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'''[[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEaters Death Eaters]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort Lord Voldemort]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEatersInnerCircle Death Eaters (Inner Circle)]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterOrderOfThePhoenixMembers Order of the Phoenix Members]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterMarauders Marauders]] [[[Characters/HarryPotterSiriusBlack Sirius Black]]])\\

[[Characters/HarryPotterTheWeasleyFamily The Weasley Family]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Ministry of Magic]] ([[Characters/HarryPotterDoloresUmbridge Dolores Umbridge]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterHogwartsStudents Hogwarts Students]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterGryffindor Gryffindor]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterSlytherin Slytherin]] [[[Characters/HarryPotterDracoMalfoy Draco Malfoy]]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterRavenclaw Ravenclaw]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHufflepuff Hufflepuff]])\\

** On a closer inspection, it is not that Harry or Ron are "lazy" so much as the fact they hang around Hermione, who has obsessive studying habits. Harry and Ron study reasonably hard, and it has never been stated that they fail their classes. They are just reasonably applied students, with other interests aside from schoolwork. The only O.W.L.s Harry failed are Divination (which almost everyone including [[{{Workaholic}} Hermione]], [[SternTeacher McGonagall]] and [[NiceGuy Dumbledore]] regards as a joke) and History of Magic (taught by the [[TheBore incredibly boring Professor Binns]] and Harry collapsed partway through due to vision implanted in his mind by Voldemort), neither of which were required for his chosen career path of becoming an Auror.

** On a closer inspection, it is not that Harry or Ron are "lazy" so much as the fact they hang around Hermione, who has obsessive studying habits. Harry and Ron study reasonably hard, and it has never been stated that they fail their classes. They are just reasonably applied students, with other interests aside from schoolwork. The only O.W.L.s Harry failed are Divination (which almost everyone including [[{{WorkhalicHermione}}, [[SternTeacher McGonagall]] and [[NiceGuy Dumbledore]] regards as a joke) and History of Magic (taught by the [[TheBore incredibly boring Professor Binns]] and Harry collapsed partway through due to vision implanted in his mind by Voldemort), neither of which were required for his chosen career path of becoming an Auror.

** On a closer inspection, it is not that Harry or Ron are "lazy" so much as the fact they hang around Hermione, who has obsessive studying habits. Harry and Ron study reasonably hard, and it has never been stated that they fail their classes. They are just reasonably applied students, with other interests aside from schoolwork.

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterTheTrio The Trio]]''' ('''Harry James Potter''' | [[Characters/HarryPotterRonBiliusWeasley Ron Bilius Weasley]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHermioneJeanGranger Hermione Jean Granger]])\\

* 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, he still often achieves above average marks outside of Defence Against the Dark Arts, in which he gets perfect marks and Potions (Snape’s the teacher in the first five years). When he applies himself he moreover achieves Exceeds Expectations or higher O.W.L.s in Defence Against the Dark Arts (he gets the highest O.W.L.), 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.

* BadassTeacher: Harry has shown tremendous skill in teaching others. Having mastered many spells at a young age, Harry successfully passed them onto others even when he was still a student himself, giving proper instructions and corrections on how to perform many fields of magic, ranging from the relatively simplistic Disarming Charm to the highly advanced Patronus Charm. Harry's effectiveness as a teacher led many, some even older than him, to choose him over a Ministry-installed professional, and he even returned to Hogwarts to give occasional lectures.

** He speaks Parseltongue, the language of snakes. Most people think Parseltongue is an evil power, because several evil wizards (Voldemort being the most recent and bigger example, Salazar Slytherin the most famous) not only spoke it, but used it for nefarious purposes. Harry becomes ostracized for having this power, and only uses it for good, most notably to rescue his future LoveInterest [[HeroesWantRedheads Ginny Weasley]]. He [[spoiler:loses this power after defeating Voldemort]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: Subverted for the bulk of the series. He asks Parvati Patil (black hair) to the Yule Ball, and later briefly dates Cho Chang (also black hair). Once he joins the Slug Club, he brings (as a friend) Luna Lovegood (blonde) as his +1 to a party. He ends up with Ginny Weasley in the end.

** Harry is considered to be the best duellist among the students by the time he's in his fifth year. He still gets owned by more experienced wizards, however, and gets handed down a CurbStompBattle from [[spoiler: Snape, though to be fair, Harry has JUST returned from a fight against literal zombies and witnessed the Death of Dumbledore and had to fight the Death Eaters in the Castle to get to Snape]]. He is also the best in the year (possibly the entire school) at Defence Against the Dark Arts.

* DeathSeeker: Subtly implied to be one after Voldemort's return, especially right after [[spoiler: Sirius dies.]]

* DenyingTheDeadParentsSins: Until Harry sees Snape's memories, he never believed a word that Snape said about his father. [[spoiler: Realizing that Snape was right about his father's attitude as a young man leads to a HeroicBSOD on his part.]]

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Harry Potter, who was kind enough to [[spoiler: forgive Snape's horrifically unfair abuse and offer Lord Voldemort a shot at remorse,]] has nothing but flat-out hatred for [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains Dolores Umbridge.]] While Harry was routinely breaking school rules and getting away with it because he needed to to save the day since getting the Invisibility Cloak in ''Philosopher's Stone,'' Umbridge's refusal to teach any Defence Against the Dark Arts class worth a damn drives him and Hermione to illegally form a StudentsSecretSociety dedicated to teaching the self-defence Harry had learned in the previous two or three books. He also repeatedly fails to follow [=McGonagall=]'s instructions to not let her push his buttons and goad him into ''another'' week's worth of [[ColdBloodedTorture detention with Umbridge.]]

* LaserGuidedTykebomb: Raised to be this, unintentionally so [[spoiler: by Dumbledore]] - though it has to be said that [[spoiler: Dumbledore]] tried to keep him out of it, long after it was practical.

** Molly Weasley considers Harry one of her many sons. Somewhat deconstructed as she is very overprotective of him and acts as though she's the only parental figure he has. Sirius flat out tells her that she's not the only one who cares about him this way. Also slightly deconstructed in that she treats him better than her own children, [[OvershadowedByAwesome particularly]] [[TheUnfavorite Ron]], which puts a minor strain on their friendship [[spoiler: culminating in ''The Deathly Hallows'']]. Harry often feels awkward receiving better praise and presents from her than the other Weasley brothers (especially when they're right next to him), and listening to her scold and chide the others for reckless stunts that she instantly forgives him for. Though that might be because Molly is trying to make up for how the Dursleys treat him.

* 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 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.]]

* PastExperienceNightmare: Often, especially after his first encounter with Voldemort in the first year and Cedric's death. Subverted in Book 5, where he ''thinks'' he's having these but they're actually [[spoiler: visions of actual events visible because of his [[SoulJar connection]] with Voldemort]].

** 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 worst 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.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Is moved enough to want to help [[spoiler: Voldemort in Limbo, who has irreparably damaged his soul, but is powerless to do so.]]

* TantrumThrowing: Pushed to this after [[spoiler: Sirius dies,]] trashing most of Dumbledore's various magical tools and equipment in his grief. While the portraits of the headmasters think he's lashing out for no good reason, Dumbledore remains calm throughout and acknowledges Harry has the right to vent his anger on him. He even tells him that, if he were to come charging to hurt him physically, he wouldn't stop him, because he feels he [[KarmicNod deserves it.]]

** In ''Cursed Child'', it's revealed that the only thing of Lily's that Harry has is the blanket in which Hagrid wrapped him up when he brought him to Privet Drive. Harry tells his son Albus that he brings out the blanket every Halloween's Eve to remember his mother's sacrifice. [[spoiler: Turns out to be a PlotDeviceAllAlong when the blanket becomes the means through which Albus communicates with Harry when he is trapped back in time in 1981 on the eve of Voldemort's attempted murder of baby Harry.]]

* UndisclosedFunds: He is quite wealthy, as the money his parents left him adds up to quite a lot. Reinforced when he [[spoiler: gives away the ''entire'' 1000-galleon Triwizard earnings to the Weasleys without a second thought, serving in effect as an angel investor to a new startup at the age of 15]]. But then he becomes sole heir to the Black family fortune at the age of 16, it's implied to be somewhere between extremely and ''obscenely.'' He is perhaps the richest independently wealthy student at Hogwarts.

* EvenTheAllLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Harry Potter, who was kind enough to [[spoiler: forgive Snape's horrifically unfair abuse and offer Lord Voldemort a shot at remorse,]] has nothing but flat-out hatred for [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains Dolores Umbridge.]] While Harry was routinely breaking school rules and getting away with it because he needed to to save the day since getting the Invisibility Cloak in ''Philosopher's Stone,'' Umbridge's refusal to teach any Defence Against the Dark Arts class worth a damn drives him and Hermione to illegally form a StudentsSecretSociety dedicated to teaching the self-defence Harry had learned in the previous two or three books. He also repeatedly fails to follow [=McGonagall=]'s instructions to not let her push his buttons and goad him into ''another'' week's worth of [[ColdBloodedTorture detention with Umbridge.]]

* AdaptationalComicRelief: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], as Harry's DeadpanSnarker tendencies from the books are toned down in the films.