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Modèle:HP character Harry James Potter is the title character and the main protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series. The books cover seven years in the life of the lonely orphan who, on his 11th birthday, learns he is a wizard and the son of magical parents. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic. Under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Harry discovers that he is already famous in the wizarding world, and that his fate is tied to Lord Voldemort, the evil wizard who killed his parents, and who supposedly died when he tried to fatally curse baby Harry. According to Rowling, the Harry Potter character came to her while waiting for a delayed train in 1990. She was inspired to make him an orphan following her own mother's death.
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Concept and creation
www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/biography.cfm| title=J. K. Rowling Official Site – Section Biography|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> While she fleshed out the ideas for her book, Rowling also decided to make Harry an orphan who attended a boarding school called Hogwarts. She explained in a 1999 interview with The Guardian: "Harry HAD to be an orphan - so that he's a free agent, with no fear of letting down his parents, disappointing them … Hogwarts HAS to be a boarding school - half the important stuff happens at night! Then there's the security. Having a child of my own reinforces my belief that children above all want security, and that's what Hogwarts offers Harry."<ref name="carey1999"> J. K. Rowling Official Site – Section Biography
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</ref> While she fleshed out the ideas for her book, Rowling also decided to make Harry an orphan who attended a boarding school called Hogwarts. She explained in a 1999 interview with The Guardian: "Harry HAD to be an orphan - so that he's a free agent, with no fear of letting down his parents, disappointing them … Hogwarts HAS to be a boarding school - half the important stuff happens at night! Then there's the security. Having a child of my own reinforces my belief that children above all want security, and that's what Hogwarts offers Harry."<ref name="carey1999"> "Carey, Joanna. "Who hasn't met Harry?" Guardian Unlimited, February 16, 1999"
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www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0800-guardian-bio.html|title=JK (JOANNE KATHLEEN) ROWLING (1966-), Guardian Unlimited|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> Finally, she established that Harry was born on 31 July and thus shares his birthday with herself. However, she maintained, Harry is not directly based on any real-life character, "he came just out of a part of me".<ref name="Raincoast2001"> JK (JOANNE KATHLEEN) ROWLING (1966-), Guardian Unlimited
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</ref> Finally, she established that Harry was born on 31 July and thus shares his birthday with herself. However, she maintained, Harry is not directly based on any real-life character, "he came just out of a part of me".<ref name="Raincoast2001"> "Raincoast Books interview transcript, Raincoast Books (Canada), March 2001."
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Appearances
First book
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www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-connectiontransc2.htm|title="Lydon, Christopher. J.K. Rowling interview transcript, The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 October, 1999"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> and Snape on a sadistic teacher of hers who abused his power.<ref name="Lydon1999"/>//www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-connectiontransc2.htm|title="Lydon, Christopher. J.K. Rowling interview transcript, The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 October, 1999"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> and Snape on a sadistic teacher of hers who abused his power.<ref name="Lydon1999"/>
Rowling has stated that the Mirror of Erised chapter in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is her favourite; the mirror reflects Harry's deepest desire, namely to see his dead parents.<ref name="jkrbio"/> Her favourite funny scene is when Harry inadvertently sets a boa constrictor free from the zoo in the horrified Dursleys' presence.<ref name="Lydon1999"/>
Second to fourth books
In the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling pits Harry against Tom Marvolo Riddle, the "memory" of Lord Voldemort that is within a secret diary which has possessed Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley. When Muggle-born students are suddenly being petrified, many suspect that Harry may be behind the attacks, further alienating him from his peers. In the climax, Ginny Weasley has disappeared. To rescue her, Harry battles Riddle and the monster he controls that is hidden in the Chamber of Secrets. In the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling uses a time travel premise. Harry learns that his parents were betrayed to Voldemort by their friend Peter Pettigrew, who framed Harry's godfather Sirius Black for the crimes, condemning him to Azkaban prison. When Black escapes to seek revenge, Harry and Hermione use a Time Turner to save him and a hippogriff named Buckbeak. Pettigrew—and the truth—also escape, and an innocent Black remains a hunted fugitive.
www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0900-ew-jensen.htm//www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0900-ew-jensen.htm |title="Jensen, Jeff. "'Fire' Storm," Entertainment Weekly, September 7, 2000"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> Harry's developing maturity becomes apparent when he becomes interested in Cho Chang, a pretty Ravenclaw student. Tension mounts, however, when Harry is mysteriously chosen by the Goblet of Fire to compete in the dangerous Triwizard Tournament, even though another Hogwarts champion, Cedric Diggory, was already selected. It is actually an elaborate scheme by Lord Voldemort to lure Harry into a deadly trap. During the Tournament's final challenge, Harry and Cedric are teleported to a graveyard. Cedric is killed, and Lord Voldemort, aided by Peter Pettigrew, uses Harry's blood in a gruesome ritual to resurrect Voldemort's body. When Harry duels Voldemort, their wands' magical streams connect, forcing the spirit echoes of Voldemort's victims, including Cedric and James and Lily Potter, to be expelled from his wand. The spirits shortly protect Harry as he escapes to Hogwarts with Cedric's body. For Rowling, this scene is important because it shows Harry's bravery, and by retrieving Cedric's corpse, he demonstrates selflessness and compassion. Says Rowling, "He wants to save Cedric's parents additional pain.”<ref name="EW2000"/> She added that preventing Cedric Diggory's body from falling into Voldemort's hands is based on the classic scene in the Iliad where Achilles retrieves the body of his best friend Patroclus from the hands of Hector. The author said: "That [Iliad scene] really, really, REALLY moved me when I read that when I was 19. The idea of the desecration of a body, a very ancient idea... I was thinking of that when Harry saved Cedric's body."<ref name="EW2000"/> She also said that she cried while writing the scene when Harry's dead parents are drawn from Voldemort's wand, the first time she cried while penning her story.<ref name="EW2000"/>
Fifth and sixth book
www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/1205-bbc-fry.html|title="Living With Harry Potter"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> At Hermione's urging, Harry secretly teaches his classmates real defensive magic to thwart Umbridge and the Ministry, but their meetings are discovered and Dumbledore is ousted as Headmaster. Harry suffers another emotional blow, when his godfather, Sirius Black is killed during a battle with Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, but Harry ultimately defeats Voldemort's plan to steal an important prophecy and helps uncover Umbridge's sinister motives. Rowling stated: "And now he [Harry] will rise from the ashes strengthened."<ref name="Fry2005"/> A sideplot of Order of the Phoenix involves Harry's romance with Cho Chang, but the relationship quickly unravels. Says Rowling: "They were never going to be happy, it was better that it ended early!"<ref name="WBD2004"> "JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, March 4, 2004"
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</ref>//www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/1205-bbc-fry.html|title="Living With Harry Potter"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> At Hermione's urging, Harry secretly teaches his classmates real defensive magic to thwart Umbridge and the Ministry, but their meetings are discovered and Dumbledore is ousted as Headmaster. Harry suffers another emotional blow, when his godfather, Sirius Black is killed during a battle with Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, but Harry ultimately defeats Voldemort's plan to steal an important prophecy and helps uncover Umbridge's sinister motives. Rowling stated: "And now he [Harry] will rise from the ashes strengthened."<ref name="Fry2005"/> A sideplot of Order of the Phoenix involves Harry's romance with Cho Chang, but the relationship quickly unravels. Says Rowling: "They were never going to be happy, it was better that it ended early!"<ref name="WBD2004"> "JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, March 4, 2004"
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www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0626-ch4-richardandjudy.html|title="Richard & Judy Show"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> Rowling also made an intimate statement about Harry's personal life: "Because of the demands of the adventure that Harry is following, he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had".<ref name="Grossmann2005"> "Grossman, Lev. "J.K. Rowling Hogwarts And All," Time Magazine, 17 July, 2005"
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</ref> This inexperience with romance was a factor in Harry's failed relationship with Cho Chang. Now his thoughts concern Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, a vital plot point in the last chapter when Harry ends their budding romance to protect her from Voldemort.//www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0626-ch4-richardandjudy.html|title="Richard & Judy Show"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> Rowling also made an intimate statement about Harry's personal life: "Because of the demands of the adventure that Harry is following, he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had".<ref name="Grossmann2005"> "Grossman, Lev. "J.K. Rowling Hogwarts And All," Time Magazine, 17 July, 2005"
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</ref> This inexperience with romance was a factor in Harry's failed relationship with Cho Chang. Now his thoughts concern Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, a vital plot point in the last chapter when Harry ends their budding romance to protect her from Voldemort.
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Final book
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron and Hermione leave Hogwarts to complete Dumbledore's task: to search for and destroy Voldemort's remaining four Horcruxes, and then find and kill the Dark Lord. The three pit themselves against Voldemort's newly formed totalitarian police state, an action that tests Harry's courage and moral character. According to J.K. Rowling, a telling scene in which Harry uses Cruciatus and Imperius (unforgivable curses for torture and mind-control) on Voldemort's servants shows a side to Harry that is "flawed and mortal." However, she explains that, "He is also in an extreme situation and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent".<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
Harry comes to recognise that his own single-mindedness makes him predictable to his enemies and often clouds his perceptions. When Severus Snape is killed by Voldemort later in the story, Harry realises that Snape was not the traitorous murderer he believed him to be, but a tragic anti-hero who was loyal to Albus Dumbledore. In Chapter 33 ("The Prince's Tale") Snape's memories reveal that he loved Harry's mother Lily Evans, but their friendship ended over his association with future Death Eaters and "blood purity" beliefs. When Voldemort killed the Potters, a grieving Snape vowed to protect Lily's child, although he loathed young Harry for being James Potter's son. It is also revealed that Snape did not murder Albus Dumbledore, but carried out Dumbledore's prearranged plan. Dumbledore, who was dying from a slow-spreading curse, wanted to protect Snape's position within the Death Eaters and spare Draco Malfoy from completing Voldemort's task to murder him.
bloomsbury.com/jkrevent/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1//bloomsbury.com/jkrevent/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1 |title="'J.K. Rowling Web Chat Transcript"|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> J.K. Rowling said, the difference between Harry and Voldemort is that Harry willingly accepts mortality, making him stronger than his nemesis. "The real master of Death accepts that he must die, and that there are much worse things in the world of the living."<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/wotm.cfm|title=Wizard of the Month for October|date=2007-10-20|accessdate=2007-10-20|publisher=JK Rowling}}</ref> Ron, who helped George run the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes Joke Shop for a time, is also an Auror.<ref name="Vieira">JK Rowling's Interview with Meredith Vieira, July 26, 2007 Todayshow.com" Retrieved on 26 July 2007 </ref> In the end, Rowling said his old rival Draco Malfoy has overcome his animosity after Harry saved his life three times in the seventh book.<ref name="AfterBook7"/>//www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/wotm.cfm|title=Wizard of the Month for October|date=2007-10-20|accessdate=2007-10-20|publisher=JK Rowling}}</ref> Ron, who helped George run the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes Joke Shop for a time, is also an Auror.<ref name="Vieira">JK Rowling's Interview with Meredith Vieira, July 26, 2007 Todayshow.com" Retrieved on 26 July 2007 </ref> In the end, Rowling said his old rival Draco Malfoy has overcome his animosity after Harry saved his life three times in the seventh book.<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
In the Deathly Hallows epilogue, set nineteen years after Voldemort's death (i.e. 2017), Harry and Ginny are married and have three children: James, the eldest, Albus Severus, and Lily.
Movie appearances
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. " One enchanted night at theater, Radcliffe became Harry Potter " , East Valley Tribune , 2007-07-08 . Retrieved on 2007-07-15 . </ref> The Harry Potter role has been highly lucrative for Radcliffe; as of 2007, he has an estimated wealth of £17 million.<ref>" Young People's Rich List: Daniel Radcliffe " , Times Online . Retrieved on 2007-06-05 . </ref>//www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1546220.0.0.php|accessdate=2007-07-15}}</ref><ref name="play2001"> Koltnow , Barry . " One enchanted night at theater, Radcliffe became Harry Potter " , East Valley Tribune , 2007-07-08 . Retrieved on 2007-07-15 . </ref> The Harry Potter role has been highly lucrative for Radcliffe; as of 2007, he has an estimated wealth of £17 million.<ref>" Young People's Rich List: Daniel Radcliffe " , Times Online . Retrieved on 2007-06-05 . </ref>
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|accessdate=2007-08-15}}</ref> and that he did not feel pigeonholed by the role, but rather sees it as a huge privilege to portray the character of Harry Potter.<ref name="popmatters"/>
Characterisation
According to author J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and what is wrong. Having "very limited access to truly caring adults", Rowling said, Harry "is forced to make his own decisions from early age on."<ref name="Lydon1999"/> He "does make mistakes", she conceded, but in the end, he does what his conscience tells him to do.<ref name="Lydon1999"/> According to Rowling, one of Harry's pivotal scenes came in the fourth book when he protects his dead schoolmate Cedric Diggory's body from arch villain Lord Voldemort, because it shows he is brave and unselfish.<ref name="EW2000"/>
www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/0799-booklinks-omalley.html//www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/0799-booklinks-omalley.html |title="O'Malley, Judy. "Talking With . . . J.K. Rowling," Book Links, July 1999"|accessdate= 2007-08-15}}</ref> After the seventh book, Rowling commented that Harry has the ultimate character strength, being able to do what even Voldemort can not: he is not afraid of death.<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
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Outward appearance
Rowling also gave Harry Potter an uncanny outward appearance. Throughout the entire series, Harry sports his father's perpetually untidy black hair, his mother's green eyes, and a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead because of his encounter with Lord Voldemort and round, thick eyeglasses. She explained that this image simply came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter, seeing him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy".<ref name="jkrbio"/>
www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=84 Section: F.A.Q.]</ref> Asked why Harry's forehead scar is lightning bolt-shaped, Rowling said, "to be honest, because it’s a cool shape," and joked, "I couldn’t have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar."<ref name="AfterBook7"/>//www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=84 Section: F.A.Q.]</ref> Asked why Harry's forehead scar is lightning bolt-shaped, Rowling said, "to be honest, because it’s a cool shape," and joked, "I couldn’t have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar."<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
Abilities and interests
In the books, Harry is categorised as a "half-blood" wizard in the series, because although both his parents were magical, his mother, Lily Evans, was "Muggle-born". According to Rowling, to characters for whom wizarding blood purity matters, Lily would be considered "as loathsome as a Muggle", and derogatively referred to as a "Mudblood".<ref name="scarfaq"/>
www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-swns-alfie.htm|title=""World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000"|accessdate= 2007-08-15}}</ref> Rowling said in the same interview that until about halfway through the third book, his good friend Hermione Granger –written as the smartest student in Harry's year– would have beaten Harry in a magical duel. From the fourth book onwards, Rowling admits Harry has become quite talented in the Defence Against the Dark Arts and would beat his friend Hermione in a magical duel.<ref name="SWNS2000"/> His power is evident from the beginning of the series; specifically, Harry shows immediate command of a broomstick, produces a Patronus at an early age and survives several confrontations with Voldemort. Harry is able to speak and understand Parseltongue, a language associated with Dark Magic, which, according to Rowling, is because he harbours a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul. After Voldemort destroys that soul fragment in the seventh book's climax, Harry loses the ability to speak Parseltongue. Harry "is very glad" to have lost this gift.<ref name="AfterBook7"/>//www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-swns-alfie.htm|title=""World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000"|accessdate= 2007-08-15}}</ref> Rowling said in the same interview that until about halfway through the third book, his good friend Hermione Granger –written as the smartest student in Harry's year– would have beaten Harry in a magical duel. From the fourth book onwards, Rowling admits Harry has become quite talented in the Defence Against the Dark Arts and would beat his friend Hermione in a magical duel.<ref name="SWNS2000"/> His power is evident from the beginning of the series; specifically, Harry shows immediate command of a broomstick, produces a Patronus at an early age and survives several confrontations with Voldemort. Harry is able to speak and understand Parseltongue, a language associated with Dark Magic, which, according to Rowling, is because he harbours a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul. After Voldemort destroys that soul fragment in the seventh book's climax, Harry loses the ability to speak Parseltongue. Harry "is very glad" to have lost this gift.<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
According to Rowling, Harry's favourite book is Quidditch Through the Ages, an actual book that Rowling wrote (under the pseudonym Kennilworthy Whisp) for the Comic Relief charity.
Possessions
When Harry's parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort, they left behind a somewhat large pile of wizard's gold, used as currency in the world of magic, in a vault in the wizarding bank, Gringotts. This inheritance becomes Harry's source of funding for all of his Hogwarts textbooks, wizarding clothing, and spending money.
www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18 Section: Extra Stuff WANDS] jkrowling.com. Retrieved on August 15, 2007.</ref> It forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, whose wand is made of yew, which symbolises death.<ref name="WAND"/> Rowling states she later learned that in the Celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month; and Harry's fictional birthday (July 31) is linked to holly. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also happened to receive wands made from the appropriate woods identified the Celtic calendar, according to their fictional birth months.<ref name="WAND"/>//www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18 Section: Extra Stuff WANDS] jkrowling.com. Retrieved on August 15, 2007.</ref> It forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, whose wand is made of yew, which symbolises death.<ref name="WAND"/> Rowling states she later learned that in the Celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month; and Harry's fictional birthday (July 31) is linked to holly. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also happened to receive wands made from the appropriate woods identified the Celtic calendar, according to their fictional birth months.<ref name="WAND"/>
Another valued and useful possession is Harry's Cloak of Invisibility. In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he receives it anonymously as a Christmas gift. He later learns it was given by Albus Dumbledore, who obtained it in turn from Harry's father.
Harry also owns half of a pair of two-way mirrors, given by his godfather Sirius Black, as a means of maintaining covert communications. In Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry and several friends are captured at Malfoy Manor, which Lord Voldemort was using as his headquarters, Harry uses the mirror to communicate with Aberforth Dumbledore, who sends rescue in the form of Dobby the House Elf.
After Sirius' death, all of his remaining possessions were passed along to Harry. This included the Black family residence, located at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, and all the contents and furnishings of the house, including Kreacher (the old Black family House Elf). Harry also inherited the remainder of Sirius' wealth in wizard's gold at Gringotts.
Another notable possession of Harry's is a magical knife, given to him by Sirius Black. The knife has the power to open most mechanically locks and magical seals. The knife was destroyed when Harry attempted to use it on a lock in the Department of Mysteries, when instead of opening the desired lock, an enchantment destroyed the knife's blade.
By the end of Deathly Hallows, Harry possesses all three Deathly Hallows, the Cloak of Invisibility, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand, three of the most powerfully magical items in all of the wizarding-world. However, Harry lost the Resurrection Stone inside the Forbidden Forest, and decides to leave it there. Harry also takes the Elder Wand and lays it with Dumbledore's body, so the power of the wand might be extinguished if he dies a natural death. However, the new portrait of Dumbledore in the Headmaster's Office agrees that Harry should keep the Invisibility Cloak for himself, since it was his father's.
Throughout the majority of the books, Harry also has a pet owl named Hedwig, used to deliver and receive messages and packages. When Hedwig is killed in the seventh book, the author said she expected the strong emotional reaction of her readers: "The loss of Hedwig represented a loss of innocence and security. She has been almost like a cuddly toy to Harry at times. I know that death upset a lot of people!"<ref name="AfterBook7"/>
Family
In the novels, Harry is the only child of James and Lily Potter, but orphaned as an infant. Rowling made Harry an orphan from the early drafts of her first book. She felt an orphan would be the most interesting character to write about.<ref name="carey1999"/> However, after her mother's death, Rowling wrote Harry as a child longing to see his dead parents again, incorporating her own anguish into him. Harry's aunt and uncle kept the truth about their deaths from Harry, telling him they died in a car accident.<ref name="jkrbio"/> Through his marriage to Ginny Weasley, Harry links the Peverell and the House of Black families. It is unknown whether there have been other links between the two families' history, but this is probable, as they are among the most prominent wizarding families.
In popular culture
www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2002/mar/020319.characters.html Harry Potter among best characters in fiction since 1900], npr.com.</ref> and also voted the 35th "Worst Briton" in Channel 4's "100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate" program.<ref name="worstfic">Channel 4 - 100 Worst Britons channel4.com.</ref> In addition, Harry Potter is spoofed in the Barry Trotter series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a "Barry Trotter" appears as the eponymous anti-hero. On his homepage, Gerber describes Trotter as an unpleasant character who "drinks too much, eats like a pig, sleeps until noon, and owes everybody money."<ref name="gerbertrotter"> Harry Potter among best characters in fiction since 1900, npr.com.</ref> and also voted the 35th "Worst Briton" in Channel 4's "100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate" program.<ref name="worstfic">Channel 4 - 100 Worst Britons channel4.com.</ref> In addition, Harry Potter is spoofed in the Barry Trotter series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a "Barry Trotter" appears as the eponymous anti-hero. On his homepage, Gerber describes Trotter as an unpleasant character who "drinks too much, eats like a pig, sleeps until noon, and owes everybody money."<ref name="gerbertrotter"> [http://www.barrytrotter.com/chargloss.htm#t www.barrytrotter.com/faq.htm//www.barrytrotter.com/faq.htm "Barry Trotter -- Frequently Asked Questions"]
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</ref> In addition, wizard rock bands like Harry and the Potters and others regularly dress up in the style of Harry Potter, sporting painted forehead scars, black wigs and round bottle top glasses.//www.halloweenonlinefind.com/|accessdate=2007-08-15|title=Halloween Online Resource Center}}</ref> In addition, wizard rock bands like Harry and the Potters and others regularly dress up in the style of Harry Potter, sporting painted forehead scars, black wigs and round bottle top glasses.
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. " Harry Potter 'Wrockers' Conjure Musical Magic " , ABC News , 2007-07-13 . Retrieved on 2007-07-31 . </ref> The movement started in Massachusetts with the band Harry and the Potters, who cosplay as Harry during live performances<ref> Davies , Shaun . " The unexpected wizards of rock and roll " , MSN , 2007-07-20 . Retrieved on 2007-07-31 . </ref><ref name=handp-boston-globe> Sweeney , Emily . " Sibling musicians bring out the 'punk' in Harry Potter " , The Boston Globe , 2004-09-16 . Retrieved on 2007-01-26 . </ref>//www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/16112250.htm|title=Yule Ball rolls into Philly|last=Brady|first=Shaun|publisher=The Philadelphia Daily News|date=2006-11-28|accessdate=2007-02-27}}</ref><ref> Humphries , Rachel . " Harry Potter 'Wrockers' Conjure Musical Magic " , ABC News , 2007-07-13 . Retrieved on 2007-07-31 . </ref> The movement started in Massachusetts with the band Harry and the Potters, who cosplay as Harry during live performances<ref> Davies , Shaun . " The unexpected wizards of rock and roll " , MSN , 2007-07-20 . Retrieved on 2007-07-31 . </ref><ref name=handp-boston-globe> Sweeney , Emily . " Sibling musicians bring out the 'punk' in Harry Potter " , The Boston Globe , 2004-09-16 . Retrieved on 2007-01-26 . </ref>
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References
External links
Modèle:Hpw www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/harry.html Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon]//www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/harry.html Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon] www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/harry.html Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon]//www.mugglenet.com/books/quotes/harry.shtml Harry Potter quotes from Mugglenet] www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/harry.html Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon]//www.eulenfeder.de/hpliteratur.html Harry Potter Bibliography: Research and Criticism] www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/harry.html Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon]//www.hp-encyclopedia.com/characters.php?page=harry Harry Potter biography at The Harry Potter Encyclopedia]
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