James Potter — ⁷

from 1960 Parents — Fleamont and Euphemia Potter School — Hogwarts House — Gryffindor School year — 7th grade Titles — Annual Award, Captain, Seeker Boggart — Voldemort hurting the one he loves the most Patronus — deer Loyalty —Hogwarts, Gryffindor, The Marauders Sexuality — Heterosexual Blood status — Pure Age — 17-18 years Place of origin — London, England Skills — Quidditch, Charms Likes — Butterbeer, Quidditch Personality —He has a somewhat sarcastic and joking sense of humor, arrogant from time to time but with good manners and chivalrous as well as kind. Appearance — Round glasses, hazel eyes, messy jet-black hair (possibly in curlers), strong and tall body, white complexion, height between 1.69 and 1.70

James Potter was born into a family of wizards. What we know of his parents, Fleamont and Euphemia, is that they were extremely wealthy. They were quite old (even among wizards) when James was born, which explains why he was an only child. They doted on him. They died of a magical illness. The date of their death is 1981.

He attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978. From the beginning, James showed a repulsion for the Dark Arts; during his first trip on the Hogwarts Express, after hearing Severus Snape express to Lily Evans his desire to be in Slytherin, he stated that if James were in Slytherin, he would probably leave the place. On that same trip he met his best friend, Sirius Black, who supported James against Snape and said that although his whole family had been in Slytherin, he hoped to be different. His hatred for Snape began, and he earned Lily's contempt. When Sirius asked him which house he would like to be in, James raised an invisible sword and said: “In Gryffindor, where the brave-hearted reside! Like my father.”

James played on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Seeker, and in his seventh year became the team captain.

Fleamont and Euphemia Potter James came from a very wealthy pure-blood family. He had an excellent relationship with his parents, who loved him very much. His father belonged to Gryffindor during his time as a Hogwarts student; he even told James how that house represented bravery and daring. James's parents were already quite old when he was born.

During his years at Hogwarts, James was best friends with Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, and together they called themselves the Marauders. He met Sirius on the Hogwarts Express in their first year, and they quickly became friends. In their second year, when the group discovered that Remus was a werewolf, they refused to abandon him (as most would have done), and learned to become Animagi to accompany him during his full moon transformations. James insisted that Remus was not abnormal because of his condition. The four enjoyed their popularity at Hogwarts, and particularly enjoyed playing pranks together. Furthermore, they invented the Marauder's Map, and together they joined the Order of the Phoenix after graduating from Hogwarts.

Although he was very close to his friends, James was probably much closer to Sirius, whom he loved like a brother and who lived with James and his parents when Sirius ran away from home at sixteen.

James and Snape maintained a strong rivalry throughout their time at Hogwarts. For Remus and Sirius, the origin of this rivalry was due to Snape's jealousy of James' talent in Quidditch and popularity, as well as his interest in the Dark Arts, which James despised. However, it was later revealed that James and Sirius had gotten off on the wrong foot with Snape from the beginning: when they met him during their first year on the Hogwarts Express, they insulted him (laying a strong foundation for the rivalry), and their subsequent interactions only served to intensify and lengthen their rivalry: Snape would chase Marauders looking for reasons to expel them. James, in turn, used the hexes that Snape himself had invented against him. James is hostile towards Seveus and vice versa.

Severus Snape is a half-blood Hogwarts student who is in Slytherin.