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e 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 lilly luna movie appearances change change source daniel radcliffe in the eight harry potter movies from 2001 2011 harry potter was played by british actor daniel radcliffe radcliffe was asked to audition for the role of harry potter in 2000 by producer david heyman while in a play titled stones in his pockets in london 16 17 the harry potter role has earned much money for radcliffe as of 2007 he had an estimated wealth of 17 million 18 in a 2007 interview with mtv radcliffe stated that for him harry potter is a classic coming of age character that s what the movies are about for me a loss of innocence going from being a young kid in awe of the world around him to someone who is more battle hardened by the end of it 19 he also said that for him important factors in harry s psyche are his survivor s guilt about the death of his parents and his lingering loneliness because of this radcliffe talked to a bereavement counsellor to help him prepare for the role 19 radcliffe was quoted as saying that he wished for harry to die in the books but he clarified that he can t imagine any other way they can be concluded 19 after reading the last book where harry potter and his friends survive and have children radcliffe stated he was glad about the ending and praised author j k rowling for the conclusion of the story 20 radcliffe stated that the most often repeated question he has been asked is how harry potter has influenced his own life to which he regularly answers it has been fine 21 and that he did not feel pigeonholed by the role but rather sees it as a huge privilege to portray the character of harry potter 21 other appearances change change source the character will be portrayed by dominic mclaughlin in the upcoming television series harry potter for the streaming service hbo max characterisation change change source according to author j k rowling harry potter is strongly guided by his own conscience and has a keen feeling of what is right and what is wrong having very limited access to truly caring adults rowling said harry is forced to make his own decisions from early age on 6 he does make mistakes she conceded but in the end he does what his conscience tells him to do 6 according to rowling one of harry s pivotal scenes came in the fourth book when he protects his dead schoolmate cedric diggory s body from arch villain lord voldemort because it shows he is brave and unselfish 7 rowling also said that harry s two worst character flaws are anger and occasional arrogance 13 but that harry is also innately honourable he s not a cruel boy he s competitive and he s a fighter he doesn t just lie down and take abuse but he does have native integrity which makes him a hero to me he s a normal boy but with those qualities most of us really admire 22 after the seventh book rowling commented that harry has the ultimate character strength being able to do what even voldemort can not he is not afraid of death 13 rowling has also maintained that harry is a suitable real life role model for children the advantage of a fictional hero or heroine is that you can know them better than you can know a living hero many of whom you would never meet if people like harry and identify with him i am pleased because i think he is very likeable 23 outward appearance change change source rowling also gave harry potter an uncanny outward appearance throughout the entire series harry sports his father s perpetually untidy black hair his mother s green eyes and a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead because of his encounter with lord voldemort and round thick eyeglasses she explained that this image simply came to her when she first thought up harry potter seeing him as a scrawny black haired bespectacled boy 1 in the books harry s scar serves as an indicator of voldemort s presence it burns when the dark lord is near or feeling particularly murderous or exultant according to rowling by attacking harry when he was a baby voldemort gave him tools that no other wizard possessed the scar and the ability it conferred provided a magical window into voldemort s mind 24 asked why harry s forehead scar is lightning bolt shaped rowling said to be honest because it s a cool shape and joked i couldn t have my hero sport a doughnut shaped scar 13 abilities and interests change change source in the books harry is categorised as a half blood wizard in the series because although both his parents were magical his mother lily evans was muggle born according to rowling to characters for whom wizarding blood purity matters lily would be considered as loathsome as a muggle and derogatively referred to as a mudblood 24 throughout the series rowling wrote harry potter as a gifted wizard apprentice she stated in a 2000 interview with south west news service that harry potter is particularly talented in defence against the dark arts and also good in quidditch 25 rowling said in the same interview that until about halfway through the third book his good friend hermione granger written as the smartest student in harry s year would have beaten harry in a magical duel from the fourth book onwards rowling admits harry has become quite talented in the defence against the dark arts and would beat his friend hermione in a magical duel 25 his power is evident from the beginning of the series harry shows immediate command of a broomstick produces a patronus at an early age and survives several confrontations with voldemort harry is able to speak and understand parseltongue a language associated with dark magic which according to rowling is because he harbours a piece of lord voldemort s soul after voldemort destroys that soul piece in the seventh book s climax harry loses the ability to speak parseltongue harry is very glad to have lost this gift 13 according to rowling harry s favourite book is quidditch through the ages an actual book that rowling wrote under the pseudonym kennilworthy whisp for the comic relief charity possessions change change source when harry s parents were murdered by lord voldemort they left behind a large pile of wizard s gold used as currency in the world of magic in a vault in the wizarding bank gringotts this becomes harry s source of paying for all of his hogwarts textbooks wizarding clothing and spending money as is the case with most wizards in the harry potter series his wand is among his most valued magical items harry s is made of holly a wood rowling chose because it is said to get rid of evil 26 it forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of lord voldemort whose wand is made of yew which symbolises death 26 rowling states she later learned that in the celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month and harry s fictional birthday 31 july is linked to holly ron weasley and hermione granger also happened to get wands made from the appropriate woods identified in the celtic calendar according to their fictional birth months 26 another valued and useful possession is harry s cloak of invisibility in his first year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry he gets it anonymously as a christmas gift he later learns it was given by albus dumbledore who had it in turn from harry s father harry also owns half of a pair of two way mirrors given by his godfather sirius black as a means of maintaining covert communications in book 7 harry potter and the deathly hallows when harry and several friends are captured at malfoy manor which lord voldemort was using as his headquarters harry uses the mirror to communicate with aberforth dumbledore who sends rescue in the form of dobby the house elf after sirius death all of his remaining possessions were passed to harry this included the black family residence located at number twelve grimmauld place and all the contents and furnishings of the house including kreacher the old black family house elf harry also inherited the remainder of sirius wealth in wizard s gold at gringotts another notable possession of harry s is a magical knife given to him by sirius black the knife has the power to open most mechanical locks and magical seals the knife was destroyed when harry attempted to use it on a lock in the department of 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