History Characters / ChildOfTheStormHarryThorson

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Increasingly in the second book - ironically for a psychic, he's really bad at considering the viewpoints of other people unless he's actively trying to manipulate them. This is implied to be thanks to a mixture of trauma-induced shutting people out and his obsessive attitude regarding MindOverManners, meaning that he ignores empathic cues (both psychic and not) that he really should pay attention to. However, it's notable that the main incidents tend to pop up when something has aggravated one of those trauma scars, causing him to shut down and clam up. Some people (Cedric) take this behaviour better than others (Ron and Hermione), though everyone calls him out on it - and he usually cops to it. Usually. In Book III, this improves somewhat more, as he opens up somewhat.

* LargeHam: He's usually a fairly subdued figure, and more inclined to be a ColdHam, but goodness, when he feels particularly histrionic or, indeed, just like showing off, he's not shy of ChewingTheScenery. I mean, for god's sake, this is the same person who died to entire the Contest of Champions not just as a Mystery Knight, but in full shapeshifted disguise as [[spoiler: ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'']], complete with an imitation so good it downright disturbed someone who knew the person he was disguised as.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: A rare male example; quirky and prone sweeping all sorts of often apparently people/people living relatively ordinary lives into adventures beyond their imagining.

* MindOverManners: Is extremely scrupulous about this and initially squeamish about using anything more than passive telepathy, partly because of privacy, partly because of what Riddle's Diary did to Ginny, and partly because he's absolutely terrified (and not entirely without reason) that he could start on a slippery slope. It's pathological, to the point where it may be stunting his empathy. By ''Ghosts'', [[CharacterDevelopment however,]] [[MindRape he will violate it if he deems it necessary]], though it's still his GodzillaThreshold - though he has absolutely no compunction about using it on vampires.

* BullyHunter: He is this, because he wants to protect people who can't protect themselves. [[DeconstructedTrope However, it tends to do more harm than good.]]
* BurningWithAnger: After he develops a talent for PlayingWithFire, this starts happening - and, after ''Forever Red'', the smell of wood-smoke appears when he gets ''really'' hacked off. The latter in particular is generally a sign that you should start running. Preferably to another galaxy.

** Chapter 59 reveals that, following the return of his full Red Room memories, seeing [[IdenticalStranger Clark]] StrappedToAnOperatingTable is one - once the battle is over, he is shown to be at the very end of his coping ability and anticipating some ''very'' bad nightmares. [[spoiler: He ends up reliving being raped by Belova]].

* UnstablePoweredWoman: A RareMaleExample - aside from his gender, he ticks pretty much every box in the sequel. Given his connections to the Phoenix and Wanda Maximoff, two famous examples, this is not entirely surprising.

** By ''Ghosts'', he's more or less unfazed by it - though annoyed by and bitter about the DoomMagnet aspects.

Needless to say, this also drastically affects his CharacterDevelopment -- not all of which is for the better. An [[DeadpanSnarker increasingly snarky]], increasingly confident and assertive individual, he's more proactive and thoroughly resigned to the absurdity of his life. However, he's also deeply traumatised, occasionally ruthless, with a darker side and a sometimes dangerous temper. Even with his struggles, however, he's still a hero at heart.\\\

** Uhtred and Diana after being kidnapped by the Disir, protecting them and [[ShipperOnDeck shipping]] Uhtred/Jean-Paul and Diana/Ginny. When talking to Jean-Paul in Book 2, he mildly tells his friend that if he thought the latter were cheating on Uhtred, he would break Jean-Paul's leg and interrogate him. Bear in mind that Harry has previously stated that given how powerful and ruthless Jean-Paul is, he'd rather go another round with Dracula (who [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped him, twice, and nearly killed him both times]]) than fight him.

* BookDumb: Downplayed. He's not by any means bad at academics, and he's frighteningly intelligent. However, his education is often interrupted, and outside of a very specialised skillset, his knowledge is usually shown up compared to those around him. This means that while he has a brilliant intuitive grasp of magic, his understanding of the theory is fairly loose - he's noted to learn better by doing than studying. As a result of this and his [[FatalFlaw impulsiveness]], even those who know him quite well forget how smart he can be when he puts his mind to it - he can play a ''mean'' game of XanatosSpeedChess, [[OutGambitted outplaying]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] some of the most dangerous characters in the series.

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: He gets a broad selection of teachers from Sean Cassidy to Doctor Strange for this exact purpose, turning him a [[UnskilledButStrong raw powerhouse]] into [[SkilledAndStrong someone lethally dangerous with or without powers]].

* BruiserWithASoftCentre: By the end of Book 1, he could blow up a reasonably sized mountain, and halfway through the sequel, he's estimated as being one of the most powerful people in Europe. He is also, for the most part, a total sweetie - though for a while in the sequel, that centre can be harder to find.

* TheCallPutMeOnHold: His powers wait until chapter 60 of the first book to appear in earnest. They promptly prove more of a problem than a solution.

* CharacterDevelopment: In spades, in just a year. By the latter point, he's a [[AntiHero morally flexible]] ActionHero, with talents as a [[ConsummateLiar liar]], [[MasterActor actor]], and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], who's SeenItAll and [[FantasticallyIndifferent is]] generally [[DissonantSerenity unimpressed]]. He's also OlderAndWiser, and much more [[CombatPragmatist practical]]. After approximately another year's worth of character development following the time-travelling TimeSkip in Book III, he's mellowed out considerably into a FieryStoic, a philosophical KnightOfFaith, and [[TookALevelInKindness has regained much of his kindness]] and [[PowerOfTrust faith in others]] - though he's still fully capable of being ''very'' dangerous, and is occasionally prone to BrutalHonesty.

* CooldownHug: He sometimes needs them, but he's quite good at handing these out, pulling one on Diana in Book I when she'd lost herself in a berserker rage, and one on Anakin Skywalker, of all people, in Book III ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Anakin promptly tried to squirm out of it and failed miserably]]).

* ConsummateLiar: Becomes this in ''Ghosts'', and is so good that even he sometimes doesn't notice he's doing it. Hermione is disconcerted when she notices, noting that he never used to be that good at it, and he bluntly tells Ron that he's one of the best liars Ron will ever meet, [[{{Irony}} and Ron can trust him on that.]] He later lampshades this, bitterly observing how good he is - and, implicitly, the kind of things it says about him. A blunt demonstration of this when the secret of Hermione's heritage comes out in chapter 66 causes a major rift between the trio.

* DeathSeeker: He has a disturbing lack of a self-preservation instinct, though how much of it is ever a desire to die, and how much is simply a belief he is more expendable/that he is more likely to survive the trauma is unclear.

* DestructiveSaviour: A recurring habit, thanks to raw power, an explosive temper, a penchant for dramatics, and an inclination to just plough through everything in his way. Bucky, Coulson, Carol, and Natasha all lampshade this tendency in ''Ghosts'', along with his habit of making big entrances. However, he can be subtle when he feels like it, to Coulson's surprise.

* DoomMagnet: A JustifiedTrope, as he's got vast amounts of personal and political power already, and will only grow stronger and more influential with time. As a result, a lot of mortal and supernatural beings and organizations would like to either control that power for their own ends, or to stop him before he grows into that power.
** Furthermore, his ChronicHeroSyndrome means that even if monsters such as HYDRA or the Grey Court aren't explicitly interested in going after him, he's still going to get mixed up with them if they go after someone he's determined to protect, like Bobby Drake, his family, [[spoiler: or Carol]].

* TheDreaded: By the sequel, if only because of the Phoenix fragment within, though as more than one person points out, that he's repeatedly survived the outright ''impossible'' and left supposedly far more powerful, skilled, and experienced enemies in ruins behind him... and that was ''before'' he got high-end PersonOfMassDestruction level powers and the skills/experience to properly use them. Doctor Strange taking him as his apprentice underlined it even further, as no one (bar those Strange has told) knows exactly ''why'' he's so interested in Harry - even [[spoiler: ''Surtur'']] is afraid of him.

* TheEmpath: As part of the psychic package - he's less refined than Diana, but it's one of the many things that makes him alarmingly perceptive.

* FamedInStory: Much to his resigned irritation, through a combination of being "the Boy Who Lived" (even before the story started, he had {{Living Legend}}s Doctor Strange as a paediatrician and the Scarlet Witch as a godmother), his deeds at Hogwarts, his ReallyRoyaltyReveal giving him literally ''universal'' fame, association with the Avengers, and a growing reputation in the supernatural community for fighting and surviving everything from Chthon downwards.

** Both of the above also make him more than a tad [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] from ''Ghosts'' onwards, and his skills as a ConsummateLiar, TruthTwister, and MasterActor make him very good at it. This means that Ron and Hermione in particular are much less disposed to trust him.

** It's also slightly deconstructed: Because he's so wary of misusing his psychic powers, he can sometimes miss pretty obvious empathic clues he really should've picked up on.

* FieryStoic: Starts becoming this in ''Ghosts'' after ''Forever Red'', as part of a general drift away from his previous HotBlooded and impulsive nature, and trying to [[spoiler: control his inner Phoenix]], becoming wiser and more thoughtful as he recovers and mellows out. However, the temper hasn't gone away, and he sometimes veers back into the [[ShellShockedVeteran traumatised]] end of TheStoic.

* IGotBigger: He quotes the trope to a puzzled Hulk after the PlotRelevantAgeUp. It's temporary, though he later undergoes a significant growth spurt, being described as tall by later in the second book.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Increasingly in the second book - ironically for a psychic, he's really bad at considering the viewpoints of other people unless he's actively trying to manipulate them. This is implied to be thanks to a mixture of trauma-induced shutting people out and his obsessive attitude regarding MindOverManners, meaning that he ignores empathic cues (both psychic and not) that he really should pay attention to. However, it's notable that the main incidents tend to pop up when something has aggravated one of those trauma scars, causing him to shut down and clam up. Some people (Cedric) take this behaviour better than others (Ron and Hermione), though everyone calls him out on it - and he usually cops to it. Usually.
* InsecureLoveInterest: While he doesn't doubt her feelings for him, he's extremely hesitant to make any moves on Carol [[spoiler: even after they start dating]], partly thanks to his deep respect for her boundaries and initial desire to stay JustFriends (and he prizes their friendship above all), but also partly because of his insecurities and lingering fears that he's subconsciously influencing her feelings. She gently calls him on this at one point, and they talk through it.

** This leads to significant friction between him and Hermione after she discovers her heritage, as he instinctively (and viciously) defends Wanda when Hermione lashes out. To make matters worse, it's implied that despite her resentment of Wanda, Hermione also [[TheResenter resents]] the comparative lack of attention - she feels she was TheUnfavourite. The truth is more complex, but it's hinted that while Wanda loves both equally, she does find Harry ''easier'' to love.

* PrinceCharming: Mostly of the DorkKnight variety, especially when Carol's around ([[Film/ThePrincessBride "As you wish")]]. Betsy Braddock even name-drops the trope. Also a literal case.

* RevengeIsNotJustice: He comes to believe this quite strongly, despite a very strong vengeful streak - or rather, because of it. As he makes clear to Ron, he is acutely aware of what an obsession with revenge can do to you. If you're lucky, it'll get you killed. If you're not, it'll turn you into something unrecognisable.

* RousseauWasRight: Astonishingly, despite all he goes through and his briefly delving into a bitter [[StrawNihilist nihilism]], during a RousingSpeech to a downcast Clark he reveals that not only is he a KnightOfFaith, but he genuinely believes this at heart - even if he has trouble with [[TookALevelInCynic his own reflexive cynicism]].

* CharacterDevelopment: In spades, in just a year. By the latter point, he's a [[AntiHero morally flexible]] ActionHero, with talents as a [[ConsummateLiar liar]], [[MasterActor actor]], and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], who's SeenItAll and [[FantasticallyIndifferent is]] generally [[DissonantSerenity unimpressed]]. He's also OlderAndWiser, being a FieryStoic rather than purely HotBlooded, and a philosophical KnightOfFaith, and occasionally prone to BrutalHonesty. The dramatic nature of these changes is highlighted - sometimes to show how he HadToBeSharp, sometimes to lament that he UsedToBeASweetKid.

* TheCowl: In Book II, he protects, he defends, he looks after children... and frequently does it by being as scary as the monsters, if not even more so.

* CreepyChild: At times in Books I and II, particularly to those who don't know him so well. He acts far older than he is, he knows far too damn much, he's far too perceptive for anyone's comfort, and moves just a little too gracefully to be human. By Book III, he's mellowed out considerably, and is closer to the age he looks, but his well-hidden homicidal streak still unsettles people.
* CreepyGood: For many of the same reasons as CreepyChild, to the point where even his [[PoweredArmour armour]] borders on the creepy, its mask being described as resembling 'the skull of an angel'. He's a hero through and through, but he's borderline inhuman at points, his response to danger is a disturbing degree of casual amusement, and at others, he's human in all the most terrifying ways, his rage usually manifesting in the [[TranquilFury most eerily quiet and cold ways imaginable]], wielding godlike power. He's a potential messiah, but also a potential Anti-Christ, an ApocalypseMaiden who could open the gates of armageddon as he wishes - and nearly does at one point post RageBreakingPoint. Hell, in Book II, freaking ''Dracula'' refers to his reputation as TheDreaded with a certain amount of approval and remarks that he respects it "as one professional to another". As he sadly notes as he grows saner again, he scares people, and with good reason. Even when he's that much saner in Book III, the scary side can still come out to play, and it's all the more alarming for being unexpected.

* CuteAndPsycho: Develops into this towards the end of the first book and at the start of the second, thanks to various {{Trauma Conga Line}}s (plural), and dialled up after ''Forever Red''. The Magneto comparisons didn't come out of nowhere. Unusually, he spends much of the second book dialling down the 'Psycho' part, through therapy (though he gets much, much worse before he gets better). By Book III, the 'Psycho' part is entirely invisible - unless he chooses to show it.

* DanceBattler: While fast to begin with, by the later parts of ''Ghosts'', he's a highly accomplished classical and Latin dancer (as he smugly explains, [[MundaneUtility Asgardian muscle memory is good for more than just learning how to fight]]), and an exceptionally graceful fighter, being almost impossible to hit - on several occasions, he's described as "dancing" in a fight, whether between lightning bolts or away from chaos blasts.

* DetectEvil: As part of his SensorCharacter shtick, primarily via his {{Telepathy}}, though Jean-Paul reminds him early in ''Ghosts'' that it's not always entirely reliable. After he studies under Magneto, it gets much better.

** He also goes mind to mind with [[spoiler: Surtur]] in chapter 51 of the sequel, and comes out honours even, resisting handily and getting under his skin with a good ReasonYouSuckSpeech. He escapes with nothing more than burns to his face, temporarily impaired vision, and a nasty headache. While it was through the medium of a vision into the future and across time, [[spoiler: Surtur's]] a vastly powerful EldritchAbomination. Harry's reaction is ButForMeItWasTuesday. Everyone else, up to and including ''Odin'', thinks otherwise.

* DissonantSerenity: Like his canon counterpart, he tends to be disturbingly calm and relaxed in hideously dangerous situations. This, and the associated CasualDangerDialogue (and, where Carol is concerned, FlirtingUnderFire), is something that those around him - even his ''grandfather'', who's got five millennia of adventures and cosmic warfare under his belt - tend to find disturbing. When he slips into TranquilFury, it becomes even more disturbing as it gives him a CreepyMonotone that borders on SoftSpokenSadist.

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: A potential [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] related hazard.

* EmotionallyTongueTied: Harry is not necessarily very good at using his words when it comes to his feelings, mainly because life with the Dursleys taught him to repress ''everything''. This is particularly obvious regarding his feelings for Carol. However, she gets the ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride Princess Bride]]'' reference he resorts to instead. While he gets better over time, it's also implied repeatedly that this is why he's so close to Carol to begin with, thanks to their PsychicLink, because he doesn't ''have'' to verbalise his feelings because she can understand them straight from the heart.

** [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Rand al'Thor]]: [[GuileHero His]] [[HotBlooded personality]], [[StrongButUnskilled power]], [[PlayingWithFire pyrotechnics]] and [[DarkMessiah potential]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds to go insane and destroy the world]], along with association with a legendary creature that is widely and wisely feared. His later CharacterDevelopment into the AntiNihilist also mirrors Rand's epiphany on the Dragonmount. Hell, allowing for hair and eye colour differences, [[http://captainofvingilot.deviantart.com/art/Thorson-634778689 this]] commissioned picture of him even ''looks'' a bit like Rand. Not to mention his later status as a MasterSwordsman.

** [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Eärendil]]: Stunningly beautiful green eyes, HalfHumanHybrid of notable lineage on both sides who prefers humanity to immortality, survived an early murder attempt, heavily associated with the stars, loves sailing/flying, TheDragonSlayer, TheHero, and a MessianicArchetype capable of handling cosmic power (one that has a ''severe'' intolerance for evil) unscathed. This reaches its peak when he's actually named [[spoiler: Earendil]] in the past.
** [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorpsEarthLanterns Kyle Rayner]]: Not inherently TheChosenOne, but ClosestThingWeGot ''made'' into TheChosenOne ([[TheChooserOfTheOne Doctor Strange]] takes the Ganthet role and like Ganthet, could have picked anyone, but saw something special in him), creative, [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice but very hard to cross]], [[IJustWantToBeNormal prefers relative normality]] but JumpedAtTheCall with the potential to become a PhysicalGod that is repeatedly and ''very'' [[AGodIAmNot reluctantly]] accepted out of a sense of responsibility. WordOfGod has made the Kyle comparisons, and hinted that there are parallels between the White Phoenix and the White Lantern.

* TheFettered: Tries very hard to be this once his PsychicPowers come in, as noted by Carol, mostly because he's downright terrified of what he'll become if he takes [[TheUnfettered the other path.]] As ''Forever Red'' demonstrates, this is not without reason.

** Second, his increasingly secretive and occasionally manipulative behaviour, again related to the fact that he shares these things with others, such as Carol. Again, both have logical reasons. Harry's trauma makes him unwilling to open up, especially to those who weren't there. Likewise, he's being [[SecretKeeper entrusted with keeping those secrets]]. Carol (and others) gets him to open up because she's usually there and has a psychic connection - and it's generally accepted that thanks to said connection, what one of them finds out, the other will inevitably find out about shortly after. This is made worse by the fact that Harry has increasingly less compunction about keeping secrets from his friends, flat out admitting it, and the revelation that one of those secrets was Hermione's true parentage.
** To a lesser extent, it also applies to Hermione, because of the latter: she's not particularly interested in being directly involved in Harry's more dangerous exploits, preferring the research role instead [[BadassBookworm (though she's more than capable when pushed)]], and she's more pragmatic, logical, and understanding about his need to keep secrets... except that one. That, and the fact that he seems to be [[ParentalFavouritism Wanda's favourite]], which is compounded by the fact that she both resents Wanda for existing and for only involving herself in Hermione's life after being manipulated and publicly arm-twisted by Strange. The truth is [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou a touch more complicated]] (Wanda felt keeping Hermione secret would keep her safe, while that wasn't an option for Harry), but more than one character notes that there might be some justice to it - while she loves them equally, Harry might be ''easier'' to love.

* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Occasionally gets this reaction, thanks to his raw power and its initially uncontroled nature.

* FreudianExcuse: Oh, where to start? Well, thanks to the Dursleys' abuse, he has both a festering darker side to his nature which he buried deep because repressing his negative emotions was the only way he ever learned to cope with them, and a lot of his self-esteem and IneffectualLoner tendencies come from there.

* TheGlassesComeOff: Harry gets a kind of Asgardian eye surgery leading to him ditch his glasses in Book I. The reactions are broadly along the lines of HeIsAllGrownUp, though Hermione inwardly notes that it, among other things, makes him look dangerous.

* GodzillaThreshold: MindRape is this, initially. As Hermione explains to Ron, it's not that Harry ''can't'' do it, it's that he ''won't.'' Not unless he feels he absolutely has to.
** [[spoiler: The Dark Phoenix]] is several steps further.

* HarmfulToMinors: Oh so very frequently. He should be dead several times over (in fact, he has ''been'' dead at least once) and it's considered to be a legitimate miracle that he's not completely insane as a result of all he's been through. As it is, he's suffered serious SanitySlippage at points, he's got horrible [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] in the sequel, and almost the entire second book is about his MentalHealthRecoveryArc - all while the danger ramps up. On his jaunt to the past, Sunniva, his distant aunt who grew up in a far more peaceful time for Asgard, is utterly ''horrified'' at even a small selection of what he's been through, when he should still be in schoolroom, and despite decades of experience and control of the Phoenix, nearly goes Dark Phoenix on the spot in sheer outrage. If she knew the full extent of it, it probably wouldn't be 'nearly'.

* IceKing: In the sequel, as he becomes more serious, emotionally guarded, and testy with less mature peers and adults. He doesn't have much time for pettiness in general, really, and he won't hesitate to make that clear. As this is a side-effet of the brutal TraumaCongaLine of ''Forever Red'', he [[DefrostingIceKing defrosts as time goes by]]

** These include: Harry Potter, Harry Thorson, the Boy-Who-Lived, the Boy-Who-Has-Been-Repeatedly-Fried-By-His-Own-Powers (once, by Carol, when noting the general issue of PowerIncontinence), Phoenix, Harry Phoenix-Born, [[spoiler: the Red Son]], [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]], 'Nathan Danvers' (given by [[{{Troll}} Lex]] as an undercover alias), 'Agent Galahad', Listens-And-Asks-Endless-Questions, Starlight-In-His-Eyes, the Wanderer/Wander, [[spoiler: Lord Earendil]] from the Alfar (which he finds particularly amusing), and an updated translation of the latter courtesy of Sunniva in [[spoiler: Prince Aurvandil]].

* LikesOlderWomen: Examples include attraction to Darcy, conflict between hormones and emotions regarding Jean, a crush on Betsy Braddock, very complicated feelings towards [[spoiler: [[KissingCousins Maddie]]]], and technically speaking Carol (the technically part being that she's about a year older than him, at most, an age gap which pretty much vanishes entirely once he comes back from [[spoiler: the Red Room]]).

* ManipulativeBastard: By the second book, he's an extremely adept manipulator. He doesn't necessarily like it, and he's usually just playing [[TheMatchmaker matchmaker]] or defusing tension with a well-timed guilt trip (which he's sometimes called on). Usually. The exceptions can be chilling, if only because he's ''good'' at it - and he's not particularly happy about that.

* MasterOfIllusion: He has a remarkable knack for this - enough to successfully fool [[spoiler: Dracula]] by impersonating [[spoiler: the Dark Phoenix.]] His uncle ''is'' Loki, after all.

* MasterSwordsman: He's still learning and gets utterly schooled by Dracula in Book II, but he shows it more and more over time, particularly in Book III. It helps that he's a frighteningly quick learner with buckets of talent and, as [[spoiler: the Lady Knight]] points out in detail, he has every natural advantage even without his powers. Per Sif, he'll be a master by human standards by his early 20s at the latest, and by Asgardian ones by 100 (and Asgardians routinely get to 5000). [[spoiler: The Lady Knight reckons that's actually an underestimate, considering he's a telepath and as such can learn more quickly. She also reckons that he's "at least" as naturally talented as Arthur Pendragon - and by her account, "Arthur was ''brilliant.''"]]

* FightingTheLancer: In the sequel there's a slowly increasing tension between him and Ron, mostly related to two things.

** Wanda is his godmother and as soon as it becomes clear that she's not going to endanger him by engaging with him, she embraces the role of ParentalSubstitute, having previously been forced to keep her distance by Strange's warnings. It's made abundantly clear that this broke her heart and she considers what followed to be MyGreatestFailure; and even then, it's suggested that she sent him presents - until she realised that they were given to Dudley - and watched over him sometimes, once comforting him when he'd been chased by bullies when he was about seven. It's repeatedly noted that she loves him like her own, and after an initially rocky relationship, Harry reciprocates. This becomes a significant problem when Hermione finds out that Wanda is her biological mother, as Harry instinctively takes Wanda's side, and while Hermione is HappilyAdopted, she perceives a certain ParentalFavouritism. More than one person notes that while it's more complicated than that, given various traumatic memory associations, it's quite probable that though Wanda loves them equally, she may find Harry ''easier'' to love.

** In Book III, he repeats the "world of glass" one with some variations, but this time he's using it as both an intimidation technique and to tacitly explain why his current disguise [[spoiler: as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and somehow ItMakesSenseInContext]] is about to cut loose with sufficient telekinetic power to beat Lobo to a pulp.

** Has a break-through on this when facing down [[spoiler: Dudley a.k.a. the Beast/the Blob]] in the sequel, noting just how stupid it is to have even a residue of fear towards him, even if he is now a PersonOfMassDestruction. Their later rematch, when [[spoiler: Dudley]] is a powerful vampire on top of everything else, is brutally short.

** Additionally, his plan for dealing with Gravemoss comes straight from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - as he admits, it's not a very ''good'' plan (and Hermione firmly agrees), but it worked. it's mentioned that he watched it at Mrs Figg's when living with the Dursleys and spent years wishing for a Buffy of his own to come save him. Which, in hindsight, [[AmazonChaser probably explains a lot about his taste in women.]] He also quotes Dark Willow to chilling effect, when facing down a speechifying vampire.
--> [[PreMortemOneLiner Bored now.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He's occasionally prone to forgetting how significant certain events were to other people. This is forgivable, considering how regularly epic scale horror shows up on his doorstep. He becomes aware of it in the sequel and starts pointing it out to illustrate a) how messed up his life is, b) why he is the way he is, c) why he doesn't want to drag the likes of Ron, Hermione, or Clark into it.

* ConflictingLoyalties: Harry's loyalty tends to be both straightforward and [[UndyingLoyalty absolute]]. However, in Book II he's constantly struggling between his loyalties to his old friends, Ron and Hermione, and to his biological and extended family and new friends, including the Avengers and their associates, as obligations to one often end hurting the other. Since he'd rather die than hurt those he loves, he finds the experience pretty miserable and develops a fair degree of self-loathing as a result. Over the course of ''Ghosts'', it becomes increasingly clear that he's picked a side, even if he hasn't exactly admitted it.

** His ChronicHeroSyndrome, flavoured with a martyr complex and an overprotective streak a mile wide. While it's not quite as bad as canon with Carol having browbeaten most of the IneffectualLoner tendencies out of him, it still leads him to sideline Ron and Hermione, and with his Impulsiveness it gets him into even more trouble. He's the SpannerInTheWorks for the bad guys, but also the good guys too (sometimes, he's even one to ''himself''). Both are [[FlawExploitation brutally exploited]]. Thor sadly notes in ''Ghosts'', a lot of what Harry's gone through is the product of acting without thinking. Bucky moderates this significantly. However, Harry's desire to protect all those he deems more vulnerable than himself remains just as strong, even if the individuals in question don't want him to protect them. And given that ''[[TheDreaded Magneto]]'' of all people referred to what he was capable of in that regard as "both magnificent and utterly terrifying", that should worry you.

** Second, his increasingly secretive and occasionally manipulative behaviour, again related to the fact that he shares these things with others, such as Carol. Again, both have logical reasons. Harry's trauma makes him unwilling to open up, especially to those who weren't there. Likewise, he's being [[SecretKeeper entrusted with keeping those secrets]]. Carol (and others), gets him to open up because she's usually there and has a psychic connection - and it's generally accepted that thanks to said connection, what one of them finds out, the other will inevitably find out about shortly after. This is made worse by the fact that Harry has increasingly less compunction about keeping secrets from his friends, flat out admitting it, and the revelation that one of those secrets was Hermione's true parentage.
** To a lesser extent, it also applies to Hermione, because of the latter: she's not particularly interested in being directly involved in Harry's more dangerous exploits, preferring the research role instead [[BadassBookworm (though she's more than capable when pushed)]], and she's more pragmatic, logical, and understanding about his need to keep secrets... except that one. That, and the fact that he seems to be [[ParentalFavouritism Wanda's favourite]], which is complicated by the fact that she both resents Wanda for existing and for only involving herself in Hermione's life after being manipulated and publicly arm-twisted by Strange. The truth is [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou a touch more complicated]] (Wanda felt keeping Hermione secret would keep her safe, while that wasn't an option for Harry), but more than one character notes that there might be some justice to it - while she loves them equally, Harry might be ''easier'' to love.

* GodzillaThreshold: MindRape is this, initially. As Hermione explains to Ron, it's not that he ''can't'' do it, it's that he ''won't.'' Not unless he feels he absolutely has to.

* HeldGaze: Frequently, [[ShipTease with Carol,]] or more generally when he's trying to make a point or convey sincerity.

** The PsychicPowers come through violently, are dangerously uncontrollable for a good while, nearly getting him, Ron and Hermione killed and leave him open for [[spoiler: Voldemort]] to play PowerParasite, and WordOfGod says that he'll never be as strong as Jean is [[spoiler:(or Maddie, for that matter)]], or as good as Xavier is (as WordOfGod also admits, this still means he's pretty damn powerful), and he lacks the skill and until chapter 74, the will, to use those powers effectively. [[TookALevelInBadass After, though, he gets a very, very rapid grip on them.]]
*** Oh, and Doctor [=McCoy=] theorises that the steady altering of his body and brain chemistry by his Asgardian genes could mean that his PsychicPowers will eventually short circuit his brain.

** Molly Weasley had this, as in canon, in Book 1 though thanks to a combination of circumstances, Harry ends up drifting away from the Weasleys as a surrogate family (as he has his own family) and they have to cope with Arthur's death.

** However, Harry is much more inclined to pull this on Ron and Hermione in ''Ghosts'', albeit for fairly understandable reasons: it's indicated that given the choice, he would do this with most of his friends, but the others tend to be involved in whatever insanity has gone/is going down; he wants to preserve Ron and Hermione's relative innocence (being very aware of the psychic wear and tear his adventures cause); as he points out, a lot of the secrets he's learned aren't necessarily his to share; and after ''Forever Red'' in particular, he's not particularly willing to open up about just what has happened.

** This leads to significant friction between him and Hermione after she discovers her heritage, as he instinctively (and viciously) defends Wanda when Hermione lashes out. To make matters worse, it's implied that despite her resentment of Wanda, she also [[TheResenter resents]] the comparative lack of attention - she feels she was TheUnfavourite. The truth is more complex, but it's hinted that while Wanda loves both equally, she does find Harry ''easier'' to love.

** While he often gets frustrated by teenage idiocy, even after a '''brutal''' lesson on the value of looking before he leaps, he's still prone to speaking or acting without thinking through the consequences once in a while, such as setting up Diana as a platonic date for Draco at the Yule Ball without considering how this would look to Ron, who's a little bitter about not having a date himself, which remonstrates with himself about.

* HasAType: And much like his dad, it's {{Action Girl}}s - in his case, especially blondes. Carol fits both categories like a glove. [[{{UST}} Guess what happens next]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: Zig-Zagged.
** While Harry finds Jean 'inconveniently attractive', his attraction is mostly just an awareness that they're gorgeous, and WordOfGod has it that while Harry was originally going to be with Ginny (an idea discarded relatively early on), he's completely baffled by the revelation that in another world he might have got together with her. Though he concedes that Ginny is pretty, and technically does have a lot of personality traits he finds attractive, he doesn't really see her that way.
** Later in the sequel, it's tacitly confirmed that a small part of him is more interested in [[spoiler: Maddie]] than might be considered [[IncestSubtext proper between second cousins]] in [[KissingCousins some parts of the world.]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: PsychicPowers in the same weight class as Jean Grey (in fact, aside from Maddie, who's her equal, he's the only one who can even compete), magical gifts supercharged by divine heritage to the point where they're explicitly described as strong as his psionics, and developing physical powers that will max out at about three-quarters of his father's strength/durability (meaning he's ''still'' a PhysicalGod) and implied to be considerably faster, along with the associated HealingFactor and instinctive combat skill... and then there's his Phoenix fragment, which is simultaneously [[DeathActivatedSuperower an emergency response]], a protection against any soul-based attack, and easily supercharged by emotions into a RealityWarper that even the Gods of {{Physical God}}s fear. Oh, and then there's a chaos blessing courtesy of Wanda Maximoff that he's extremely resistant to being reality warped or otherwise altered - and that's not even getting into the implications/metaphysical headache of his mother merging with the atemporal Phoenix, which is implied to have retroactively meant he was always a child of the Phoenix. Given that he was as a potential Thanos-killer by Doctor Strange, this makes more sense than it doesn't.

** He used to be like this with Hermione, though they start drifting apart a little in the second book. Even so, however, he's cares for her very much and it's noted by Loki that he's "about as attracted to her as he is to mold."

* MercurysWings: His later helmets incorporate this, like his dad.
* MessianicArchetype: Zig-Zags the trope. Throughout ''Child of the Storm'' he's generally the AllLovingHero of canon, and ultimately saves the world by rejecting TheFinalTemptation. However, in ''Ghosts'', the traumatic experiences and PTSD pile up, and he risks veering into DarkMessiah territory. As of chapter 58 of the latter, he inclines towards it once more, giving Clark a RousingSpeech about how RousseauWasRight when Clark was having a crisis of faith and dismissing cynicism as 'an unfortunate reflex' on his part, deeming it 'a good way to survive, but a bad way to live'.
* MessiahCreep: Over the story, he undergoes this, even more than canon - though with the flip side that he could yet become a DarkMessiah and during ''Ghosts'' is something of an ApocalypseMaiden. He's not particularly happy about it, though as [[spoiler: Jesus]] points out, he can either front up to it, or run from it - and the latter never works in the long term.

* PlayingWithFire: He's a firebrand in every sense of the word, and it becomes his signature, like [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles his namesake]], to the point of WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer. Even after he expands his repertoire in the second book, fire is still usually his preferred option. As is noted, it makes him a little bit predictable [[ObfuscatingStupidity (which he sometimes exploits)]]. As is also noted, however, fire is ''very'' hard to argue with, especially given how ridiculously powerful and prodigiously talented he is at using it.

* RealityWarper: When the Phoenix is involved, he's functionally capable of more or less anything he puts his mind to.

* TookALevelInBadass: To cut a very long story short, at the start of the first book (in the November of his 3rd year), he's a moderately talented 13 year old wizard who's brave and resourceful, but way out of his depth and prone to [[IndyPloy making plans up as he goes along]]. By the following November, he's a [[PersonOfMassDestruction high-end]] MagicKnight with espionage training who can [[OneManArmy take on armies]], duel {{Physical God}}s on equal footing, and - thanks to a mixture of [[CombatPragmatist pragmatism]] and [[GuileHero guile]] - win. And that's ''before'' a TrainingMontage with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Shou-Lao the Undying]] and his many times removed Aunt, Sunniva, Goddess of Life and Fire and host of the Phoenix.

* TookALevelInJerkass[=/=]TookALevelInKindness: Takes the former after the ''Forever Red'' arc in ''Ghosts'' leaves him a traumatised wreck with a HairTriggerTemper, and takes the latter after he has a HeelRealisation following Cedric Diggory [[WhatTheHellHero calling him out]] and [[NiceGuy offering to help]] in chapter 22. He takes another level in kindness at the end of chapter 26, going out of his way to help someone else rather than being helped for the first time in a while, and [[spoiler: getting together with Carol in chapter 46]] does wonders for his general disposition (much to his classmates' relief). Even so, however, his baseline is still a bit grumpier than before.
** Takes more levels in kindness during the events of the third book, thanks to a trip to the past where he gets to wander and spend time practicing self-care without needing to worry about anyone else.

* BackFromTheDead: Via the Phoenix. In ''Ghosts'', it's made clear that this has consequences, to the universe if not just to him.

** In Book III, he repeats the "world of glass" one with some variations, but this time he's using it as both an intiimidation technique and to tacitly explain why his current disguise [[spoiler: as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and somehow ItMakesSenseInContext]] is about to cut loose with sufficient telekinetic power to beat Lobo to a pulp.

** Has a break-through on this when facing down [[spoiler: Dudley a.k.a. the Beast/the Blob]] in the sequel, noting just how stupid it is to have even a residue of fear for [[spoiler: Dudley]], even if he is now a PersonOfMassDestruction. Their later rematch, when [[spoiler: Dudley is a powerful vampire]] is brutally short.

* SuppressedRage: Considering his childhood, it's unsurprising that he has an absolute shedload of this, which he locked away for [[AbusiveParents obvious reasons.]] This is a strategy he's suggested to have followed with just about all his other negative emotions, too. Unfortunately, as Carol notes, it's festered into a rather frightening dark side, one that he refers to as one of his 'inner demons', and [[spoiler: fuels the Dark Phoenix]].

* TerrorHero: Develops into '''TheDreaded''' towards at the start of ''Ghosts'', thanks to his extraordinary exploits, fears that [[spoiler: he'll become the Dark Phoenix again]], and a [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD-induced]] HairTriggerTemper. Dracula notes that he scares serious supernatural heavyweights, and that [[VillainRespect as one professional to another, he respects that.]] Harry doesn't like it very much, and he tries to ameliorate it, he's also willing to use it when it suits him, becoming '''The Intimidator''' after ''Forever Red'', throwing in a little of '''The MasterOfIllusion'''. It even works when he's in disguise,

* BerserkButton:
** Don't hurt or threaten the innocent in his presence. Ever. And that goes double for one of his friends.
** Also, trying or even implicitly threatening to control him is a really, ''really'' bad idea post ''Forever Red''.
** MindRape in general sets him off, especially if someone asks him to do it - ''especially'' to a friend. It only gets worse after ''Forever Red'', to the point where Steve quietly concedes that if [[spoiler: Mr Danvers]] had asked him to alter [[spoiler: Carol's]] mind after that arc rather than before, Harry wouldn't have just scared him with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech and a few intimidating effects - he would have killed him.

* CatchPhrase: ''Burn.'' Fortunately, it only shows up when some supernatural monster has jumped up and down on his BerserkButton. Unfortunately, he's not always that discriminating once said button has been pressed.

* RapidFireFisticuffs: When [[PlotRelevantAgeUp he's briefly aged up]] and his BerserkButton has been thoroughly pressed, he unleashes a series of punches so fast that they generate their own sonic booms.

** In the sequel, MindRape becomes this after ''[[TraumaCongaLine Forever Red]]''. [[BerserkButton Before, it profoundly pisses him off.]] After, even the slightest implication sets him off, as Crouch Senior finds out. He gets better with time, but it's worth noting that his response to the suggested MindRape of [[spoiler: Carol]] was originally anger at the person proposing. After, Alison notes that that if it had been put to him now, the person doing so would be dead.