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Harry, age 15

Harry James Potter
played in the films by Daniel Radcliffe
Birthday: July 31, 1980
Parents: Lily Evans Potter & James Potter (died 1981)
Married: Ginny Weasley
Children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, Lily Luna
Other Family: numerous Weasley in-laws; aunt Petunia, uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley Dursley; godson Teddy Lupin
Heritage: Half-blood (pure-blood father, Muggle-born mother)
Attended Hogwarts: 1991-1997 (left after 6th year)
House: Gryffindor
Eyes/Hair: Bright green/black
Wand: 11 inches, holly & phoenix feather
Pets: Hedwig, a snowy owl (deceased)
Patronus: Stag
Notable: Only survivor of Avada Kedavra curse (age 1); youngest Quidditch Seeker in 100 years (1st year); 1994-95 Triwizard Champion (4th year); head of "Dumbledore's Army" (5th year); 1996-97 Gryffindor Quidditch Captain (6th year), killed Voldemort (age 17).

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For the first year of his life Harry lived in the community of Godric's Hollow with his parents Lily and James, who were active members of the war against Lord Voldemort, the darkest wizard in modern times. One night one of Voldemort's apparent followers, Severus Snape - who would later become Harry's most antagonistic professor - overheard bits of a prophecy that foretold of a boy born in the height of summer 1980 to parents who had fought him three times before... a boy who would be Voldemort's downfall. Acting on information betrayed to him by one of the Potters' closest friends, on Halloween night 1981 Voldemort attacked the Potters in their home. James died first, fighting Voldmort himself to buy time for Lily and Harry. Voldemort ordered Lily to stand aside so he could get to Harry, but she refused, and it was this sacrifice, one borne of deep love, that caused Voldemort's deadly spell to rebound from baby Harry back on to him. This weakened him so much he lost physical form, and left Harry with only a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Since he was the first to ever survive such an attack, Harry immediately became famous in the wizarding world as "The Boy Who Lived," the one who had freed their world from the terror of Voldemort.

Baby Harry was delivered by Hogwarts School's headmaster Albus Dumbledore to Harry's only surviving relatives, his mother's Muggle sister and her husband, to be raised away from the fame that had sprung up in his name and to be under an invoked protection that would keep Harry safe while he stayed with his mother's blood relatives. The Dursleys, despising of anything unnatural, especially magic, resented this burden, and it showed in their treatment of Harry. He was forced to live in a dirty cupboard under the stairs and when not completely ignored, was treated very unkindly. Since they were trying to 'squash' the magic from him, they told Harry nothing of his magic heritage, telling him his parents had died in the same car crash that had given him his scar, and he knew nothing until he received his letters and a visit from Hogwarts' gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid on his 11th birthday. When he arrived in the magical world Harry discovered he was famous, and the truth behind his parents' deaths. He became friends with Ron Weasley on the Hogwarts school train, and with Hermione Granger after he and Ron saved her from a mountain troll their first Halloween. While in most ways an average student, Harry did find he excelled in the wizard broomstick game of Quidditch, becoming the youngest Seeker on a Hogwarts team in over a century. He, Ron, and Hermione solved the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone, which led to Harry facing Voldemort (still in non-physical form) for the first time since he was a baby. Voldemort wanted to use the Stone to create an elixir that would restore his body, but Harry managed to keep it from him long enough for Dumbledore to intervene. Voldemort fled and went into hiding again, having failed in getting the Stone, which was soon destroyed.
In second year Harry faced Voldemort a third time, this time in the form of Voldemort's younger self, Tom Riddle. Riddle had been preserved in a diary that had possessed Ron's younger sister Ginny (who was quite smitten with Harry), causing her to be the unwitting perpetrator of several Petrifying attacks on Muggle-born Hogwarts students - including Hermione - which many had previously suspected Harry of. When Riddle lured Ginny into the Chamber of Secrets - a trap for Harry - Harry and Ron went to save her, and Harry wound up destroying Riddle's basilisk snake (which had been the instrument of the attacks) and the diary, in turn destroying Riddle and freeing Ginny. In his third year Harry was believed to be the target of escaped Azkaban - the wizard prison - prisoner Sirius Black, who was convicted not only for the 1981 murder of a wizard and several Muggles, but as the one who betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort. He, Ron, and Hermione found that Sirius had been wrongly imprisoned and learned the truth of the mystery of who had truly done this - another of his parents' friends, Peter Pettigrew (the one Sirius was believed to have murdered), who escaped them to rejoin his master Voldemort, leaving no way to confirm Sirius's innocence. Harry and Hermione helped him to escape certain death at the hands of soul-sucking Dementors, but Sirius remained a fugitive.
In his fourth year, Harry became the surprise fourth (and youngest ever) member of a dangerous international school wizarding competition known as the Triwizard Tournament, where he was to compete with other young wizards and witches in three magical tasks for the championship. Harry had not entered this contest willingly, and soon suspected someone had put him in the tournament as a means of trying to kill him. No one but Hermione believed him at first; even Ron initially believed that Harry had entered the competition to seek more glory for himself. Harry also became the unfortunate subject of many slanderous newspaper articles, which portrayed him as dangerously unstable and a romantic pawn of the "scarlet woman" Hermione. Harry's suspicions proved to be true - when Harry and the other Hogwarts school champion, Cedric Diggory, completed the third task at the same time, they were literally swept right into Voldemort's possession. Cedric was killed almost immediately, and Harry's blood was used in a crude spell to restore Voldemort to a physical body and which rendered the protection of Lily's sacrifice - which had kept Voldemort from being able to physically touch Harry - invalid. Harry narrowly survived a duel with Voldemort, escaping with Cedric's body and the horrible news that Voldemort had risen again.
Harry returned to the Dursleys that summer, the anger over no news from the wizarding world - including Ron and Hermione - and his worry over Voldemort's return darkening his overall demeanor. Shortly before his return to Hogwarts he was attacked by Dementors, prompting him to use a spell that, while saving him and his cousin, caused his expulsion from Hogwarts and to be the subject of a Ministry hearing. After testimony by Dumbledore, he was acquitted and allowed to return to school. On returning there, however, Harry discovered people were treating him even more strangely than before: few believed his claims that Voldemort had returned, and newspaper articles were again painting him as an unstable fame-seeker. One of the few to openly declare her support of Harry was fourth year Ravenclaw Luna Lovegood, whose unusual beliefs, appearance, and quirky behavior earned her an outcast label at Hogwarts.
After realizing their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dolores Umbridge, was nothing more than a means for the Ministry of Magic to control Hogwarts and who had no intention of properly teaching them magic, Hermione encouraged Harry (on the grounds that he was the most gifted in the subject) to secretly teach DADA himself to any student who was willing. The group he taught became known as "Dumbledore's Army," and included Harry's longtime crush, Cho Chang. The two shared a kiss and a date, but things never progressed much once it became clear Cho could not accept continually being second to Harry's friends (particularly Hermione) in his eyes, and Harry could not accept her remaining friends with a girl who betrayed the DA's existence to Umbridge.
During fifth year Harry was also plagued by dreams of Voldemort and a door in a strange corridor, which culminated in a vision of Sirius being tortured by Voldemort to get the prophecy. These dreams turned out to be a trap, to lure Harry into the most secret part of the Ministry of Magic to obtain the whole of the 1980 prophecy that foretold of Voldemort's downfall. Sirius, having come with a group of wizards (the Order of the Phoenix, who had fought Voldemort in the past) to Harry's aid, was, to Harry's disbelieving horror, killed dueling one of Voldemort's followers. Another intervention by Dumbledore was all that kept Voldemort from murdering Harry himself; Voldemort escaped. Voldemort's presence in the Ministry was enough to finally convince the wizarding world that Voldemort had indeed returned, that Harry was not a crazed liar. But it was little solace to him, only achieving a small measure of comfort by confiding in Luna Lovegood, who was able to empathize with having seen the death of a loved one, and who had become a loyal ally of Harry's over the course of the year. Dumbledore finally revealed the truth of the prophecy to Harry - which stated that a boy born in the summer of 1980 to parents who had fought Voldemort, and who had been marked by Voldemort as his equal, would be his downfall, and that neither he or Voldemort could live while the other survived.
Dumbledore himself personally delivered Harry from the Dursleys' that summer, to convince them to allow Harry to stay one more summer with them - before Harry came of age and the blood magic protecting Harry there became invalid - and to inform Harry that he had inherited all of Sirius' estate, including his home, 12 Grimmauld Place, the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Dumbledore also needed Harry's help to convince an old colleague, Horace Slughorn, to come fill a vacant teaching post at Hogwarts, since Slughorn had been very fond of Harry's mother. Shortly after arriving at the Burrow Harry received word he'd passed nearly all his OWL exams from the previous year, and that he was now captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Upon arriving at school Harry was horrified to learn that his most hated teacher, Professor Snape, was actually going to be their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for the year. Potions was taught by Slughorn, a man who tended to surround himself with those he believed would benefit him in the future and who - to Harry's dismay - took a liking to Harry. Harry found himself excelling in Potions thanks to an old Potions textbook full of notes by a mysterious "Half-Blood Prince," and, much to Hermione's disgust, Harry refused to give up the textbook.
Over the course of the year Harry took several private lessons with Dumbledore, during which Harry learned a good deal about Voldemort's background, something Dumbledore believed would be beneficial to Harry's eventual confrontation with the Dark Lord. They discovered the key to Voldemort's plan to achieve immortality: magical objects called Horcruxes, which held pieces of a person's soul and whose creation ritual always involved a brutal act like murder, and all of which had to be destroyed to kill that person. Voldemort had split his soul into several fragments and stored them in several unknown Horcruxes, one of which had been the diary Harry destroyed his second year. At the end of the year Dumbledore allowed Harry to go on a quest with him to retrieve what he believed to be another of the Horcruxes. The quest severely weakened Dumbledore, having been forced to drink a toxic potion to reach the Horcrux. Upon returning to Hogwarts they were horrified to discover the Dark Mark, Voldemort's symbol, floating above the school. The school had been infiltrated by Death Eaters thanks to a slowly-executed plan of Harry's school rival Draco Malfoy, a plan which was to end in Draco killing Dumbledore himself. Draco was unable or unwilling to do so, so Professor Snape - apparently having rejoined the Death Eater group he once served - did it for him, while a horrified Harry could only watch, having been immobilized by Dumbledore. In his rage over the murder and from learning Snape had been the one who delivered knowledge of the prophecy to Voldemort to begin with, Harry pursued Snape - who revealed he was the Half-Blood Prince of Harry's textbook - but was unsuccessful. Dumbledore's death left Harry with a more adult resolve than ever, realizing he was the only one left now to stop Voldemort. At Dumbledore's funeral he broke up with Ginny Weasley, who he'd become attracted to and briefly dated before his quest with Dumbledore, for fear that their involvement would endanger her to Voldemort. Harry decided he would not return to Hogwarts the next year, to instead pursue the destruction of the remaining Horcruxes. He intended to do so alone, but Ron and Hermione firmly denied this, pledging themselves at Harry's side no matter what was ahead.

Harry spent much of his next year in hiding with Ron and Hermione tracking down and destroying several of the remaining Horcruxes, while Voldemort's control of the wizarding world grew, and his other friends - including Luna - led an underground movement at Hogwarts and elsewhere. The quest culminated at the school, when Voldemort realized Harry was about to discover the final Horcrux there. Hogwarts became the site of a vicious final battle between Voldemort's followers and enemies. In the end, Harry defeated Voldemort - having himself died and come back to life in the process - and brought an end to the war.

Sometime after this he apparently reunited with Ginny, and they married and had three children. If you believe the epilogue, anyway. ;)

[Yes, at some point I'll better flesh out the Deathly Hallows part of Harry's bio, but that's going to have to wait until I muster the nerve to re-read it.]