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[[File:Lily and James Potter.jpg|thumb|400px|James and Lily Potter in the [[Mirror of Erised]]]]
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!colspan=2 style="font-size: smaller;" | Adrian Rawlins as James Potter in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
 
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!colspan=2 style="font-size: larger; background-color:{{{bgcolor}}}; color:{{{fgcolor}}};" | James Potter
 
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|'''Gender''' || Male
 
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|'''Date of birth''' || c. 1958
 
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|'''House''' || [[Gryffindor]]
 
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|'''Occupation''' || Unknown
 
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|'''Parentage''' || [[Pure-blood]]
 
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|'''Loyalty''' || [[Order of the Phoenix]]
 
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|'''First appearance''' || ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
 
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'''James Potter''' and '''Lily Potter (née Evans)''' are the deceased parents of [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]].
 
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==James==
 
'''James Potter''' was born c. 1958 in Britain. He is described as having hazel eyes, a slightly longer nose than [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry]]'s, but otherwise the same thin face, same hands, same untidy black hair sticking up at the back, and (nearly) the same height as Harry during their school days. He attended [[Hogwarts]] <!-- SCHOOL DATES ARE BASED UPON THOSE OF BELLATRIX LESTRANGE; FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE [[Dates in Harry Potter]]. PLEASE USE THE TALK PAGE IF YOU BELIEVE A MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE. --> c. [[Dates in Harry Potter|1969]] to c. [[1976]] where he was in [[Gryffindor]] and his best friends were [[Sirius Black]], [[Remus Lupin]] and [[Peter Pettigrew]]. Sirius fell out with his own parents when he was around sixteen and ran away to move in with James and his parents until leaving school. He often visited the Potters, who regarded him as a "second son." James was an only child and his parents were quite elderly when he was born, even by wizarding standards; as a result, he was quite pampered [http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm].
 
   
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'''James and Lily Potter''' were a married couple and the parents of the famous [[Harry Potter]]. They were both [[Gryffindor]] students at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] and members of the [[Order of the Phoenix]]. See their individual articles for more information:
He was described by another classmate [[Severus Snape]] as "exceedingly arrogant", by Remus as "the height of cool" and by Sirius as sometimes an "arrogant little [[:Wikipedia:berk|berk]]". Scenes from James's time at Hogwarts have shown him behaving as a bully towards Snape, but he became a more mature individual before the end of his schooldays. He had the habit of hexing anyone who annoyed him and was more skilled at magical dueling in his fifth year than Snape, despite himself describing Snape as being famous for his ability with the [[Dark Arts (Harry Potter)|Dark Arts]]. After seeing Snape's recorded memories of James, Harry agreed with Snape's assessment of his father's arrogance, and the revelation left Harry deeply depressed and disheartened. In defence of their "bullying", Sirius insisted that Snape had a mean streak and was not the "innocent victim" he appeared to be, and that James hated Snape for his infatuation with the Dark Arts.
 
   
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*[[James Potter I|James Potter]]
James was a brilliant student, and in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', was mentioned to have become [[Head Boy]] (though in OotP it is said that Lupin became prefect, not James). He was also a player on the Gryffindor [[Quidditch]] team. There was considerable confusion over whether James was a Seeker or a Chaser but Rowling confirmed that James was a Chaser. He was shown playing with a Golden Snitch outside of games and practices, ostensibly to show off. He similarly had a habit of rumpling up his hair to produce the effect that he had just stepped off a broomstick.
 
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*[[Lily Evans|Lily Potter]]
[[Image:The_potters_hp.JPG|thumb|left|Geraldine Somerville as Lily Potter, Adrian Rawlins as James Potter, and one of the Saunders triplets as one-year-old [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'']]
 
James and Sirius were apparently popular students, ingenious pranksters and very witty. [[Madam Rosmerta]] of the [[Three Broomsticks]] pub in [[Hogsmeade]], once talked fondly of how the two boys used to come into her bar, flirt with her, and make her laugh.
 
   
==Lily==
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!colspan=2 style="font-size: smaller;" | Geraldine Somerville as Lily Potter, in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
 
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!colspan=2 style="font-size: larger; background-color:{{{bgcolor}}}; color:{{{fgcolor}}};" | Lily Evans Potter
 
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|'''Gender''' || Female
 
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|'''Date of birth''' || 31 October c. 1958
 
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|'''House''' || [[Gryffindor]]
 
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|'''Occupation''' || Unknown
 
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|'''Parentage''' || [[Muggle-born]]
 
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|'''Loyalty''' || [[Order of the Phoenix]]
 
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|'''First appearance''' || ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
 
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[[es:James y Lily Potter]]
While at [[Hogwarts]], James met his future wife '''Lily Evans''' (born (c. 1958 - d. October 31, 1981), who was also in his year. Lily was described as having startlingly green, almond-shaped eyes and thick, shoulder-length dark red hair. She was described by [[Professor Slughorn]] as having a natural and intuitive ability at [[Hogwarts subjects#Potions|Potions]], being cheeky, but always seeing the good in others. She was, according to Slughorn, very brave, very funny and very charming, and he could not imagine that anyone who met her would not have liked her. She became a member of [[the Slug Club]], which was run by Slughorn for promising students. Lily was very pretty, and it is evident that James was very taken with her, at least since their fifth year. Lily was [[Muggle-born]], and at home, her sister [[Dursley family#Petunia Dursley|Petunia]] despised Lily for being a witch and saw her as a "freak", possibly because she was jealous of how their parents favoured Lily. Petunia told Harry in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' that, ''"But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!"''
 
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Lily was Head Girl when she was in her final year. For most of the time they were at Hogwarts, Lily appeared to have regarded James as an arrogant bully and she and James addressed each other only by each other's surnames. James was shown doodling Lily's initials during an examination in their fifth year, while [[Sirius Black|Sirius]] recalled that he couldn't resist showing off (and making a fool of himself) whenever she was around. However, Lily defended [[Severus Snape|Snape]] against James's bullying (at least until Snape called her a "Mudblood") and expressed contempt for his behaviour, looking at him with "great dislike" and calling him "an arrogant bullying toerag." After he asked her out in their fifth year, she replied that she wouldn't go out with him if it was a choice between him and the giant squid and remarked that, ''"I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK!"'' From this, Harry gathered the impression that Lily hated James, but Sirius and [[Remus Lupin|Lupin]] assured him that she didn't hate her future husband, they simply got off on the wrong foot. [[J. K. Rowling]] commented on Lily's hatred of James in an interview with [[The Leaky Cauldron]]/[[MuggleNet]]:
 
 
{{cquote|MA: How did they get together? She hated James, from what we've seen.
 
 
JKR: Did she really? You're a woman, you know what I'm saying.}}
 
 
After James matured and changed his attitude, Lily started dating him in their seventh year, eventually falling in love and marrying him, with Sirius as best man at their wedding.
 
 
Petunia recalls meeting an 'awful boy' who knew about magic, but it is not clear she meant James. Lupin told Harry that his parents only became attached in their seventh year, and married soon after leaving Hogwarts. It is not known what careers they took up after leaving school. Rowling has said in an interview that ''"James inherited plenty of money, so he didn't need a well-paid profession."''
 
 
==James, Lily, and Harry==
 
James and Lily had a son, [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry James Potter]], born on 31 July [[1980]]. James and Lily belonged to the [[Order of the Phoenix]], which was an organization created for wizards who wanted to battle [[Lord Voldemort]] and his followers, the [[Death Eater]]s. This organization was created and led by [[Albus Dumbledore]]. Dumbledore was given a [[Sybill Trelawney#Prophecy|prophecy]] by [[Sybill Trelawney]] that someone had been born who could defeat the Dark Lord to parents who had already defied him three times. Voldemort was told part of the prophecy by [[Severus Snape]], who had been caught outside the door after the prophecy was heard. Athough both Harry and [[Neville Longbottom]] matched the description, Voldemort went after Harry, resolving to kill him. The Potters were deep in hiding through the [[Fidelius Charm]], but on [[31 October]] [[Dates in Harry Potter|1981]], the Potters' whereabouts were betrayed by their friend [[Peter Pettigrew]] and they were attacked without warning at their home in [[Godric's Hollow]]. Their confrontation ended with first James and then Lily dead, and Voldemort himself barely alive. Whether there was anyone else present in Godric's Hollow on this night, Rowling has said, "No comment." [http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm] Harry was taken in by Lily's sister, [[Petunia Dursley|Petunia]], who is married to [[Vernon Dursley|Vernon Dursley]]. Their son and therefore Harry's cousin, [[Dudley Dursley]], is a spoiled, gluttonous bully.
 
 
Lily could have saved herself when her family was attacked by Voldemort since he offered her the chance to step aside while he killed Harry. This was shown in a flashback sequence during ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. Voldemort's motives for offering to spare Lily's life are unclear, but Lily refused and Voldemort killed her; the upshot of her selfless act was to invoke an ancient magic that gave Harry an innate defence against Voldemort (Rowling has stated that Lily did not know that this would happen because "it never happened before"). This magic manifested itself two ways: First, when Voldemort attempted to kill Harry with the Killing Curse, ''[[Avada Kedavra]]'' (which had never before been survived), the spell backfired, rendering Voldemort non-corporeal.
 
 
Voldemort's inability to touch Harry, due to his lingering protection, continued in ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''. [[Quirinus Quirrell|Professor Quirrell]], acting as [[Host (biology)|host]] to Voldemort, attempted to attack Harry to gain the [[Philosopher's Stone]], but was prevented from stealing the Stone when he came into contact with Harry's skin, leaving Voldemort forced to return to his non-corporeal state. Voldemort has since overcome this by using Harry's blood to regenerate his own body. However, when Harry tells [[Albus Dumbledore|Dumbledore]] this, he thinks he sees, for a fleeting instant, "something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes." Harry thinks he must've imagined it though, for Dumbledore merely says "Very well, Voldemort has overcome that particular barrier." When asked about the gleam of triumph, [[J. K. Rowling]] says, "That's still enormously significant. And let's face it, I haven't told you that much is enormously significant, so you can let your imaginations run free there." [http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview3.shtml]
 
 
The second way in which Harry is protected by Lily's sacrifice occurs at the Dursley residence in [[Little Whinging]]. Dumbledore admitted to Harry that he had extended Lily's protection to the home where Lily's sister Petunia lived. This was possible because Lily and Petunia are related by blood. As long as it continues to be Harry's home, Voldemort cannot harm Harry there. This protection at the Dursley's ends when Harry comes of age at 17.
 
 
James's [[Animagus]] form is a [[:Wikipedia:Deer|stag]], like Harry's [[Patronus]]. James was therefore nicknamed "Prongs." Though Harry bears a great resemblance to his father, it is often noted that he has Lily's eyes. Rowling has said that, "Harry has his father and mother's good looks. But he has his mother's eyes and that's very important in a future book." [http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-bostonglobe-loer.html] Rowling has also said there will be more details appearing about Lily in the seventh and [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|final ''Harry Potter'' book]].
 
 
==Family tree==
 
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James and his school friend [[Sirius Black]] may actually be first cousins once-removed. The Black family tree that a Charlus Potter married to Dorea Black, daughter of Cygnus Black and Violetta Bulstrode (maybe related to Millicent Bulstrode, Slytherin) and granddaughter of [[Phineas Nigellus]] Black. It is possible that Dorea and Charlus may have been James's parents. In this case, James would have been a (much younger) first cousin of [[Walburga Black]] and her brothers. This would make Harry and Sirius second cousins. However, this contradicts the fact that James's parents were "old in wizarding terms" when they died, since wizards have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles. ([[Griselda Marchbanks]] is known to be over 160 and Albus Dumbledore about 150; Dorea died at only 57 years old.)
 
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/james.html The Harry Potter Lexicon's biography of James Potter]
 
*[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/lily.html The Harry Potter Lexicon's biography of Lily Potter]
 
*Casting confirmation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4660000/newsid_4662300/4662350.stm
 

Revision as of 00:51, 30 June 2015

Lily and James Potter

James and Lily Potter in the Mirror of Erised

James and Lily Potter were a married couple and the parents of the famous Harry Potter. They were both Gryffindor students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and members of the Order of the Phoenix. See their individual articles for more information:

See also