snape, and even returning the Marauder's Map to Harry once he

was no longer a professor. Harry, in turn, became deeply fond of Remus, and was extremely upset to

hear of his resignation after Severus Snapeexposed him as a werewolf. He even attempted to try

and talk him into staying on at Hogwarts, but it was futile, though Remus told him that it had been a real

pleasure teaching him, and assured him that they would meet again.

The two indeed met again in the summer of 1995 when members of the Advance Guard of

the Order of the Phoenixarrived to pick up Harry from Privet Drive. Although initially wary of intruders,

Harry relaxed on learning of Remus' presence in the group, indicating that he still trusted his father's old

dear friend despite a year without contact. During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries,

Remus protected Harry and Neville Longbottom from an attack by Lucius Malfoy and saved Harry's

life by preventing him from running into the Veil in the Death Chamber in an attempt to save his

godfather, Sirius Black.

"But you are normal. You've just got a - a problem-."

—Harry Potter to Remus Lupin regarding the latter's lycanthropy [src]

Lupin and Harry discussing problems in 1993.

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Remus' undercover assignment with the werewolves prevented him from maintaining contact with

Harry in the wake of his godfather's death, something about which he expressed regret. On the few

occasions that they saw each other during Harry's sixth year, Harry was worried about Remus'

increasingly haggard and gaunt appearance. He displayed a protective streak towards Remus,

expressing anger over his forced resignation from Hogwarts and the general perception

of werewolves.

In 1997, Harry was thrilled to hear of Remus' marriage toNymphadora Tonks and was puzzled by

Lupin's increasingly worried appearance. He was outraged when Remus temporarily left his wife for fear

of their then unborn child becoming a werewolf. While Harry maintained his stance on their argument,

he deeply regretted the harsh words he said to Remus in his anger. When Remus' son Teddy

Lupinwas born, Harry was relieved that Remus had clearly forgiven him, and was overwhelmed but

delighted to be made Teddy's godfather. Remus also spoke about Harry on Potterwatch, saying that if

Harry could hear him he would tell him to trust his instincts which were "nearly always right." This deeply

affected Harry who was then informed by Ron that Lupin was back with Tonks, having apparently listened

to what Harry had said despite the way he said it.

Harry Potter: "I didn't want you to die. Any of you. I'm sorry — right after you'd had your son...

Remus, I'm sorry-"

Remus: "I am sorry too. Sorry I will never know him...but he will know why I died and I hope he

will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

— Harry speaks to Remus, James, Lily, and Sirius through the Resurrection Stone [src]

Of all the people who died during the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus' death, along with those of his

wife, Nymphadora Tonks, and Fred Weasley, were the ones that hit Harry the hardest. Remus was

one of the spirits that was summoned by the Resurrection Stone to speak to Harry and give him the

support he needed as he walked to what he believed was his death, indicating the almost familial bond

between Remus and Harry.

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry wrote in the werewolf section that they

"aren't all bad," and Harry and Remus' son, Teddy became very close after the war. Harry and his

family had dinner with Teddy four times a week and Harry's children hoped that Teddy would either be

married into the Weasley-Potter family, or Harry would ask Teddy to move in with the Potters.

Minerva McGonagall Edit"Potter, I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you

nightly, I will make sure you achieve the required results"

—Minerva McGonagall [src]

Minerva McGonagall, his Head of House, teacher, friend and protector.

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Harry had a strong relationship with his Transfiguration teacher and Head ofHouse,

Professor Minerva McGonagall. Though theirs was a typical student-teacher relationship for Harry's

first three years at Hogwarts, after Harry was selected to become a Triwizard Champion, the sheer level

of danger he faced seemed to warm her to him. In Harry's fifth year, McGonagall urged Harry not to

give Dolores Umbridge or the Ministry any more ammunition to use against him, and she later stood

up for him to Umbridge, promising to help Harry become an Auror if it was the last thing she did. Harry felt

a powerful surge of anger when Umbridge later gloated that Minerva was too ill to talk to anyone after

being hit in the chest with four simultaneous Stunners.

In 1998, Harry was so infuriated with Amycus Carrow for spitting in McGonagall's face, that he

succeeded in using the Cruciatus Curse on theDeath Eater, agreeing with Bellatrix Lestrange's

assertion that one had to "really mean it" in order to perform the curse effectively. McGonagall returned

Harry's devotion by arming Hogwarts on Harry's request, and then fighting Voldemort head on in the final

battle. When Voldemort had Harry's seemingly dead body brought out from the Forest, Minerva gave a

terrible cry, to rival those of Ron, Hermione, and Ginny. Professor McGonagall was like a strict and loving

grandmother to Harry.

Severus Snape Edit

Severus Snape, his teacher, protector and former enemy.

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"You have your mother's eyes"

—Severus Snape's last words to Harry Potter before he died.

During his years in school, Harry's relationship with Potions master Severus Snapewas nothing

short of deepest mutual loathing. When Harry first saw Snape in the Great Hall at Hogwarts, he got the

initial feeling that Snape disliked him; only after his first Potions lesson did Harry realise the resentment

dug much deeper. Harry soon learned that Snape saw Harry as a younger version of his father — a

self-centred boy who enjoyed the attention paid to him, and was "so arrogant that criticism simply

bounced off him."

Harry's hatred of Snape reached its height in 1997 when he discovered that Snape had told Voldemort

about The Prophecy involving him, which led Harry to believe that Snape had betrayed his parents.

Harry raged at Albus Dumbledore for trusting Snape, only to have Dumbledore silence him. Later the

same night, Snape killedDumbledore, which only seemed to confirm what Harry had come to believe

about his former Potions master.

In 1998, Harry witnessed Voldemort order the death of Severus Snape, in an attempt to gain the

allegiance of theElder Wand. Despite his hatred of his former teacher, he still felt sorry for the way

Voldemort had killed Snape without even feeling sorry for taking his life. As Voldemort left Snape mortally

wounded by Nagini in the Shrieking Shack, Harry was able to obtain several memories that

contained not only the truth about Snape's motives and unwavering allegiance to the Order of the

Phoenix, but relayed a crucial message from Dumbledore. What Harry discovered about Snape's

persistent love for Lily Evans also explained Snape's final act: he had instructed Harry to look at him, so

he could die looking into the eyes Harry inherited from his mother.

By 2017, Harry considered Snape to be one of the bravest men he had ever known, and gave

his second son, who was the only one of his children to inherit Lily's eyes, the middle name

"Severus."[HP7] Harry ensured that Snape's portrait eventually found its rightful place among Hogwarts's

previous headmasters.

Nymphadora Tonks Edit

Nymphadora Tonks, his friend and protector.

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"Wotcher, Harry!"

—Tonks greets Harry[src]

Harry and Nymphadora Tonks first met in 1995 when the Advance Guard came to transport Harry

to Grimmauld Place. From there, she became one of Harry's most valuable allies and friend, and was

one of the five Order members who rescued Harry and his friends during the Battle of the

Department of Mysteries. In 1996, she was the one who found Harry in the Hogwarts Express after

beingPetrified, having his nose broken, and then concealed under his Invisibility cloak by Draco

Malfoy. Their friendship grew for the next few years; Tonks felt sorry Harry wasn't been able to attend

her wedding in 1997, though nine months later, Tonks and Remus asked Harry to be godfather to their

son,Teddy Lupin. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Tonks fought her aunt Bellatrix,who finally

succeeded in managing to kill her "blood traitor" niece. Tonks's death, along with that of her husband

and Fred Weasley, was among those that hit Harry the hardest.

In honour of Tonks and her husband's memory, Harry helped Nymphadora's mother to raise Teddy

Lupin. When Harry saw his two sons off to the Hogwarts Express in 2017, James came running

back to his parents to announce that he had seen Teddy snogging Victoire Weasley, which may have

meant Teddy eventually became an official member of the extended Potter-Weasley family.

Luna Lovegood Edit

Luna Lovegood, his close friend.

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Luna: "People expect you to have cooler friends than us."

Harry: "You are cool. None of them was at the Ministry. They didn’t fight with me."

Luna: "That’s a very nice thing to say."

— Luna and Harry in 1996[src]

Harry met Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw student one year below him at Hogwarts, in 1995, on

the Hogwarts Express. Although Harry found the younger witch rather strange, he was grateful when

she told him that she believed his claim that Lord Voldemort had returned, as she seemed to be one of

the few students who did. Harry and Luna became friendlier throughDumbledore's Army, and after

they fought together at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Luna comforted Harry over the

loss of hisgodfather, telling him about her late mother. The following year, Harry defended Luna

and Neville Longbottom when Romilda Vane implied they were not worth spending time with, and

he later on invited Luna to attend Slughorn's Christmas Party with him.

In the prelude to the final battle, Luna aided Harry in his search for Ravenclaw's Diadem, having

been the one to inform Harry of its existence in the first place, and she Stunned Alecto Carrow when

Harry was too shocked to move, which probably saved him from being held captive

until Voldemort's arrival, later when Harry was going to sacrifice himself, he realised that Luna was one

of his closest friends and one of the persons he will like to see before his death. After the Battle of

Hogwarts, Luna was the only one who noticed that Harry wanted to get away from the victory party, and

created a distraction so that he could go speak with Ron and Hermione in private. The two remained

friends into adulthood, and Harry gave his daughter the middle name “Luna” in honour of his friend.

Dobby Edit"You shall not harm Harry Potter!"

—Dobby protects Harry from Lucius Malfoy.[src]

Dobby, Harry's helpful friend.

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The House-elf Dobby became a vitally important figure in Harry's life, and their relationship played a

crucial role in Harry's ultimate defeat of Lord Voldemort. Even before Harry freed Dobby from the

slavery of the Malfoy family, in 1993, Dobby did all he could to protect Harry from impending danger,

and later displayed the strength of his house-elf magic to protect Harry from Lucius Malfoy. For the

next several years, Dobby was appointed to work at the kitchen of Hogwarts Castle in the paid service

of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, though even as a free elf, his loyalty always laid foremost with

Harry[29]. In 1994, Dobby provided Harry with Gillyweed for the second task of the Triwizard

Tournament, and the next year, told Harry about the Room of Requirement, which

became Dumbledore's Army's base of operations.

Harry: "Dobby, no don't die, don't die -"

Dobby: "Harry... Potter..."

— Dobby's last words, said to Harry.[src]

In 1998, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Dean Thomas, Garrick Ollivander and the

goblin Griphook were captured and taken hostage at the Malfoy Manor. Alerted to their whereabouts

by Aberforth Dumbledore, Dobby rescued the hostages in two groups, first apparating Dean, Luna

and Ollivander to Shell Cottage, then returning to do the same for Hermione, Ron, Harry and Griphook.

Dobby dropped a chandelier on Bellatrix Lestrange to release Hermione from being held at knife-

point, giving Ron the opportunity to take a wand and disapparate with Hermione. Bellatrix threw the same

silver knife at Dobby, mortally wounding him, just as he disapparated with Harry and Griphook. Upon

arriving at Shell Cottage, Harry discovered Dobby's wound and cried out for help as Dobby died in Harry's

arms. Harry dug a grave without using magic and held a small funeral for the elf in the garden of Shell

Cottage. Dobby's epitaph read "Here lies Dobby, A Free Elf". After the funeral, Harry remembered the

one Albus Dumbledore had, and thought that Dobby deserved one just as grand.

It was the grief Harry felt for Dobby's death that ultimately grounded him, ridding Harry of the "weird,

obsessive longing" to find the Elder Wand and the resentment for how little he felt Albus Dumbledore

had actually disclosed during their time together. While digging Dobby's grave, Harry reflected on all

Dumbledore had said about love, and all he had foreseen, and replaced his trust in the late Headmaster,

making the conscious decision to continue his pursuit of Horcruxes, and not Hallows.

Neville Longbottom EditNeville: "All right, Harry. You're okay, are you?"

Harry: "I'm fine. Thanks, Neville."

Neville: "We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?"

— Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom during the Battle of Hogwarts [src]

Neville Longbottom, his close friend.

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Neville Longbottom became Harry's room mate in 1991, in their first year atHogwarts. In 1996,

Harry learned that The Prophecy that prompted Lord Voldemort to target his parents could have been

referring to Neville. Though Harry sympathised with the fact that Neville's parents had been tortured into

insanity by Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr, he spent part of the

journey to Hogwarts prior to his sixth year pondering how things could have been different if Voldemort

had chosen to attack Neville, and he had become the "one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord"

instead of Harry.

Harry and Neville didn't become particularly close until their fifth year at school, when Neville took part

in Dumbledore's Army, an organisation that Harry led in opposition to Dolores Umbridge. Neville

became highly devoted to the D.A., which, in turn, helped Neville not only improve his magical abilities,

but gain badly needed confidence and incredible courage. He fought alongside Harry in the Battle of

the Department of Mysteries, where Neville saved Harry's life from the Death Eater Walden

Macnair, and in 1997, was one of only three D.A. members who still checked their Enchanted

coin enough to receive Hermione's call for help prior to the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.

Harry and Neville

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In 1998, when Harry, Ron and Hermione were on the run, Neville re-formed Dumbledore's Army

with Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood, in resistance against Death

Eaters Alecto and Amycus Carrow. Neville spoke out against their anti-Muggle rhetoric and habit

of using the Cruciatus Curse on students, regardless of the consequences, saying he noticed it always

helped give people hope when Harry did that. When Harry returned, Neville deferred to his leadership and

summoned the rest of Dumbledore's Army (who, in turn, contacted the Order of the Phoenix) believing

Harry was there to lead a revolt. Harry and Neville fought together throughout the Battle of Hogwarts,

and just before Harry sacrificed himself, he left Neville with the instruction to kill Nagini, Voldemort's

snake and last remaining Horcrux. When everyone believed Harry to be dead, Neville openly defied

Voldemort, who tried to burn him alive with the Sorting Hat but failed due to Harry's Sacrificial

protection. Using the opportunity given to him by the sudden arrival of reinforcements, Neville

completed the task Harry gave to him; he drew Gryffindor's Sword from the Sorting Hat and slew

Nagini, destroying the last Horcrux and rendering Voldemort mortal, thus allowing Harry to finally kill him.

Nineteen years after the battle, Neville was the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts, and taught Harry and

Ginny's children, James and Albus, they both remain close friends in adulthood, to the point where Ginny

asked James to give Neville their love, which horrified James because although he knew Neville well, at

school he's Professor Longbottom

Fleur Weasley (née Delacour), his sister-in-law.

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Fleur Delacour EditHarry: "I'm sorry. I never meant you to have to deal with all of this."

Fleur: "'Arry, you saved my sister's life. I do not forget."

— Harry Potter and Fleur at Shell Cottage [src]

Harry's first opinion of Fleur Delacour in 1994 was that she was a very beautiful girl who looked like

a Veela. Though Fleur initially paid him as little attention as she did most of the younger Hogwarts

students, after the second task, when Harry saved Fleur's younger sister Gabrielle Delacour, Fleur

was much kinder to Harry in her gratitude. Fleur met Harry again at the Burrow, in 1996, when Fleur was

about to marry Bill Weasley, the eldest brother of Harry's best friend, Ron. After the Skirmish at

Malfoy Manor, Harry and his friends lived with Bill and Fleur for roughly one month at Shell Cottage,

where Fleur cared for them all, much like a mother or an older sister. Fleur eventually became Harry's

sister-in-law, after Harry married Ginny Weasley. Harry's godson, Ted Lupin, was seen kissing

Fleur's daughter, Victoire   Weasley , at King's Cross Station in 2017.

Draco Malfoy Edit

Draco Malfoy, his school bully and arch-rival.

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Draco: "You’re dead, Potter."

Harry: "Funny, you’d think I’d have stopped walking around."

Draco: "You’re going to pay. I’m going to make you pay for what you’ve done to my father…

You can’t land my father in prison."

— Draco and Harry after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.[src]

Harry Saving Draco from Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement

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Draco Malfoy became Harry's rival almost from the moment they met at Madam Malkin's Robes

for All Occasions inDiagon Alley. Draco came from a family that believed strongly in the importance

of blood purity, thus he considered himself superior to most people, bullying and insulting Muggle-

borns and Gryffindors in particular. He was bitterly jealous of Harry's seemingly effortless heroism.

Draco bit off more than he could chew in his ambition to be like his father, Lucius Malfoy, when he

became a Death Eater at a young age; to punish his father, Voldemort ordered Draco to

assassinate Albus Dumbledore, threatening his parents' lives if he failed. Although he let several

Death Eaters into Hogwarts in 1997, Draco found himself unwilling to actually go through with killing

Dumbledore, even when given the opportunity to do so. A year later, when Harry was brought to the

Malfoy Manor to be handed over to the Dark Lord, Draco was very reluctant to identify him, and during the

confrontation that ensured, Harry forcefully disarmed him, winning both his Hawthorn wand and the

unknowingly, the Elder Wand. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry, Ron and Hermione saved his life

twice: against Crabbe's Fiendfyre and from a masked Death Eater. Because of his family's switching of

sides during the Battle of Hogwarts, Draco was not sent to Azkaban for his crimes. By 2017, he

was married and had a son. Draco saw Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron at King's Cross Station when

sending their children to Hogwarts, where he gave them a curt nod. While Draco and Harry eventually

made peace, they never became friends. It is also unknown if Harry ever gave Draco his original wand

back, as Harry won it's allegiance and it is never stated how a wand that has been won behaves towards

his original master afterward's.

Cho Chang Edit"Well, obviously, she’s feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she’s feeling

confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can’t work out who she

likes best. Then she’ll be feeling guilty, thinking it’s an insult to Cedric’s memory to be kissing

Harry at all…"

—Hermione on Cho Chang after the latter’s kiss with Harry[src]

In his earlier years at Hogwarts, Harry was attracted to Cho Chang, a popular girl

in Ravenclaw House and seeker of their Quidditch team. During the Triwizard

Tournament in 1994, Harry plucked up the courage to ask her to theYule Ball, but was disappointed

to find that she had already agreed to go with Cedric Diggory, though she seemed to genuinely feel

bad about having to turn him down.

Cho and Harry

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In their next year, following Cedric's tragic death, Harry and Cho grew closer, eventually sharing a kiss

under the mistletoe. However, Cho was still mourning Cedric, and became unreasonably jealous of

Harry's friendship with Hermione, which, compounded with Harry’s inexperience with girls, put a strain on

their relationship. The last straw was Cho's friend Marietta Edgecombe's betrayal ofDumbledore's

Army to Dolores Umbridge; Cho defended Marietta and called the jinx Hermione had placed on the

D.A. parchment a "horrible trick," both of which angered Harry. The two stopped speaking to one another,

and Cho soon began dating Michael Corner. However, any animosity seemed to have vanished

by 1998, as Cho was among the former D.A. members who returned to participate in the Battle of

Hogwarts. Just before the battle, she offered to show Harry the Ravenclaw common room, and seemed

disappointed when this offer was fiercely denied by Ginny Weasley.

Bellatrix Lestrange Edit"SHE KILLED SIRIUS! SHE KILLED HIM - I'LL KILL HER!"

—Harry on Bellatrix Lestrange, after she killed Sirius Black[src]

Bellatrix going to look back at Harry in the Battle of the Department of

Mysteries

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Harry felt contemptuous of Bellatrix Lestrange from the moment he learned of her torturing of Alice

and Frank Longbottom, his eyes immediately drawn to her picture wherever he saw it. Throughout

their encounter in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix goaded Harry with sarcastic

baby-talk, mocking Harry for falling for Lord Voldemort's ploy and travelling to the Ministry of

Magic to save his non-present godfather. She abandoned the baby-talk, however, becoming incensed

when Harry used Voldemort's name- a mark of deep disrespect in Bellatrix's eyes.

After Bellatrix killed Sirius Black, Harry seemed to hate her as much as, if not more than, he did

Voldemort, chasing her into the Atrium of the Ministry in a fit of rage. He even had to restrain himself

from destroying her wand, which he managed to procure during the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor.

Bellatrix would later murder both Nymphadora Tonks and Dobby the house-elf in 1998, also

nearly killing Ginny Weasley during the second round of the Battle of Hogwarts. In the latter

incident, Harry, who had been hurrying towards Voldemort in the Great Hall, noticed the danger to

Ginny's life and made a beeline for Bellatrix instead. He was beaten to her, however, by Molly

Weasley's abrupt intervention.

Though she spoke disparagingly of the fact that Harry was a Half-blood, and vehemently denied Harry's

claims that Voldemort was the same, Bellatrix despised Harry mostly out of loyalty to her master, the man

with whom she had developed an obsessive infatuation. As such, Bellatrix more or less hated anyone

who challenged or threatened Lord Voldemort. Regardless of his feelings, Harry recognized that

Bellatrix made a fearsome opponent; while he hated her as his godfather's killer, he acknowledged that

she was also a witch of "prodigious" skill and absolutely no conscience.

Peter Pettigrew Edit

Peter Pettigrew, who betrayed his parents.

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"You're going to kill me? After I saved your life? You owe me, Wormtail..."

—Harry to Pettigrew, reminding him that he had saved his life[src]

Harry first heard about Peter Pettigrew in 1993, and he believed Pettigrew to have been a hero who

had dared to confront the man who betrayedJames and Lily Potter, and been tragically killed as a

result.

After Sirius Black escaped from from Azkaban that same year, the alleged convict made his way to

Hogwarts, supposedly with the goal of killing Harry in a crazed bid to bring Lord Voldemort back to

power. Towards the end of the school year, Black managed to pull Ron Weasley through

the Whomping Willow and in to the Shrieking Shack, followed closely by Hermione

Granger and an incensed Harry. When they were joined shortly after byRemus Lupin, he and Sirius

revealed a completely different truth: Pettigrew had been the one to betray Harry's parents, and had

subsequently framed Sirius by pretending to confront him, then faked his own death by cutting off one of

his own fingers and hiding in his unregistered Animagus form as Ron's pet rat, Scabbers. Although

Harry was disgusted by Pettigrew's disloyalty and cowardice, he convinced Sirius and Remus not to

become murderers, and instead force Pettigrew to face justice in the hands of the Dementors. Though

Pettigrew escaped, making it impossible to prove Sirius Black's innocence, Harry's decision to spare his

life was not fruitless: Pettigrew owed Harry a Life debt.

Peter pardoning to Harry

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Pettigrew, who had fled to Albania and sought protection from Sirius in the service of Lord Voldemort,

returned to Great Britain in 1994. After Harry and Cedric Diggory were transported to Little

Hangleton Graveyard following the end of the Triwizard Tournament, Pettigrew murdered Cedric,

bound Harry to the grave of Tom Riddle Sr., and concocted a potion using the senior Riddle's bones,

one of Pettigrew's own hands, and Harry's blood, to return Voldemort to physical form. When instructed

by Voldemort to give Harry back his wand, Pettigrew did so without looking at him.

In 1998, during the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor, Peter Pettigrew's life debt was repaid; Harry reminded

him that he had saved his life, and Pettigrew momentarily hesitated in the midst of attempting to strangle

him. As a result, the silver hand Voldemort had made for Pettigrew, as a reward for sacrificing his own,

saw the hesitation as sign of weakness, and turned against him. Though Ron and Harry both tried to save

him, the hand ultimately strangled Pettigrew to death.

Dolores Umbridge Edit

Professor Umbridge

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"As I told you once before Mr. Potter, naughty children deserve to be punished."

—Umbridge speaking to Harry.[src]

Harry disliked Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic,Dolores Umbridge, from the

moment he first laid eyes on her, which was shortly before she voted in favour of Harry's undeserved

expulsion from Hogwarts. In the summer of 1995, Umbridge sent two Dementors after Harry and his

cousin, Dudley Dursley, in an attempt to silence Harry from contradicting the Ministry of Magic's

official position maintaining that Lord Voldemort had not returned to power. Harry was forced to use

a Patronus to defend himself and Dudley from the Dementors, which resulted in Harry being summoned

to the Ministry on the charge of using under age magic; if convicted, he would have been expelled from

Hogwarts. Umbridge took part in Harry’s prosecution and spoke in favour of his conviction, but Harry was

cleared due to Albus Dumbledore’s defence, as well as the impartiality of Amelia Bones and

several other members of the Wizengamot.

Harry soon encountered Umbridge again when she was appointed Defence Against the Dark

Arts teacher at Hogwarts, by the Ministry. Harry was outspoken in his outrage at the Ministry's denial of

Voldemort's return and their refusal to allow Hogwarts students to practice defensive magic, which

Umbridge sadistically responded to by making him carve the words "I must not tell lies," into the back of

his own hand using a Blood Quill. Umbridge clearly favoured Slytherin students, and presumably

those who had ties to the ministry in particular, as demonstrated by her allowing the Slytherin

Quidditch team to re-form before any other, following the passage ofEducational Decree Number

Twenty-Four, and later giving Harry and the Weasley twins lifetime bans from

playingQuidditch after they attacked Draco Malfoy. Umbridge monitored all incoming and outgoing

mail, resulting in the injury of Harry’s owl, Hedwig, and she made it nearly impossible for

Harry, Ron and Hermione to visit Hagrid at hishut. When Harry publicly recounted witnessing

Voldemort's resurrection in an interview with Rita Skeeter, published in The Quibbler, Umbridge

banned him from Hogsmeade trips. One by one, Umbridge was robbing Harry of his reasons to want to

stay at Hogwarts.

In order to offer students the practical defensive education Umbridge was denying them, Harry formed

and ledDumbledore's Army. When they were betrayed to Umbridge by one of their members, Harry

was nearly expelled from Hogwarts until Dumbledore convinced Cornelius Fudge that Harry only

formed the organisation on his orders. Dumbledore was forced to leave Hogwarts to avoid being sent

to Azkaban, after which Umbridge took the position of Headmistress and the students took to making

things as difficult for her as possible. Umbridge attempted to have Hagrid arrested after a couple

of Nifflers were released in her office, despite his obvious innocence, which resulted in his going on the

run and Professor McGonagall being seriously injured and temporarily incapacitated atSt Mungo's

Hospital. With seemingly no adults left for him to turn to, Harry attempted to use Umbridge’s fire, the

only fire not being monitored by the Ministry, to check on Sirius Black, after having a vision that Sirius

was being tortured in the Department of Mysteries. Remembering that Severus Snape was, in

fact, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Harry gave Snape the cryptic message, "he's got Padfoot

at the place where it's hidden!" Umbridge nearly used the Cruciatus Curse on Harry in order to make

him explain his statement, when Hermione intervened and tricked Umbridge into believing the D.A. had

been building a weapon for Dumbledore in the Forbidden Forest. When Harry, Hermione and

Umbridge were confronted by a herd of centaurs, Umbridge's angry diatribe-- in which she referred to

the centaurs as "creatures of near-human intelligence" and "filthy half-breeds"-- resulted in her being

carried off into the depths of the forest.

After the Ministry finally acknowledged Voldemort’s return to power, Umbridge was removed from

Hogwarts. However, Harry was furious to learn later that year that Umbridge was still working for the

Ministry. When Voldemort became the de facto Minister for Magic, with an imperiused Pius

Thicknesse as his puppet, Umbridge, knowingly or not, immediately showed sympathy for his agenda

by taking part in the hunt for Harry Potter and branding him "Undesirable Number 1." When Harry,

disguised as Albert Runcorn by way of Polyjuice Potion, met Umbridge again in 1997, she had

become Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, and was cruelly interrogating and

"trying" innocent Muggle-born wizards and witches, before sentencing them to Azkaban for "stealing

magic." When Umbridge taunted a Muggle-born witch by claiming Salazar Slytherin's Locket was a

family heirloom and proof of her relation to the pure-blood Selwyn family, Harry Stunned Umbridge

in a fit of anger. Hermione replaced the locket with a decoy, after which she, Ron, and Harry proceeded

to free all the Muggle-borns awaiting interrogation.

After the Second Wizarding War, Umbridge was given a life sentence in Azkaban.

Hedwig Edit"No...NO! Hedwig...Hedwig..."

—Harry to Hedwig, after her death[src]

Hedwig, his loyal, loving pet owl.

Added by Smonocco

Hedwig was the Snowy Owl Hagrid bought Harry for his eleventh birthday, from Eeylops Owl

Emporium in Diagon Alley. Hedwig was often Harry's only companion during the lonely holidays he

spent with the Dursleys, and the bond that developed between them was a close one. Though Hedwig

was usually very affectionate with Harry, which she showed by gently nibbling his ear or fingers, she

wasn't above snubbing him out of jealousy or nipping him a bit harder than usual on the rare occasions he

snapped at her. Hedwig was also highly intelligent; she understood perfectly when Harry asked her to

peck Ron and Hermione until they responded to him, and even flew, completely of her own accord, to

where Hermione was on holiday in France, to ensure that Harry received a gift for his thirteenth birthday.

In 1997, Harry was completely grief-stricken after Hedwig was struck by a Killing Curse during

the Battle over Little Whinging.

Alastor Moody Edit

Alastor Moody, his protector and friend.

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"Don't put your wand into your back pocket! Better wizards then you have lost buttocks from it!"

—Alastor Moody to Harry Potter[src]

Harry first saw the real Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody shortly after Barty Crouch Jr. was revealed to

have been keeping Moody imprisoned in his own trunk, using his hair for Polyjuice Potion, and taking

Moody's place as temporary Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts for most of

the 1994–1995 school year.

The real Moody brought the Advance Guard of the Order of the Phoenix toPrivet Drive in 1995,

to safely transport Harry to the Order's headquarters, and Sirius Black's ancestral home, at 12

Grimmauld Place. As Harry got to know Moody through his time spent around the Order, Moody

proved every bit the great, albeit incredibly paranoid, wizard he was reputed to be. When Moody was

killed by Voldemort during the Battle over Little Whinging, Harry was shocked and horrified by the

abrupt end of such a skilled Auror, and shared a drink in his honour with the rest of the Order.

"Mad-Eye dead; it could not be… Mad-Eye, so tough, so brave, the consummate survivor…"

—Harry thinking about Mad Eye's death[src]

When Harry, Ron and Hermione infiltrated the Ministry of Magic in 1997, to steal Salazar

Slytherin's Locket fromDolores Umbridge, Harry found Moody's magical eye lodged in the door

to Umbridge's office. Harry reclaimed the eye, though doing so ended up alerting the Ministry to the

breach in security, and later buried it under "the oldest, most gnarled and resilient-looking" tree he could

find, marking the spot with a small cross. Little though it was, Harry was certain Moody would prefer it to

having his eye put to use spying for Dolores Umbridge.

Cedric Diggory EditCedric: "You saved my life, Harry. Take the cup."

Harry: "We'll take it together."

— Cedric and Harry about who should win the Triwizard Tournament[src]

Harry with Cedric Diggory

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Harry and Cedric Diggory, were, for better or worse, rivals throughout Harry'sthird and fourth years

at Hogwarts. As Cedric was seeker of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, one of their first encounters

involved Cedric catching thesnitch and securing the win for his team, while Harry fell off

his broomstickafter one of the Dementors guarding the school found its way onto the Quidditch field.

The next year, when both Harry and Cedric were declared Champions in theTriwizard Tournament,

Cedric was the school's obvious favourite, as most of the students believed Harry had entered the

competition illegally. Though the negative attention abated slightly after Harry's stellar performance in the

first task, Cedric also beat Harry to the punch in asking Cho Chang to theYule Ball. Though Cedric

remained good-natured and gracious throughout, Harry couldn't help but feel jealous, and even slightly

insecure about the fact that Cedric was clearly talented and "looked the part" of a Champion.

Regardless, when Hagrid showed Harry that the Tournament's first task would involve facing dragons,

Harry felt compelled to help Cedric, realising he alone would be unprepared, as both Heads of other the

two competing schools had seen the dragons as well. Cedric reciprocated by helping Harry with the

second task, and during the third, each had occasion to save the other's life. As, such, when they reached

the Triwizard Cup at the same time, they agreed to take it together; both boys were transported

to Little Hangleton Graveyard, and Harry watched in horror as Peter Pettigrew murdered Cedric

on Voldemort's command to "kill the spare." When Cedric's ghostly image emerged from Voldemort's

wand, which was locked in Priori Incantatem with Harry's, he asked Harry to take his body back to his

parents, and Harry risked his life to do so.

Cedric's death haunted Harry's dreams well into the summer, as Dudley mockingly asked him if "Cedric"

was his boyfriend, and enabled Harry to see Thestrals for the first time at the beginning of his fifth year.

Kreacher Edit

Kreacher, Harry's house-elf.

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"Kreacher...er... I would like to give you this..."

—Harry, giving Regulus Black's locket to Kreacher[src]

Kreacher was the last in a line of house-elves who served the Black family, inherited by Sirius

Black, and eventually by Harry. In his fanatical loyalty to the House of Black, Kreacher mimicked the

family's Pure-blood supremacist views, and as such, despised Sirius for being a "blood traitor" and for

supposedly breaking his mother's heart. By extension, he hated, and muttered profanities about,

anyone associated with Sirius, particularly Harry and the motley crew of blood statuses that made up the

rest of the Order of the Phoenix.

For his part, Sirius saw too much of the family he hated in Kreacher, and had no problem treating

Kreacher with utter disdain. After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Harry learned that

Kreacher had helped trick Harry into going to the Ministry of Magic by pretending Sirius was not at

Grimmauld Place when Harry tried to find him, and thus helped bring about Sirius's end. In his will, Sirius

left everything he owned to Harry, including Kreacher. As Harry wanted nothing to do with the house-elf,

but couldn't risk setting him free and letting any information Kreacher had about the Order fall into the

hands of the Lestranges or the Malfoys, he sent Kreacher to work in the Hogwarts' kitchens.

In 1997, when Harry, Ron and Hermione hid in 12 Grimmauld Place at the start of their hunt for

Voldemort'sHorcruxes, they discovered that "R.A.B" stood for Regulus Arcturus Black, and Harry

remembered actually having seen and tried to open Salazar Slytherin's Locket in the summer

of 1995. They asked Kreacher if he knew where the locket came from and what had become of it, and

the house-elf was forced to reveal all that had happened between him, Voldemort, and Regulus Black;

when Regulus was still a Death Eater, Voldemort told him he required the service of a house-elf, and

Regulus volunteered Kreacher for the job. Voldemort took Kreacher to aseaside cave, where he

ordered Kreacher to drink an emerald green potion. Kreacher was tortured by the potion, and then left

to die in the hands of the Inferi; he was only able to survive and Disapparate out of the cave becausehis

master called him home. Regulus became disillusioned by Voldemort's ill-treatment of Kreacher, and

soon after, deduced both the existence of Voldemort's horcruxes and the fact that the magic that binds a

house-elf to obey their master would supersede the cave's magical protections. Regulus then had

Kreacher return with him to the cave, but instead of forcing Kreacher to suffer the effects of

the potion again, ordered Kreacher to leave the cave with the locket, and destroy it as soon as he could.

To protect Kreacher and his family, Regulus forbade Kreacher to tell any member of the House of Black

what had happened. Kreacher took the locket and attempted to destroy it, but not before watching in

horror as Regulus drank the potion himself, and was killed by the Inferi.

Though he initially didn't want to admit it, Harry realised that Kreacher playing a crucial role in leading

Sirius to his death was something that could have, and should have, been avoided. When Kreacher

finished his story, Harry, with Hermione's guidance, made an effort to show the distraught house-elf

kindness, comforting him about Regulus' death and even giving him Regulus' fake locket; the miserable,

wretched house-elf they had known became almost unrecognisable. Kreacher told the trio

that Mundungus Fletcher had taken the locket, and gladly obeyed Harry's order--which Harry made a

point of phrasing as a request--to find Fletcher and bring him to Grimmauld Place.

From that point on, Kreacher happily tidied up the house and fed the trio, until they accidentally broke

the Fidelius Charm on 12 Grimmauld Place, and were forced to flee. Kreacher later led the Hogwarts

house-elves, in the name of Harry, "defender of house-elves", and brave Regulus Black, in a fervent

attack on the invading Death Eaters during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Horace Slughorn Edit"Please... don't think badly of me when you see it... you've no idea how he was like, even then..."

—Slughorn to Harry in 1997[src]

Horace Slughorn, his teacher and friend giving the memory that allowed

Harry to defeat Lord Voldemort.

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Harry first met Horace Slughorn in 1996, when he accompanied Albus Dumbledore in attempting to

persuade the old Potions master to come out of retirement. From the start, Harry was unsure how he

felt about Slughorn; though he was clearly not someone with even the slightest inclination toward

becoming a Death Eater, he seemed wholly more superficial and self-serving than the likes of people in

the Order and most of Harry's other professors. Slughorn had a habit of nurturing and promoting students

who would allow him to benefit from his connections to them later on; on the other hand, he seemed to

take into account genuine merit as much status within the wizarding community, as he told Harry that his

mother, who had no connections at all as a Muggle-born witch, was one of his all time favourite students.

Though he resisted, Slughorn ultimately could not pass up the opportunity to "collect" Harry, nor could he

deny that there was no safer place to be than where ever Dumbledore was. Horace Slughorn resumed his

post as Potions Master, and made quick work of inviting several choice students (which included Ginny

Weasley, when he saw her perform an excellent Bat-Bogey Hex on Zacharias Smith, and

later Hermione, when he saw that she was all around brilliant) in addition to Harry, to be a part of his

"Slug Club."

In due course, Harry realised that Dumbledore had not just wanted Slughorn back at Hogwarts because

he needed to fill a position. During one of their private lessons, Dumbledore showed Harry

a memory that belonged to Horace Slughorn, in which Slughorn was chatting with a group

of Slytherin boys, including a young Tom Riddle. Riddle had apparently gifted Slughorn his

favourite Crystallised pineapple, was being being charming, and generally seemed to be building up

to something. Indeed, when the other boys left, Riddle stayed behind, and slowly but surely made his way

to his point; he wanted to know what Slughorn knew about Horcruxes. The room suddenly got hazy,

and a voice that belonged to Slughorn but was clearly inorganic reprimanded Riddle for asking such thing,

before the memory abruptly ended.

Dumbledore told Harry that original version of the modified memory would be of vital importance in

understanding exactly what destroying Voldemort would entail, and tasked Harry with retrieving it. Aside

from simply being "Harry Potter," Harry had three things that would help him do what even Dumbledore

apparently could not: a reputation with Slughorn as a excellent potioneer, courtesy of the Half-Blood

Prince, the vial of liquid luck he had won, also courtesy of the Prince, and Slughorn's fondness for

Harry's own mother. A combination of all those things, as well as a healthy dose of Mead and the

opportunity to collect a few vials of Acromantula venom, allowed Harry to finally collect the memory

that confirmed what Dumbledore had suspected Voldemort had done to travel "farther down the path to

immortality than anyone else": created not just one, but several Horcruxes.

Though it seemed as if Slughorn had fled with the rest of the Slytherins prior to the start of the Battle of

Hogwarts, he soon returned with reinforcements from Hogsmeade. During the final battle in the Great

Hall, Slughorn displayed his immense skill and courage by taking on Voldemort directly, duelling him

alongside Minerva McGonagall and Kingsley Shacklebolt.

Dumbledore's Army Edit"Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now: students. If

they can do it, why not us?"

—Harry Potter[src]

Some members of Dumbledore's Army.

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By the summer of 1995, the Ministry of Magic was in stubborn denial ofVoldemort's return,

and Cornelius Fudge, whether out of self-delusion or genuine paranoia, seemed to suspect Albus

Dumbledore may have been making false claims as a pretext for mobilising the students of Hogwarts

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in a coup against Fudge's administration. As such, the Ministry

saw fit to appoint one of it's own to fill a vacancy in the Hogwarts faculty; at the start of the 1995–1996

school year, Dolores Umbridgewas announced as the school's new Defence Against the Dark

Arts professor, and later, the first and only known Hogwarts High Inquisitor.

As Umbridge steadily asserted her authority into nearly every aspect of life at Hogwarts-- from refusing to

allow her D.A.D.A. students anything beyond a basic theoretical education and disbanding all

student organisations, clubs, societies, and teams, to enforcing a unique form of corporal

punishment-- most of the residents of Hogwarts quickly turned against her.

Harry was the most heatedly vocal among her opposition, followed closely by Hermione Granger, who

had been the first to notice and question the fact that Umbridge's outlined curriculum did not seem to

include the actual use of defensive magic. The two of them, along with Ron Weasley,

founded Dumbledore's Army (so named to mock "the Ministry's worst fear") to secretly provide

students a practical defensive education. When an unexpectedly high number of students arrived at

the Hog's Head pub for the introductory meeting of the D.A., Harry suspected that many of the

attendees were only interested in hearing the details of Cedric Diggory's death. However, nearly all of

the members worked in earnest to improve their duelling skills, crediting their marked successes to

Harry's effective teaching, and many were eventually able to produce corporeal Patronuses under

Harry's tuition.

The organisation was disbanded in 1996, when Marietta Edgecombe gave into pressure from her

parents and Umbridge to betray the location of the D.A.'s secret meetings, which nearly resulted in the

expulsion of all of the members. Dumbledore ultimately took the blame (citing the fact that it was called

"Dumbledore's Army, not Potter's"), and overpowered several Ministry officials to avoid being

subsequently sent to Azkaban.

Only Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, and Ginny Weasley continued to check

their Enchanted coins and were able to answer Hermione and Ron's call prior to the Battle of the

Astronomy Tower. Nevertheless, all of the former members, aside from Marietta Edgecombe

and Zacharias Smith, reunited when the D.A. was re-formed in 1997, co-led by Neville, Ginny and

Luna in Harry, Ron, and Hermione's absence, and fought together in the Battle of Hogwarts.

Order of the Phoenix Edit"I want to join! If Voldemort's raising an army, then I want to fight!"

—Harry Potter[src]

The original Order of the Phoenix.

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Harry first heard about the Order of the Phoenix in 1995, a year after Lord Voldemort's return. The

Order of the Phoenix was an organisation founded and led by Albus Dumbledore in opposition to Lord

Voldemort and his Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War, and was reinstated at the start

of the Second. Most of the Order members worked to the best of their ability to protect Harry, at great

personal risk, throughout the Second War, for which Harry came to view many of them much like a

surrogate extended family.

Aberforth Dumbledore, his protector.

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"Thank you! You saved our lives!"

—Harry to Aberforth after he saved his, Ron and Hermione's lives[src]

Aberforth was Albus Dumbledore's younger brother. Though Harry, Ron and Hermione had known

him for years as the owner of the Hog's Head, they didn't officially meet him or learn his true identity

till 1998, when Harry, Ron and Hermione apparated outside of Aberforth's pub, in Hogsmeade. Harry

had read about Aberforth in The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, a book Rita Skeeter had

written, which described Aberforth as unlettered, rude, and bitter for having lived in the shadow of his

elder brother. When the trio apparated outside of the Hog's Head, they set off a Caterwauling

Charm set by Death Eaters. As the three were hidden beneath Harry's Invisibility cloak, the Death

Eaters used Dementors to smoke them out; the Death Eaters recognised Harry's stag Patronus, but

Aberforth claimed it was he who had set off the Caterwauling charm, and that the Patronus had actually

been a goat.

Upon taking refuge in the Pub, the trio discovered Aberforth had saved their lives once before; he had

been able to send Dobby to save them from the Malfoy Manor after Harry called to him through the

broken shards of the Two-way mirror, as Aberforth had bought Sirius' mirror from Mundungus

Fletcher. Aberforth advised Harry to take Ron and Hermione away from Hogsmeade, and to save

himself. He told them about his family life, and that his sister,Ariana, had been so traumatised after

being attacked by three Muggle boys, that she became unable to control her magical abilities. He also

told them why his father had been imprisoned in Azkaban, and about the events leading up to the

deaths of his mother and sister. Though Harry understood, or at least sympathised with, Aberforth's

bitterness, he echoed Albus' sentiments by saying "sometimes you've got to think about the greater

good!" Harry then informed Aberforth that, despite what he believed of his brother, Albus had never been

free of what Gellert Grindelwald had done to Aberforth or what had happened to Ariana, referring to

all Harry had heard Albus saying under the effects of the Drink of Despair in the Horcrux cave. After

receiving this insight into his brother's mind, Aberforth showed the trio the secret passage to the Room

of Requirement concealed behindAriana's portrait.

Harry first met Kingsley Shacklebolt when he and the rest of the Advance Guard arrived at Privet

Drive in 1995. Kingsley was an Auror who believed in equality and fairness for all wizards,

witches, and Muggles. He later saved countless lives by sending his Patronus to warn the attendees

of the Weasley-Delacour Wedding that the Ministry had fallen, and with it, the protections

surrounding The Burrow. After the Second Wizarding War, Kingsley becameMinister for Magic.

Harry had only read Elphias Doge's account of his friendship with Albus Dumbledore in their youth,

until the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, when they had a discussion about Dumbledore's

past. Harry, who was beginning to doubt how well he had really known the late Headmaster, was unsure

how to feel about Doge's insistence that he not "let" his memories of Dumbledore be tainted.

Before Harry had even known he was a wizard, Dedalus Diggle had met and even publicly bowed to a

bemused, young Harry, much to the Dursley's confusion and disgust. In 1997, Diggle and Hestia

Jones took the Dursleys into hiding under the Order's protection from Voldemort and the Death Eaters.

Hestia was furious when she realised how little Harry's Uncle and Aunt seemed to know or care about

him, and was unimpressed by Dudley's attempt at reconciliation. Though Harry was mostly amused by

Dudley's declaration that he didn't consider Harry a "waste of space," he probably appreciated Hestia's

indignation on his behalf all the same.

Harry thought Arabella Figg was just his odd, cat-loving neighbour, until 1995, when he learned she

was a Squib, and a member of the Order. She was outraged to learn that Mundungus Fletcher had

abandoned his post when he was supposed to be guarding Harry, which left the boy and his cousin

vulnerable when they were attacked by Dementors. Figg also participated in Harry Potter's trial, as a

witness in Harry's defence. It is unknown if Figg fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, though it is likely that

she didn't fight, as she lacked magical powers.

Harry had learned from Moody that several members of the First Order had been killed during the First

Wizarding War, including Fabian and Gideon Prewett, Edgar Bones and his family, Marlene

McKinnon and her family,Caradoc Dearborn, Benjy Fenwick and Dorcas Meadowes. In

Harry's fourth year, Dumbledore told him that Alice and Frank Longbottom had been tortured to

insanity and were permanently incapacitated in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and

Injuries, shortly after Voldemort's fall, by four Death Eaters who were attempting to discover their

Master's whereabouts. Harry was later confused when he heard about the arrest of Order

memberSturgis Podmore, who had apparently been attempting to break into the Department of

Mysteries in 1995, but eventually realised that Podmore had been imperiused. Harry also learned

about the death of Emmeline Vance in the Daily Prophet, when she was killed around the same as the

murder of Amelia Bones.

Mundungus Fletcher was likely the member of the Order Harry liked least (barring, initially, Severus

Snape), as he was a criminal who callously pilfered many of Sirius' inherited possessions very shortly

after his death. Harry attempted to strangle Fletcher when he saw him hawking Black family heirlooms

outside of the Three Broomsticks Inn, in 1996, and was disgusted to learn that Fletcher had

abandoned Alastor Moody during the Battle over Little Whinging. When Harry realised that one of

the items Mundungus had stolen from 12 Grimmauld Place had beenSalazar Slytherin's Locket,

he ordered Kreacher, the house-elf, to catch him. Kreacher did so, and it was with reluctance that Harry

stopped the house-elf from beating Mundungus senseless, in order to learn that the locket had been

taken from Mundungus by Dolores Umbridge.

Augusta Longbottom, the mother of Frank Longbottom, mother-in-law of Alice Longbottom,

and grandmother ofNeville Longbottom, wasn't an original member of the Order, but she fought in

both Wizarding Wars. She thought highly of Harry and his friends, and was immensely proud of her

grandson. When Augusta arrived at the school to join in the final battle, she rushed off to find Neville,

whom she was unsurprised to hear was off somewhere fighting Death Eaters.

Andromeda and Ted Tonks, Nymphadora Tonks' parents, also weren't original members, but were

crucial in transferring Harry safely to the Burrow, after the Sacrificial protection was broken. Harry

liked the cheery-looking Ted Tonks immediately, though he was initially startled by the appearance of

Andromeda, who at first glance greatly resembled her sister Bellatrix, but upon closer inspection, clearly

had softer features, and wider, kinder eyes. In 1997, after the Battle over Little Whinging,

Andromeda and Ted healed Harry's and Hagrid's injuries, before they took a Portkey to the Burrow.

Harry was saddened by the news of Ted Tonks' death, and helped Andromeda raise her

grandson, Teddy Lupin, after Nymphadora's death.

Hogwarts residents Edit"You’ll do no more murder at Hogwarts!"

—Professor Filius Flitwick to Severus Snape in 1998[src]

Filius Flitwick, Harry's Charms Professor.

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Harry got along well with both Professor Filius Flitwick, the Charms professor and Head of

Ravenclaw House, and Professor Pomona Sprout, the Herbologyprofessor and Head of

Hufflepuff House, and received O.W.L.s in both of their subjects. Harry also witnessed both teachers

rush to the aid of ProfessorMinerva McGonagall shortly before Severus Snape's "sacking," prior to

the start of the Battle of Hogwarts.

Sybill Trelawney Edit

Sybill TrelawneyAdded by KickAssJedi

"'I miss having you in my classes, Harry,' she said soulfully, as they set off together. 'You were

never much of a Seer, but you were a wonderful Object...' Harry did not reply; he had loathed

being the Object of Professor Trelawney's continual predictions of doom."

—Harry's feelings for Trelawney[src]

As Sybill Trelawney had a tendency to predict various grim deaths for Harry every Divination class,

Harry was not especially fond of his Divinationprofessor. Though most of Trelawney's predictions were

nonsensical, in 1996, Harry learned it was Trelawney who had made the prophecy about him

andVoldemort, and another in 1994 regarding the return of Peter Pettigrew to the service of

Voldemort, though she was completely unaware of having done so.

Professor Trelawney: "I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens

at the moment of your birth...your dark hair...your mean stature...tragic losses so young in life...I

think I am right in saying, my dear, that you were born in midwinter?"

Harry: "No, I was born in July."

— Harry and Trelawney during a Divination class[src]

Though Harry wasn't a huge fan of the subject, in general, Harry liked the other Divination

professor, Firenze, a centaur who had saved Harry's life in 1991. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry

saw Trelawney spiking Crystal balls at the invading Death Eaters.

Other residents Edit

Gilderoy Lockhart was Harry's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor in Harry's second year.

Lockhart was a very handsome and famous author, who claimed he had done great deeds, but had in fact

only taken credit for the deeds after erasing the memories of the actual doers: his only skill. Lockhart was

extremely vain and highly self-obsessed; he assigned all of his own, very expensive, books for his class.

Lockhart continually pulled Harry into the limelight against his will, often implying that Harry hoped to be

as famous as Lockhart, which caused Harry a great deal of embarrassment and irritation.

When Ginny Weasley had been taken into the Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart boasted that he

knew exactly how to enter the Chamber and defeat the monster within; though McGonagall only

challenged him to do so in order to shut him up, Harry and Ron Weasley, who actually did know how to

get into the Chamber, tried to tell him what they knew, only to find him packing his things and getting

ready to flee. Lockhart attempted to erase Harry and Ron's memories, but fortunately for everyone except

him, Lockhart attempted to cast the Memory Charm with Ron's broken wand, and the charm backfired.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione Granger encountered him again, with absolutely no memories but still

using his battered peacock feather quill, as a permanent resident of St Mungo's Hospital for

Magical Maladies and Injuries.

Harry disliked Argus Filch the caretaker, and his cat, Mrs. Norris, as much as they seemed to dislike

all Hogwarts students, though Filch did eventually help younger students and the Slytherins leave the

school prior to the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry found himself at odds with Irma Pince, the librarian,

when she very loudly expressed her displeasure at seeing the Half-Blood Prince's marked up copy

of Advanced Potion-Making, and he found it impossible to pay attention to Professor Cuthbert

Binns's very boring, droning History of Magic lectures.

Nearly-Headless Nick.

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Moaning Myrtle.

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"...only few wizards choose to return as ghosts..."

—Nearly-Headless Nick, to Harry Potter[src]

Harry became friends with "Nearly-Headless" Nick, ghost of the Gryffindor house, in Harry's first

year. Nick invited Harry to his death-day party, which Harry reluctantly attended, along with Ron

Weasley andHermione Granger, instead of the Halloween feast. AfterSirius Black's death

in 1995, they had a discussion about death, and Nick told him that very few wizards choose to come

back as ghosts.

Harry also met Moaning Myrtle at Nick's death-day party. Myrtle was an unpleasant ghost of a girl

that lived in the girls' toilet. Harry learned in 1993 that Myrtle had been killed by Salazar Slytherin's

Basilisk, which helped Harry find the location of the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. She was

disappointed when Harry survived his encounter with Tom Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets, saying

that she would have shared her toilet with him if he had died. The last time Harry saw Myrtle was when he

a cast Sectumsempra, not knowing what it did, and hitDraco Malfoy.

Harry with Helena Ravenclaw in 1998Added by Septima Vector

Harry met the Grey Lady in 1998. He learned that, when she lived, she wasHelena Ravenclaw,

and that she had been killed by the Bloody Baron, who had subsequently killed himself, horrified at

having killed the woman he loved. She hesitantly revealed to Harry that she had stolen her mother's

Diadem and hidden it in an Albanian forest; she even more reluctantly admitted that Harry was not the

first person she had told. Her admitting she had in fact divulged its whereabouts to a young Tom

Riddle led Harry to realise where Riddle must have hidden it, and he assured Helena that she was

neither the first nor the last to fall prey to Tom Riddle's charms.

Ministry of Magic EditDumbledore: "It was Fudge's idea originally, you know. During his last days in office, when he

was desperately trying to cling to his post, he sought a meeting with you, hoping that you would

give him your support—"

Harry: "After everything Fudge did last year? After Umbridge?"

— Harry and Dumbledore talking about Harry's meeting with Rufus Scrimgeour[src]

Harry had a mixed relationship with the Ministry of Magic. In 1992, Harry had his first run-in with the

Ministry afterDobby had smashed a pudding in his Aunt and Uncle’s house. Although the incident was

not Harry’s fault, the Ministry believed that Harry had used magic illegally while under-age, and given him

an official warning.

A year later, Harry lost his temper and blew up his "Aunt" Marge. Believing that this time he would

surely be expelled from Hogwarts, Harry went on the run and boarded the Knight Bus, but ran

into Cornelius Fudge, then Minister for Magic, who seemed strangely unconcerned by what Harry had

done. Furthermore, Fudge treated Harry like a friend, although he did not sign Harry’s letter permitting to

allow him to visit Hogsmeade.

The Ministry of Magic.

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However, by 1995, the relationship between Fudge and Harry was not so rosy. Harry had witnessed

Voldemort’s return to power, which he told both Dumbledore and Fudge. The latter stoutly refused to

believe Harry, and branded Dumbledore and Harry as liars/nutters in a smear campaign. In the

summer of 1995, Harry performed a Patronus Charm to save Dudley Dursley and himself from

Dementors, for which Harry was unreasonably threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts, tried by the

entire Wizengamot. Though Harry was cleared of all charges, thanks to Dumbledore's defence

and Amelia Bones's impartiality, Fudge took his revenge by employing his undersecretary Dolores

Umbridge as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and High Inquisitor of Hogwarts.

Umbridge sadisticallytortured Harry when he repeatedly contradicted the Ministry’s opinion that

Voldemort had not returned. In 1996, after Dumbledore’s Army was discovered, Fudge came to

Hogwarts to expel Harry, but Dumbledore claimed the D.A. had been formed on his orders. Though Harry

was allowed to remain at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was forced to go on the run after overpowering several

ministry officials. Later that year, toward the end of Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Fudge

arrived at the Ministry in time to see Voldemort disapparate with Bellatrix Lestrange, and was forced

to acknowledge that Dumbledore and Harry had been telling the truth all along. As the Wizarding

community had lost all confidence in him, he was forced to resign as Minister for Magic.

Fudge's successor, Rufus Scrimgeour, did little to improve Harry's view of the Ministry. Scrimgeour

asked Harry to essentially become the Ministry's mascot for the purpose of restoring public confidence,

despite all they had done to Harry and the fact that Dolores Umbridge was still in their employ. Harry

refused, stating he couldn't pretend to approve of the ministry's methods, showing Scrimgeour the scars

on the back of his hand, and citing the fact that Scrimgeour was arresting innocent people like Stan

Shunpike. In 1997, Voldemort and his Death Eaters took over the Ministry, and killed the Minister after

torturing him in an attempt to ascertain Harry’s whereabouts. Although Harry did not like Scrimgeour, who

hardly appeared to care at all about what actually happened to Harry or his friends, he was incredibly

grateful that the Minister's final act had been to protect him.

After Lord Voldemort’s takeover of the Ministry, with an Imperiused Pius Thicknesse acting

as Voldemort's puppet Minister for Magic, Harry’s relationship with the Ministry was worse than ever

before. They named Harry Potter "Undesirable Number One" and claimed he was wanted for questioning

about the death of Albus Dumbledore.

In 1998, after Voldemort's death, the position of Minister of Magic went to Order of the

Phoenix member and Harry's friend Kingsley Shacklebolt, who he later employed Harry as

an Auror.

Death Eaters and enemies EditDeath Eaters were dark wizards under the orders of Voldemort during both wizarding wars; known

Death Eaters included Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Peter Pettigrew. Though not all of

Harry's enemies were Death Eaters, the ones who most persistently and ferociously pursued Harry and

his friends were part of Voldemort's inner circle.

Quirinus Quirrell.

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"I met him when I travelled around the world. A foolish young man I was then, full of ridiculous

ideas about good and evil. Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was...Since then, I serve him

faithfully, although I have let him down many times."

—Quirrell[src]

The first of Voldemort's servants to try to murder Harry was his Defence Against the Dark

Arts professor, Quirinus Quirrell. Though not a Death Eater, he encountered Voldemort in the forests

of Albania, and was seduced into the Dark Lord's service by promises of wealth and power. Harry found

out about Quirrell's true loyalties at the end of his first year, in the seventh of the Philosopher's

Stone Chambers. This news also came with the discovery that Voldemort was actually sharing

Quirrell's body, and the turban Quirrell wore was, in fact, hiding Voldemort's face on the back of Quirrell's

head. When Quirrell attempted to grab Harry, he found he was unable to do so without experiencing

unbearable pain, due to the power of Harry's mother's Sacrificial protection. Voldemort detached

himself from his servant to escape the pain and fled before Albus Dumbledore's arrival because

Dumbledore could have killed him, leaving Quirrell to die.

Barty Crouch Jr., a fanatically loyal Death Eater.

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Harry: "You're mad!"

Barty Crouch: "Mad, am I? We'll see! We'll see who's mad, now that the Dark Lord has returned,

with me at his side! He's back, Harry Potter, you did not conquer him-and now-I conquer you!"

— Harry Potter and Barty Crouch Jr., after Voldemort's return[src]

Harry first learned about the Death Eaters after the 1994 Quidditch World Cup Riot,

where Barty Crouch Jr. raised the Dark Mark in the sky. At the end of Harry's fourth year, he

realised that the man he thought was Alastor Moody was actually Barty Crouch Jr., disguised by way

of polyjuice potion. Crouch attempted to kill Harry, but

Professors Dumbledore,McGonagall and Snape rushed into Moody's office and stunned him. When

Dumbledore forced Crouch to drink Veritaserum, he revealed how he had escaped from Azkaban with

the help his father and dying mother, and told Dumbledore about how Voldemort had helped him

overpower his father, allowing Crouch to later confund theGoblet of Fire to declare Harry a Triwizard

Champion. Cornelius Fudge arrived at Hogwarts soon after with aDementor for a bodyguard, and the

latter subsequently gave Crouch the Dementor's Kiss.

Lucius Malfoy.

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Harry first saw Lucius Malfoy in 1992 at Borgin and Burkes, though they didn't officially meet until

Lucius got into a fist fight with Arthur Weasley at Flourish and Blotts, over Malfoy's many insults

aimed at the Weasley family. Though Harry didn't know it till much later, after a good deal of damage had

been done, Malfoy had used the scuffle as a pretext for handing Ginny Weasley a book that turned out

to beTom Riddle's Diary. Harry and Malfoy met again at the end of the same year, when Harry tricked

Malfoy into freeing his House-elf, Dobby; when Lucius threatened Harry in his anger at having lost his

servant, Dobby demonstrating the might of hisHouse-elf magic to protect Harry. They would eventually

meet again in the Ministry of Magic, in 1995, after which Lucius was outed as an active Death Eater

and arrested. Following his failure at the Ministry, and Voldemort's discovery of the fact that Lucius had

allowed one of his Horcruxes to be destroyed, Voldemort punished him by giving his son the seemingly

impossible task of assassinating Albus Dumbledore. When Harry and his friends escaped on Lucius'

watch after the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor, in 1998, the Malfoys fell further out of Voldemort's favour.

During theBattle of Hogwarts, Lucius and his wife both deserted the Death Eaters, placing greater

importance in the safety of their son, and Narcissa's crucial act of lying to Voldemort about Harry's death

insured that the Malfoy family was not sent to Azkaban.

Throughout the Second Wizarding War, Harry encountered a number of other Death

Eaters: Antonin Dolohov, who murdered the Prewetts and Remus Lupin, and almost killed Hermione

Granger during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries; Travers, who killed the

McKinnons; Augustus Rookwood, who was possibly responsible for the explosion that killed Fred

Weasley; Yaxley, who imprisoned innocent Muggle-borns with the Muggle-Born Registration

Commission; Walden Macnair, who was violent and bloodthirsty, and almost

killed Buckbeak in 1993;Alecto and Amycus Carrow, who tortured the students of Hogwarts when

they had been appointed Deputy Headmasters; Thorfinn Rowle, who indiscriminately cast Killing

Curses all around him during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and took part in the skirmish at

the Luchino Caffe, and Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, who participated in the torture

of Alice and Frank Longbottom. Lucius Malfoy, Rookwood, Dolohov, MacNair, and the Lestranges

(including Bellatrix), all took part in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, along with Mr.

Crabbeand Mr. Goyle (fathers of Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle), Mr.

Nott, Jugson, Avery and Mulciber.

Fenrir Greyback.

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In 1997, during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Harry got his first glimpse ofFenrir

Greyback, who was known for craving human flesh even out of Werewolf form, as well for planning

his attacks by positioning himself near his intended victims prior to the full moon (typically the children of

his employer's enemies). Harry, Ron and Hermione were taken hostage by Greyback and a gang

of Snatchers just before theSkirmish at Malfoy Manor, during which time Greyback expressed a

disturbing interest in Hermione. Though he wasn't a Death Eater, and lacked the Dark Mark tattoo,

Greyback was allowed to wear Death Eater's robes whenever Voldemort made use of him.

Igor Karkaroff.

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Harry met Durmstrang Institute's Headmaster, Igor Karkaroff, in 1994, during the Triwizard

Tournament. Harry later saw Karkaroff in Dumbledore's pensieve bearing witness against several of

his fellow Death Eaters, in exchange for his own freedom. Karkaroff fled after Voldemort's resurrection

in 1995. Two years later, Harry learned that Karkaroff's corpse was found in a shack in the north of

Britain.

Harry didn't initially think highly of Sirius Black's younger brother, Regulus, who followed the family

tradition of zealous pure-blood supremacy for most of his life. However, Kreacher later revealed to

Harry, Ron and Hermione that Regulus had likely been the first to deduce the existence of

Voldemort's Horcruxes, and subsequently attempted to find and destroy them. When he located the

hiding place of Salazar Slytherin's Locket, rather than force Kreacher to consume the Drink of

Despair as Voldemort had done, Regulus drank it himself after ordering Kreacher to take and destroy

the the locket, resulting in Regulus' death. In all likelihood, Harry came to appreciate Regulus' bravery,

and respect the level of compassion he had for beings that had long been ill-treated by wizarding kind.

Children EditHarry: "It won't be long, and you'll be going too."

Lily: "Two years, I want to go now!"

— Harry Potter and his daughter.[src]

Harry with his son, Albus Severus.

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Harry had three children with Ginny Weasley: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna

Potter. The eldest, James, has an outgoing personality and was a troublemaker, much like

his grandfather and namesake, and liked to tease his brother Albus. Albus, on the other hand, was

quieter and more thoughtful. When he admitted to Harry that he was afraid of being sorted

into Slytherin, Harry told him that Albus and Severus were the names of two former headmasters of

Hogwarts; one was a Slytherin, and "the bravest man he ever knew." He also informed his son that

the Sorting Hat would listen to the wearer's choice, and he knew that for a fact because it had

considered putting him into Slytherin; this was something Harry had not shared with any of his other

children. Albus also closely resembled Harry, having the same eyes, untidy hair, and glasses. Lily, the

youngest and only girl, was very like her mother. Harry and Lily were seen holding hands while walking

into Kings Cross, much like Lily's mother and maternal grandfather, and Lily was jealous of her

brothers as they boarded the train for Hogwarts, exactly as Ginny had been in 1991. Harry comforted her

by reminding her she would be joining them in two years.

Harry said farewell to his sons, as Ron and Hermione Weasley said goodbye to their

daughter Rose.

Teddy Lupin EditRemus Lupin: "You'll be godfather?"

Harry: "M-me?"

Remus Lupin: "You, yes of course - Dora quite agrees, no one better-"

Harry: "I - yeah - blimey -"

— Remus Lupin and Harry on Teddy Lupin.[src]

Teddy Lupin was Harry's godson, and the son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, two of

Harry's close friends. In 1998, Remus asked Harry to be Teddy's godfather, and Harry accepted, with

great happiness. After Remus and Tonks were killed in the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry helped Teddy's

grandmother, Andromeda, raise him, and by 2017, Harry and Teddy were clearly very close. When

Harry's children wanted Teddy to move in with the Potters, Harry mentioned that Teddy had been coming

to their home for dinner four times a week, and that he practically lived with them already. The Potter kids

were also thrilled at the idea that Teddy, who was seen kissingVictoire Weasley, the daughter

of Bill and Fleur, might officially become a part of their family.

In 1998, as Harry was planning to break in to the Lestrange vault, he wondered if he was becoming

as reckless as a godfather to Teddy as Sirius Black had been to him.

Nieces and nephews EditHarry had many nieces and nephews through the Weasley family. The children

of Bill and Fleur were Victoire,Dominique and Louis, and James announced that he had

seen Teddy Lupin kissing Victoire at King's Cross Station, in 2017. The children of Percy and his

wife, Audrey, were Molly, who was named after her grandmother, and Lucy, and either Molly or

both of the girls were attending Hogwarts in the 2017-2018 school year, because Percy was at King's

Cross on 1 September, 2017. The children of George and Angelina Johnson were Fred, who was

named after his late uncle, and Roxanne.

Harry was most likely closest to Ron and Hermione's children, Rose and Hugo, as they were the same

ages asAlbus and Lily, respectively, and Albus was "relieved" to meet up with Rose at King's Cross.

Ron and Hermione were probably close to all of Harry's children, and James, Albus, and Lily are their

godchildren.

Etymology Edit

Harry Potter in his dormitory with Hedwig.

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Harry is the Middle English form of the name Henry, derived from the Germanic name Heinrich, from

the words heim, meaning "home," and ric, meaning "power, ruler." It has been a very popular name in the

English-speaking world for centuries. Harry can also be a diminutive form of the name Harold, from the

Old English name Hereweald, meaning "leader of the army." It has been the name of five kings of

Norway, three kings of Denmark, and two kings of England.[30] [31]  In an interview J. K. Rowling stated

that 'Harry' had always been one of her favourite boy's names and that if her daughter had been a son

she would have named him 'Harry', although then she would have to have come up with a different name

for the books as it "would have been too cruel to name him after my own son." [32]

James is derived from the same Hebrew name as Jacob, meaning “holds the heel” (in the Genesis

narrative, Jacob was born grasping Esau′s heel and later bought his birthright). The name came into

English language from the French variation of the Late Latin name Iacomus, a dialect variant of Iacobus,

from the New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iakōbos), from Hebrew word יעקב (Yaʻaqov). James is Harry's

middle name, James was the name of his father and is also the name of his first son.

Potter is a very common surname of English origin.[33] It traditionally refers to the occupation of making

pottery.Beatrix Potter was a well-known English children's author. Potter's Field is the name for a

burial ground for the unknown or unclaimed dead, particularly soldiers and orphans; the Potter family had

many members that fit that description. The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions

developed at Harvard University. J. K. Rowlinghas also commented that she has liked the name since

childhood, as a family that had lived near her carried this surname.[34] [35]

Behind the scenes Edit"There are quite a few real Harry Potters out there. So far I have heard of a newborn baby who

actually has Harry's full name (Harry James Potter), a barrister in London, a grandfather who was

very pleased that he had become cool in his grandchildren's eyes, a soldier who died in the

second world war (I was sent a picture of his tombstone) and a clockmaker who worked in

London in the last century."

—J.K. Rowling [src]

Harry Potter in deep thought.

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Harry is portrayed by British actor Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptationsof Harry Potter

and the Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets,Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of

Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part

2 and so is one of the 14 characters to appear in all 8 film adaptations. By the time Deathly

Hallows: Part 2 was released, Radcliffe had played the role for ten years consecutively.

Harry is right-handed. He tells this to Mr. Ollivander in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's

Stone. He is also seen writing with this hand throughout the film series.

Josh Herdman  plays Harry when he is disguised as Gregory Goyle inChamber of

Secrets, as does David O'Hara when he is disguised asAlbert Runcorn in Deathly

Hallows: Part 1. The Saunders Triplets play Harry as an infant in Philosopher's

Stone and Toby Papworth plays Harry as an infant in Harry Potter and the Deathly

Hallows: Part 2.

In a deleted scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, when he is disguised

as Albert Runcorn, Harry calls Arthur Weasley by his first name. This is the only time Harry

does this.

Daniel Radcliffe and Harry were both born in July — Harry on the 31st and Daniel on the 23rd.

Harry the character has green eyes, but in the films he has blue eyes. This is due to the fact that

Daniel Radcliffe cannot stand wearing contact lenses. Radcliffe also has brown hair, as opposed to

Harry's black hair, and also has a strong physical body, rather than the slim frame Harry is

described as having. However Harry is only described as having an uncommonly 'slim' frame in the

earlier instalments, so it is possible that he bulked out a little into a lean frame as he matured.

Harry's birthday of 31 July is also the birthday of Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling, and

actor Richard Griffiths who plays Harry's Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films.

In the Mirror of Erised, Harry saw his family, a lot of people with untidy black hair, his own

noses, mouths and knees. However, he also saw some people with almond-shaped green eyes,

which could indicate that he saw his Muggle family as well, even though he did not see

the Dursley family. All people were smiling at him, so there is a thought that all of his family,

Wizards and Muggles, are proud of him.

In the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry is seen

practising Lumos Maximaunder the covers in his bedroom, but Harry does not get a letter from

the Improper Use of Magic Office even though he is under-age. In the book he is simply

using a torch while writing his homework for History of Magic.

While Harry repeatedly states Hermione is the best student in his year in all classes, he has

beaten her in two of the three Defence Against the Dark Arts exams they had together, with

Hermione only beating him in their first year exam. In addition, J.K. Rowling has said that Harry

could have beat Hermione in a magical duel halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban. [36] Part of this

can be put down to Professor Lupin's way of teaching, as it seemed to help bring out Harry's

own talent at the subject. It is probably more accurate to say that Hermione is the best student in

every subject but DADA, in which Harry is strongest, hence in Harry's mind she is the best student

overall.

Harry's niece and nephew, Rose and Hugo, have some of the same heritage of Harry.

A Muggle-born mother,Lily and Hermione, and a pure-blood father, James and Ron. This

makes Rose, Hugo and Harry all half-bloods.

When Harry is cleaning out his school trunk in 1997, he finds a "Support Cedric Diggory!" badge in

there. Considering the badges were only created by Draco Malfoy to get a rise out of Harry in

1994, it seems out of place that Harry has it, although he may have it by accident, or out of respect

for Cedric. He could also have kept one as a memento from the Tournament.

Throughout the films, Harry's hair grows longer and longer (the longest point was in the Goblet of

Fire) until it was cut for the Order of the Phoenix. It has since grown to about the same length as it

was for the Prisoner of Azkaban.

In the films, Harry's scar is off-centre on his forehead; this was apparently done at J. K.

Rowling's request: because of the books' artwork, many fans believe the scar is in the centre of

his head. But it is never explicitly mentioned where the scar is located. On all the U.S. book covers

(illustrations), the scar on Harry's forehead is located in the centre. The same is definitely true of

the last two U.K. instalments; however, on early U.K. book covers, Harry's scar tends to appear

slightly off-centre. It is somewhat hard to tell on most of these covers, as Harry's face is only visible

in profile. However, on the U.K. cover of Chamber of Secrets, Harry's scar is decidedly off-centre.

It is perhaps of this book that Rowling was thinking.

The Harry Potter Lego mini-figure.

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The Marauders  were said to have discovered more secret places than anyone else in the

history of Hogwarts. This isn't necessarily true, as unlike Harry andTom Riddle, they didn't

discover the Chamber of Secrets or the Room of Requirement. However, as they

discovered an untold number of secret passages and hidden rooms, they did discovery more more

numerous secrets than Riddle or Harry, just not the same ones.

In Harry, A History, Rowling discussed how Steve Kloves suspected that something might

happen between Harry and Hermione in Deathly Hallows. She replied: "I had always planned that

Harry's true soul mate, which I stand by, is Ginny, and that Ron and Hermione have this combative

but mutual attraction. They will always bicker, there will always be rough edges there, but they are

pulled together, each has something the other needs. [Kloves] felt a certain pull between them at

that point. And I think he's right. There are moments when [Harry and Hermione] touch, which are

charged moments. One when she touches his hair as he sits on the hilltop reading about

Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and [two] the moment when they walk out of the graveyard with their

arms around each other. Now the fact is that Hermione shares moments with Harry that Ron will

never be able to participate in. He walked out. She shared something very intense with Harry. So I

think it could have gone that way."[28]

The only person Harry ever considered killing by use of curse was Sirius Black and

possibly Bellatrix Lestrange, ironically to avenge Sirius. It is, however unclear if Harry knew

how to cast the Avada Kedavracurse since Harry was not taught the Unforgivable

Curses until his fourth year. Furthermore, when Harry found out that Peter Pettigrew was the

one who had betrayed his parents to Voldemort, he did not want Sirius and Remus Lupin to kill

Pettigrew in revenge. Even during the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Harry defeated Lord

Voldemort, Harry did not do so by use of any curse intended to do harm to his opponent, but

rather he used his "trademark," Expelliarmus. Harry finished Voldemort by reflecting a curse

Harry would never use on another, even his mortal enemy. This suggests the love, which is "the

power the Dark Lord knows not..." makes it difficult for Harry to kill. Even during the Battle over

Little Whinging, Harry illustrated his unwillingness to kill Death Eaters. During that battle the

Death Eaters were masked at the time, he couldn't know who was a willing follower and who was a

controlled drone. However in the example with Voldemort, Harry knew Voldemort's killing

curse would backfire, so rather than use the same curse which would make him look somewhat

bad, he instead decided to use the Disarming Charm to gain possession of the wand.

Harry usually has the last line in every Harry Potter film. Though it could be debatable on whether

he has the last line of the second film since the closed captions say that Dean said, "Yes!", so he

may have had the last line.

"I'm not going home...not really..." (PS/SS)

"There's no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid." (CS)

"Lumos. I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"/"Nox"." (POA)

"Yeah. Every week." (GOF)

"Something worth fighting for." (OOTP)

"I never realised how beautiful this place was." (HBP)

"I want to bury him [ Dobby ]... without magic." (DHPt1)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2  is the only film in which Harry does

not speak the final line. It is spoken by his son Albus: "Ready."

Harry was Wizard of the Month on J. K. Rowling's website for the month of October 2007.

Harry is the inspiration for the Wizard rock band, Harry and the Potters.

The makers of the film X-Men: First Class used Harry Potter as their role model.[37]

Harry Potter's former romantic relationship with Cho Chang is well known for being his first

crush, first kiss and first ex-girlfriend in the Harry Potter series.

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Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley's romantic relationship is told in a different way in the films

series from the novel versions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows:

In the novel version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry shares his

first kiss with Ginny in front of Gryffindor students in theGryffindor Common

Room after the Gryffindor Quidditch team won the Quidditch Cup. He also breaks it

off with her at Dumbledore's funeral.

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry

and Ginny go to the Room of Requirement together to hide Harry's copy of the Advanced

Potion-Making book, which previously belong to the Half-Blood Prince, after he

hurts Draco Malfoy. While there Ginny asked Harry to close his eyes while she goes and

hides the Half-Blood Prince book so that he and other students can't find it, when she

returned back to him, Ginny kisses Harry. Harry was very much delighted and surprised

that he received a kiss from her. It is implied that they are still dating at the end of the film.

In the novel version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry and Ginny

kiss on Harry's seventeenth birthday in Ginny's bedroom at The Burrow, and Ron

interrupts them when he opens the door.

In the film version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One, Harry was

in the kitchen at theWeasley family home, on the day of the wedding of Bill

Weasley and Fleur Delacour. Ginny arrives into room, she asked him to fasten the zip

of her bridesmaid dress. Harry and Ginny talked and shared a kiss, while they were kissing

Ginny's brother George Weasley comes into the room and interrupts them.

A running gag in the books is the messiness of Harry's hair. In the films, this is not mentioned

except for a reference in the fourth film. Harry notices that Hagrid has combed his hair so he will

look good for Olympe Maxime. When Harry says to him, "Hagrid, have you combed your

hair?!" Hagrid states, "As a matter of fact, I have. You might wanna try the same thing now and

again."

Harry Potter is still the only wizard to this day that has had all three Unforgivable Curses cast on

him and survived.

Both Michael Corner and Harry have dated the same girls, but in a different order, Cho Chang

and Ginny Weasley.

Despite being a talented Quidditch player (and the team Seeker, considered the most important

player on the team), Harry never played a full season (every minute of all three matches):

In his first year, he was recuperating in the hospital wing after saving the Philosopher's

Stone, and thus missed the final match.

In his second year, the final match of the season was cancelled due to the attack on

Hermione andPenelope Clearwater.

In his third year, Harry came closest to playing a full season, but spent the last few seconds

of the opening Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff match unconscious after being attacked by

Dementors.

In his fourth year, the Quidditch Cup was cancelled due to the Triwizard Tournament.

In his fifth year, Harry was banned by Dolores Umbridge after the opening Gryffindor vs.

Slytherin match.

In his sixth year, Harry was knocked unconscious partway through the second match of the

season against Hufflepuff, and then held in detention for the final match against Ravenclaw.

One of the reasons why J.K. Rowling had Harry survive is because she values those who rebuild

after a war, modelling Harry on war veterans. [38]

J.K. Rowling has said that because of the demands of his life, Harry has had less sexual

experience than boys of his age might have had.[39]

J.K. Rowling has said that Harry's glasses are a clue to his vulnerability.[40]

J.K. Rowling has said that the character of Wart from T. H. White's The Sword in the

Stone is "Harry's spiritual ancestor".[41]

Like his parents, Harry personally defied Voldemort three times before defeating him the fourth

time: once in the Philosopher's Stone Chambers, once at the cemetery in Little Hangleton, and

once again during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. However, there were four previous

encounters if one counts the events of Harry's second year with Tom Riddle's Diary, though

that was a memory instead of the real Voldemort.

Harry learns a new mode of transportation in every book.

In his first year, he learns to travel by broomstick.

In his second year, he travels by Floo Powder.

In his third year, Buckbeak the hippogriff lets him take a ride on his back.

In his fourth year, he gets to the Quidditch World Cup by portkey.

In his fifth year, he travels to the Ministry of Magic|Ministry by thestral.

In his sixth year, he learns to Apparate.

In the seventh book, he breaks into Gringotts and flies out on a dragon.

The only autograph he ever gave out was to Colin Creevey.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2:Behind the Magic, the person who makes all the

wands for the movies revealed that Dan has gone through over 80 wands over the course of the 10

years because he drums with them.