Harry Potter needs no introduction. The popularity of this adorable young wizard was so widespread that J K Rowling, the creator went on to write seven novels featuring Harry and his friends, and their adventures.
Harry Potter first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Harry is introduced as an orphan who is mistreated by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday, Harry discovers that he is the son of the famous wizard-witch couple-James and Lily Potter. He also learns that his parents had not perished in a car accident, as his aunt and uncle had told him. They had been murdered by an evil wizard named Voldemort.
Harry is the only person to have ever survived an attack by Voldemort by somehow rebounding the latter’s killing curse. However, this leaves him with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.
Harry’s survival angers Voldemort particularly as the boy is already a celebrity in the world of wizardry. On his 11th birthday, Harry is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is taken under the wing of the school’s headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
At Hogwarts Harry become friends with classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and finds a rival in Draco Malfoy. The rest of the story is about the rivalry between Harry and Voldemort. Voldemort attempts to take Harry’s life beginning in the first book and continuing throughout the series. With the help of those who love him and believe in him, Harry is able to emerge victorious in the end.
Harry Potter has been considered as one of the greatest literary and film characters of all time.
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