Harry J. Potter.

Harry Potter is a half-blood wizard and the only son of James and Lily Potter. He is the only known person to have survived the Avada Kedavra curse, having done so twice. Both times, the curse was cast by Lord Voldemort. The first, in an attempt to kill Harry as a baby, led to Voldemort's first defeat and the end of the First Wizarding War. The second (in which, unlike the first, Voldemort effectively kills him but the boy is later revived) destroys another part of Voldemort's soul and leads to his final destruction and the end of the Second Wizarding War.

After his first assassination attempt and the death of his parents, Harry is taken in by his aunt and uncle, the Dursleys.

At the age of eleven, Harry discovers he is a wizard. He begins attending Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor House. He becomes best friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and the youngest Quidditch player in over a century. He becomes even more famous in his early years after protecting the Philosopher's Stone from Voldemort and saving Ginny Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets. In his fourth year, he wins the Triwizard Tournament, although the competition ends in tragedy with the death of Cedric Diggory and the return of Lord Voldemort. The following school year, Harry founds Dumbledore's Army and fights in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, during which he loses his godfather, who was like a father to him.

He plays an important role in many other battles of the Second Wizarding War. During the Battle of Hogwarts, he encounters Voldemort and sacrifices himself, though he does not die, instead dueling Voldemort one last time and defeating him.

After the war, he became an Auror.

He is the godfather of Teddy Remus Lupin. In 2007, Harry was promoted to Head of the Auror Office at the age of 26 and occasionally taught Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. In the summer of 2020, he was promoted to Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Harry is also notable for being the only known Lord of Death, having united all three Deathly Hallows. Paradoxically, he is related to Lord Voldemort, as the latter is descended from Cadmus Peverell and Harry from Ignotus Peverell. According to a leaked alternate epilogue written by J.K. Rowling, Harry is 150 years old and is the headmaster of Hogwarts and has a great-great-grandson named Tom, like Tom Riddle (he could have been called Tom Potter).

The Potters were an ancient and wealthy pure-blood family, and Harry inherited much of his parents' wealth. The Potters are descended from the Peverell family, through Iolanthe Peverell, who inherited the Invisibility Cloak from her grandfather Ignotus Peverell. The Gaunts, descendants of Salazar Slytherin, are also descended from the Peverells, through Ignotus's brother Cadmus Peverell, who left the Resurrection Stone in a ring as an heirloom to his family, so Harry and Tom Marvolo Riddle are very distantly related. The Potters were not prejudiced against Muggle-borns, as demonstrated by James Potter's marriage to Lily Evans. As for his closest magical ancestry, his great-grandfather was Henry Potter, also known as Harry, a member of the Wizengamot from 1913 to 1921. His grandparents, Henry's son and daughter-in-law, were named Fleamont and Euphemia Potter, who increased the family fortune thanks to Fleamont's potions.

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

Harry James Potter was born on July 31, 1980. His parents, James and Lily Potter, were members of the first Order of the Phoenix during the First Wizarding War. From birth, he lived in hiding with his parents after Lord Voldemort had marked them as his prime target. They lived in Godric's Hollow in a hidden house under the Fidelius Charm to keep them hidden. As part of the spell, it had been planned to make Sirius Black his Secret Keeper, but Peter Pettigrew was later appointed, as Sirius believed he would be the least suspicious, as he was not an important wizard, a coward, and no one would notice him. In a terrible twist of fate, Pettigrew betrayed them, as he was a spy for Voldemort.

At an unknown time, James and Lily performed a short, quick baptism for Harry. Only James, Lily, and Sirius were present.

On the night of October 31, 1981, Lord Voldemort arrived in Godric's Hollow and killed Harry's parents. He started with James, who tried to confront him, but unfortunately didn't have his wand and died instantly. Voldemort then went after Lily Potter, who died protecting Harry. Her sacrifice prevented the Killing Curse from working; her love for Harry was a barrier. When Voldemort tried to kill the boy, the curse rebounded, causing Voldemort to lose all his powers and physical form instead of Harry, though he was saved from death by his Horcruxes. Harry became the only person to survive the Killing Curse, which only left him with a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. The scar would be both a curse and a blessing for him in the years to come, as it opened a telepathic link between Voldemort and Harry. Harry became famous for surviving Voldemort.

The house in Godric's Hollow was destroyed in the fighting, and Rubeus Hagrid rescued Harry from the ruined house. Hagrid, under orders from Albus Dumbledore, was to take Harry to the home of his aunt and uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley. Before he left, he was intercepted by Sirius Black, who had been coming to fetch Harry. Hagrid refused, saying that he was under Dumbledore's orders and that he had to get Harry to Privet Drive as quickly as possible. Sirius, though reluctant, relented and gave Hagrid his Hoverbike. Dumbledore left a letter explaining everything to the Dursleys.

According to Harry, living with the Dursleys was the worst thing in the world. Since they were a Muggle family, they had no knowledge of magic, and although his aunt and uncle knew of his lineage, they never told him the truth about his origins. The Dursleys considered themselves a "normal" family and hated anything out of the ordinary. They lied to Harry about his parents' deaths, claiming they had died in a car accident and that James was an unemployed drunk. They punished him for his magical accidents, which were sporadic and uncontrollable, and yelled at and punished Harry whenever something "strange" happened. In his youth, Harry could make strange things happen without understanding why (since no one had bothered to tell him he was a wizard). For example, after his Aunt Petunia had cut off all his hair, it grew back the next morning. Harry was punished, even though he hadn't done anything on purpose.

The Dursleys, who were so busy spoiling their son Dudley, paid little to no attention to Harry. All of his clothes were ill-fitting and Dudley's old ones, much too big for Harry. He was forced to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs, while his cousin had two rooms to himself. They bossed Harry around like a slave, and eventually, Dudley's favorite pastime was hunting Harry down.

The only benefit he could derive from his stay with the Dursleys was that, by returning to live with a relative of his mother's blood, the protection Lily had given Harry would work. As long as Harry lived there, he could not be harmed. However, the spell was broken when he turned 17 and stopped calling 4 Privet Drive home.

On Dudley's eleventh birthday, the Dursleys went to the zoo with Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss. Unfortunately for the Dursleys, they had to take Harry with them because Petunia's best friend Yvonne was on holiday in Majorca, and Mrs. Figg broke her leg. At the zoo, Harry accidentally made the glass in a boa constrictor's enclosure disappear.

Harry attended a normal Muggle school with Dudley. He had no friends, as all the students were afraid of Dudley's gang. He was reportedly good at sports, even though he was the last one picked for a team. Harry, however, had good grades in school. Once, he accidentally turned his teacher's wig blue; and another time, he somehow managed to reach the ceiling of the school cafeteria while escaping Dudley's gang.

If Harry hadn't gone to Hogwarts, he would have attended Stonewall, a Muggle secondary school.

Harry received no birthday greetings or celebrations until his eleventh birthday, when he discovered the truth about his identity. The week of Harry's birthday, hundreds of letters began arriving at the Dursleys' home. When the Dursleys saw the first letter addressed to "Mr. H. Potter, Cupboard under the Stairs," they panicked at the thought of Harry discovering the truth and moved him into Dudley's second bedroom, which soon became known in the letters as the "smallest bedroom."

Vernon Dursley tried to destroy the letters in a vain attempt to keep Harry from his fate. As the letters continued to arrive in ever-increasing numbers, the Dursleys saw no alternative but to flee. The owls carrying the letters followed them wherever they went. In desperation, the Dursleys moved to a shack on a rocky island by the sea. At midnight on Harry's birthday, Rubeus Hagrid appeared in person to find out why Harry hadn't received his letter. Enraged by the Dursleys' attitude, he explains to Harry, despite Vernon's stubborn protests, that he is a wizard, how his parents died, and how he was to be sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hagrid presents him with a birthday cake and an owl, which Harry names Hedwig. The next day, Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, where he learns of his fame in the wizarding world and that his parents had left him a fortune in a vault at Gringotts.

Harry bought his first wand at Ollivander's. His wand is eleven inches long and made of holly. Its core is a phoenix feather, which came from Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix. Ollivander tells us that he had also created a twin wand. This one chose Tom Marvolo Riddle as its wielder. Riddle, under the pseudonym Lord Voldemort, would later use it to attack Harry and his parents. The two wands, sharing the same origin, have a unique connection that prevents them from successfully dueling against each other.

Harry discovers he's a wizard and begins his first year at Hogwarts. He meets Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger and other friends, as well as his enemies: Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson, among others. He discovers he's good at Quidditch and joins the team. That year, Voldemort searches for the Philosopher's Stone to regain his body using Quirinus Quirrell's and is defeated by Harry, who to get it has to solve riddles, play wizard's chess, get rid of plants, and catch flying keys, among other feats. Thanks to Harry, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, Gryffindor (Harry's house and his aforementioned friends) wins the House Cup for their performances.

Harry finds a house-elf named Dobby in his bed who tells him not to go to Hogwarts because something terrible will happen, but Harry ignores him. He spends the rest of the summer with the Weasleys after being rescued by the twins and Ronald, due to a trick by Dobby, who framed Harry for the vandalism and caused Vernon to close and seal Harry's room, including the window, with clubs. Upon arriving at King's Cross station, he is prevented from entering the platform where the Hogwarts Express is located because of Dobby and has to use the Flying Ford Anglia with Ron, so some Muggles see him. Harry hears whispers in the corridors and passageways and finds petrified students in the halls such as Justin Finn-Fletchey along with Nick, Mrs. Norris and his best friend Hermione. Some students believe that he opened the Chamber of Secrets and that he is the heir of Salazar Slytherin. Harry finds Tom Riddle's diary and learns that someone has taken Ginny Weasley to the Chamber of Secrets and wants to save her with Ron and Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart joined the adventure under pressure after being exposed as a fraud, and Harry fights the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. Voldemort returns in the form of a memory of Tom, his former self. Harry destroys the diary with a basilisk tooth and rescues Ginny, who had been kidnapped and taken there. It was Ginny who opened the chamber, released the basilisk, and attacked the Muggle-borns in the Diary's possession.

Harry meets his godfather Sirius Black and is instructed by Remus Lupin to defeat Dementors with a Patronus.

Harry enters the Triwizard Tournament despite being underage and the fact that only three wizards can be cast. Voldemort returns and creates a new body from Harry's blood, his Muggle father's bones, and the flesh of a vassal (Wormtail cut off his own hand to offer it for the spell). Wormtail kills Cedric Diggory, and Harry returns to Hogwarts in tears.

No one believes him when he says that Voldemort has returned. That same year, Dolores Jane Umbridge arrives. She is an emissary of the Ministry of Magic, and is set to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, but only in theory, given the Minister of Magic's continued paranoia, who believes that Dumbledore is planning a coup d'état. Because of this, Harry forms an army to instruct the students, called Dumbledore's Army, but a friend of Cho Chang, Marietta Edgecombe, under the influence of Veritaserum, tells him where they are hiding from the High Inquisitor and her Inquisitorial Squad (in the Room of Requirement). Harry has many visions about a door in the Department of Mysteries and finally one of Voldemort torturing Sirius. Harry and his friends go to the Ministry of Magic to learn that it was all a trap by Voldemort so he could get a crystal ball with a prophecy (about him and Harry). A battle ensues, in which Voldemort loses to Dumbledore, but he escapes.

After a few days at 4 Privet Drive, Harry receives a letter from Dumbledore saying he will pick him up at 11 p.m.; Harry doesn't believe it's from Dumbledore and doesn't pack until he arrives. The two go to a dilapidated house and meet with Horace Slughorn to convince him to return to teaching at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy goes to a furniture store and then breaks Harry's nose for spying on him on the train (Draco had become a Death Eater). It is revealed that Horace was the one who told Voldemort how to split the soul, and it is revealed that Voldemort as a young man was an insufferable and effeminate young man. Dumbledore takes Harry to a cave to get a Horcrux, and an army of Inferi emerge, all of whom are burned to death by Dumbledore. It is all in vain, as the Horcrux had been replaced by R.A.B. (Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius Black's brother). Back at school, Dumbledore orders Harry to hide under the Invisibility Cloak and petrifies him. Draco Malfoy is about to kill Dumbledore, but chickens out, and Snape arrives and kills the old professor (Snape had made an Unbreakable Oath with Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange to protect Draco and carry out for him the missions he could not carry out at the request of the Nameless One, and he had also made a pact with Dumbledore to protect Harry). It is revealed that Severus Snape was the real "Half-Blood Prince", a spellcaster and potion publisher.

Before the start of the school year, Harry receives the results of his O.W.L.s.

Passing Grades: Outstanding (E) Exceeds Expectations (S) Acceptable (A) Failing Grades: Unsatisfactory (I) Disastrous (D) Troll (T) Harry obtained the following results:

Astronomy: A Care of Magical Creatures: S Charms: S Defense Against the Dark Arts: E Divination: I Herbology: S History of Magic: D Potions: S Transformation: S

The battle wasn't planned (it was merely a discreet transfer for Harry), but it turned into an aerial battle: George Weasley lost an ear to Severus Snape's Sectumsempra, Mad-Eye was killed by Voldemort, and Hedwig was killed by an anonymous Death Eater.

Death Eaters attacked the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour (after taking control of the Ministry of Magic) the trio (Ron, Hermione and Harry) managed to escape, but, they ran into Death Eaters and then took refuge at 12 Grimmauld Place.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione plan to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic (now dominated by Voldemort and his henchmen, and run by Minister Pius Thicknesse under an Imperius Curse from Death Eater Yaxley) to retrieve Salazar Slytherin's locket from Dolores Umbridge. To carry out the plan, they each drink Polyjuice Potion, transforming into Albert Runcorn (Harry), Reginald Cattermole (Ron), and Mafalda Hopkirk (Hermione). After they manage to retrieve it, they struggle to leave the Ministry, as the potion wears off and they discover Harry, who is wanted. In the end, Ron disappears when he quickly Apparates into a forest with Harry and Hermione.

Ron, angry that Hermione is very intelligent and Harry has a reputation, abandons the search because he thinks they don't count on him, although he later returns. Harry and Hermione go to Godric's Hollow, where they see the family graves: Dumbledore and Potter buried, and they also see the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on Ignotus Peverell's tombstone. They enter Bathilda Bagshot's house, who is actually Nagini disguised as Bathilda's corpse, then she attacks them, and Harry's wand breaks.

Harry, on his camp watch, sees a doe Patronus and follows it. The Patronus leads him to a frozen lake where Godric Gryffindor's sword is submerged. Harry goes down to find it and the locket nearly causes him to drown, but Ron saves him, and they destroy the locket with the sword. They then go to see the Lovegoods. They have kidnapped Luna. Hermione reads The Fable of the Three Brothers and Xenophilius Lovegood tells them about the Hallows, and tries to hold them off until Death Eaters arrive to take them and return Luna to him. However, the trio's plans are thwarted and Lovegood is imprisoned. The protagonists return to the camp, but Harry remains obsessed with the Deathly Hallows, discovering that Voldemort is looking for the Elder Wand and that he is the owner of the Invisibility Cloak and a descendant of the youngest of the three brothers: Ignotus.

Harry accidentally utters Voldemort's (now taboo) name, and several Scavengers arrive with Fenrir Greyback. After interrogating them, they discover that Hermione had given them a false name and that she was probably traveling with Harry. They transport them to Malfoy Manor. After a series of mishaps, they escape with Dobby's help, but Bellatrix Lestrange throws a dagger just as they conjure an apparition, which unfortunately hits Dobby, who dies. Harry is the most devastated by the house-elf's death.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione (the latter turned into Bellatrix after drinking Polyjuice Potion) enter Gringotts with the help of Griphook. They manage to enter Bellatrix's vault thanks to the Polyjuice Potion. They begin to search for the Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup. Their mission becomes complicated when they realize that every time they touch something made of gold in the vault, it multiplies and burns them. The three friends notice the cup that was near the ceiling. Hermione throws a Levicorpus at Harry, who manages to grab the cup. When they leave, they realize that Griphook refuses to give them the sword and calls for help. Harry, Ron, and Hermione get on a dragon and manage to get out of Gringotts alive, where they end up on the shore of a beautiful lake (their last hiding place).

Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogwarts in search of a Horcrux hidden in the Room of Requirement: Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, but in Hogsmeade they run into complications with Death Eaters and Dementors. Aberforth Dumbledore helps them, and with a portrait of the Dumbledores' deceased sister, Ariana Dumbledore, they meet Neville Longbottom and enter Hogwarts through the Room of Requirement where Harry, Ron, and Hermione receive a warm welcome from the D.A. (Dumbledore's Army).

Harry, Ron and Hermione, knowing the whereabouts of Lord Voldemort, go in search of him to the Shrieking Shack, where Harry has a connection to Lord Voldemort; after speaking with the ghost of Ravenclaw house, he realizes that the Horcrux is in the Room of Requirement, when the trio arrives there they meet Draco Malfoy, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe, Crabbe summons the cursed fire to kill Harry, Ron and Hermione (whom he called Mudblood); but in Crabbe's attempt, Ravenclaw's diadem is destroyed and the fire consumes Crabbe. Harry, Ron and Hermione save Malfoy and Goyle. Harry has a vision of Lord Voldemort telling Lucius Malfoy to bring Severus Snape to him. Harry followed Voldemort to the Shrieking Shack where he witnessed Voldemort telling Snape that he needed the Elder Wand to kill him and that the wand belongs to the person who murdered its previous owner (in this case Snape). He releases Nagini from her protective charm and she kills Severus Snape by biting his neck. Harry, Ron and Hermione enter to help Snape who is almost bloodless. Snape gives Harry a memento and begs him to take it and put it in the Pensieve and look into his eyes, the green eyes followed the black ones, but Snape bleeds to death.

When Harry sees Snape's memories, he knows he's a Horcrux and that Voldemort must kill him. So, he presents himself to Voldemort, but before doing so, he goes to the Forbidden Forest with the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone, which spins three times, allowing him to see his parents, his godfather Sirius, and Remus (who served as his Patronus). When Harry asks Sirius if it hurts to die, they tell him not to fear death. He then confronts Voldemort, who "murders" Harry.

Harry sees Dumbledore and, some time later, revives. He pretends to be dead. Voldemort casts the Cruciatus Curse on him and asks Narcissa Malfoy if he's still alive. She approaches Harry and asks him about Draco's whereabouts, to which he replies that he was at Hogwarts. "He's dead," Narcissa states after obtaining the information.

On Voldemort's orders, Hagrid takes the "dead" Harry to Hogwarts. Neville Longbottom retrieves Godric Gryffindor's sword using the Sorting Hat and kills Nagini. Just then, Harry leaps out of Hagrid's arms and puts on the Invisibility Cloak. He follows Voldemort into the Great Hall and sees the corpses of Fred, Remus, Tonks, Colin Creevey, and fifty others lying dead on the floor. Harry also sees Minerva McGonagall, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Horace Slughorn fighting Voldemort, and Luna, Hermione, and Ginny fighting Bellatrix Lestrange, who fires an Avada Kedavra at Ginny, who narrowly avoids it. Seeing this, Harry forgets about Voldemort and goes straight to Bellatrix, but before he can, Molly Weasley arrives and duels Bellatrix. The Death Eater taunts Fred, and Molly kills Bellatrix with a brilliant green flash from her wand. Voldemort is not pleased to see his last best Death Eater and lieutenant die, so he throws McGonagall, Shacklebolt, and Slughorn into the air and goes to Molly. Harry emerges from the Invisibility Cloak and, to shouts and applause, duels Voldemort.

In the final battle between Harry and Lord Voldemort, Voldemort is killed by his own Avada Kedavra spell as the spell rebounds off him, because the Elder Wand recognized Harry as its master, so it refused to kill him and returned the spell to Voldemort, resulting in Harry winning.

Harry is an exceptionally powerful wizard. Aside from his strong magical abilities, Harry is very brave and would do anything to protect his friends. Throughout the series, he finds himself in the middle of dangerous situations but always keeps his head on the ball. Harry has a strong sense of right and wrong, and he is willing to defend to the death what he believes is right.

Although Harry is a true Gryffindor, he also shares many common Slytherin traits, including resourcefulness and rule-breaking. Because of this, the Sorting Hat intended to put him in Slytherin, but it was Harry's wish and determination that placed him in Gryffindor. One of the advantages commonly discussed, especially by Albus Dumbledore, is Harry's capacity for love, as well as a very pure heart. From what Dumbledore says in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, after seeing Horace Slughorn's memory where he talks to Tom Riddle about the Horcruxes, it can be deduced that Harry's ability to love translates into the fact that, since Harry deeply loves and appreciates everything positive or benign that he knows about the wizarding world, especially his relationships with many of his friends and acquaintances, he has a reason to never openly join the Dark Side, despite understanding that doing so could give him certain advantages or powers that he would not have by staying on the side of good.

Harry is particularly adept on a broomstick, though he struggles with flying other magical creatures such as hippogriffs and thestrals. During the first task of the Triwizard Tournament, his flying ability compares favorably with Viktor Krum, considered the greatest Seeker in the world.

Harry often "wears his heart on his sleeve." He is often unable to hide or control his emotions, especially anger and rage, making it difficult for him to master Occlumency. Furthermore, he tends to tackle most situations and problems alone, before considering all options and creating a strategy.

When he and Dumbledore met in Limbo, Dumbledore addressed this characteristic of Harry's, saying that he feared that while Harry was fulfilling his task of destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes, "his heated mind would dominate his good heart." Looking at Harry's personality strengths and weaknesses (of which Dumbledore was fully aware) together, one can conclude that Dumbledore believed that, despite Harry having a good heart, In turn, this leads to his having good intentions toward those he cares about. His often "heated" way of thinking and seeing things, in Dumbledore's words, is largely caused by the constant personal conflicts and losses, worries, and doubts he was forced to face during his youth, but mainly by his constant tendency to always want to be right and stubbornly convince himself that the best way to deal with problems is his own, often without taking into account the point of view of others. This, Bartemius Crouch Jr., disguised as Alastor Moody, once described as "a streak of pride and self-sufficiency." This caused these good intentions to be constantly frustrated or hindered, which on more than one occasion led him to even harm or unintentionally end the lives of others.

His designation as "The Boy Who Lived," and later, "The Chosen One," may have helped to create a need to be a hero. This trait has caused him to behave somewhat foolishly, as he did during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament when he "rescued" all the hostages underwater, even though they were never in any danger. Or when situations take a deadly turn, Voldemort, knowing Harry's predictable nature, tricks him into an ambush, which ends in the death of Sirius Black.

Although he is intelligent and a powerful wizard, he is a somewhat lazy student academically and usually receives above-average grades, except for Defense Against the Dark Arts, where he excels. His ability in Potions is apparently better than it appears, and he greatly improves during his sixth year, when he doesn't have Severus Snape as a teacher watching and mocking his talent.