Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the titular character of the world famous Harry Potter book series. He is taken from a year after the Battle of Hogwarts.

He arrived in the game on November 15, 2012.

=History=

Harry is skinny with a thin face. When Harry first came to Hogwarts he was considered a bit short for his age, especially when compared to his best friend Ron, but over the years he thankfully had a few growth spurts. Now he can be considered “a bit tall”. He wears round black-framed glasses. His hair is black and the very definition of unruly; it simply ‘grows all over the place’. His legs are thin with knobby knees. He has muscle tone from being an athlete, but he’s not overtly muscular. He’s lithe. He has brilliant green eyes that he inherited from his mother though the rest of his looks are the spitting image of his father. His voice is small, except when he is yelling. He’s not remarkably handsome, but he’s also not unattractive. He has three notable scars; a lightning shaped scar on his forehead, scars on his hand which read ‘I must not tell lies’ and small circular scars on his arm from a snake bite.

The Prophecy
Eleven years before Harry was born, a powerful dark wizard called Lord Voldemort started gaining followers. Voldemort held beliefs that Muggles, non-wizarding folk, were not of the same worth as a pureblood wizard or witch. He and his follows regularly killed these types of people and those who defended them. As Voldemort gained more and more power, he and his followers began a war against the magical folk who were desperately trying to stop him. His ultimate goal was to gain control of the world, magical and non-magical alike.

Then one night in 1979, an extremely strong wizard named Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts, was giving an interview to the decedent of a well-known witch who could tell the future. They were sitting in a pun and h was not the type of man to believe in Divination. He found that he was a little skeptical until the decedent, one Sybill Trelawney, produced an actual prophecy:

''The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...''

Harry Potter was born on July 31, 1980 to Lily and James Potter. His parents had been involved in three different battles that had thwarted the Dark Lord. The prophecy could have also applied to the Longbottoms, who had had their son Neville around the time that Harry was born, but Voldemort found a way to Godric's Hollow with the help and betrayal of James’ friend Peter Pettigrew. The Dark Lord was able to murder Harry’s parents in cold blood. James was killed quickly as he rushed to defend his family, but Lily died protecting Harry. Her sacrifice protected Harry from Voldemort’s Killing Curse as it rebounded onto the Dark Lord. This curse scarred Harry with a lightning shaped scar on his forehead, destroyed half of his parent’s house, and took with it the Dark Lord’s body.

The Wizarding World believed that Voldemort had been destroyed, and they celebrated. They toasted Harry and he became known as “The Boy Who Lived”. Dumbledore thought that it would be best that Harry grew up “away from all that” so he tucked a letter into a basket with the baby and left him on the doorstep his only living relative, his aunt Petunia. Petunia was Lily’s sister and she wanted nothing to do with magic. She and her husband were perfectly normal Muggles who lived on a perfectly normal street. They instantly resented Harry for threatening their perfectly normal lives.

Childhood and Coming to Hogwarts
Because of their resentment, Harry’s childhood wasn’t pleasant. His aunt and uncle believed that his magical heritage made him a ‘freak’ and were determined to make sure that he didn’t end up becoming a wizard. While they never actually hit him—though his cousin, Dudley, considered using Harry as a punching bag his favorite pastime—they neglected him, even so much that his room was the cupboard under the stairs. They didn’t let him starve but they didn’t lavish him with attention the same way that they did their own son, who was large by the time that he was 11. Harry was miserable but used to life at Privet Drive.

Then, on his eleventh birthday, he was sent some rather stubborn letters; stubborn because no matter how his uncle tried they kept coming, making appearance in the strangest ways, including inside of Aunt Petunia’s eggs. Harry wasn’t able to read any of them, not even when they came whizzing out of his fireplace, because his Uncle would snatch them away and burn them in front of him. After the fire place incident, Vernon had had enough. He attempted to run away from the house but a half-giant named Hagrid came bursting into the small shack he had holed his family into. Hagrid was the one who finally gave the letter to Harry. He also explained that Harry was indeed a wizard and would be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also explained Harry’s history, including his ties to the Dark Lord.

Finally, Harry would be able to escape his aunt and uncle. With nothing but high hopes and excitement, Harry set off for school. On the train ride over, he met Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, two people who would end up becoming his best friends and the first thing he would have that came close to a real family. When arrived at the school he was sorted into Gryffindor House. He also met and made an enemy of a boy named Draco Malfoy.

Time at Hogwarts
Though Harry was trilled to be at the school, and the castle did become sort of a home for him, his school career was littered with misfortune. Almost every year he was forced to face Voldemort in some way, shape or form. His first year, the Dark Lord’s soul was attached to Harry’s Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Voldemort used Professor Qurille in a vie to get his hands on the Philosopher’s Stone. He believed that he could use the stone’s properties to restore his body and gain eternal life. Harry’s second year, he faced a past form of Voldemort in a diary were Voldemort had literally left a piece of his soul. In the process, Harry was able to save Ron’s little sister, Ginny, who had been possessed by the diary. That same year, Harry also had to survive the well intentions of a house elf named Dobby.

In his third year, Harry wasn’t exactly confronted by Voldemort himself but spend the entire school year thinking he was being chased after by Sirius Black, a man who had been put in wizard prison because he was believed to have been Voldemort’s right hand man. Sirius Black, it turned out, had actually been James Potter’s best friend. When James died, it was assumed that Black at been the one who betrayed Harry’s family. Sirius had not been the traitor and had come to Hogwarts to kill the real traitor, a school friend names Peter Pettigrew. Harry learned a bit more of the truth about his father, like the fact that he had been good friends with his DADA teacher of that year, Remus Lupin, and that he illegally turned himself into an Animagus so that he could help Lupin during the full moon. Lupin was a werewolf and Harry’s favorite teacher of that year. Harry also learned that Sirius was his godfather and for a glorious moment he almost believed he would be able to go to Black’s house and live with him. Sadly, that was not meant to be. Pettigrew got away and Sirius was still believed to be a murderer. What was worse, Trelawney predicted that Pettigrew’s escape would mean that the Dark Lord Voldemort would rise again.

And he did, during Harry’s fourth year. He entered Harry into the historic Triwizard Tournament and forced him to compete with students from two other wizarding schools as well as a student from Hogwarts named Cedric Diggory. During the last task, Cedric and Harry helped each other. Harry thinking that he would be nice and let Cedric win as well, offered to touch the cup at the same time as Cedric. This choice forced Cedric into the trap that Voldemort had set for Harry. Voldemort had Pettigrew kill Cedric and then perform old magic to bring him back back using Harry’s blood. Harry barely escaped and then only because he his wand was a match to Voldemort’. When their spells hit each other they created a strange reaction that bought Harry some time. Harry was able to Cedric’s body back to Hogwarts but was extremely traumatized by what happened.

The next year before Harry returned to school he and Dudley were attacked by dementors. Harry was able to escape and save Dudley but was put on trial for underage magic. He discovered that while he had been counting away the days of the summer, his friends had all been part of the Order of the Phoenix, an organization dedicated to ending Voldemort’s reign. No one in the wizarding world believed that Voldemort had returned. Harry also had to face a new DADA teacher who had been sent from the Ministry itself. Umbridge worked to counter Harry’s claims that the Dark Lord was back and forced him to write lines that cut into his own hand. The words he had to write, I must not tell lies, are still scarred into his skin. She kept such a tight hold on the school that Harry had to start his own type of club in which he taught the other students defensive spells. They called it ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ to play on the paranoia that Dumbledore was attempting to build an army to take over the Ministry. Harry was also disturbed because he discovered that his mind was connected to Voldemort’s. Dumbledore had Snape, the Potion’s Master who was James’ old school rival and Harry’s most hated teacher, attempt to teach Harry magic to block his mind. This didn’t go so well and Voldemort was able to trick Harry into a trap by giving him visions of his godfather being tortured. Sadly, Harry rushing to save Sirius actually ended being the action that set Sirius’ death into motion.

Harry hardly had time to grieve before he was carted off to another summer at the Dursley’s. In his sixth year at Hogwarts Harry started to have ‘classes’ with Dumbledore personally in which he learned much more about Voldemort’s past and the dark magic that he used. He also slowly began to discover that he really rather fancied Ginny and ended up asking her to be his girlfriend. Finally, Dumbledore asked Harry to come with him to destroy one of the Horcruxes that he had taught Harry contained bits of Voldemort’s soul. These Horcruxes were what made Voldemort nearly immortal. The result of going after the Horcrux drove Dumbledore insane and Harry was forced to drag him back to Hogwarts. When they arrived, Harry was forced to watch Snape kill Dumbledore.

Overcome with the trauma of what had happened and the fact that he was going to have to hunt down the rest of the Horcruxes alone, Harry broke up with Ginny and told Ron and Hermione that he would be dropping out of school. Always to loyal friends, they insisted they would help him.

War and the Search for the Horcruxes
That summer, war broke out. Attacks were happening even to Muggles. Dumbledore had explained to Harry that his aunt’s house was protected due to the magic that Lily performed on him. Until the day that Harry either turned 17 or he stopped calling Petunia house ‘home’ he would always be protected there. He therefore had to return to the Dursely’s one last time.

The Order came to pick up Harry just a little bit before his birthday and the resulting confrontation with the Death Eaters and Voldemort ended with Hedwig, Harry’s owl, and Mad-Eye Moody, a member of the Order, dead. It also proved that the Death Eaters considered the Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus), the spell that he cast against Voldemort that caused their wands to react to each other, Harry’s “signature” move.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione spent the rest of the summer plotting out their trip for the next year as well as helping set up for the wedding of Ron’s oldest brother (Bill) and his girlfriend (Fleur). They also were given the things Dumbledore had left them in his will; to Ron the Deluminator (a little device that can take all the light from a place, store it, and bring it back out), to Hermione a book of children’s stories and to Harry the Snitch he had caught in his first game of Quidditch. The Snitch only revealed the mysterious message ‘I open at the close’ while the other gifts left nothing but questions. During the wedding party the Death Eaters openly attacked the Ministry, killed the Minster, and took over. Hermione was able to transport herself, Harry, and Ron away from the battle, but they were attacked almost immediately. Barely escaping with their lives, they fled.

They went to Sirius’ home and stayed there for a while, making friends with the house elf there named Kretcher. Kretcher eventually enabled them to find out that a Horcrux was with Umbridge. That loathsome woman had made herself important in the now Death Eater run Ministry by imprisoning Muggle born wizards and witches. They made a plan to break into the Ministry but it went horribly array and forced them away from Sirius’ home. Harry learned that he had been marked ‘Undesirable Number One’ and that meant that he was hunted by everyone in the wizarding world. Thankfully, they were able to get the locket that held a bit of Voldemort’s soul but had very little knowledge about how to defeat it.

The three of them ended up setting up camp along the countryside, moving around every few days. Harry didn’t really have a plan as to how to find the other Horcruxes, a fact that eventually drove Ron away after a really bad row between him and Harry.

Without Ron, Hermione and Harry had to hunt down more Horcruxes on their own. Eventually they went to Godric's Hollow where Harry discovered a monument had been built in his honor. He was also finally able to visit his parents’ graves. Voldemort attacked Harry before he could find out more and he and Hermione, once again, barely escaped.

They continued to move around the countryside until one night that Harry saw a white doe in the forest. He was compelled to follow it and he found Gryffindor’s sword in a frozen pond. The sword could destroy Horcruxes so he undressed and jumped in, forgetting that he had the possessed locket around his neck. It almost drowned him until Ron, who had been following Harry and Hermione in an attempt to help them again, saved his life. Harry had Ron destroy the locket and the two returned to their camp. Hermione was less than pleased to see Ron as she had been heartbroken when he left but she wasn’t ready to forgive him quite yet.

Reunited, the three friends were able to travel together. They discovered the legend of the Deathly Hallows. In this legend, three brothers beat Death and each asked for a gift. The eldest asked for an unbeatable wand, that eventually caused him to boast so much someone killed him while he was asleep (and so Death was able to collect him). The second oldest asked for a stone that could bring back the dead, but the dead he brought back were so unhappy he was driven to kill himself in shame and misery (and so Death was able to collect him). The youngest asked for a cloak that would make him invisible so that Death couldn’t find him until he was old and ready to great Death as a friend. The Cloak was supposedly passed down to his son and so on, while the other two were lost to history. Harry felt that they should try and go after the Hallows as well—it had been Dumbledore’s clues lead them to find out about them—but Ron and Hermione wanted to continue to look for the Horcruxes.

Eventually the trio were kidnapped and brought before Death Eaters before they were saved by Dobby. Dobby, however, was murdered in the fight. Harry insisted on burying him without magic and marked his gravestone “A Free Elf”. Harry was able to save a goblin named Griphook as well, and with him the trio plotted to break into a Death Eater vault at the wizard bank to get one of the remaining Horcruxes. They recovered it and, once again, barely escaped.

Harry knew then that they had to head back to Hogwarts to find one of the last Horcruxes. When they returned they were greeted by their friend Neville who was under the impression that Harry had returned to fight for the school. Hogwarts had gone downhill that year with Death Eaters in control and Snape as a Headmaster. Eventually, Harry was able to convince the school to fight Voldemort once the Dark Lord attacked the castle knowing full well that Harry was there.

The Battle of Hogwarts and Aftermath
The Battle of Hogwarts will be remembered by wizards as the most important battle of the Second War. It was also the last one. Harry was able to break the Horcrux hidden at Hogwarts. He also watched Voldemort, who by then had realized that Dumbledore’s wand had been the unbeatable Elder Wand of the Deathly Hallows story, kill Snape with the belief it would make him the master of the Elder Wand. Snape was able to give Harry his last memories before dying and these memories told Harry that Snape had been in love with his mother and had been on Dumbledore’s side the entire time. Even killing Dumbledore had been part of Dumbledore’s own plan. Those memories told him that he, Harry, was the final Horcrux and that he had to die in order for the battle to be won.

Harry went to face Voldemort, to face his own death. He was able to open the snitch Dumbledore left him by telling it “I am about to die”. Inside was the Resurrection Stone from the Deathly Hallows tale. When he held it he was able to see his mother, father, godfather and Lupin, who had been kill in the Battle of Hogwarts. They comforted him and walked with him to his death. He willingly took Voldemort’s Killing Spell.

It was all black but when he opened his eyes he realized he was in some form of King’s Cross Station. Dumbledore was there. He told Harry that he could choose to go back and live or he could choose to board a train and cross over. Harry made the choice to live. He woke up and Voldemort informed everyone that he was dead, had his body laid out on front of the steps of Hogwarts.

When Harry finally did reveal he was not dead he knew enough to know that Voldemort could not win. He faced the Dark Lord (calmly calling him ‘Tom’, his given name) and defeated him by casting Expelliarmus.

The death toll was high (along with Lupin, Ron’s older brother Fred was killed, as was Lupin’s wife and several of the students at Hogwarts) but the magical world had a lot to celebrate. After a long night of celebration, during which Harry felt exhausted and drained, Harry had a final word with the portrait of Dumbledore in the Headmaster’s office (mostly to make sure that he had understood everything correctly) and the hurried to Gryffindor Tower were a four poster bed was waiting for him.

Harry spent the next year mostly recovering. First had been cleaning up the wreckage and burying the dead. Harry went to more funerals then he cared to count. He had to pick up the pieces of his life too and focused on figuring out what he was going to do after defeating Voldemort. He was able to rekindle his relationship with Ginny as the two of them began dating again. Harry also has started working on his Auror training. His body and soul were still tired, but he remained hopeful for the future. He had been ready for a world free from Voldemort for a while, and planned to enjoy every second of it.

=Personality= Throughout the past seven years, Harry’s personality has gone through some serious development and changes. Some of this is understandable, purely due to puberty and the experiences of growing up, but a lot of it was forced upon him by his role as ‘The Chosen One’. From the Halloween night that Voldemort murdered his parents, he was marked as the one who would have to defeat the Dark Lord. His fate was spelled out for him and for a while Harry was forced to deal with this while being mostly unaware of what he meant. Every year he was at school, Dumbledore would reveal a little more of the truth, but Harry was too young to fully understand everything that he needed to know so he had to come to his own choices and his own path.

First and foremost is Harry’s deepest desire, that for a family. Having grown up an orphan and with a neglectful aunt and uncle and a bullying cousin for his only family has left Harry with an almost overwhelming need for family and acceptance. He wants more than anything for a place to belong. He felt that he had that at Hogwarts, and had to abandon it for the quest for the Horcruxes. His desire for such a simple seeming thing had also led him to many heartbreaking false hopes. The first was the encounter with the Mirror of Erised, which showed him the image of himself with his family. There was also the time when he realized that Sirius Black was his godfather and not a traitor. For a few glorious moments he believed he would be able to live with Sirius and have a real home, but those were crushed when Sirius was unable to clear his name and then crushed permanently when Sirius died. The Resurrection Stone from the Deathly Hallows tale also gave him false hopes, but when he was finally able to use it he was mature enough to understand that the dead should stay dead. When he was younger Harry would have given anything to have his Mum and Dad back and be a family with them, but after all the false hopes, facing his own death, and defeating Voldemort, he has come to realize that he shouldn’t attempt to live in the past but instead should focus on the future. At least that he has some part in. He can’t change the fact that his parents are dead, but he can change the way that his life is going and what kind of family he builds for himself. Still, there is still that desire to know them and meet them and be loved and accepted by them. It’s always going to be there, and part of Harry will always feel like it’s ‘missing’ because they aren’t there.

The only ‘family’ that he really has, in the sense of people that he cares about that support him and love him, are Ron and Hermione. That is one of the reasons why he has such an explosive relationship with them, especially Ron. He tends to take things out on them and for a while couldn’t trust them completely with all of his problems as he didn’t want to feel like they were judging him or that he was ‘burdening’ them. He had several fights with Ron that almost ruined their friendship completely and usually resulted with them not talking to each other and Harry stubbornly refusing to apologize. As he grew up and learned that he could rely on them both, he outgrew this and the last really bad fight he had with Ron was forgiven when Ron saved his life. Harry also learned that he could trust both of his friends completely, going so far as to share even the things that before he wouldn’t have for fear of them thinking poorly of him because of them. In that way, Harry has earned the one thing that he always wanted, a family and people who love him no matter what.

Due to his fame as ‘The Boy Who Lived’ Harry’s life in the magical world has always been under a microscope. Everyone knew who he was the first time he stepped into a place populated by wizarding folk. He’s been the center of attention ever since then. His victories have been celebrated by everyone, his flaws examined by everyone, his strengths congratulated by everyone, his weaknesses hated by everyone. Ehen he is famous for being the boy who stopped Voldemort or infamous as Undesirable Number One, everyone knew of Harry Potter. Harry hated this fame. He grew up in a home that didn’t even have a picture of him on the wall or the mantle and suddenly everyone knew him. It was strange at first but then by the time he was in the Triwizard Tournament—Ron started to show his jealousy over Harry’s fame and a reporter named Rita Skeeter had written several horrible columns about him that got him a lot of unwanted attention—that this began to be a great annoyance to him. At times, Harry just wished that he could disappear under his aunt and uncle’s stairs again because he hated living life being examined. By the time that he defeated Voldemort he had come to a little more terms with his fame, especially when people began to rally behind him. Little things such as ‘Potterwatch’, a radio station dedicated to the truth about the war that was run by Order members and some of Harry’s old friends from Hogwarts, as well as notes that were left for him at his parent’s house, and the experience of facing death to save the world, let Harry settle more into his role as “Savior” by the time that he finally faced Voldemort one on one.

Harry has a sarcastic sense of humor, some would describe him as “cheeky”. He keeps this even when under threat or stress. It’s his form of the ‘witty banter’ that American superheroes such as Spiderman have. It’s also his way of coping with stress as many of his emotions are repressed. Because of his life with his aunt and uncle, Harry has a strange inability to express or articulate emotions openly at times which have led to some serious anger issues and sudden outbursts. After Cedric died, the first thing he did when he saw his friends the next year was to yell at them for not contacting him despite the fact that Dumbledore had told them not too. When Sirius died, instead of crying Harry attacked Dumbledore’s office and trashed the place, breaking everything that he could. Even when he was traveling with Ron and Hermione, he overrated to Ron’s anger and that caused the two of them to have a huge fight. Killing Voldemort has probably settled him a bit more, but he still has issues experiencing, processing and expressing emotions correctly, usually making him feel numb and forcing him to feel nothing at all. When he realized that Lupin and his wife had been killed, instead of reacting at all, Harry shut down and ran away to go watch Snape’s final memories. He either shuts down or experiences everything at once as with his repressed and displaced anger. He also can be provoked into anger extremely quickly when someone insults his parents, his friends, or the wizards that he looks up to including Lupin, Dumbledore, and (post-Deathly Hallows) Snape.

Harry is also well known for having a hero complex. Hermione calls it his ‘saving people thing’. He has a strong desire to save as many people as possible and never ever wants to kill, not even when he finally faces Voldemort. Harry’s desire to protect and save also intrudes in his personal life, as it drives him to break up with Ginny and it’s one of the reasons that he sometimes hides things from his friends. He wants to handle things without putting anyone else in danger. When others fight to protect him he feels indignant, as if those people think of him as a ‘child’. He wants to handle things on his own and by himself with no risk to others. He eventually comes to learn that he can rely on Ron and Hermione, but his desire to protect Ginny carries on in so much that he doesn’t want her to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts because he can’t focus if she is in danger. In this city, Harry’s desire to protect the people he cares about might be twisted into something a bit more possessive. He’ll find himself getting paranoid about losing the people he loves and will act a little recklessly and desperately to keep them.

Harry has natural intuition when it comes to fighting and plotting and a mind that automatically leaps from ‘Point A’ to ‘Point B’ or, at times, ‘Point Z’. Often times his leaps are incorrect; he repeatedly puts Snape behind the plots of Voldemort, stuck on the idea that Snape is evil, and assumes that Dumbledore wants him to hunt down the Deathly Hallows instead of the Horcruxes once he learns of them. Harry can fixate on ideas and obsess over them for a while even to his own detriment. The perfect example is his Snape is EVIL idea, which even extends to him being unable to learn from Snape how to block his connection to Voldemort. Once the idea is proven wrong, he can move past them, as he did once he realized that Snape was really one of the ‘good’ guys all along. He possesses a love and acceptance of mostly all things until they get on his ‘bad list’ in which case he hates them with all his heart. For example, he relates to all houselves and wants to help them. Dobby becomes his friend and when the elf dies Harry insists on burying him by hand. Even Kretcher, who has a part in the plot to kill Sirius, ends up becoming Harry’s loyal servant. Harry is kind to ghosts, earning himself an invitation to Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party, though that had mostly to do with his ‘Boy Who Lived’ status, the fact that he went to the party is something entirely different. He also has no problem with the fact that Lupin is a werewolf. Though he eventually does meet some pretty dangerous werewolves he would never hold that against Lupin, who ends up becoming one of his closest allies. Harry holds no prejudice against non-wizarding folk and creatures. He even extends a hand of friendship to wizards who are considered ‘strange’ such as the oddball Luna Lovegood and the clumsy Neville Longbottom.

The only thing that he’s really prejudice against is Slytherins, mostly because of his interactions with the House. Harry’s arch-nemesis in the school, Draco Malfoy, tortured Harry throughout his school years, and he returns the favor by not even attempting to understand them. Later, Draco isn’t much of a threat to Harry, and Harry does end up saving Draco’s life twice during the Battle of Hogwarts, but the school rivalry is a testament that while Harry usually tries to remain as open-minded as possible he is subject to simple human prejudice as well. His connection with Voldemort gave him a keen understanding of Voldemort, and therefore with real evil so he’s less concerned about normal Slytherins now.

Harry possesses good leadership skills, often inspiring loyalty in his peers, and is also a pretty decent teacher as we see when he teaches Dumbledore’s Army defense magic in his fifth year. However, he also doesn’t really posses any sort of foresight. He mostly goes into a thing, does what he has to do, and hopes he survives. Hermione is usually the one to come up with the plans, and Ron the one to make sure they don’t get too out of hand. Harry also is pretty lazy when it comes to things that don’t interest him, for example he really never learns any wizarding history because the teacher bored him.

When Harry first came to Hogwarts he was terrified that he was going to make a complete fool of himself, but, not such a surprise to those who knew his parents, he ended up possessing a sort of natural talent with magic. Despite this, he still was very unsure of himself as he grew up and learned. He was always just an ordinary kid put into an extraordinary situation. Facing his own death and defeating Voldemort has matured him a great deal in only a short time.

=Powers=

Harry possesses some natural talent with wand magic. He is able to understand wand lore very quickly when he discovers more about the Elder Wand—so much so that he knows that Voldemort cannot defeat him with it. He is good with charms. He is able to produce a full bodied Patronus even though there are adults around him who seem surprised that someone so young can do that. He has been shown learning new spells easily enough, often after only a few tries. He is no where near as good as his friend Hermione but very few are. He mastered the Disarming Charm after watching Snape use it so much that it’s considered his “signature move”. He is also very natural at flying a broom and was made the youngest Quidditch player at Hogwarts in a century.

On the flip side, he is basically no good at controlling nonverbal magic. He has a hard time even mustering up a single spell or blocking a curse or defending himself without speaking. Except for when he is extremely emotional, then he possesses a great deal of power but no control. For example, during the summer before his third year at Hogwarts he blew up his Aunt Marge. His inability to control nonverbal magic has more to do with his emotions and how they affect his magic ability. He isn’t able to control them as well as he should and lets them get out of hand. He is also no good with Occlumency or Legilimency (reading minds and blocking people from reading your mind), because his emotions are too messed up for him to clear his head. He had a hard time learning those skills too because he stubbornly refused to learn anything from Snape. He doesn’t seem to possess the sort of ‘magical senses’ that other wizards seem too but it is possible that he would learn with time and experience.

Harry shows no liking for learning things that don’t involve an active magic, subjects such as History of Magic or Potions, though he does gain a bit of a taste for Potions after Snape stops teaching it. He has very little patience and no aptitude for Divination, even if he knows that there are such things as real Seers and prophecy.

For a while he was a Parselmouth, which means that he could talk to snakes, but he lost that ability when Voldemort tried to kill him. His connection to Voldemort was also severed because of this so if we ever did get a Voldemort he wouldn’t be able to read Voldemort’s mind.

=At At Bete Noire=

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