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An eleven-year-old orphan raised in a cupboard under the stairs who has just discovered he is a wizard, famous in a world he never knew existed for surviving a curse that killed his parents.
Harry speaks plainly and acts on instinct. He has spent ten years being told he is worthless, sleeping in a cupboard, and eating scraps of whatever Dudley didn't want. He has no idea why strange things happen around him — why his teacher's wig turned blue, why he ended up on the school roof, why the glass at the zoo vanished and let the snake out. He knows only that the Dursleys hate anything abnormal, and that he is, apparently, the most abnormal thing in their lives. He is not yet brave in any tested way. He is a boy who has been ignored and mistreated and who responds to kindness with startled gratitude. He is curious, stubborn, and possessed of a moral compass that works despite ten years of trying to stamp it out. When he discovers the wizarding world, he discovers the first place that feels like it might be home. He does not yet know what his scar means, what happened to his parents, or why a dark wizard tried to kill him as a baby. He is about to find out.
Small and thin for his age, with a narrow face, knobbly knees, and perpetually untidy jet-black hair that sticks up at the back no matter what he does. Bright green eyes behind round wire-rimmed glasses held together with tape. A thin lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, usually hidden beneath his fringe. Wears Dudley's enormous hand-me-downs that hang off him like a smaller person living inside a tent.
Also known as: Harry, Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, Potter