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Harry James Potter is a fictional character and the main character of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy series of books. In 2002, Harry Potter was voted No. 85 among the “100 Best Fictional Characters” by Book magazine^[1] and also voted the 35th “Worst Briton” in Channel 4’s “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate” program.^[2]

In the Harry Potter film adaptations, Harry has been portrayed by British actor Daniel Radcliffe.

Background

The novels concern events at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Harry’s best friends are Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. His most intriguing physical characteristic is his lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, the result of the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort’s attempt to murder Harry as a baby with The Killing Curse. Voldemort killed Harry’s parents and destroyed their home in the village of Godric’s Hollow on October 31st. Harry is famous throughout the wizarding world for being the only known person to have survived the Killing Curse, and in doing so brought about Lord Voldemort’s first downfall.

In the novels, Harry, the only child of James and Lily Potter, is often told that he resembles his father, with similar perpetually untidy jet-black hair. However, he is more like his mother in personality and character and inherited her green eyes. Harry is described as being small and skinny for his age in the first few novels, but by the fifth he is described as tall. He also has a thin face and a rather quiet voice, except when he is angry. His appearance is characterised by round glasses.

Harry shares his birthday, July 31, with author J. K. Rowling. The books generally avoid giving exact dates for events, but it has been gathered that Harry was born in the same year as Draco Malfoy, whose date of birth was given on a family tree written by Rowling for a charitable auction.

Heritage and other family

See also: Relatives of Harry Potter

Harry is categorised as a “half-blood” wizard in the series, because although both his parents were magical, his mother, Lily Evans, was “Muggle-born“. According to Rowling, to characters for whom wizarding blood purity matters Lily would be considered “as bad as a Muggle“, and derogatively referred to as a “Mudblood.” In this context, to be considered a “pure-blood” wizard, both parents and all grandparents would have to also be wizards.

Harry’s father, James Potter, was born into a “pure-blood” wizarding family as the only child of somewhat elderly parents.^[4] It is likely Harry is distantly related to other pure-blood families through his father, since according to Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, all the old pure-blood families are related. Harry inherited a small fortune of wizarding money from his parents, which is stored in Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley, London. He later inherits Sirius’s family property, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, after Sirius dies.

Harry may also be related to his godfather. According to the Black family tree,^[5] Charlus Potter married Dorea Black, granddaughter of Phineas Nigellus Black, with the result that James and Sirius may have been first cousins, once removed. This seems to contradict Rowling’s statements that James’s parents were “old in wizarding terms” when they died, because she has also said that wizards have “a much longer life expectancy than Muggles” — Dorea died at only 57. However, Charlus and Dorea were born into the same generation as Sirius’s grandparents, so it is possible they might be James’s parents. Regardless, since no living Potter relatives or any unrelated wizards named Potter have yet appeared in the series, it is possible that Charlus Potter, and thus Sirius, was somehow related to Harry.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry is attacked by Dementors while staying with his aunt and uncle for the summer. He performs a Patronus Charm to defend himself and his Muggle cousin, Dudley. Harry is charged with performing underage magic and must appear at a hearing at the Ministry of Magic and may be expelled from Hogwarts. Dumbledore has him taken to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, a dilapidated house in London owned by his godfather Sirius Black, that now serves as headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. Harry is cleared thanks to testimony from Dumbledore and Harry’s neighbor, Arabella Figg, a Squib who has secretly guarded Harry since he was a baby. In retaliation against Dumbledore, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge appoints Dolores Umbridge as the new Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher so she can spy on the school. She is later appointed High Inquisitor, empowered to arbitrarily change and impose school rules. Urged by Hermione, Harry secretly trains students in real defensive magic. The group calls themselves, “Dumbledore’s Army” (D.A.). When Voldemort implants a false vision in Harry’s mind that Sirius is being tortured at the Ministry office in London, Harry and D.A. members Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood rush to his rescue. Lured into the Department of Mysteries, the students are ambushed by Voldemort’s Death Eaters. Order of the Phoenix reinforcements arrive in time, although Sirius is killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange. Voldemort appears and attempts to fatally curse Harry, but Dumbledore arrives, and the two fiercely duel. Voldemort grabs Bellatrix and disapparates, but not before being seen by the Minister and Ministry employees, vindicating both Harry and Dumbledore.