History Characters / HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter

* MistakenForRacist: In ''Chamber of Secrets'', when the Hufflepuffs are afraid of him because they think he's the Heir of Slytherin, Ernie mentions that he's heard Harry hates his Muggle relatives. However, he doesn't seem to be aware that Harry hates the Dursleys because they're abusive, not because they're Muggles. Later exaggerated once Harry [[spoiler: speaks Parseltongue, making him look like [[VillainousHeritage the long-lost descendent of Salazar Slytherin himself, who was racist enough to ''hide a killer snake monster under the school that would hunt down Muggle-Born students once unleashed.'' The true long-lost descendent turns out to be Lord Voldemort, who does a better (read: far worse) job of living up to that racist legacy.]]

** Finally culminating in Dumbledore's arrest and Sirius' death.

** He's then taken to Number 12, Grimmauld place, where he lashes out at his friends for [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Locking him Out Of The Loop on Dumbledore's orders,]] they all have to deal with the frustration of being LockedOutOfTheLoop by the Order of the Phoenix, worries about being ''expelled from Hogwarts'' (which Hermione considered AFateWorseThanDeath in ''Philosopher's Stone'') and has to deal with Fudge and Umbridge being quite biased during his expulsion hearing and needing [[BigDamnHeroes Dumbledore Mrs. Figg to bail him out,]] listen to [[RefugeInAudacity Kreacher and Sirius' mother's portrait]] being [[PoliticalllyIncorrectVillain appallingly racist towards literally everyone present,]] including poor Sirius, who's stuck in a house he hates because he's ''still'' wanted for the murder Pettigrew committed, breifly be convinced Ron has died suddenly, and watch Molly Weasley break down in a sobbing mess at the sight of a boggart turning into the corpses of the Weasley children, [[LikeASonToMe including his own.]]

** As a result of that fluke, he encounters the spirits of his dead parents. And Cedric.

** Coming down from all that, he then gets parked with his abusive relatives for half the summer, hearing nothing from Dumbledore or any of his friends, and still manages to get attacked by Dementors in the middle of his boring muggle suburb.

** As a result of that fluke, he encounters the spirits of his dead parents.

* AllLovingHero: Harry's greatest power is capacity for love, compassion, empathy, and general decency. In spite of being raised by a family that treated him with anything but affection, Harry did not come out full of resentment or hatred against his adopted parents, or Muggles or the world at large (unlike [[spoiler:Voldemort, Snape and even the young Dumbledore, who were unable to get past their FreudianExcuse]]). He is willing to go out of his way to help even those he is not entirely friendly with or actively dislikes, and in the end, he was even willing to offer ''[[BigBad Voldemort]]'' [[LastSecondChance one last warning to save himself,]] because even after everything Voldemort did to him, he still wasn't consumed by hatred to make his enemy suffer a FateWorseThanDeath.

* BetaCouple: He and Ginny get together faster and don't argue as much as Ron and Hermione. The only reason they even broke up was because, between Dumbledore's death and the upcoming mission to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes with Ron and Hermione, Harry had no idea if he was going to live past the war. It was all but stated that if they both survived, they would get back together.

* SurroundedByIdiots: He feels this way towards the Ministry of Magic for not accepting Voldemort's return sooner as well as not punishing Umbridge for her actions at Hogwarts. He has good reason to feel that way.

** In Harry's [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix fifth year]], the enmity he quickly develops with Umbridge makes his and Snape's mutual loathing look downright friendly. Under orders from the Ministry of Magic, she stifles all of his attempts to tell everyone that Voldemort has returned, up to and including punishing him with a detention where he's forced to carve the phrase "I must not tell lies" into the back of his hand. She also finds other ways to punish him, including banning him from the Quidditch team, taking away his privilege to visit Hogsmeade after finding out he published an interview in ''The Quibbler'' about Voldemort's return, and trying to get him expelled for starting a secret student organization to learn proper Defense Against the Dark Arts skills.

* MistakenForRacist: In ''Chamber of Secrets'', when the Hufflepuffs are afraid of him because they think he's the Heir of Slytherin, Ernie mentions that he's heard Harry hates his Muggle relatives. However, he doesn't seem to be aware that Harry hates the Dursleys because they're abusive, not because they're Muggles.

* JerkassBall: Catches this hard in Book 5, though a justified example: the trauma of witnessing Cedric Diggory's death and Voldemort's return gave Harry a severe case of PTSD and depression, causing him to snap at his friends.
* KarmaHoudini: Harry is very often not punished for breaking school rules or other laws. Mostly because it all turns out to have been the best. In later books though he does take to using dark magic, sometimes in periods of stress (Sirius' death) or dire need (Gringotts break in) but other times less so (using crucio when [=McGonagall=] is spat on), and the narrative doesn't really note this disturbing use of dark magic.

** Sirius is Harry's godfather and while circumstances, tragedy and bad luck prevent him from ever really playing that role, he cares enough about his godson that, as soon as he left Azkaban, he made a beeline to Privet Drive to glimpse Harry, unintentionally spooking him until the Knight Bus arrived, and even as he spent a year trying to infiltrate Hogwarts and find Peter, Sirius went out of his way to see Harry play at Quidditch and risked his secrecy by buying him a Firebolt. Also slightly deconstructed since Sirius, who is understandably traumatized and messed up, partly sees Harry as an extension of James, and when cooped up in Grimmauld Place, sometimes treats him like a friend rather than a child under his care.

** Chronically, to the point of being a bit of an IdiotBall issue for Harry's guardians and Dumbledore in particular. Their repeated attempts to keep Harry from finding out about dangers looming over him so as to not make him worry failed spectacularly every single time, with [[PoorCommunicationKills particularly disastrous results]] in ''Order of the Phoenix''. After ''that'' fiasco, they finally realize that this was foolish, Dumbledore admitting it and explaining why (essentially, he'd hoped to protect Harry for a little longer) and let Harry and the rest of his friends in on what's going on.
** Ironically, Harry has to do this with everyone else in the Order and all his other friends sans Ron and Hermione come ''Deathly Hallows''. Ostensibly it's to keep them safe, mainly because if Voldemort found out too early that they were hunting his horcruxes, they were all screwed.

* DeathSeeker: Subtly implied to be one after Voldemort's return.

** In ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild And the Cursed Child]]'' Harry himself displays this trope, [[spoiler: going to great lengths to keep his son, Albus from being friends with Scorpius Malfoy (son of Draco Malfoy, whom Harry has never been on good terms with). But it should be noted that the situations is [[JustifiedTrope completely different]] at wrost James was a schoolyard bully to Severus Snape, meanwhile Draco was a Death Eater and had tried to kill Harry at several points during the War. Also unlike Snape, Draco does not change sides and only shows improvement during that same book ]] Once he sees that the Malfoys are genuinely good people now, he changes his attitude.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: He goes through a ''lot'' of physical and emotional pain across the books, but by the end of the series, he's in a loving marriage with three kids, and has a happy life.

At the age of one, [[TheHero Harry's]] parents are killed by [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]], who then attempts to kill him with the [[DeathRay Killing Curse.]] Due to ThePowerOfLove from his mother's self-sacrifice, however, he survives and rebounds the curse upon Voldemort, getting a [[ScarsAreForever lightning bolt-shaped scar]] as a souvenir. The series' resident EccentricMentor, Dumbledore, then arranges to have his {{Muggle}} aunt and uncle take him in... or else. For ten long years, they grudgingly comply, forcing Harry to live in the cupboard under the stairs and being both cruel and neglectful of him. Harry's bullying cousin, Dudley, doesn't make things any easier.

** Happens again in ''Deathly Hollows'', when Harry takes note of Bellatrix's over-the-top reaction to the Sword of Gryffindor and becoming paranoid about the possibility of the Trio stealing it from her Gringotts' vault. He correctly guessed from her reaction that Voldemort hide a horcrux in her vault.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Harry is very perceptive when he actually put some effort on it. For instance, when Kingsley modified Marietta's memory, Harry take notice of the spell flying behind his back and Kingsley murmuring something, and when he recognized the effects of the Memory Charm in Marietta, Harry realized what happened in like five seconds. Take note that, besides Dumbledore, nobody else noticed what Kingsley did.

* CoolLoser: Harry's famous, a pretty nice guy, and is regarded as a hero. Yet in ''Chamber of Secrets'', he's ostracized because he can talk to snakes, in ''Goblet of Fire'', he's ostracized for apparently cheating his way into participating in the Triwizard contest (when really it was someone else who sneakily put his name in the goblet and it's established that cheating is basically impossible), and in the next book, he's looked down on because he's the only one who notices that ''there's a frickin' war going on.'' In the sixth book, he ''does'' become popular again and mostly enjoys it, but finds it annoying when someone like Romilda hits on him.

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The chosen one. The one who survived the Killing Curse. The titular hero of his own franchise.

** It's also made clear one reason he's so bad at Potions is because Snape is his teacher. During his O.W.L. Harry's narration notes that the class is much easier without the pressure of Snape waiting to find something to punish him for. Also worth noting, when Snape finally stops being his Potions teacher, Harry immediately becomes far better at the subject, even outperforming Hermione. Technically this is due to the textbook he used in his sixth year having annotations, effectively making it a cheat sheet. However it's worth considering that this book was annotated by Snape himself. Therefore, he was still being taught by Snape, it just seems that Harry does infinitely better when Snape isn't breathing down his neck.

* PassingTheTorch: Subverted. [[spoiler:In ''Deathly Hallows'' when he believes he needs to die to destroy the fragment of Voldemort's soul inside of his body Harry explicitly passes his role as part of the ThreeAmigos to Neville, tasking him with killing Nagini. Neville briefly takes on Harry's role as BigGood when everyone believes that Harry has died until Harry reveals himself.]]

** Pottermore finally discloses that his family made a fortune from patents on healing potions such as Skele-Gro, Pepperup and Sleekeazy's Hair Potion (which considering the MessyHair of James and Harry, is some kind of cosmic joke, not to mention Harry's dislike for Potions (at least when Snape teaches it), despite actually having a knack for it). Harry's grandfather, [[FailOSuckyname Fleamont]] Potter sold the family business for a big sum and retired comfortably, having more than enough to be independently wealthy and it was still sizeable enough that James didn't have to work and could devote full-time to the Order, while also supporting Lily and Remus, still leaving Harry a reduced but sizeable fortune.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Generally at the Dursleys' expense or his own.

* AcademicAthlete: PlayedStraight, but it is rather subtle compared to his father. He's an exceptionally talented Quidditch player and while when it comes to academics Harry is BrilliantButLazy, often achieving above average marks outside of Defence Against the Dark Arts, in which he gets perfect marks. When he applies himself he nonetheless achieves Exceeds Expectations or higher O.W.L.s in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures and even Potions, which is noted to be a fairly exclusive class. It's worth mentioning that many of Harry's bad grades in Potions can be chalked up to Snape's vendetta against him. Snape actively sabotages Harry's work multiple times, including one instance after Harry views Snape's Pensieve where Snape nonchalantly destroys his work and subsequently gives him a zero out of spite.

* HurtingHero: Harry, who at seventeen years old has bested the Dark Lord at least eight times. And survives, [[DoomMagnet unlike most of the people he loves.]]
-->'''Hermione:''' Now that Malfoy's a prefect, he could make life really difficult for you.
-->'''Harry:''' Really? Wow, [[DeadpanSnarker I wonder]] what it would be like to have a difficult life!

** Harry and Luna. Luna is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who hardly seems troubled by anything and helps her father run the magical equivalent of a tabloid magazine, whereas Harry becomes more [[HurtingHero traumatized as increasing numbers of his friends and loved ones die. Some of them right in front of him.]] Yet, Luna understands what losing a loved one feels like, enabling her to empathise with his grief over Sirius -- and Harry knows what being picked on feels like, so he naturally wants to help her out when people hide Luna's things and mock her behind her back. They serve as two sides of the same coin.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic --Introverted, observant, feeling and prospecting.

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* RatedMForManly: Despite being a nerd and CoolLoser in appearance and awkwardness in talking to girls, Harry's favourite activities include hanging out with Ron, flying and playing Quidditch and later partying and drinking with friends and company.

* ChickMagnet: [[FirstGirlWins Ginny]], [[FirstLove Cho]], [[PrecociousCrush Gabrielle]], [[AbhorrentAdmirer Romilda Vane]], and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Moaning Myrtle]]. Not to mention two unnamed girls that tried to ask him to the Yule Ball in book 4 and [[AmbiguousSituation possibly Parvati Patil at one point]]. Hermione {{Lampshades}} it in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' by telling him that he's 'never been more fanciable.'

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