Who is Harry Potter

The Harry Potter series highlights the adventurous life of Harry Potter, a wizarding student who lost his parents to a dark curse as a baby. The wizard who cast the curse, Voldemort (or he who must not be named), meant to kill Harry along with his parent’s but only left a small lightening bolt shaped scar on the baby’s forehead. The result of the spell backfired and the once all powerful dark wizard was killed (or so they thought). Ultimately Voldemort returns and is the antagonist throughout the series ultimately leading to a final deadly battle.

In the first book we are introduced to Harry Potter. His Aunt and Uncle begrudgingly raised him and were terribly cruel, keeping him from knowing the truth about his parents and the magical world that he came from. Hagrid, the man who brought Harry to his Aunt and Uncle as a baby, was the one who introduced Harry to the world of magic on his eleventh birthday. He soon finds out that he is sort of a celebrity in this new world. Although he just found out that this world existed, everyone knows the famous story of the boy who survived a deadly curse with nothing more than a lightening bolt shaped scar on his forehead. He meets two other students who will become his best  friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. They trio will face dangerous and trying situations all the while attending school and honing their skills as a witch and wizards. It is at this school that Harry meets Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster. He becomes like a father to Harry and is forefront on the quest to end Voldemort.


In every book the three main character’s always have an action packed and dangerous confrontation with Voldemort, or his evil group of followers, the Death Eaters. They deal with Voldemort’s rise to power and try everything thing can to bring him down again. Throughout it all the friendship of Harry, Ron, and Hermione is put to the test and inevitably comes out stronger. There are twists and turns, well developed stories, action, adventure, romance, and tragedy.