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e of the orphan who on his 11th birthday learns he is a wizard and the son of magical parents lily and james potter he goes to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry to learn magic harry soon learns that he is already famous in the world of wizards he also learns that his fate is connected to lord voldemort voldemort was an evil wizard who killed harry s parents but was believed to have died when he tried to use the killing curse on the baby harry rowling said that the idea for the harry potter character came to her while riding on a train from manchester to london in 1990 she decided to make him an orphan after the death of her mother concept and creation change change source according to author j k rowling the idea for both the harry potter books and the character came while waiting for a delayed train from manchester to london in 1990 j k rowling said that in the hours she waited her idea for this scrawny black haired bespectacled boy who didn t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me 1 rowling also decided to make harry an orphan at a boarding school called hogwarts she explained harry had to be an orphan so that he s a free agent with no fear of letting down his parents disappointing them hogwarts has to be a boarding school half the important stuff happens at night then there s the security having a child of my own reinforces my belief that children above all want security and that s what hogwarts offers harry 2 the death of her mother on 30 december 1990 led rowling to write harry potter as a boy longing for his dead parents his pain became more deeper more real than in earlier versions because she related to it herself 1 in a 2000 interview with the guardian rowling also said that the character of wart in t h white s novel the sword in the stone is harry s spiritual ancestor in that book a boy called wart meets the mysterious wizard merlin merlin helps the child grow into a noble powerful warrior who later becomes king arthur 3 she also said that harry was born on 31 july and has the same birthday as herself however she says harry is not directly based on any real life character he came just out of a part of me 4 appearances change change source first book change change source harry first appears in harry potter and the sorcerer s stone as the book s protagonist or main character when harry was a little over one year old his parents were killed by the powerful dark wizard lord voldemort harry survived voldemort s killing curse after his mother died to protect him the curse was turned back at voldemort and ripped his soul from his body because of this harry has a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead rowling has said that creating the story about harry potter s past was a matter of reverse planning the basic idea is that harry didn t know he was a wizard and so then i kind of worked backwards from that position to find out how that could be that he wouldn t know what he was when he was one year old the most evil wizard in hundreds of years attempted to kill him he killed harry s parents and then he tried to kill harry he tried to curse him harry has to find out before we find out and so but for some mysterious reason the curse didn t work on harry so he s left with this lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead and the curse rebounded upon the evil wizard who has been in hiding ever since 5 harry is an orphan living unhappily with his only family left the cruel dursleys on his eleventh birthday harry finds that he is a wizard when rubeus hagrid tells him that he is to go hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry there he learns about his parents and his connection to the dark lord he is sorted into gryffindor house by the sorting hat and becomes friends with classmates ron weasley and hermione granger near the end of his first year at hogwarts he stops voldemort s attempt to steal the sorcerer s stone via quirinus quirrell he also forms rivalries with draco malfoy a classmate from an elitist wizard family and the potions teacher and head of slytherin house severus snape both feuds continue throughout the series in a 1999 interview rowling stated that draco is based on several schoolyard bullies she had known 6 and snape on a teacher of hers who abused his power 6 rowling has said that the mirror of erised chapter in harry potter and the sorcerer s stone is her favorite the mirror reflects harry s deepest desire namely to see his dead parents 1 her favorite funny scene is when harry accidentally sets a boa constrictor free from the zoo in the horrified dursleys presence 6 second to fourth books change change source in the second book harry potter and the chamber of secrets rowling puts harry against tom marvolo riddle a memory of lord voldemort locked up in a secret diary that ron s younger sister ginny weasley finds in a bathroom when muggle non magic parentage students are found being petrified many think that harry may be the one behind the attacks making him become more detached from his classmates at the height of the book ginny weasley is found to be missing to rescue her harry battles riddle and the monster he controls that is hidden in the chamber of secrets in the third book called harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban rowling uses time travel as the basis for the book harry learns that his parents were sold out to lord voldemort by their friend peter pettigrew also accused of framing harry s godfather sirius black for crimes he didn t make locking him up in the wizarding prison azkaban when black escapes to find revenge harry and hermione use a time turner to save him and a hippogriff named buckbeak pettigrew and the truth escape from sirius causing him to be on the run from the authorities in the previous books harry is written as a child but rowling states that in the fourth novel harry potter and the goblet of fire harry s horizons are literally and metaphorically widening as he grows older 7 harry s developing maturity becomes apparent when he becomes interested in cho chang a pretty ravenclaw student tension mounts however when harry is mysteriously chosen by the goblet of fire to compete in the dangerous triwizard tournament even though another hogwarts champion cedric diggory was already selected it is actually an elaborate scheme by lord voldemort to lure harry into a deadly trap during the tournament s final challenge harry and cedric are teleported to a graveyard cedric is killed and lord voldemort aided by peter pettigrew uses harry s blood in a gruesome ritual to resurrect voldemort s body when harry duels voldemort their wands magical streams connect forcing the spirit echoes of voldemort s victims including cedric and james and lily potter to be expelled from his wand through priori incancatem the spirits shortly protect harry as he escapes to hogwarts with cedric s body for rowling this scene is important because it shows how harry is brave and by finding cedric s corpse he demonstrates selflessness and compassion says rowling he wants to save cedric s parents additional pain 7 she added that preventing cedric diggory s body from falling into voldemort s hands is based on the classic scene in the iliad where achilles finds the body of his best friend patroclus from the hands of hector the author said that iliad scene really really really moved me when i read that when i was 19 the idea of the desecration of a body a very ancient idea i was thinking of that when harry saved cedric s body 7 she also said that she cried while writing the scene when harry s dead parents are drawn from voldemort s wand the first time she cried while penning her story 7 fifth and sixth book change change source in the fifth book harry potter and the order of the phoenix the ministry of magic has been waging a smear campaign against harry and dumbledore disputing their claims that voldemort has returned a new character is introduced when the ministry of magic appoints dolores umbridge as the latest hogwarts defence against the dark arts instructor and ministry spy because the paranoid ministry thinks that dumbledore is building a wizard army to overthrow them umbridge decides not to teach students real defensive magic she gradually gains more power eventually seizing control of the school as a result harry s growing angry and erratic behaviour nearly estranges him from ron and hermione rowling says she put harry through extreme emotional stress to show his emotional vulnerability and humanity a contrast to his nemesis voldemort harry is a very human hero and this is obviously a contrast between him as a very human hero and voldemort who has deliberately de humanised himself and harry therefore did have to reach a point where he did almost break down and say he didn t want to play anymore he didn t want to be the hero anymore and he d lost too much and he didn t want to lose anything else so that phoenix was the point at which i decided he would have his breakdown 8 at hermione s urging harry secretly teaches his classmates real defensive magic to thwart umbridge and the ministry but their meetings are found and dumbledore is ousted as headmaster harry suffers another emotional blow when his godfather sirius black is killed during a battle with death eaters at the department of mysteries but harry ultimately defeats voldemort s plan to steal an important prophecy and helps uncover umbridge s sinister motives rowling stated and now he harry will rise from the ashes strengthened 8 a sideplot of order of the phoenix involves harry s romance with cho chang but the relationship quickly unravels says rowling they were never going to be happy it was better that it ended early 9 in the sixth book harry potter and the half blood prince harry enters a tumultuous puberty that rowling says is based on her and her younger sister s own difficult teenage years 10 rowling also made a statement about harry s personal life because of the demands of the adventure that harry is following he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had 11 this inexperience with romance was a factor in harry s failed relationship with cho chang now his thoughts concern ginny weasley ron s sister a vital plot point in the last chapter when harry ends their budding romance to protect her from voldemort a new character appears when former hogwarts potions master horace slughorn returns to replace severus snape who takes over the defence against the dark arts post harry excels in potions by using an old textbook once belonging to a talented student known only as the half blood prince the book contains many handwritten notes revisions and new spells hermione however believes harry using it is cheating through private meetings with dumbledore harry learns about lord voldemort s orphaned youth his rise to power and how he splintered his soul into horcruxes to achieve immortality two horcruxes have been destroyed and harry and dumbledore locate another although it is a fake when death eaters invade hogwarts snape kills dumbledore as snape escapes he proclaims that he is the half blood prince harry s admired mentor is actually his hated enemy it now falls upon harry to find and destroy voldemort s remaining horcruxes and to avenge dumbledore s death in a 2005 interview with nbc anchorwoman katie couric rowling stated that after the events in the sixth book harry has taken the view that they are now at war he does become more battle hardened he s now ready to go out fighting and he s after revenge against voldemort and snape 12 final book change change source in harry potter and the deathly hallows harry ron and hermione leave hogwarts to complete dumbledore s task to search for and destroy voldemort s remaining four horcruxes and then find and kill the dark lord the three put themselves against voldemort s newly formed totalitarian police state an action that tests harry s courage and moral character according to j k rowling a telling scene in which harry uses cruciatus and imperius unforgivable curses for torture and mind control on voldemort s servants shows a side to harry that is flawed and mortal however she explains that he is also in an extreme situation and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent 13 harry comes to recognise that his own single mindedness makes him predictable to his enemies and often clouds his perceptions when severus snape is killed by voldemort later in the story harry realises that snape was not the traitorous murderer he believed him to be but a tragic anti hero who was loyal to albus dumbledore in chapter 33 the prince s tale snape s memories show that he loved harry s mother lily evans but their friendship ended over his association with future death eaters and blood purity beliefs when voldemort killed the potters a grieving snape vowed to protect lily s child although he hated young harry for being james potter s son it is also revealed that snape did not kill albus dumbledore but carried out dumbledore s prearranged plan dumbledore who was dying from a slow spreading curse wanted to protect snape s position within the death eaters and spare draco malfoy from completing voldemort s task to murder him to defeat harry voldemort steals the elder wand from dumbledore s tomb it is the most powerful wand ever created and he twice casts the killing curse on harry with it the first attempt merely stuns harry into a deathlike state in the chapter king s cross dumbledore s spirit tells harry that when voldemort failed to kill baby harry and disembodied himself harry became an unintentional horcrux voldemort could not kill harry while the dark lord s soul shard was within harry s body voldemort s second killing curse also fails because voldemort used harry s blood in his resurrection voldemort s soul shard within harry was destroyed because harry willingly faced death in the next chapter the flaw in the plan it is established that harry not voldemort became the elder wand s true master in the book s climax the elder wand disobeys the dark lord s command and rebounds the curse onto voldemort killing him 13 j k rowling said the difference between harry and voldemort is that harry willingly accepts mortality making him stronger the real master of death accepts that he must die and that there are much worse things in the world of the living 13 after voldemort s defeat harry joins the auror office for a revolutionised ministry of magic ten years afterwards harry is appointed department head by new minister of magic kingsley shacklebolt 14 ron who helped george run the weasley wizarding wheezes joke shop for a time is also an auror 15 in the end rowling said his old rival draco malfoy has overcome his animosity after harry saved his life three times in the seventh book 13 in the deathly hallows epilogue set nineteen years after voldemort s death i e 2017 harry and ginny are married and have three children james sirius albus severus and 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