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Harry Potter is the lead character of a series of fantasy novels aimed at young adults by J. K. Rowling.

Harry was orphaned shortly after his birth when the evil Lord Voldemort murdered his parents. His mother died trying to save him; her sacrificial love gave him a measure of power over further attacks by Voldemort (compare Ruby Slippers).

Harry was taken in by his Muggle relatives in a suburb of London, and they carefully concealed from him any knowledge of his magical heritage, saying that his parents had been killed in a car accident. But when Harry was eleven years old, an owl brought him a letter inviting him to enroll at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- much to his uncle's displeasure.

The Harry Potter novels center on the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a castle in the middle of a ring of mountains, usually accessed by taking the Hogwarts Express from platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross station, London. It is in Scotland, according to a margin note in "Fantastic Beasts".

Each book in the series chronicles one year in Harry's life at Hogwarts. There are supposed to be seven books, each getting a little bit darker than the previous one as Harry gets older.

The books have been compared to Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea and the novels of Diana Wynne Jones; they also fit into a British genre of novels about boarding school life.

Certain aspects of the Harry Potter series have even entered the real world as products to be purchased by fans of the series. One example is Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.

Novels and films

See also:


Parodies of Harry Potter:

  • Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody - see external link below

Unauthorized Books of Harry Potter:


Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Quidditch through the Ages

External Links