History Characters / HarryPotterTheTrio

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ron has a fear of spiders.

* PowerTrio
** TheKirk: Harry.
** TheSpock: Hermione.
** TheMcCoy: Ron.

!'''The Trio'''

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, the three main characters. They became friends in the first book and over the course of the series they have endured and suffered more than most people do, but they have only become closer over the years. They spend more time together than they do with anyone else, and whenever there is a problem, they always try to solve it together. Harry is nominally the leader, but he, Ron, and Hermione often defer to each other. [[spoiler: In the future, they do become family in the legal sense, as Ron marries Hermione, and Harry becomes Ron's brother-in-law through his marriage to Ginny, so Hermione is Harry's sister-in-law.]]

* CanonImmigrant: JKRowling began referring to the Trio as such. They have still not been called "the Trio" in any of the books or films, though in ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', Snape refers to them in jest as "the Dream Team".

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Ron and Hermione in later books.

* VitriolicBestBuds: All of them fight, but Ron and Hermione [[BelligerentSexualTension bicker the most.]]

* WeirdnessMagnet: Lampshaded more than once; why ''does'' everything interesting or dangerous happen to them?

!'''Harry James Potter (DanielRadcliffe)'''

At the age of one, Harry's parents are killed by the BigBad Voldemort, who then attempts to kill him. 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 [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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.

Nineteen years after [[spoiler:he permanently ends Voldemort's lousy ass, he's married to Ginny Weasley and is the father of three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna Potter.]]

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Public opinion of Harry in the wizarding world oscillates between hero-worship to complete rejection at the drop of a hat. But Harry is not particularly saintly in his isolation.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There are those who think he's a completely selfless [[TheMessiah Messiah]] and then there are those who think he's a totally self-absorbed {{Jerkass}} who milks his celebrity (and [[TheWoobie Woobie]] status) for all it's worth. It also happens several times ''in-universe!''

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Harry's destiny has been predicted by a self-fulfilling prophecy, but according to Dumbledore, it's only self-fulfilling because Voldemort ''[[WrongGenreSavvy insists]]'' [[WrongGenreSavvy on fulfilling it]].
* BelatedBackstory: [[spoiler:Regarding all his connections with Voldemort.]]

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Played with, since his home situation is not really "convenient".

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Places his dad on a pedestal, [[spoiler: [[BrokenPedestal which breaks,]] ]] and harbors tender feelings for his mother.
* DoorstopBaby
* {{Expy}}: Of Wart from ''[[TheOnceAndFutureKing The Sword in the Stone]]'', [[http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0800-guardian-bio.html believe it or not.]]

* IneffectualLoner: Harry often [[StopHelpingMe tries to discourage his friends from helping him.]] This in spite of the fact that he's often quite helpless without them.
** When, in ''Deathly Hallows'', he wishes that Ron and Hermione were with him, it's a sign that he has started to accept that he needs help from his friends.
* IronWoobie: Gets beaten, captured and/or tortured in [[OnceAnEpisode every single book.]]
* [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: How he breaks up with [[spoiler:Ginny Weasley.]]

* MartyStu: Harry is perhaps the ''ultimate'' [[SubvertedTrope Subversion]] of this trope, an in-universe example due to circumstances beyond his control, media attention, tragic events, coincidences and sheer luck, good or bad. But he's a completely normal, flawed person reluctantly caught up in a series of very painful adventures that are usually misunderstood by the rest of the wizarding world.

** First name: Harry. A common name and yet a kingly name. (So far, eight kings of England have been named "Henry." "Harry" and "Hal" are the two most common nicknames for Henry.) An {{Everyman}}'s name -- think of the expression "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom,_Dick_and_Harry every Tom, Dick, and Harry]]". Note that Tom is the birth name of a certain villain with whom Harry shares a lot of history. As to the Dick in the story, I'll leave that to someone [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean more in the mood]].
** Middle name: James. Named for his father. Another name that's both common and kingly. Two English kings have been named James; the most famous English translation of the Bible is the King James translation; in some traditions, James was the brother of Jesus.
** Last name: Potter. To "potter" is to sit around and do nothing. [[CaptainObvious Also, a potter is someone who makes pots]] -- a rather humble yet important skill, somewhat akin to being, say, a [[MessianicArchetype carpenter]]. A potter's field is a cemetery for vagrants.
** Henry F. Potter is the Scrooge-like villain in the movie ''[[ItsAWonderfulLife It's a Wonderful Life]]''. Like Harry, he's rich. Like Harry, he has no surviving family. Like Voldemort -- Harry's opposite -- he seems to have no understanding of love.
* MessyHair: In [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The Order Of The Phoenix]], there's a brief exchange about this: Mrs. Weasley tries to tidy up Harry's appearance but can't do anything about his hair, and asks: "Doesn't it ever lie flat?" Harry shakes his head in response.

* NotSoDifferent: In ChamberOfSecrets, Harry notices some very disturbing similarities between himself and Voldemort. At the climax of DeathlyHallows, he sees parallels not only between himself and Voldemort, but also [[spoiler:Snape]], going so far as to think of them as "lost boys" whose only real home is Hogwarts. [[YourMileageMayVary This is probably the point where Harry truly becomes a man.]]

* TheScapegoat: In a bid to keep the public from learning of the return of Voldemort in ''Order of the Phoenix,'' The Ministry leads a media campaign ''against'' Harry, smearing his name in the dirt.

* TheUnchosenOne: Dumbledore helps Harry become this in ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince.]]''
* UndisclosedFunds: The books never make clear exactly how rich Harry is, but between his parents' money and [[spoiler:becoming sole heir to the Black family fortune]], it's implied to be "very".

!'''Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley (RupertGrint)'''

Nineteen Years Later, [[spoiler:he's married to Hermione and has two children named Rose and Hugo]].

* [=~Chekhov's Skill~=]: The first book has Ron's skill at chess put to good use, by getting past [=McGonagall=]'s giant chess set in order to get to the Philosopher's Stone.

* ConflictBall: His fight with Harry in ''GobletOfFire''? Being a prick to Hermione in the same book because she went with Krum to the Yule Ball? Acts like an even bigger prick to her in ''HalfBloodPrince'' because she might have kissed Krum? The poor guy seems to get handed this a lot. Things get just plain ugly when he gets saddled with a literal Conflict Ball in the form of [[spoiler:Slytherin's locket.]]

At the age of one, Harry's parents are killed by the BigBad Voldemort, who then attempts to kill him. 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 [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]], 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.

* CatchPhrase: "Bloody hell", but only in the movies. Applied to the books, this is a BeamMeUpScotty.

* TheChosenOne

* CanonImmigrant: JKRowling began referring to the Trio as such. They have still not been called "the Trio" in any of the books or films, however.

* TheUnfairSex: Book 6 in spades.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome

* FireForgedFriends
* HeterosexualLifePartners
* LikeBrotherAndSister

* ThePowerOfFriendship

* UnresolvedSexualTension

* VitriolicBestBuds

* WeirdnessMagnet

At the age of one, Harry, whose parents have just been killed by the BigBad Voldemort, is about to be killed as well. 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 [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]], Dumbledore, then arranges to have his {{Muggle}} aunt and uncle take him in... or else. For ten long years, they grudgingly complied, 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.

Then, on his eleventh birthday, everything changes. Letters (from "no one") begin arriving in Harry's "home", growing by the number each day. Harry's aunt and uncle, acting suspiciously, refuse to allow him to read even one, and after several days, leave the house and go to a tiny house in a cliff in the middle of a storm. Unfortunately, the ones who sent the letters are not deterred by such means, and Harry is eventually told of his past, and the wizarding world.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Public opinion of Harry in the Wizarding world would oscillate between hero-worship to complete rejection at the drop of a hat. But Harry was not particularly saintly in his isolation.

* BrilliantButLazy: He supposedly struggled with his Potions and Transfigurations classes, but his O.W.L. scores demonstrate that he was actually exceedingly adept at the subjects. (That said, there are subjects where he is ''legitimately'' bad, such as Divination and History of Magic. But the former skills are ones he never needs, whereas the latter is one where Hermione more than picks up the slack.)

* CinderellaCircumstances: Harry at the Dursley's household, before he got his acceptance letter from Hogwarts. However, his uncle never does stop treating him like crap.

* GallowsHumor: Alot of his snark.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: The Boy Who Lived, TheChosenOne, a PsychicLink into the insane mind of a CompleteMonster, WeirdnessMagnet... Well, with all this heaped on him, I guess you can't blame him.
* IneffectualLoner: Harry often tries to discourage his friends from helping him. This in spite of the fact that he's often quite helpless without them.

* IronWoobie

* KidHero: Technically by the final book, Harry is an adult by wizard estimation

* MessyHair: In [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The Order Of The Phoenix]], there's a brief exchange about this: Mrs. Weasley tried to tidy up Harry's appearance but couldn't do anything about his hair, and asks: "Doesn't it ever lie flat?" Harry shook his head in response.
** The first four movies have Harry with messy hair, but the rest of the films just gave Harry a crewcut.
* MessiahCreep: Although there were messianic overtones right from the first chapter of the first book.
* NaiveNewcomer

* NotSoDifferent: In ChamberOfSecrets, Harry notices some very disturbing similarities between himself and Voldemort. At the climax of DeathlyHallows, he sees parallels not only between himself and Voldemort, but also [[spoiler:Snape]], going so far as to think of them as "lost boys" whose only real home was Hogwarts. [[YourMileageMayVary This is probably the point where Harry truly became a man.]]

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Along with his trademark lightning bolt shaped scar, his GreenEyes (inherited from Lily) are his most frequently commented-on trait.

The id of the series' resident PowerTrio. Ron, the youngest of six brothers, has something of an inferiority complex. He first met Harry on Platform 9 3/4, and the two became fast friends on the Hogwarts Express before they'd even reached Hogwarts. Throughout the books, he sticks with Harry through thick and thin, though with some occasional difficulty -- being constant sidekick to The Boy Who Lived sure doesn't help that inferiority complex.

* BerserkButton: Normally a pretty easygoing guy, Ron tends to go nuclear when Hermione is taunted for being a "mudblood" or otherwise mocked by Draco or Snape. He is particularly sensitive to being mocked about his family's lack of wealth.

* DarkestHour: Facing down the horcrux in book seven, among numerous other moments.

** TheUnfavourite: Ron is not outstanding in any way amongst the Weasley family, and he knows it. In DH, [[spoiler:the locket-horcrux attempts to use this to sway Ron from the mission at hand, telling him that his love interest prefers Harry and mother would have preferred a daughter]]. Ron doesn't fall for it, but he comes perilously close.

* MagicMisfire: Several times in book two, due to a broken wand, though [[spoiler:said wand helps him and Harry out of a predicament later, when Lockhart tries to wipe their memories because [[HeKnowsTooMuch they found out just a teensy bit too much about Lockhart's career]].]]

* PluckyComicRelief: More so in the films than the novels

The last third of the series' resident PowerTrio, who serves as the superego and always has a smart solution. Like Ron, Harry met her on the Hogwarts express on the first day of school, though they didn't become friends until an incident involving a troll at Halloween. Throughout the books, Hermione serves as TheProfessor, being practically married to the library.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: MemeticBadass? MarySue? Sweet, brainy girl? Bitch? Dark Witch in-the-Making? InsufferableGenius? Despite the fact that Hermione is written as one of the most unchanged characters in the series, she has highly varied fan opinion.

** She was a prefect in book six. That's as classrepy as you can get at a British boarding school

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: At first, until she became Harry and Ron's friend.

** Lampshaded in the film version of ''Order Of The Phoenix'''.

* InvisibleParents: In contrast to Ron and Harry, whose unusually large and (ahem) [[UnusualEuphemism "unusually small"]] families are important plot points. Hermione's comparatively normal family is rarely mentioned.

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* [=~It's Not You, It's My Enemies~=]: How he breaks up with [[spoiler:Ginny Weasley.]]

* CanonImmigrant: JKRowling began referring to the Trio as such.

* FanNickname: "The Trio."

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, the three main characters. They became friends in the first book and over the course of the series they have endured and suffered more than most people do, but they have only become closer over the years. They spend more time together than they do with anyone else, and whenever there is a problem, they always try to solve it together. Harry is nominally the leader, but he, Ron, and Hermione often defer to each other.

* {{Nakama}}: They are closer than siblings, and even closer than lovers.

* {{Nakama}}: They are closer than siblings, and even closer than lover.

* Fanon

The Trio in HarryPotter is made up of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, the three main characters. They became friends in the first book and over the course of the series they have endured and suffered more than most people do, but they have only become closer.

* {{Nakama}}

!'''The Trio''