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Harry James Potter
Biographical information
31 July 1980
Born
Godric's Hollow[1]
Blood status Half-blood
Marital status Married
 The Boy Who
Lived [2]
Also known as
 The Boy Who
Lies [3]

 The Chosen Captain
(byDraco Malfoy)
 The Boy Who
Scored (byDraco
Malfoy)
 Undesirable No.
1 [4]
 Sweetheart (by his
mother in 1998)
 Moral Fiber
(by Fred and
George Weasley)
 Plotter (by Daily
Prophet)
 Gregory Goyle[5]
 The Great Harry
Potter (byBarty
Crouch
Jr. andVoldemort)
 The Chosen One [6]
 The Heir of
Slytherin
(Incorrectly by
several students
during the 1992-
1993 Chamber of
SecretsOpenings.)
 The Boy Who
Stopped The Dark
Lord (by Kreacher)
 Bartholomew
Mashingspoon[7]
 Barny Weasley[8]
 Saint Potter
(by Draco Malfoy[9]
 Barry Weasley[10]
 Vernon Dudley[11]
 Albert Runcorn[12]
 Bloody Baron[13]
 Neville
Longbottom[14]
 Roonil Wazlib[15]
 Mr.
Perkins[16] (by Profe
ssor Binns)
 Scarhead[17]

 Potty[18]
 'Arry Potter
(by Fleur
Delacour and Stan
Shunpike)
 Mr. Potter
(by Minerva
McGonagall) in
most of the books
 Patronus Potter
(by Lucius Malfoy)
 Parry Hotter (by a
drunkHorace
Slughorn)
 Potty Wee Potter
(by Peeves)
 Crackpot
(by Peeves)
 Triwizard
Champion
 Gryffindor
Quidditch Captain
 Seeker
 Leader
Title(s) of Dumbledore's
Army
 Auror
 Head of the Auror
Office
 Master of Death
 S.P.E.W Secretary
Physical information
Species Human
Gender Male
Hair colour Black
Eye colour Green
Skin colour Light
Family information
 Ignotus
Peverell (paternal
Family members
ancestor) †
 James Potter

I (father) †
 Lily Potter née
Evans(mother) †
 Ginny
Weasley (wife)
 James Potter
II (son)
 Albus Potter (son)
 Lily
Potter (daughter)
 Mr. Potter (paternal
grandfather) †
 Mrs.
Potter (paternal
grandmother) †
 Mr. Evans (maternal
grandfather) †
 Mrs.
Evans (maternal
grandmother) †
 Arthur
Weasley (father-in-
law)
 Molly
Weasley (mother-
in-law)
 Ron
Weasley (brother-
in-law)
 Hermione Weasley
née Granger (sister-
in-law)
 Rose
Weasley (niece)
 Hugo
Weasley (nephew)
 Fred
Weasley (brother-
in-law) †
 George
Weasley (brother-
in-law)
 Angelina Weasley
née Johnson (sister-
in-law)
 Fred Weasley

II (nephew)
 Roxanne
Weasley (niece)
 Bill
Weasley (brother-
in-law)
 Fleur Weasley née
Delacour(sister-in-
law)
 Victoire
Weasley (niece)
 Dominique
Weasley (niece)
 Louis
Weasley (nephew)
 Charlie
Weasley (brother-
in-law)
 Percy
Weasley (brother-
in-law)
 Audrey
Weasley (sister-in-
law)
 Molly Weasley
II (niece)
 Lucy
Weasley (niece)
 Petunia Dursley née
Evans(maternal
aunt)
 Vernon
Dursley (maternal
uncle by marriage)
 Dudley
Dursley (maternal
first cousin)
 Mrs.
Dursley (cousin-in-
law)
 Dudley's
children (first
cousins once
removed)
 Marvolo
Gaunt (distant

cousin) †
 Morfin
Gaunt (distant
cousin) †
 Merope
Gaunt (distant
cousin) †
 Tom Marvolo
Riddle (distant
cousin) †
 Black family (by
marriage and
possibly by blood)
Magical characteristics
Boggart Dementors
 Holly, eleven
inches, phoenix
feather
 Hawthorn, ten
inches, unicorn
Wand hair (temporarily)
 Elder, fifteen
inches, Thestral
hair (temporarily)
 Blackthorn
wand(temporarily)
Patronus Stag
Affiliation
 Part-time lecturer
onDefence Against
Occupation the Dark Arts
 Head of the Auror
Office
House Gryffindor
 Potter family
 Evans family
 Dursley family
 Weasley family
Loyalty  Prewett family
 Peverell family
 Dumbledore's Army
 Order of the
Phoenix

 Ministry of Magic
 Auror office
 Slug Club
 Gryffindor
Quidditch team
 Gryffindor
 Hogwarts
 S.P.E.W.
[Source]

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work
against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the
suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you
stared into a mirror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to
thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches."
—Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter.[src]
Harry James Potter (b. 31 July 1980) is a half-blood wizard, the only child and son of James
Potter and Lily Potter (née Evans), and one of the most famous wizards of modern times. In an
attempt to circumvent a prophecy that a boy born at the end of July 1980 would be able to defeat
him, Lord Voldemort tried to murder him when he was a toddler, and did murder Harry's parents when
they tried to protect him. This early attempt to vanquish Harry led to Voldemort's first defeat and the end
of the FirstWizarding War. One consequence of Lily's protection is that her orphaned son had to be
raised by her only remaining blood relative, in her Muggle sisterPetunia Dursley's family, where he
was not welcomed or nurtured, but would stay alive, at least until he was 17. As the only known survivor
of the Killing Curse, Harry was already famous before he arrived at Hogwarts.
At the age of eleven, Harry learned from Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, that he was
a wizard. He began attending Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted
intoGryffindor house. While at school, Harry became best friends withRon Weasley and Hermione
Granger. He became the youngestSeeker in over a century and eventually captain of his
house'sQuidditch team, winning two Quidditch Cups as part of the team.[19]He became even better
known in his early years for protecting thePhilosopher's Stone from Voldemort and saving Ginny
Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets. In his fourth year, Harry won the Triwizard
Tournament, although the competition ended in tragedy with the death of Cedric Diggory and
the return of Lord Voldemort. The next school year, Harry reluctantly founded Dumbledore's
Army and fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, during which he lost
hisgodfather, who was a father figure to him.
Harry played a significant role in many other battles of the Second Wizarding War and hunted down
and destroyed Voldemort'sHorcruxes with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. During
theBattle of Hogwarts, he personally witnessed the deaths of Severus Snape and Fred

Weasley, and learned that Remus Lupin,Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey, and many others
had fallen as well. He encountered Voldemort and sacrificed himself, knowing that that was the only way
to destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul that was inside him. In Harry's near-death experience after
Voldemort cursed him in the forest clearing, Albus Dumbledore gave Harry advice and background
information on Voldemort. Harry chose to live, and after he awoke, he duelled Voldemort one last time,
and defeated him.
After the war, Harry became an Auror and married his best friend Ron's younger sister, Ginny
Weasley, with whom he had three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Harry
was also named the godfather of Teddy Remus Lupin. He had felt the effects of the Cruciatus
Curse and the Imperius Curse several times. He was also hit by the Killing Curse twice, but
survived. Harry is also notable for being the only known Master of Death, having united the
threeDeathly Hallows.

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Biography Edit
Family lineage Edit
"Now, yer mum an' dad were as good a witch an' wizard as I ever knew. Head
Boy an' Head Girl at Hogwarts in their day!"
—Rubeus Hagrid talking about Harry's parents[src]
The Potters were an old, very wealthy pure-blood family, and Harry inherited much of his wealth
from his parents. The Potters descended from the Peverell family, an ancient wizarding line,
through Ignotus Peverell, who passed an Invisibility cloak on to his descendants. TheGaunts,
descendants of Salazar Slytherin, also descend from thePeverells, through Ignotus'
brother Cadmus, who passed on theResurrection Stone as a family heirloom in a signet ring,
making Harry and Tom Marvolo Riddle very distant relatives.

Harry as a baby with his parents.
Added by You-Know-Who

It is also probable that Harry was distantly related, on his father's side, to
the Blacks, Malfoys, Weasleys, and the Longbottoms,[20]and almost all other pure-blood
families, making him distantly related to various other wizards and witches, including Bellatrix
Lestrange,Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks, and even his own future wife Ginny Weasley,
though the degree of consanguinity is not known.[21]
Harry's maternal relatives are the Muggle Evans and Dursley families.

Childhood Edit
"Maybe he thought he could persuade 'em... maybe he just wanted 'em outta the way. All anyone
knows is, he turned up in the village where you was all living, on Hallowe'en ten years ago. You
was just a year old."
—Rubeus Hagrid on Harry's parent's deaths[src]

Harry as a baby, faces death.
Added by Fairfieldfencer
Harry James Potter was born on 31 July, 1980, to James and Lily Potter, members of the
first Order of the Phoenix at the height of theFirst Wizarding War. From birth, he lived in hiding
with his parents after Lord Voldemort marked them for death. They lived in the village of Godric's
Hollow in a home put under the Fidelius Charm to keep them hidden. As part of the charm, they had
planned to make their Secret-Keeper Sirius Black, but acting on his advice, they changed this
designation to Peter Pettigrew, as they thought he would be less suspicious. In a terrible turn of fate, it
happened that Pettigrew was a spy for Voldemort. He betrayed James and Lily Potter, faked his own
death, and framed Sirius Black for everything.

Lily shields her baby fromVoldemort.
Added by Pol 871
At an unknown time, James and Lily held a Christening for Harry. It was quiet and quick, and only
James, Lily, Harry, and godfather Sirius were there. It is also known that for Harry's birthday Sirius bought
Harry a toy Broomstick. The Potters are also known to have owned a cat but it is not known what
happened to the cat after Lord Voldemort's attack.
On the evening of 31 October, 1981, Lord Voldemort arrived atGodric's Hollow and ended the
lives of Harry's parents; he started with James, who tried to stand up to him; unfortunately he did not
have his wand with him and was killed immediately. Voldemort then advanced on Lily Potter, who died
protecting Harry. Her sacrificeprevented the Killing Curse from working. Her love for Harry became a
barrier protecting her son; when Voldemort attempted the curse on the child, it backfired, and instead of
killing Harry, Voldemort lost all his powers and his physical form was obliterated, but was saved from
death by his multiple Horcruxes. Harry became the only person known to have survived the Killing
Curse. The failed curse left alightning bolt-shape scar on his forehead. The scar would be a bane
and a blessing to Harry in the years to come, as it opened atelepathic link between Lord
Voldemort and himself. He became famous even at the age of one for defeating Lord Voldemort.
"To Harry Potter — The Boy Who Lived."
—Wizarding world toasting Harry Potter after Lord Voldemort's first downfall.[src]

The Potter family home under attack.

Added by Patr0nus
The house at Godric's Hollow was destroyed in the fight, and Rubeus Hagrid rescued Harry from
the ruined house. Hagrid was given specific orders to take him to his Aunt Petunia and Uncle
Vernon, but Hagrid was intercepted by Sirius Black, who pleaded for Hagrid to give the baby to him.
Hagrid refused, saying that he was under orders from Dumbledore to get Harry to Privet Drive as
quickly as possible. Sirius, though reluctant, relented and gave Hagrid his flying motorcycle to take Harry
to Privet Drive. Dumbledore left a letter explaining everything to the Dursleys, but they never relayed it
to Harry. Instead, Harry spent the next decade of his life in their strict and miserable home.

Life at Privet Drive Edit
"I'm not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out
that dangerous nonsense?"
—Vernon refusing to accept that Harry's a wizard[src]

Baby Harry left on the doorstep.
Added by Starstuff
Living with the Dursleys, Harry thought, was the worst thing in the world. As they were
a Muggle family, they had no understanding ofmagic, and even though his aunt and uncle knew about
his lineage, they wanted nothing to do with it. The Dursleys considered themselves a "proper" family and
hated anything out of the ordinary. They lied to Harry about his parents, claiming they had died in a car
wreck and that James was an unemployed drunk. They resented Harry for his magical talents, which
were sporadic, but evident. They would not even let Harry say the word "magic." They discouraged any
sort of imagination insisting upon "stamping that rubbish out" and screamed at or punished Harry
whenever something "unusual" occurred. In his youth, Harry could make strange things happen without
understanding why (as no one had bothered to tell him that he was a wizard). For instance, after his
aunt Petunia sheared off all his messy hair in fury that it would not lay flat, it grew back to its untouched
state by the next morning. Harry was punished, even though he had not done anything on purpose.
Another time, Dedalus Diggle bowed to him in a shop, and his Aunt Petunia ferociously interrogated
Harry as to how he knew the man before leaving the shop very quickly.

Harry's bedroom beneath the staircase.
Added by Margiechocoholic
The Dursleys spoiled and pampered their son Dudley and paid almost no attention to Harry. All his
clothes were ill-fitting hand-me-downs from Dudley, far too large for Harry. He was forced to sleep in
the cupboard under the stairs, while his cousin got two bedrooms to himself. They ordered Harry
around like a slave. In time, Dudley became a terrible bully of Harry. The Dursleys took Dudley and a
friend to spectacular places every year for his birthday, but they never threw Harry a party and gave him
horrible presents like a pair of Uncle Vernon's old socks.
Dursleys' home. First, Harry's
There were two benefits to Harry's virtual imprisonment at the
neighbour, Arabella Figg, was a Squib working undercover for the Order of the Phoenix to keep
tabs on Harry's well-being; however, to maintain favour with the Dursleys, she was forced to mistreat him
whenever they sent him to her. And second, by returning to live with his mother's only living blood
relative, the protection that Lily gave Harry would live on. While Harry could call that place home, there
he could not be harmed. However, this charm would be broken when Harry turned 17 years old, or when
he no longer called 4 Privet Drive his home.

Harry playing with his toy soldiers in
the Cupboard under the stairs.
Added by Firefox1095
On Dudley's eleventh birthday, the Dursleys went to Zoo with Dudley's best friend Piers Polkiss.
Unfortunately for the Dursleys they had to take Harry with them, as Yvonne, Petunia's best friend, was

on holiday at Majorca, and Mrs. Figgbroke her leg. At the Zoo, Harry accidentally made the glass into
a boa enclosure disappear.

Muggle primary school Edit
"At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in
his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang."
—The reason Harry had no friends at school[src]
Harry attended a normal Muggle school along with Dudley. He did not have any friends, since all the
students were afraid of Dudley's gang. It is told that he was good at sports, even though he was the
last picked for a team; this was more because no one wanted to admit to Dudley that they liked him,
rather than because he was no good. Harry got decent, if not good, grades at school. Harry once
accidentally turned his teacher's wig blue, and once somehow found himself on the school kitchen
roof, when escaping from Dudley's gang.
If Harry had not gone to Hogwarts, he would have attended Stonewall High, a Muggle state school.

Harry's discovery of being a wizard Edit
"Yer a wizard, Harry, and a thumpin' good one I'd wager, once yer trained up a bit, o' course."
—Rubeus Hagrid upon meeting Harry for the first time[src]

Harry finally receives his Hogwarts acceptance
letter.
Added by Patr0nus
Harry had no birthday celebrations until the day he turned eleven, which was the same day that he
identity . The week of Harry's birthday, hundreds of letters
discovered the exceptional reality about his
began arriving at the Dursley's home, addressed to him from a place called Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. When the Dursleys saw the first letter was addressed as "cupboard under
the stairs," they panicked at the thought of Harry's ill treatment being observed and transferred him
to Dudley's second bedroom, which soon appeared on letters as the "smallest bedroom." When
Harry's Uncle Vernon first read the letter, he turned a pale, porridge grey out of fear that wizards were
trying to contact Harry. Because of this, Vernon Dursley tried to destroy the letters in a futile attempt to
keep Harry from his destiny. As the letters kept coming in increasingly larger quantities, the Dursleys saw
no alternative but to flee from them. The owls carrying the letters followed them wherever they went. In a

final desperate move, the Dursleysrelocated themselves to a shack on a rocky island in the edge of
the sea.

Hagrid's birthday cake to Harry.
Added by Starstuff
At midnight on Harry's birthday, Rubeus Hagrid appeared in person to find out why Harry had not
received his letter. He was infuriated by the Dursleys and explained to Harry, in spite ofVernon's
obstinate protests, that he was a wizard, how his parents died, and that he was to be sent to Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"That's why you're famous, Harry. That's why everyone knows your name. You're the boy who
lived."
—Hagrid on why Harry is famous.[src]
This would be Harry's first birthday celebration, and Hagrid gave him a small home made birthday cake
and an owl, whom Harry named Hedwig. Hagrid took Harry to the Leaky Cauldron, where he
learned that he was famous. He met Quirinus Quirrell, his soon-to-be Defence Against the Dark
Arts teacher at Hogwarts, the Inn-keeper, Tom, a witch named Doris Crockford, and Dedalus
Diggle, the man who had bowed to Harry several years earlier. Hagrid then took Harry to Diagon
Alley, where he learned more about his fame in the Wizarding world and that his parents had left him
a small fortune in a vault at Gringotts.

Harry makes a connection with his wand.
"I remember every wand I've every sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens thatthe phoenix whose tail
feather resides in your wand gave another feather. Just one other. It is curious that you should
be destined for this wand...when its brother gave you that scar."
—Garrick Ollivander explaining to Harry about his unique wand.[src]

Harry bought his first wand from the wandmaker Garrick Ollivander that day. His wand was eleven
inches long and made of holly. The phoenix feather at the core came from Dumbledore's
phoenix Fawkes. It was crafted by Garrick Ollivander, who had also created a twin wand. This wand
had been made from yew, and contained the only other feather supplied by Fawkes . This twin
wand had long ago chosen Tom Marvolo Riddle as its wielder. Riddle, under the alias of Lord
Voldemort, ended up using this wand to attack Harry and his parents . The two wands , sharing the
same phoenix origin, had a unique connection which would prevent them from
successfully duelling against each other.

Education at Hogwarts Edit
First year Edit

Harry shows off his scar to Ron on the train.
Dumbledore: "Harry, do you know why Professor Quirrell couldn't bear to have you touch him? It
was because of your mother. She sacrificed herself for you. And that kind of act leaves a mark...
This kind of mark cannot be seen. It lives in your very skin."
Harry: "What is it?"
Dumbledore: "Love, Harry. Love."
— Albus Dumbledore to Harry[src]

Harry's scar hurts during the sorting ceremony when he makes eye contact
withSeverus Snape.
Added by Rangerkid51
Harry Potter was further guided by destiny when he met his lifelong best friends Ron
Weasley and Hermione Granger while riding the Hogwarts Express. The Sorting Hat took a
while to decide where to place Harry. It considered putting Harry into Slytherin, but changed its mind at

Harry's insistence, as he had heard about the Dark Wizards who had been in the house. All three were
Sorted into Gryffindor House on their first evening at school. While Harry immediately took to Ron, he
did not immediately befriend Hermione, though he was nicer to her than Ron was. On Halloween,
aMountain Troll was let into the school. The students were sent back to theirCommon Rooms, but
Harry realised that Hermione did not know about the Troll, since she was in the bathroom crying as Ron
had made fun of her earlier in the day. Harry and Ron went to the girls bathroom and found the troll
bearing down on Hermione. After Harry stuck his wand up its nose, Ron was able to knock the troll out
with its own club. Hermione lied to the professors when they came to investigate to keep Harry and Ron
out of trouble. From that point on, the three were best friends.

Harry with his magical companion Hedwig.
Added by Andrew120
Professor McGonagall: "Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood — I've found you a Seeker."
Wood: "Are you serious, Professor?"
Professor McGonagall: "Absolutely. The boy's a natural. I've never seen anything like it."
— Professor McGonagall and Oliver Wood after seeing Harry fly[src]

Harry caught theRemembrall of Neville Longbottom.
Added by Shiruzuka2997
Harry discovered at his firstbroomstick flying lesson that he was a natural flyer. When Draco
Malfoy took Neville Longbottom'sRemembrall, Harry retrieved it using his broom to fly up and
catch it. He was so good that he was able to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team, becoming the

youngest Seeker in a century, since first
year students normally were not allowed to have their
own broomsticks. Before Harry's first Quidditch match, he received the new Nimbus 2000, a top of
the line racing broom, from Professor McGonagall. During that Quidditch match,
Harry's broom was jinxed, and he had no control.

Harry playing Quidditch.
Added by H.P.Snitch
Ron and Hermione saw Professor Severus Snape staring at Harry and mumbling an
incantation. Hermione went to Snape's row and under his seat and cast Lacarnum
Inflamarae causing the end of his robes to catch on fire. As soon as Snape stopped making eye contact
with Harry, he regained control of his broom and zoomed toward the ground. On his way, he caught
the snitch in his mouth, almost swallowing it, ending the match and leavingGryffindor victorious. It was
later revealed that Professor Quirrell was the one jinxing Harry's broom, and Snape was trying to perform
a counter-jinx, much to Harry, Ron, and Hermione's surprise. Meanwhile, Lord Voldemort, long
presumed dead, was secretly mounting a return using the new Professor ofDefence Against the
Dark Arts, Quirinus Quirrell, as a host body, he was able to search for the Philosopher's Stone,
which he believed would restore him to his body and grant him everlasting life. Voldemort was thwarted
by Harry, with the help of Ron and Hermione. Harry, Ron and Hermione suffered a series of
exhausting and difficult challenges down in the Philosopher's Stone chambers in an attempt to stop

thePhilosopher's Stone being stolen. Quirell and
Voldemort in confrontation
Added by El Profeta Vespertino
Throughout the challenges the group was picked off and in the final task Harry was left on his own when
Hermione was unable to pass through, this left Harry to face Voldemort alone. Harry and Quirrell (who
had been harbouring Voldemort with him all year) fought one another and Harry killed Quirrell with the
power of love than ran through him.

The Writing on the Wall.
Added by Dumbledorefan

Second year Edit
Ron: "You're aParselmouth! Why didn't you tell us? ... Now the whole school is gonna think
you're his great-great-great-grandson or something."
Harry: "But I'm not! I can't be."
Hermione: "He lived a thousand years ago. For all we know, you could be."
— Harry finds out he's a Parselmouth[src]

Harry in his second year, during the first meeting of Gilderoy
Lockhart's Duelling Club.
Harry's second year started out badly, and gradually got worse. Throughout the preceding summer, Harry
had not been in contact with any of his friends, had heard no news from the wizarding world, and had
been mistreated by his family, as usual. The evening of his twelfth birthday, Harry learned that the reason
his friends had not been in contact with him was that a house-elf named Dobby had been stopping
letters from coming to Harry. When Harry questioned Dobby as to why, Dobby told him that Harry Potter
must not return to Hogwarts. Harry refused, saying the wizarding world was where he belonged, and
Dobby set out to cause him trouble. During a business meeting betweenVernon and Mr. Mason, who
brought his wife with him, Dobby used his powers to ruin the party, and then shortly afterwards
disappeared, framing Harry for the chaos. Dobby's act of magic caused Harry to receive a warning from
the Ministry of Magic and to be imprisoned in his room by the Dursleys. Despite their efforts, Harry
was rescued by Ron and his brothers, Fred and George. Harry had packed his bags and loaded the
Weasleys' flying car. Harry and the brothers arrived at the Burrow in the early hours of the morning,

hoping not to be noticed. However, they were, and Mrs. Weasley was furious.

Harry with Fawkes.
Added by Dumbledorefan
Dobby's first attempt at stopping Harry from returning had failed, so he continued trying. When Harry and
the Weasleys arrived at King's Cross Station, Dobby sealed the entrance to Platform Nine and
Three-Quarters early and stopped Harry and Ron from passing through the wall to get on the
Hogwarts Express. However, this did not stop Harry from returning to Hogwarts, he and Ron used the
Weasleys' Flying Ford Anglia to follow the train to Hogwarts. They arrived later than they had hoped,
but all in one piece; until Ron accidentally drove the flying car into the Whomping Willow and broke his
wand.
However, Harry's year at Hogwarts was not going to get any better. Throughout the year, the new
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, humiliated Harry repeatedly by dragging
Harry into the spotlight against Harry's will. During a duelling class led by Lockhart, Harry revealed
himself to his fellow students and members of staff to be a Parselmouth, an uncommon skill that is
normally associated with dark wizards. This brought on a great deal of trouble for Harry, since
the Chamber of Secrets had been re-opened, and it was the "Heir of Slytherin" who was deemed
responsible. Once the chamber had been unsealed, there were various attacks on Muggle-bornpupils,
including Harry's best friend Hermione Granger. These attacks were believed to have been carried out by
Draco Malfoy was responsible. In
the heir, who many believed to be Harry, but Harry believed that
order to prove their hypothesis, Hermione cooked up a Polyjuice Potion that Harry and Ron used to
change to look like Crabbe and Goyle, so they could try to get information from Malfoy. They learned that
Malfoy was not the heir and that he had no idea who the attacker was. Hermione, however, did not join
the boys in this adventure as she had accidentally used a cat hair in her potion, causing her to spend
weeks in the hospital wing. Prior to Valentine's Day, Harry discovered a diary, and while writing in it,
Harry learned that the Chamber had been opened fifty years ago and that Hagrid had been accused of
the crime.
By this time, Hermione had a different theory. She believed that the monster responsible for these attacks
was abasilisk and conducted research into her theory. The morning Hermione was attacked, she
and Penelope Clearwater had been using a mirror to look around corners for any attacking predator.
Hermione had done enough research to figure that the Basilisk had been moving around the school using
the pipe system and scribbled her theory down on a scrap piece of paper torn out of a book. She was
attacked the same day, and her paralysed body was taken to the school's hospital wing.

Still believing that if Hagrid were not responsible, he could at least point them in the right direction, Harry
and Ron visited him after the attack on Hermione. From under the Cloak
of Invisibility, they witnessed
his arrest by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge and the suspension of Dumbledore. As Hagrid
was being led away, he gave the pair a new clue. He told them to follow the spiders. Harry and Ron
heeded this advice, even though Ron was deathly afraid of spiders. They met Aragog who told them that
Hagrid was not responsible for opening the Chamber the first time and that the girl who died was killed in
a bathroom, leading Harry to theorise that Moaning Myrtle was the victim. A few days later, Harry and
Ron discovered the scrap of paper in Hermione's hand. Harry and Ron wondered how a big Basilisk
would go around the school undetected, and then they saw the word "pipes."
Harry (and later Ron) would soon learn that the person responsible for opening the Chamber was in fact
Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley, under the control of a memory of Lord Voldemort by writing
into his diary, forcing her to torment and vandalise the school. They also learned that she was being kept
down in the Chamber and were told that her "skeleton would lie in the Chamber forever." Determined to
rescue Ginny and hopefully catch the Heir and destroy the Basilisk, Harry, accompanied by Ron and
Lockhart, was able to locate and open the Chamber using his Parseltongue abilities. Once they got down
into the Chamber, it was not long before the cowardly Lockhart attempted to erase Harry and Ron's
memories using Ron's broken wand; however, his spell backfired, and he erased his own memory.
The Chamber roof caved in, separating Harry from Ron and Lockhart.
Separated from Ron and a now deluded Lockhart, Harry ventured on alone. Harry soon found Ginny's
unconscious body lying on the floor of the Chamber. As he hoped she was not dead, he was greeted by
Tom Riddle, who had come to a simulation of life from the memories stored in the diary. Revealing his
history and true nature, Riddle set the basilisk upon him. Harry defeated the Basilisk with the help
of Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, and Godric Gryffindor's Sword. However, Harry was bitten by
the Basilisk. Fawkes flew over to Harry and wept upon his wound. As Phoenix tears have healing powers,
Harry survived. Harry then stabbed the diary with the Basilisk fang to rid himself of Riddle, not knowing
that he had just destroyed one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Once the emergency was over, Fawkes flew
Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Lockhart to safety. Harry spoke with Dumbledore on the events that took place,
and explained to him that Ginny was not to blame and that Lockhart was a fraud. Harry and Ron both
received Awards for Special Services to the School and two-hundred points a piece for Gryffindor House.

Harry examines the Sword of Gryffindor.
After interpreting Dobby's strange actions in Dumbledore's office, Harry realised Lucius Malfoy was the
ultimate culprit for opening the Chamber. Before term started, he had planted Tom Riddle's diary in

Ginny's cauldron in the hope of indirectly opening the Chamber of Secrets. At this time, he did not know
the diary was one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. Afterwards, Harry was able to trick Lucius into freeing
his mistreated house-elf, Dobby, who had been attempting to protect Harry all year, by giving him one
of his socks. Malfoy was subsequently sacked as a school governor.

Third year Edit

Harry, Ron and Hermione in theShrieking Shack.
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"He was their friend...and he betrayed them. HE WAS THEIR FRIEND! I hope he finds me,
because when he does, I'm going to be ready! When does, I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
—Harry, still believing Sirius Black to be the man who betrayed his parents, learns that Black is
also his godfather.[src]
In the summer of 1993, SiriusBlack—who had been wrongly imprisoned twelve years earlier for
allegedly betraying James and Lily Potter to Voldemort and killing twelve Muggles—
escaped from Azkaban. This created a tense climate in the wizarding world, and many believed
that killing Harry was the object of Black's escape. As such, he was treated leniently when, late in the
summer, he inadvertently inflated his "Aunt"Marge, possibly with an Engorgement Charm. That
evening he ran away from the Dursleys, and after an enlightening journey aboard the Knight Bus, he
arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, whereMinister for Magic Cornelius Fudge was awaiting him.
After spending two happy weeks at the Leaky Cauldron, Harry met up with his
friends Ron and Hermione along with the entire Weasley family, who had just returned from a
holiday in Egypt. That night, Harry overheard Mr. and Mrs. Weasley arguing and learned of the
Ministry's fears that Harry was the target of Sirius Black.
Prior to their departure aboard the Hogwarts Express, Mr. Weasley pulled Harry aside and in no
uncertain terms told Harry not to go looking for Black. Finding only one open compartment, Harry and his
Remus Lupin. The train suddenly stopped well before it
friends shared their ride with a new professor,
should have and was searched byDementors looking for Black. Harry reacted poorly to the appearance
of the dementors, passing out, and beginning a pattern that would last most of the year. The following
day, Harry and his classmates began their new classes. Among the first wasCare of Magical
Creatures in which, Hagrid, the new professor, taught them about hippogriffs. Unfortunately, Draco
Malfoy had not been listening when Hagrid lectured and was injured by the hippogriff, Buckbeak. In
Harry's other new class, Divination, the professor, Sybill Trelawney made a habit of predicting

Harry's demise. On the other hand, Professor Lupin soon proved to be an excellent teacher in Defence
Against the Dark Arts, where he taught the students how to combat various dark creatures.

Harry approaches theBuckbeak the hippogriff.
At Halloween, the third year students went on their first visit to Hogsmeadevillage. Harry was not
allowed to go, as he had not had his permission form signed. In light of Harry's difficulties, Ron and
Hermione, who had been fighting over Hermione's new cat, Crookshanks, put aside their differences.
While his friends were enjoying themselves in Hogsmeade, Harry visited with Professor Lupin. A few
weeks later, Harry played in the first Quidditch match of the year versus Hufflepuff. In the pouring rain
and storms, the teams played until theDementors invaded the field. In their presence, Harry tumbled off
his broom fifty feet to the ground. His Nimbus
2000 was destroyed in the process. Knowing
that Gryffindor would not win the Quidditch Cup, if he continued to collapse in the presence of the

dementors, Harry asked Lupin to help teach him how to combat them.
Hogsmeade in Christmas.
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Just before Christmas, the school had another Hogsmeade visit. This time Harry sneaked out of the
castle using the Marauder's Map, which the Weasley twins presented to him in his time of need.
During his illicit visit to Hogsmeade, Harry overheard a conversation between Minister for
MagicCornelius Fudge and several of the Hogwarts teachers. Fudge told them that Black had
betrayed the Potters and that he was still Harry's godfather. This revelation caused Harry great distress.
To relieve Harry of some of his troubles the trio went to visit Hagrid, where they learned that Buckbeak
was to be put on trial, and they promised to help his defence. Soon after, on Christmas day, Harry
received a Firebolt from an anonymous benefactor. Believing it to be from Sirius Black, Hermione
reported it to Professor McGonagall, causing Harry and Ron to stop talking to her.

Harry's first lesson.
Added by Jack "BtR" Saxon
Following the break, Lupin began his lessons with Harry. While Harry made progress, he regretted his
inability to create a true Patronus many lessons in. Soon after, Harry was given his Firebolt back by
Professor McGonagall, and Harry decided it was high time to patch things up with Hermione. However,
that same evening, Ron's rat, Scabbers, disappeared, and Crookshanks was blamed. The boys did not
reconcile with her until after the next Hogsmeade visit, when Harry was almost caught. After receiving a
stern talking to for sneaking out of the school, Harry and Ron emerged from Professor Lupin's office to
find Hermione standing there looking distraught. She told them thatLucius Malfoy had used his
influence and Buckbeak had been convicted and sentenced to execution.
The Quidditch final was soon upon them, and Harry played in the dirtiest game of his career. He managed
to catch the Golden Snitch after Gryffindor was sufficiently ahead, and Gryffindor won the Quidditch
Cup. They could not celebrate for long as finals were right around the corner. Harry did well enough in the
tests, and following his last final in Divination, Professor Trelawney went into a trance and predicted that
the servant would return to Lord Voldemort and help him return to power. The same day, Buckbeak's
appeal had taken place in the castle, where the hippogriff was, again, sentenced to death. Against the
advice of Hagrid, the trio went down to his cabin to comfort him. While there, Scabbers resurfaced. When
he discovered that the Ministry officials were on their way, Hagrid rushed Harry, Ron, and Hermione out
the back. While they made their way back to the castle, the sound of a swishing blade rent the air, and
Buckbeak was apparently executed.

Harry and Hermione use theTime-Turner.
Immediately afterwards, Scabbers bit Ron and attempted to escape, causing Ron to chase the rat into the
shadow of the Whomping Willow. Once there, he was attacked by a large black dog who dragged Ron
and Scabbers into a tunnel under the Willow. Harry and Hermione followed them into the tunnel, which
led them to the Shrieking Shack. There, they followed the sound of Ron and discovered him in an

upstairs bedroom, where they were ambushed bySirius Black, who was a Animagus that turned into
a dog. They were saved byProfessor Lupin, but then the situation turned on its head when he
embraced Black like a brother, and they began talking about the long dead Peter Pettigrew. When
asked to explain, they revealed that Lupin, Black, and Pettigrew went to Hogwarts with Harry's
father, James, that they had all become amimagi to help Lupin with his Lycanthropy, and that in fact
Peter Pettigrew betrayed the Potters. This was proven when Black and Lupin forced Scabbers to become
Pettigrew. After questioning he confessed, but Harry prevented Black and Lupin from killing him.

Harry casting The Patronus Charm.
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Determined to turn Pettigrew over, the whole group set off for the castle. Along the way, the moon came
out from behind the clouds, and Lupin transformed into a werewolf, since he had not drunk
hisWolfsbane Potion. Seeing the danger, Black used his Animagus powers to protect Harry and his
friends, but was badly injured. When Harry and Hermione went to look for him, hundreds
ofDementors fell upon them, trying to perform the Dementor's Kissboth on Sirius and him. Sirius
quickly passed out, as Harry tried casting Expecto Patronum(using the thought that he would leave the
Dursleys and move with Sirius to try and conjure it) and tried to make Hermione think of something happy
and cast it as well, but neither could do it. The Dementor's were quickly descending on, and as Harry
finally conjured a fog Patronus, Hermione passed out leaving Harry to fight the Dementor's alone. After
trying to hold them off, Harry was quickly overwhelmed. The dementors descended on him, Sirius, and
Hermione. Then one Dementor grabbed Harry by the throat and attempted to perform the kiss on him.
Harry then heard his mother screaming in his ears, thinking that she would be the last thing he ever heard
when a mysterious figure on the other side of the lake cast a powerful Patronus sending away all of the
Dementors saving Harry, Sirius, and Hermione. Harry then began to think the mysterious stranger
was his father when he passed out. Later Harry and Hermione awoke to find themselves in the infirmary
and that Sirius was about to be subjected to the Dementor's Kiss. They pleaded with Dumbledore who
instructed them that nothing could be done without more time. With this clue, Hermione grabbed Harry
and used her Time-Turner to send them back in time. Once there, they hid out until the time was right

to rescue Buckbeak, who they saved just prior to his execution. Afterwards, they waited for the
appropriate moment to save Sirius. While they sat in the woods, Harry tried to tell Hermione that he
thought that his father might have saved them. When she reminded him that his father was dead, Harry
dropped the subject. They ran for safety to Hagrid's hut when the werewolf Lupin was on the loose, and
Harry, desperate to see who saved him, left to observe the situation. Harry arrived at the lake watching
the dementors attack his past self as he watched, until in a flash of clarity, Harry realised that he cast
the Patronus Charm that saved his life and stepping forward, Harry cast the Patronus and produced a
fully fledged stag Patronus that drove all of the dementors back saving his past self, Hermione, and
Sirius. Once reunited with Hermione the pair rode Buckbeak to Sirius's window and rescued him.

Harry returned to the Dursleys feeling as if he had accomplished nothing, but his trip and future at
Hogwarts was brightened when he received a letter from Sirius. Inside there was permission for him to go
to Hogsmeade, and Harry was delighted to have a godfather. Sirius also told him that it was indeed him
that gave him the Firebolt

Fourth year Edit
"You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you."
—Dumbledore to Harry at the end of his fourth year[src]
In 1994, Harry, the Weasley family (except Mrs. Weasley), and Hermione attended
the Quidditch World Cup. AtStoatshead Hill, Cedric Diggory and his father, Amos, joined them.
Once at the camp grounds, they met Ludo Bagman, Barty Crouch Sr. and his house-elf Winky,
and many other Hogwarts students and their families, including Seamus Finnigan, Dean
Thomas, Oliver Wood, and Draco Malfoy. They were able to see the match between the Irish and
Bulgarian national teams up close, because Harry, the Weasleys, and Hermione had seats in the top box,
thanks to a favour Mr. Weasley had done for Ludo Bagman.
The night after the match, while the Irish team's supporters were still celebrating, a group of black-
cloaked, hooded figures held terrifying celebrations of their own by suspending the Muggle camp site
manager and his family in air like twisted marionettes. On Mr. Weasley's orders, Harry fled into the woods
near the camp site, along with Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and Ginny. The group was separated in the
woods, and in the chaos, Harry believed he had lost his wand. The trio ran into Draco Malfoy, and he
all but told them that his father was among the cloaked wizards. Later, Harry learned that Barty Crouch
Jr. had stolen his wand from his pocket. While in a clearing in the woods, Harry, Ron, and Hermione
heard someone shout the incantation Morsmordre, casting the Dark Mark - a green skull with a snake
protruding from its mouth like a tongue - into the sky. Although Harry did not immediately recognise its
significance, he soon learned that the Dark Mark had evil implications. Then, Barty Crouch Sr., Amos
Diggory, and other Ministry of Magic employees apparated into the clearing and began to question Harry,
Ron, and Hermione about the Dark Mark. After Harry mentioned he had heard another voice conjure the

Dark Mark, the Ministry employees searched the area and found the house-elf Winky unconscious in the
bushes. Since Harry's wand was found in Winky's hand, Mr. Crouch fired her for shaming his family and
disobeying his orders.

Students putting their names in The Goblet of Fire.
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Harry with Rita Skeeter, discussing the Triwizard Tournament.
Added by Oread
At the Hogwarts start of term feast,Professor
Dumbledore announced thatHogwarts would host
the Triwizard Tournament, a recently-revived inter-school competition in which theBeauxbatons
Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute would also participate. New rules stated that only
students seventeen and older could compete. Also, during the start of term feast, Dumbledore
introducedAlastor Moody, an ex-Auror, as the newly appointed Defence Against the Dark
Arts teacher. This news was greeted with a mixture of responses, as Moody was known to be a
great Auror, a little crazy, and to have a magical eye, earning him the nickname "Mad-Eye Moody."
Around Halloween the students from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Durmstrang
Institute arrived at the school, and Viktor Krum,Fleur Delacour, and Cedric Diggory were all
chosen to represent their respective schools in this tournament. However, Harry was mysteriously chosen
as a fourth competitor, even though he was under-age and never entered his name into the Goblet of
Fire during the selection process. Many people did not believe Harry's story, including Ron believing this
to be nothing but another attempt to gain fame. This caused extreme tension between the two
friends. Hermione, on the other hand, "accepted his story without question," and assisted Harry in
preparing for the Tournament by teaching him useful spells, such as the Summoning Charm, which
Harry used in the first task of the Tournament. The champions faced three dangerous challenges on their
way to the Triwizard Cup. A few days after his name came out of the Goblet, Harry attended the Wand
Weighing ceremony. There he was cornered by the notorious Daily Prophet reporter Rita
Skeeter who asked him many leading questions and wrote an inflammatory article about him.

Harry trying to escape the Hungarian Horntail in the First
Task of the Triwizard Tournament.
Added by Big S94
In the first task, each champion needed to get past a dragon to collect a golden egg. Harry received help
from Hagrid who showed the dragons to Harry. Realising that every champion but Cedrichad found out
about the dragons, Harry told Cedric about the first task, trying to level the playing field. The newly
appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Alastor Moody, witnessed Harry telling Cedric, but
did not report him. Instead he advised Harry to play to his strengths, hinting that he should use his flying
ability to get the golden egg. Four different dragons were chosen for each of the champions to
face. Fleur ended up with the CommonWelsh Green, Cedric with the Swedish Short-
Snout, Viktor Krum with theChinese Fireball, and Harry faced the Hungarian Horntail. Harry
used a Summoning Charm to bring him his Firebolt and dodged the Hungarian Horntail to get the golden
egg. Harry and Viktor Krum tied for first at the end of the task. After seeing how dangerous the task
was, Ron, as well as the other students, made amends with Harry, with Ron telling him "I reckon
someone is trying to do you in." He managed to escape the first task with only an injured arm (depicted in
the film)- Harry is shown for what seems to be the space of one day sporting a sling.

Harry wears a sling to support his injured arm after the first task.
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Harry with Ron with Parvati and Padma Patil, at
the Yule Ball.
Added by Oread

Between the first and second tasks, the Yule Ball, a Triwizard Tournament tradition took place at
Christmas. Ron, dismayed to discover that Viktor Krumhad asked Hermione, called her out for
"consorting with the enemy" though he and Hermione acted as if they had not fought the following day.
Harry asked his long-time crush Cho Chang to attend the Yule Ball with him but was disappointed to
learn that she had already accepted the invitation of Cedric Diggory. Harry and Ron ended up
attending with Parvati and Padma Patil, respectively. They both ended up neglecting their dates, as
Harry watched Chowith Cedric, and Ron was overcome with jealousy for Viktor Krum, who danced
with Hermione. After the Yule Ball, Rita Skeeter struck again. She had
overheard Hagrid telling Madame Maxime about his family. She then wrote an article exposing
Hagrid as a Half-giant, and he was so ashamed that he stopped teaching. Only after Harry, Ron, and
Hermione proved that they still liked him, did he return to work.
To prepare for the second task, Harry had to open the egg he won from the dragon, but every time he did,
it screeched. His rescue from that particular problem came when Cedric paid him back with the
information that he would figure it out if he "takes a bath" with the egg. Harry followed this advice; while in
the bathroom, he had an uncomfortable exchange with Moaning Myrtle, and on the way back to the
Common Room, he ran into Professors Snape and Moody. The latter informed Harry of Barty
Crouch Sr's obsession with catching Dark Wizards. Harry did learn that the second task was going
into the Black Lake to rescue "the thing they would miss most" from the Merpeople. Harry's new
problem was that he had no idea of how to survive underwater for an hour. He got his answer in the form
ofgillyweed from Dobby, who had come to work at Hogwarts. For this task, Harry had to save his best
friend Ron. When Harry reached Ron, he was shocked to find Hermione, Cho, and Gabrielle
Delacour, Fleur's sister, there as well. After Cedric and Viktor rescued Cho and Hermione, respectively,
Harry hung around, and, concerned for Gabrielle, he saved her as well as Ron, landing him outside the
hour allotted, but earning him points for "moral fibre." After the second task was finished, Harry and
Cedric were tied for first.
A month before the final task, the Champions were shown the beginnings of the challenge. They were
told the third and final task was going into a maze filled with obstacles to find the Triwizard Cup. On the
way back to the castleKrum took Harry aside to ask him something. Thinking that this was something
important, Harry went with him. Krum then asked Harry about his relationship with Hermione, in whom
Krum was deeply interested. Harry told him that there was nothing between him and Hermione and that
she was just a friend. He also told Krum not to believe anything Rita Skeeter, who had recently written
in Witch Weekly that there was a Harry-Hermione-Krum love triangle, wrote about him. That moment,
Barty Crouch Sr. appeared in the forest disoriented and asking for Dumbledore. He disappeared again,
when Harry went to fetch Dumbledore.

Harry in the graveyard at Little
Hangleton, minutes
before he is ambushed by Peter Pettigrew and witnesses the rebirth of Lord Voldemort.

To prepare for the final task, Harry, Ron, and Hermione used vacant classrooms to practise spells and
jinxes. In Divinationclass between two of these study periods, Harry dozed off dreaming about
Voldemort and left the classroom in a disturbing fashion. Rita Skeeter had witnessed this event, and she
wrote on the day of the final task, that Harry was disturbed and dangerous. This did nothing to boost
Harry's morale, but when he spent the day with Bill and Molly Weasley, they cheered him up when
they also came to watch the final task as his substitute family. During this final event, Hogwarts
champions Cedric Diggory and Harry both showed supreme sportsmanship and cooperation despite
the tension brought on by the maze and agreed to touch theTriwizard Cup simultaneously, planning to
tie for first place. They were unaware it was actually a Portkey and were transported to the graveyard
in Little Hangleton, the Riddle family's final resting place, where Lord Voldemort was waiting. On
Voldemort's order, his servant Peter Pettigrew(aka Wormtail) murdered Cedric with the Killing

Curse. Harry Potter returns Cedric Diggory's body to Hogwarts.
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"He's back....Voldemort's back."
—Harry to Dumbledore after returning from the graveyard in Little Hangleton. [src]
Harry was bound to Tom Riddle Sr.'s tombstone and forced to witness a ritual in which Pettigrew used
some of Harry's blood to restore Voldemort's body. At which time, the Death Eaters were
summoned to the cemetery. After Voldemort regained a full-size human form and explain his downfall and
disappearance to his followers, he engaged Harry in a duel. Voldemort then tortured Harry with Cruciatus
Curse and then tried to kill him with the Killing Curse. The nature of their wands' mystical connection
caused their magical streams to interlock, which created an effect called Priori Incantatem. After a
battle of wills with Voldemort, Harry was momentarily shielded by the echoes of Lord Voldemort's

previous victims including Harry's parents and Cedric who asked Harry to return his body to his parents,
which allowed him time to grab Cedric's body and the Portkey and escape back to Hogwarts.
It was uncovered that Barty Crouch Jr, who had willingly taken the Dark Mark as a young man, was
throughout the school year disguised as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Alastor Moody. In a
terrible turn of fate, Crouch's soul was destroyed by the Dementor's Kiss from the Dementor that
accompanied Cornelius Fudge. As a result, he could not give testimony, and the Ministry of
Magic began to dispute Harry and Dumbledore's insistence that Voldemort had returned insisting that
Dumbledore was trying to stir up trouble and that Harry was insane.

Fifth year Edit

Harry Potter before theWizengamot.
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Molly Weasley: "All right, that's enough! He's just a boy! You might as well induct him into the
Order!"
Harry Potter: "Good, then I want to join! If Voldemort's building up an army then I want to fight!"
— Harry in 12 Grimmauld Place[src]

Potter Escapes Punishment.
Added by Seth Cooper
Witnessing Cedric Diggory's murder was very difficult for Harry, and it was not helpful that he was forced
back to 4 Privet Drive on school holidays. To make things worse than they were already, in early
August, Dolores Umbridge, then Senior Under-Secretary to the Minister for Magic, sent Dementors to
attack Harry in the Muggle town of Little Whinging, in an attempt to neutralise him. He was forced to
perform a Patronus charm to save Dudley and himself. Subsequently, Harry was formally accused of
performing under-age magic in the presence of a Muggle and was expelled, but thanks to Albus

Dumbledore's intervention, it was changed to a Harry in the
Gryffindor common room.
Disciplinary hearing in front of the entire Wizengamot at the Ministry of Magic. In a further attempt
to discredit Harry, the Ministry changed the time and location of the hearing at the last minute, but Harry
was able to make just minutes late. He was threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts, but was
exonerated with help from Dumbledore, who had witnesses and legal loopholes to help him. In retaliation
against Dumbledore, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge appointed Umbridge as the new
Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher so she could spy on the school. She was later
appointed Hogwarts High Inquisitor, empowered to arbitrarily change and impose school rules
whenever she chose. More over, every time Harry spoke out of turn, or even mentioned Voldemort,
Umbridge threw him into detention, forcing him to write with her quill, that scribed a message "I must not
tell lies" onto the back of his hand. However, she presumed the message failed to sink in, as Harry
spread the word through The Quibbler about the previous year's events, thus banning him from any

more Hogsmeade visits. Albus Dumbledore leading Harry
away from the reporters after the end of theBattle of the Department of Mysteries.
He was surprised when Ron and Hermione were chosen to beprefects, not him, as Fred always
expected Harry to be one. It was later revealed that Ron was chosen instead of Harry, because
Dumbledore thought that Harry had "enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry's jealousy
threatened to affect his friendship with Ron, but he felt better when he discovered that his Dad was also
not chosen as a prefect at school. This suggests that Harry's desire in becoming Prefect was to emulate
his father who wasHead Boy in his day with his mother as Head Girl respectively, not to inflate a
sense of his own importance.

Harry instructs Ron and Cho Chang during
aD.A. meeting.

Because Fudge stubbornly believed that Dumbledore was training an army to overthrow him, Umbridge
had the Defence Against the Dark Arts class reduced to reading textbooks. Urged by Hermione, Harry
secretly trained students in practical defensive magic. In an attempt to make light of the Ministry's fears,
the group called themselves Dumbledore's Army, or the D.A. Feeling highly anxious and frustrated
most of the time, Harry found that the D.A. was now his chief source of happiness, and the thing to which
he looked forward throughout his school day. This happiness was felt by most members, as all of them,
Cho Chang became a member,
particularly Neville Longbottom, gained a lot under Harry's tutelage.
and before the Christmas holidays, she and Harry kissed under the mistletoe in the Room of

Requirement. Harry kisses Cho.
Cedric Diggory's death, had
This moment was confusing to Harry, as Cho, clearly still suffering from
been crying. Cho also had misplaced jealousy towards Hermione and defended her friend Marietta
Edgecombe when the girl betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge, which caused things between her and Harry
to just "fall apart."
However, Harry took on some much more pressing worries later that night. Lord Voldemort, wanting a
"secret weapon" against Harry Potter, had heard of a prophecy hidden in the Ministry's Department
of Mysteries concerning both of them. He had been obsessing over the door to the Hall of Prophecy for
the past few months, and had been inadvertently allowing Harry to read his thoughts
through Legilimency. The link had been growing stronger for quite awhile. As a result, after falling
asleep on the night of his kiss with Cho, Harry witnessed Nagini attack Arthur Weasley in a dream,
and felt almost as if he was the snake. Realising what could happen if the link grew more powerful,
Dumbledore commissioned Snape to train Harry in Occlumency in an effort to prevent further

problems. Unfortunately, Harry did not enjoy having his mind peered into and did not focus on using
Occlumency, having indeed been extremely curious about the door. During a lesson in Occlumency,
Snape stepped out of the room, and Harry's curiosity got he best of him. He looked into
the pensieve which contained Snape's memories, and, to his dismay, found images of his father bullying
Snape. Snape himself discovered Harry's spying and refused to give him any more Occlumency lessons.
As the second term progressed, Harry's relationship with Cho became more strained. While the two did
like each other, Cho was mistakenly jealous of Hermione due to her closeness with Harry, and Harry still
felt awkward about Cho's feelings over Cedric. When Cho's friend, Marietta Edgecombe, betrayed the
D.A. to Umbridge, the members were all punished and forced to end their meetings. Harry was furious
with Marietta, but Cho insisted on defending her friend. This was the final straw; at this point, Cho's and
Harry's relationship "fell apart", and the two no longer saw each other romantically.
During the final Quidditch match of the year, in which Harry did not play (Umbridge had banned him for
life),Hagrid, who had returned to the school months into the term and very badly beaten, decided to
show Harry and Hermione why he was so badly injured. Hagrid had dragged a giant back with him from
his mission over the summer. It transpired that Grawp was Hagrid's brother and that Hagrid had been
attempting to civilise the giant, but with few results. He made Harry and Hermione promise that they
would look after Grawp should Hagrid be forced to leave the school. Hagrid was attacked and left the
school during OWL examinations, and Harry never had to go down to Grawp in the forest.
Eventually, late in the O.W.L. examinations, Harry dozed off and received a vision
of Voldemort torturing Sirius and ordering him to get the prophecy. Harry was full of mind to go to the
Ministry immediately, but Hermione advised him to check Grimmauld Place first to see if Sirius was still
there. Harry used the Floo Network in Umbridge's office to peer into Grimmauld Place, where Kreacher
stated that Sirius was gone. Unfortunately, Umbridge caught him and his friends in the act. She attempted
to extract information via Veritaserum, which Snape claimed to have used up, before resorting to the
Cruciatus curse, revealing that it was she who set the Dementors loose on him. Hermione managed to
save him by luring Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, where she was dragged off bycentaurs for
insulting them. Harry and Hermione escaped when Grawp stumbled into thecentaur camp looking for
Hagrid. The trio, along with D.A. members Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Luna
Lovegood, who had assisted in Harry's attempt to contact Grimmauld Place, used Thestrals to fly to
London.

Harry in the Department of Mysteries.
Added by Daindom
"...haven't you ever wondered why the Dark Lord tried to kill you as a baby?"
—LuciusMalfoy to Harry in the Hall of Prophecy just prior to the Battle of the
Department of Mysteries[src]

Harry and Sirius during the Battle of the Department of
Mysteries.
Added by Profiteor
After reaching the Department of Mysteries, Harry led them through various rooms in search of
Sirius, without finding him. The group became doubtful until they came across a room filled with crystal
balls, later to be known as prophecies. One of the prophecies had Harry's name on it, and he picked it up,
much to the displeasure of Hermione. Upon picking up the prophecy Death Eaters appeared, revealing
that it was all a ruse to bring him there. Chaos ensued, and all but Harry and Neville were incapacitated in
the fighting. Then reinforcements from the Order of the Phoenix, alerted by Snape, arrived to help
aid in the battle. In the ensuing fighting, Sirius Black was killed by a curse from his cousin, Bellatrix
Lestrange, and fell through a mysterious stone arch. Harry, enraged, pursued Bellatrix, using

the Cruciatus Curse, but he was unable to kill her. Harry is possessed
by Voldemort.
Added by Cavalier One

Voldemort appeared, enraged by the failures of his Death Eaters. For the second time, he attempted to
fatally curse Harry, who was too transfixed to even defend himself, but Dumbledore's sudden arrival
saved him. Voldemort then possessed Harry, hoping that Dumbledore would sacrifice Harry in order to kill
Voldemort. However, Voldemort was forced to leave Harry's body when Harry grieved for Sirius, which
Voldemort failed to understand. Voldemort then grabbed Bellatrix and Disapparated, but the
Minister and Ministry employees saw him first.
Back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore explained to Harry the real reason why Voldemort tried to kill him as an
infant. A prophecy stated that he was destined to defeat the Dark Lord, for he had powers Voldemort did
not: the ability tolove, something that the Department of Mysteries was trying to research in a locked
room.
As a result of the battle, the Ministry of Magic realised that Lord Voldemort had returned, and Harry
and Dumbledore were vindicated. Serious steps were taken following this change in policy such as the
sacking ofDolores Umbridge. However, this was not a sea change as the Ministry still had a mistrust
of Dumbledore.

Sixth year Edit
Dumbledore: "You are of course, wondering why I brought you here tonight?"
Harry: "Actually sir, after all these years I sort of just go with it."
— Dumbledore and Harry speak briefly of their tasks[src]

Dumbledore and Harry searching for Horace Slughorn.
In the wake of the Battleof the Department of Mysteries, in June, Harry was sent home to 4
Privet Drive for the summer holidays. There, he obsessed over his godfather's death, hardly leaving
his room and refusing meals. As the battle had taken place in the famed "Hall of Prophecy," many in
the wizarding community including the Daily Prophet began to speculate about the relationship
between Harry and that place, leading to, accidentally correct, reports calling Harry "the Chosen One."
Early in his summer, Dumbledore requested that Harry join him in some unknown adventure and arrived
to pick Harry up on a Friday, late in the evening. However, they could not depart immediately, because
there was a piece of business to attend to, Sirius's will. Much to his chagrin, Harry inherited his godfather
Sirius Black's estate, including Grimmauld Place and the Black's melancholic and half-crazed house
elf, Kreacher. They soon were off, and Dumbledore apparated Harry to the village of Budleigh
Babberton, where Harry was introduced to Horace Slughorn. In their time together, Harry and
Slughorn discussed some of the professor's old students and the improved security at Hogwarts. When
Harry and Dumbledore made to leave, Slughorn agreed to return to the school if he got a raise and a

larger office. Following their visit, Dumbledore dropped Harry off at the Burrow, where Harry spent the
rest of the summer, but not before informing Harry that he was to be given special lessons by
Dumbledore himself. Before the end of the summer, Harry received a surprise when he was

made Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry
with Professor Slughorn.
Added by KH
Having learned of Professor Slughorn's propensity for hand-picking favourites, Harry experienced this first
hand when he was invited to join the Slug Club during the ride to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts
Express, he did not enjoy the experience and made to leave as soon as possible. Instead of returning to
his seat, Harry made to eavesdrop upon Draco Malfoy, who in a meeting weeks earlier led Harry to
believe that he had taken the Dark Mark. What he heard did nothing to dispel his suspicions. Arriving
late to the Welcoming Feast, due to an encounter with Malfoy, Harry learned that Severus
Snape had been promoted to Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. While this disappointed
Harry, his career as an Auror reopened, as Professor Slughorn would accept his "Exceeds Expectations"
score in Potions. As Harry had not bothered to buy a text book, Slughorn allowed Harry to borrow an old
one from the supply cabinet. When Harry examined it, he found that it once belonged to a student
identified only as "The Half-Blood Prince." The book contained copious handwritten notes that helped
Harry excel in Potions for once. In fact, his skills won him a prize from Slughorn — a small phial of Felix
Felicis.

Dumbledore pouring amemory into the Pensieve.
Added by M. E. G.
Within the first week of school, Dumbledore made good on his promise of private lessons. He informed
Harry that they would be viewing memories ofTom Riddle and Lord Voldemort in order to learn his
secrets and weaknesses. Dumbledore promised Harry that this information would help him survive and
would prove crucial to the eventual defeat of Lord Voldemort. In their first lesson, the pair delved into the

origin of the boy Tom Riddle in the Gaunt familyaround Little Hangleton. The Saturday following
Harry's first lesson, he assumed his Captain's duties holding open try-outs. After an arduous morning,
Harry found his three Chasers, including Ginny Weasley, two Beaters, andRon had survived as
Keeper, with Hermione's help. Throughout the fall, Harry used Quidditch to dodge Professor
Slughorn's Slug Club events, doing this because he disliked the idea and because it was kinder than
leaving Ron alone as Hermione had been invited as well.
Harry's lessons were quite sporadic that fall, and he did not have another one until after tragedy befell
someone at Hogwarts. In October, during a Hogsmeade visit, Katie Bell was nearly killed after being
bewitched to carry a curse necklace to Dumbledore. The following Monday, Harry shared his suspicions
of Malfoy with Dumbledore during their lesson, only to be rebuffed. That evening, Dumbledore focused
on Tom Riddle just as he was on the cusp of his Hogwarts years, and Harry discovered a troubled orphan
who consciously used his magic to bully and intimidate the other children. Not long after that meeting,
Quidditch season was upon them. In preparation for their first game, Harry replaced the injured Katie Bell
with Dean Thomas. The change produced some results, both expected, the team excelled on the pitch,
and unexpected, as Harry found himself in a jealous rage after seeing Dean kissing Ginny after practice.
The teams only problem was Ron who was suffering from confidence issues. In an attempt to boost Ron's
confidence, Harry blatantly acted as if he spiked Ron's pumpkin juice with Felix Felicis. Ron took the
bait and played a flawless match; however, Hermione took the bait as well and acted unkindly toward Ron
and Harry. While she made up with Harry when he told her of the ruse, Ron's sudden relationship
withLavender Brown led to continued strife.
"Oh, come on, Harry. It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more
interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable."
—Hermione on Harry's new attention from the girls.[src]
While Harry attempted to reconcile his best friends, the Christmas holidays were fast approaching and
with them the Slug Club Christmas party out of which Harry could not wrangle. Since the "Chosen
One" rumours had been printed Harry had received an unnatural amount of attention from the young
ladies at Hogwarts, specifically a fourth
year name Romilda Vane. As Harry could not ask Ginny to
the party, he was left to ask Luna Lovegood to attend with him as a friend. This hugely disappointed
the gaggles of giggling girls who awaited Harry below every doorway with mistletoe. At the party, Harry
was surprised to learn that Hermione attended with Cormac McLaggen, a largeGryffindor seventh-
year whom Ron despised and told her that it served her right when he was less than gentlemanly. Later,
after Malfoy was apprehended "gate-crashing" the party, he learned that Malfoy was indeed up to
something and that Professor Snape had made the Unbreakable Vow to protect him.

Harry overhears a strange conversation between Draco Malfoy and
Snape.
Harry: "He accused me of being 'Dumbledore's man through and through'."
Dumbledore: "How very rude of him."
Harry: "I told him I was."
— Harry and Dumbledore discussing Rufus Scrimgeour [src]
Harry's Christmas was less than enjoyable, as he was cornered by the newMinister for Magic, Rufus
Scrimgeour. Scrimgeour had been hoping to speak with Harry for months and used Percy
Weasley as his in, interrupting theWeasley family Christmas. He tried pitching Harry on becoming
the Ministry's mascot, an idea that Harry was not prepared to accept. Upon returning to Hogwarts,
Harry's sporadic lessons with Dumbledore continued. Early in January, Harry delved into a memory that
all but proved that Riddle killed his paternal family after his fifth year at Hogwarts. Then Dumbledore
showed Harry a most curious memory, a memory that Professor Slughorn had apparently tampered
with, and he gave Harry his first homework assignment: to get the real memory from Slughorn. After
impressing Slughorn using a bezoar in class, Harry tried the direct approach only to be instantly shot
down.
By 1 March, Harry had still not acquired Slughorn's true memory and had begun to grow more obsessed
withDraco Malfoy. That morning he awoke to find Ron under the influence of a very powerful Love
Potion, and he took him to Slughorn, only for Ron to end up poisoned. This was enough for Hermione to
overcome her animosity toward Ron, and the three became friends again. Ron survived, but was not fit
for the upcoming Quidditch match, so he was replaced by McLaggen. This turned out to be a bad choice
as McLaggen accidentally knocked Harry unconscious mid-match. Upon recovery, Harry had yet another
lesson with the Headmaster. In it, he was a upbraided by Dumbledore for not completing his assignment,
witnessed the young Tom Riddle kill a woman for the famous artefacts she owned, and curse
the Defence Against the Dark Arts post at Hogwarts. However, Harry still could not figure out how
to obtain the memory and focused on Malfoy. His interest was bordering on obsession, when Ron came
up with the solution to Harry's dilemma with Slughorn, Felix Felicis. In the evening, Harry took the
potion and not only obtained the memory, but solved many of his and his friends problems, including
breaking up Ginny and Dean and Ron and Lavender.
Dumbledore: "Good gracious, Harry, to what do I owe this very late pleasure?"
Harry: "Sir — I've got it. I've got the memory from Slughorn."
— Dumbledore and Harry after getting the memory[src]

Even though it was after midnight, Harry immediately went to Dumbledore with the new memory. It
confirmed Dumbledore's theory that Lord Voldemort had created multiple Horcruxes to ensure his
immortality. Together, they theorised that the Dark Lord had created horcruxes out of special objects such
as Tom Riddle's Diary and Salazar Slytherin's Locket. Before Harry left, Dumbledore promised to
let Harry join him if he found another Horcrux. With the memory found, Harry had only Quidditch and
Malfoy on his mind. In the week prior to the final Quidditch match, Harry discovered Malfoy crying in the
restroom, and a Duel ensued. With Malfoy on the verge of using anUnforgivableCurse, Harry
cast Sectumsempra, a curse with unknown effects that he found in the Half-Blood Prince's book,
nearly killing Malfoy and earning Harry indefinite Saturday detention. Unable to play, Harry waited with
anticipation as he sat through his first detention. When he arrived back at Gryffindor
Tower he was
happy to discover that they had won the Quidditch Cup, and spontaneously kissed Ginny, about
whom he had been think often, when she embraced him in the post match elation beginning their
relationship.

Harry attempts to hold back the Inferi.
Added by Lunalovegood30
In June, Dumbledore led Harry out of the castle in search of a Horcrux. From Hogsmeade,
they apparated to a sea-side cave, where Tom Riddle had traumatised two young children from his
orphanage in his youth. The cave was difficult to enter with a toll paid in blood, and to get to the island in
the centre of the cave there was only a small boat, only made to fit one. Once on the island, Dumbledore
found a basin that he could not remove the Horcrux from without drinking its contents. Dumbledore
extracted a promise from Harry that he would force him to drink, no matter how much he tried to persuade
him not to. With this promise, Dumbledore drank, and Harry watched as he was driven out of his mind,
but he upheld his promise. When the basin was empty, Dumbledore asked for water which Harry was
forced to get from the lake, triggering the Inferi that were waiting there. Panicking, Harry was dragged
below, but he was saved by an incredibly weakened Dumbledore.
They landed atop the Astronomy Tower to discover that Hogwarts had been invaded by Death
Eaters, but Harry's friends Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, and Ginny, who had been ordered to watch
the school lest Malfoy accomplish his nefarious goal, battled alongside members of the Order of the
Phoenix on the floor below Harry and Dumbledore, with some help from the remainder of Harry's vial
of Felix Felicis. Dumbledore had stopped Harry from fighting and froze him against a wall, hidden
underneath his invisibility cloak, so all he could do was watch. Harry witnessed the death of Albus
Dumbledore at the hands of Severus Snape, and Dumbledore's body then plummeted from the tallest
tower at Hogwarts. With Dumbledore dead, Harry was free of the spell that petrified him. He immediately

set off after Snape, petrifying a Death Eater and seeking revenge. As the Death Eaters made their way
out of Hogwarts Castle and on to the grounds, trying to reach the border where they would be able to
Apparate again, Harry pursued and faced off against Snape. Harry tried many times to defeat Snape,
even attempting weakly the Cruciatus Curse and Snape's own hand crafted spells, all with no effect. In
the process, Snape identified himself to Harry as the Half-Blood Prince and escaped Hogwarts
with Draco Malfoy and the other Death Eaters. Harry returned to the castle to find Dumbledore's
crippled and lifeless body where he was comforted by Ginny.

Harry and Ginny in 1996.
Added by Patr0nus
Harry: "It's been like... like something out of someone else's life, these last few weeks with you.
But I can't... we can't... I've got things to do now... Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep
this up..."
Ginny: "What if I don't care?"
Harry: "I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral... and it was my fault?"
Ginny: "I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped... But you've been too busy
saving the wizarding world. Well... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I
knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so
much."
— Harry and Ginny break up[src]

Harry in the Headmaster's office the morning after Dumbledore died.
Harry took the locket from Dumbledore's robes and was beside himself when he learned it was just a
plain bit of jewellery, a decoy; there was a note inside the locket that revealed the real Horcrux was taken
by someone called R.A.B.. It appeared to him that Dumbledore had died in vain and that they had
achieved nothing that night. Following the death of Albus Dumbledore, his funeral was carried out. Harry
was disgusted to see that Dolores Umbridge andRita Skeeter had the nerve to attend his funeral,
but he did not want to make a scene at Dumbledore's funeral and bit his tongue.

Knowing that he would have to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes and fearing for her safety, Harry
took Ginny aside, and broke off their romance. Ginny told him that she did not care about the danger of
being his girlfriend, but Harry still thought it was best if the two stopped seeing each other. He then spoke
to Ron and Hermione, who committed to forgoing their final year at Hogwarts in order to accompany him,
despite his protests.

Hunting the Horcruxes Edit

Petunia Dursley saying good-bye to Harry Potter in1997.
Added by Strady26
Hermione: "You said to us once before that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've
had time, haven't we?"
Ron: "We're with you, whatever happens mate."
— Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley vowing to help Harry in the Horcrux hunt[src]
Harry, Hermione, and Ron all remained committed to their goal to locate and
destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes. To protect their families, Hermione altered her parents'
memories so they forgot they had a daughter, and with some help from Fred, George, and their father,
Ron transfigured the family ghoul to resemble himself with spattergroit.

Battle over Little Whinging Edit

The Seven Potters.
Added by Lily Hill
Hermione: "I told them you'd take it like this."
Harry: "If you think I'm going to let six people risk their lives —!"
Ron: "— because it's the first time for all of us."
— Hermione and Ron to Harry before the Battle over Little Whinging[src]

Harry Potter's wand retaliated automatically
against Voldemort during theBattle of the Seven Potters.

Harry watches the Dursleys leave.
Added by Tim Lemmens
Harry stayed at 4Privet Drive for a time, but the Order of the Phoenix needed to evacuate him
to the Burrow before he turned seventeen. They sent theDursleys into hiding first; Harry was
surprised by Dudley's gratitude and goodbye. Six out of thirteen of Harry's escorts took Polyjuice
Potion to take on Harry's appearance in order to be diversions if they were attacked, despite Harry's
protests. Harry also secretly thought that he wished they would respect his body more. Upon leaving, the
group was attacked by over thirty Death Eaters. Harry rode with Hagrid on his godfather Sirius' old
motorbike, and they were attacked by multiple Death Eaters and Lord Voldemorthimself. Harry's
owl Hedwig was hit by a stray Killing Curse an unnamed Death Eater sent his way. When Voldemort
caught up with them, Harry thought this was the end, but his wand acted on its own to strike out at the
man who was both kin and mortal enemy, destroying Voldemort's borrowed wand. The chaos ended
when Harry and Hagrid passed the protective enchantments placed over the house of Nymphadora
Tonks' parents; Harry had broken several bones and was bleeding heavily.

Harry and Hagrid on Sirius Black's motorcycle.
Taken inside by the Tonkses, Harry's bones were mended and his wounds were healed, although he was
still completely grief-stricken over the death of his beloved owl. After finding Hagrid safe and sound, the
pair took a Portkey to the Burrow, where he found a worried Mollyand Ginny Weasley.

Harry embraces Hermioneand Ron after Battle over Little
Whinging.
Harry was relieved to see that Hermione and Ron were fine, but was shocked when Remus
Lupin arrived with George Weasley, who had lost an ear. Everyone else arrived safely but Alastor

Moody, who had been killed, and Mundungus Fletcher, who had Disapparated as soon as the
fight started. Many amongst those gathered at the Burrow believed that they had been betrayed, but
Harry refused to believe any of those he loved would sell him to Voldemort, much to the chagrin
of Remus Lupin. Harry then stormed outside, where he was struck by a vision of Voldemort torturing
Ollivander.

Time at the Burrow Edit
Scrimgeour: "Remembered you're not at school, have you? Remembered that I am not
Dumbledore, who forgave your insolence and insubordination? You may wear that scar like a
crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time
you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it."
— Harry and Rufus Scrimgeour at the reading of Albus Dumbledore's will[src]

Rufus gives the testament of Albus Dumbledore to Harry.
Added by Lee7003

Harry, Ron, and Hermione just after their escape from the
ambush at the Burrow.
Added by Franz1286
Once settled in at the Burrow, Harry, Ron and Hermione helped prepare the wedding ceremony of Bill
Weasley and Fleur Delacour. The day before the wedding, the group celebratedHarry's
seventeenth birthday. Harry received a watch from Mr.and Mrs. Weasley, a traditional coming-of-age
gift, and Ginny gave him a kiss to remember her by in case he "meet[s] some veela" during the Horcrux
hunt.

Harry and Ginny about to kiss on Harry's 17th birthday.
Added by Number 1 Tonks Fan
At the party that night, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeourarrived to release the contents
of AlbusDumbledore's will. Harry was left the first Snitch he had ever caught in a Quidditch match
and Godric Gryffindor's Sword; Scrimgeour withheld this second gift, claiming that it was a historical
magical item and was not exclusively Harry's property. Noting that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the
only students mentioned by name in the will, he asked the trio why this was; the three were unable to give
him an answer.
On 1 August, Harry attended Bill and Fleur's wedding disguised as a distant Weasley cousin, Barny
Weasley. They used polyjuice potion and the hairs of a Red-haired Muggle boy from the village to
disguise him. The reception was interrupted when the Patronus of Kingsley Shacklebolt arrived and
announced theFall of the Ministry of Magic and the death of Rufus Scrimgeour. Chaos erupted and
guests started to flee, while Harry and Hermione drew their wands and grabbed Ron before
Disapparating to Tottenham Court Road.

Harry, Ron and Hermione after changing their sets of clothes
after their escape.
Added by Smonocco

There, Hermione revealed that she had planned ahead, packing supplies in her bag, which had
an Undetectable Extension Charmon it. Ron changed, and Harry put on his Invisibility cloak, and
the three then entered a nearby café to hang low for a while. Whilst at the café, Ron and Hermione
discussed the events of the wedding and Voldemort's coup. They unwittingly broke the Taboo
curse that had been placed on Voldemort's name when the Death Eaters overthrew the Ministry of
Magic, alerting Death Eaters Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle to their location. After a

brief skirmish, the trio defeated the Death Eaters, whose memories Hermione wiped at Harry's
suggestion. Harry, Ron, and Hermione then found refuge at 12 Grimmauld Place.

Infiltrating the Ministry and obtaining the locket Edit

Harry searching Grimmauld Placeshortly after his escape
from the Burrow.
Added by Steffy13
"You're going to leave here with us. Go home, grab your children, and get out, get out of the
country if you've got to. Disguise yourselves and run. You've seen how it is, you won't get
anything like a fair hearing here."
—Harry while freeing Muggle-borns from the Muggle-Born Registration
Commission[src]
Having found no leads regarding the Horcruxes over the summer, Harry discovered R.A.B. during the
trio's first morning at 12
Grimmauld Place. Once Hermione remembered that Salazar
Slytherin's Locket had been in the house during its occupation by the Order of the Phoenix, Harry
summoned Kreacher, and they learned that it had been stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. When the
trio questioned him about it, he revealed that it was now in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. On
the same day, Remus Lupin had been to visit. He asked Harry if he could join them, but once Harry
found out that Tonks was pregnant, he refused. This caused a temporary rift between the two of them.

Harry comforting Hermione by dancing with her after Ron's
departure.

Harry disguised as Albert Runcorn.
Added by Tim Lemmens

For the following month, the trio would take turns under the Invisibility Cloak to watch the Ministry
entrance. Formulating their plans, they managed to infiltrate the Ministry. Using Polyjuice
Potion Harry transformed into Albert Runcorn. He searched Umbridge's office but did not find the
locket. He did, however, take Moody's eye from her door. Finding Umbridge trying Muggle-bornsfor
"stealing" magic, Hermione managed to trick Umbridge into revealing the locket, and she lied about how
she obtained it.
Furious, Harry stunned both her and Yaxley. He and Hermione freed the Muggle-borns who were
being held by the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, and Hermione conjured a copy of the
locket while they took the real thing. They met up with Ron again and escaped, though Yaxley grabbed
Hermione’s arm while they were Disapparating. She evaded him with aRevulsion Jinx, but the location
of 12 Grimmauld Place was revealed to him, and they were forced to abandon it as a hide-out. But
instead Hermione took them to the Forest of Dean, the location of the Quidditch World Cup.

An "Undesirable No.1" Poster.
Added by Alsa7ir

Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow Edit
Harry: "I thought you knew what you’d signed up for."
Ron: "Yeah, I thought I did too."
Harry: "So what part of it isn't living up to your expectations? Did you think we’d be staying in
five-star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by
Christmas?"
Ron: "We thought you knew what you were doing! We thought Dumbledore had told you what to
do, we thought you had a real plan!"
— Harry and Ron before the latter's departure[src]

Harry during the Horcrux hunt after Ron'sdeparture.
After securing the locket, the three friends took turns wearing it, to ensure it was not lost. The locket had a
negative influence on all of them, straining relations and causing them to all act moodily and inclined to
get into petty arguments.They overheard a goblin saying that the sword protected by Snape is a fake.
After learning that the Sword of Gryffindor in Snape's office was a copy of the real sword, and that they
would have to trace the location of the real sword, the locket's negative energy pushed Ron over the
edge. He and Harry got into a horrible row, in which Ron accused Harry of not knowing what he was
doing and not being very concerned when they learned that Ginny had been punished for attempting to
steal Gryffindor’s Sword for them, along with Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood. Ron then
abandoned his friends accusing Hermione of preferring Harry than himself.

Harry and Hermione outside the tent.
Added by Smonocco
"Hermione, I don’t know what we’d do without you."
—Harry to Hermione[src]

Harry following the Silver Doe at the Forest of Dean.
Added by Profiteor
Ron’s departure left both Harry and Hermione depressed. After some listless time in which they
accomplished nothing, they decided to head to Godric's Hollow, as Harry wanted to visit his parents’
graves, and Hermione had convinced herself that Dumbledore might have entrusted the Sword of
Gryffindor toBathilda
Bagshot, a magical historian who lived there and who had been friendly with the
Potters and the Dumbledores.

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