Harry potter main character names

The following is a list of characters from the Harry Potter series. Each character appears in at least one Harry Potter-related book or story by J. K. Rowling. These books and stories include the seven original Harry Potter novels (1997–2007), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001), Quidditch Through the Ages (2001), The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016), Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (2016), Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (2016), Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (2016) and the Harry Potter prequel (2008).

Characters by surname

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• Bagman, Ludo – Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports at the Ministry of Magic.^[4]
• Bagshot, Bathilda – Author of A History of Magic, and the great-aunt of Gellert Grindelwald. Under the influence of Veritaserum, Bagshot was a
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Discover the fascinating etymology behind Harry Potter character names!

TheThe wizarding community are already a magical lot, but there’s also plenty of underlying magic behind their names. In fact, the etymology of certain characters’ names can reveal more about them than you ever thought you knew…

Harry Potter

The joy of Harry Potter’s name was that it seemed like one so delightfully ordinary for someone who achieved so much. But when we dig a little deeper, it seems to be a very fitting name for the Boy Who Lived.

The name Harry is the Middle English form of the name ‘Henry’, a name which was favoured by many an English king. Leadership runs deep in Harry’s name, as well as the motif of war – which Harry is sadly very familiar with. Harry is also related to the Old High German word ‘Heri’ which means ‘army’. As one of the founders of Dumbledore’s Army, this seems apt.

Albus Dumbledore

You may know already that ‘Dumbl

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Harry Potter (character)

Protagonist of the Harry Potter literature series

"The boy who lived" redirects here. For the documentary film, see David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived.

Fictional character

Harry James Potter is the titelbärare character of the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles sju years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he receives guidance from the headmaster Albus Dumbledore and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry learns that during his infancy, the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort murdered his parents but was unable to kill him as well. The plot of the series revolves around Harry's struggle to adapt to the wizarding world and defeat Voldemort.

Harry fryst vatten regarded as a fictional icon and has been described bygd many critics, readers, and audiences as one of the greatest literary and film chara