Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the main character in the Harry Potter series of stories and films. In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, we discover that Harry Potter is an orphan, who’s parents where murdered, while Harry was a baby, by Lord Voldemort.

Harry Potter spends his childhood living with his mother’s sister’s family, the Dursleys. At the age of eleven, Harry is visited by Rubeus Hagrid, who tells him that he is a wizard and he is to start attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

At Hogwarts Harry becomes close friends with Hermionie Granger and Ron Weasley, who are both also entered into Griffindor House. These three go on many adventures throughout the stories often involving further encounters with Lord Voldemort.

Harry Potter becomes rivals with Draco Malfoy and has an unhappy, yet complex, relationship with his potions teacher Severus Snape and we only find out in the final book Snape’s true intentions.

Harry has a strong relationship with Albus Dumbledore and his friend Hagrid. As it turns out, Harry is an unusually talented wizard - an expert flyer and star snitch catcher for the Gryffindor Quidditch team as well as being an expert spell caster, managing to save himself and others from danger time and time again.

As Harry grows older throughout the books he matures and his horizons expand. This is evident in his brief interest in a Ravenclaw named Cho Chang. However, it doesn’t work out and he ends up having stronger feelings for Ron’s sister, Ginny Weasley.

In the final story, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry must face his nemesis Lord Voldemort in an epic battle between good an evil in which only one can survive.

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