History Characters / HarryPotterTheTrio

** Diss one of his favorite teachers to her face, and you'll be in for a world of hurt. Just ask Amycus Carrow.

* {{Badass}}: All three of them. Every book they take on things that would be considered challenging to experienced wizards, and survive all of them, starting with a troll in the first book, and ending with the FinalBattle in the seventh. Harry is accomplished at Defense Against the Dark Arts, quick on the draw, and more than capable of holding his own against more experienced wizards, Ron is a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, and Hermione is a BadassBookworm.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: According to WordOfGod, he later went on to become the youngest head of the Auror Office in history. It isn't hard to see why…

* {{Badass}}: Let's see: saved the Philosopher's Stone, defeated Slytherin's Basilysk, learned how to make a Patronus when only 13, escaped Voldemort seven times, survived the Second Wizarding War, while more experienced wizards (like Sirius Black, Mad-Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks and Albus Dumbledore) didn't, defeated more Death Eaters than one can count... Yeah, he definitely qualifies.

-->'''Mr. Weasley:''' Harry, promise me that whatever you do, you will not go looking for him.
-->'''Harry:''' Mr. Weasley, why would I go looking for someone who wanted to kill me?
** Then played hilariously straight, as he feels an urge to go looking for Black after he finds out some of the AwfulTruth. He ends up hating Sirius so much that, when they meet at the end of the book, Harry charges at him and tries to choke him with his bare hands, forgetting that he was unarmed, much weaker than Black, and that Black had several wands on him at the time. Lucky for him, Black was there to ''protect'' Harry, not kill him.

* RedOniBlueOni:
** He and Ron are Red to Hermione's Blue.
** When it's just him and Ron, Harry is the Blue Oni to Ron's Red Oni.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Boy does it.

* HonorBeforeReason: See ChronicHeroSyndrome.

* CursedWithAwesome: See TheChosenOne, IJustWantToBeNormal, and ChronicHeroSyndrome.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Harry has green eyes in the book, but they are blue in the movies.

** Lampshaded in the ''Order of the Phoenix'' movie.

** Lampshaded in the ''Chamber of Secrets'' book, too.
--->'''Ron:''' I never expected ''you'' to persuade us to break school rules!

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Pale skin with jet-black hair.

* HighSchoolSweetHearts: With Ron, as they are married by the epilogue.
* HotWitch: In the movies and in the latter half of the 7 books (from the Yule Ball in book 4 onwards).

* MsExposition: Due to being such a brain, Hermione often figures out and explains crucial plot points to her BookDumb friends. Lampshaded when Hermione asks Harry and Ron if they're ''ever'' going to read ''Hogwarts: A History'' -- Ron replies, "Why should we when we've got you to explain it all?"
** Rowling has said in interviews that her default characters for exposition-giving are always Dumbledore and Hermione -- Dumbledore because he's TheObiWan, Hermione because any fact can be explained by her having found it in a book somewhere.
** Averted in Book 7 when it is Harry, not Hermione, who remembers the name of the ''author'' of ''A History of Magic'', despite (or possibly because of) the fact that Harry never read it, yet was told repeatedly about it.[[note]](He merely looked it over when he bought it, since that's where he got Hedwig's name.)[[/note]] This might say something about Hermione's retention of "important" information, such as the contents being more important to her than the author. Also subverted in book seven, when Ron knows more about the Deathly Hallows than Hermione. It's justified because they're a fairy tale he grew up with, as the only member of the Trio to be raised by wizards.

* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: The cleverest witch in her year at Hogwarts, and quite possibly the cleverest witch, ''period''. She displays magic in her fifth year that seventh-year students consider extremely advanced -- and she learned it as an offhand "oh, I was just studying ahead" thing. We're never told just how she stacks up with the rest of the wizarding world, but she's probably right up there.

* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Philosopher's Stone'', Hermione becomes friends with Harry and Ron after they save her from the troll.

* InsistentTerminology: She gets rather snippy when people refer to her "Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare" by its [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]].
** The name is even better in Dutch: "Stichting Huiself voor Inburgering en Tolerantie" (society house-elf for naturalizing and tolerance).

* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Parseltongue sounds completely indistinguishable from regular languages to those with the innate talent to speak it, so the only way Harry can tell if he or someone else is speaking it is by having a non-speaker point it out. Until an episode in his second year, he didn't even recall the talent, much less realize that it was extraordinary.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: How he breaks up with [[spoiler:Ginny Weasley]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Wants [[spoiler:Ginny]] to live a happy life and marry someone else if he doesn't survive his search for the Horcruxes.

* InSeriesNickname: His full name is "Ronald", but he's mostly known as "Ron".

* TheLancer: Ron books fits the definition perfectly. It was a plot point in the first book with the Mirror of Erised. Harry, who lacked ambition and never knew a family other than his abusive aunt and uncle, sees nothing but his parents standing behind him. To contrast, Ron felt crowded as the second youngest of seven kids and dreamed of outshining them all so he sees himself alone holding awards of many kinds.
** For a bit of extra symbolism, Ron (short for Rhongomynyad, cutting-spear) was the name of the mythical King Arthur's spear.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: After the fourth movie, where Emma's bushy brown hair got highlighted so much it became blonde. Ron is the redhead and Harry is the brunet.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: After the fourth movie, where Emma's hair got highlighted so much it became blonde.

-->'''Harry:''' [[BrassBalls There's no need to call me "sir", professor.]]

* SevenDeadlySins: It's probably not intentional, but each of the Three neatly represents one of the three Sins of Distorted Love, Hermione being {{Pride}}, Ron being {{Envy}}, and Harry being {{Wrath}}.

* {{Unperson}}: She wipes [[spoiler:her parents' memories of her]] in DH to keep them safe (in the movie, even going so far as wipe herself from any pictures with her on them). WordOfGod stated that after the Trio's victory over Voldemort, she found her parents and restored their memories.

* WomanScorned: She ''weaponized birds'' after Ron kissed Lavender. She also chose a date specifically on the basis on "who would annoy Ron most," and went out of her way to hint that she had chosen him because McLaggen was superior to Ron as Quidditch player.

* BerserkButton:
** Normally a pretty easygoing guy, Ron tends to go nuclear when Hermione is taunted for being a "[[FantasticSlurs Mudblood]]" or otherwise mocked by Draco or Snape. He is particularly sensitive to being mocked about his family's lack of wealth.
** He has a soft spot for his little sister, Ginny, even coming down hard on Harry when he thinks Harry isn't treating her right.

* MeaningfulName:
** 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 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 Literature/TheBible 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]]. Indeed, the founder of the Potter family, Linfred of Stinchcombe was called "The Potterer" by Muggle neighbours because he would drop in and provide miracle cures. Sometime later, the family came ot be called the Potters. Appropriately, pottery has a history of being attached to ''witchcraft''; crafting something out of (essentially) nothing, or rather ''transformation''.
** Henry F. Potter is the Scrooge-like villain in the movie ''ItsAWonderfulLife''. 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.

* MegatonPunch: She served one on Malfoy in the third movie. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Harry and Ron find it awesome]].
** In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban the third book]], she slaps Malfoy, rather than punches him.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DanielRadcliffe

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RupertGrint

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EmmaWatson

* PowerTrio