Potter family

"The Potter family is a very old one, but it was never (until the birth of Harry James Potter) at the very forefront of wizarding history, contenting itself with a solid and comfortable existence in the backwaters. Potter is a not uncommon Muggle surname, and the family did not make the so-called Sacred Twenty-Eight for this reason; the anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood."

- Early description of the family

Potter is the surname of an old wizarding family descended from Ignotus Peverell and Linfred of Stinchcombe. They were once pure-bloods, but James Potter married Muggle-born witch Lily Evans, thus their son Harry James Potter was half-blood. The Potters have traditionally been sorted into Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; they are also very wealthy, with a vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank containing a great deal of gold.

During the First and Second Wizarding Wars, the Potters supported the Order of the Phoenix and opposed Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. James and Lily Potter were both Order members who defied Voldemort three times and fought in the First Wizarding War. On 31 October, 1981 James and Lily's fourth encounter with Voldemort was their last. He murdered them as they attempted to protect their infant son, Harry. Harry survived and went on to be the leader of Dumbledore's Army. He played an important role in many battles of the Second Wizarding War and was the one to defeat Voldemort once and for all.

After the war Harry became an Auror and helped reform and revolutionise the Ministry of Magic. At some point he married fellow Gryffindor and Dumbledore's Army member Ginevra Weasley. The couple had three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna Potter, all three of whom are named in honour of family, friends, and allies.

In 2007, he was promoted to Head of the Auror Office. Harry went on to be Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement from at least 2019. He also had a Chocolate Frog Card made in his honour.

Early history
"The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’."

- The beginning of the use of the name Potter

The Potter family descended from a twelfth-century wizard named Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’. Linfred was a vague and absent-minded fellow whose Muggle neighbours often called upon his medicinal services. None of them realised that Linfred’s wonderful cures for pox and ague were magical; they all thought him a harmless and lovable old chap, pottering about in his garden with all his funny plants. His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune. Historians credit Linfred as the originator of a number of remedies that evolved into potions still used to this day, including Skele-Gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death. Hardwin Potter, Linfred's eldest son, moved the family through the Forest of Dean to the village of Godric’s Hollow, where he married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe Peverell, the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell, who, as the eldest of her generation in the absence of male heirs within the Peverell family, inherited her grandfather’s Cloak of Invisibility. It was, Iolanthe explained to Hardwin, a tradition in her family that the possession of this cloak remained a secret, and her new husband respected her wishes. From this time on, the cloak was handed down to the eldest in each new generation.

Ralston Potter, a later descendant of the Potter family, served as a member of the Wizengamot from 1612 to 1652. He was a supporter of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, instead of wishing to declaring war on Muggles like the more militant members of the Wizengamot.

Abraham Potter was a member of a branch in the family which immigrated at some point before 1693 to the United States of America, where he became one of the original twelve Aurors trained and appointed by the first President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America. It can be assumed that he was educated at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The house Abraham was sorted into remains unknown his distant relation to the famous Harry Potter would not be uncovered until centuries later by eager genealogists.

Recent history
"It was Fleamont who took the family gold and quadrupled it, by creating magical Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion ( ‘two drops tames even the most bothersome barnet’)."

- Fleamont invented Sleekeazy's Hair Potion Henry Potter (known as Harry to his friends), great-great-great-great grandson to Ralston Potter, also served in the Wizengamot, from 1913 to 1921. He condemned the Minister for Magic at the time, Archer Evermonde, for forbidding the magical community from helping the Muggles fighting during the First World War. His outspokenness on behalf of the Muggle community, along with the fact that Potter is also a relatively common surname in the Muggle world, led to the exclusion of the Potter family from the 'Sacred Twenty-Eight' list.

Fleamont Potter, Henry's son (who was named so because of his paternal grandmother's dying wish to have a grandchild perpetuating maiden name, which would otherwise die out), attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was Sorted into Gryffindor House. Most of his peers teased about his name, which Fleamont made fights over up to the point where he would later attribute his dexterity at duelling. The sole person who showed no care whatsoever about how funny his name sounded was a girl named Euphemia, who he luckily married a bit later during early adulthood. Following his graduation, Fleamont took up the career of a potioneer during which he invented the Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, the sales of which quadrupled the family gold and earned a front page story about it wooing American witches in the Daily Prophet on 29 November, 1926. He retired with Euphemia a few years later, but sold the company at a vast profit. James Potter, Fleamont and Euphemia's only son, was born later on in the couple's lives, on 27 March, 1960. By that time, his parents were both elderly (even by wizarding standards), but pampered and cherished their child accordingly to the point that he became a proud yet arrogant and boastful boy who deep down was still a good person. He attended Hogwarts from 1971 to 1978, and was sorted into Gryffindor like his father. While there, he became leader of a small gang of Gryffindors in his year known as the Marauders, consisting of Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin. At some point, James was chosen as a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and made himself completely aware of his talent. He possibly spent time collecting Chocolate Frog Cards as well, since Cuthbert Binns recalled giving him a Circe card which later fell into the possession of a Ravenclaw around James' year, Quirinus Quirrell, who placed it in his vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

For the vast majority of his time at school though, James was somewhat an obnoxious youth for his love of showing off, his exceptional self-confidence, hexing other students with Sirius out of boredom, and ruffling his hair, both of which bordered on arrogance. During his second year, he and his fellow Marauders discovered that Lupin was a werewolf inhabiting the supposedly-haunted Shrieking Shack in  the nearby village of  Hogsmeade, whom they nicknamed "Moony", and spent three years learning to secretly (and illegally) become Animagi in order to assist him during his monthly transformations. James' Animagus form was a shining red stag with pronged horns from which his nickname "Prongs" was derived, Sirius' was a shaggy black dog with padded feet (earning him the nickname "Padfoot"), and Pettigrew's was a fat grey rat with a wormy tail (earning him the nickname "Wormtail"). Whenever the time came for Lupin to transform at the full moon, the Marauders would frequently get out of their beds at night, follow him under the Cloak of Invisibility as he was led by a staff member through the tunnel leading to the Shack dug under the Whomping Willow on the school grounds, and explore Hogwarts' grounds and Hogsmeade during their transformations. In addition, they made sneaking out of the castle and avoiding teachers much easier by creating the Marauder's Map, a small piece of parchment enchanted with a Homonculous Charm which displays a map of the Hogwarts Castle and grounds, and all the school's inhabitants — including all staff, ghosts and students — in great detail.

James became immensely popular during much of his academic career, and teachers like Headmaster Albus Dumbledore respected his intelligence though not his behaviour. They regarded him and Sirius as practical jokers, and his role as a Quidditch star awkwardly adored by all the girls at Hogwarts except Lily Evans, a Muggle-born fellow Gryffindor in his year who was not so impressed with James and described him as an "arrogant bullying toerag". James often tried to impress her in a way which would have her go out with him, but Lily was unconvinced and expressed that she would not want to date him "even if it were a choice between him and the Giant Squid".

His popularity was not universal though; throughout his time at Hogwarts, James directed the Marauders through a strong rivalry occurring between him and a Slytherin in their year, Severus Snape, whom he and Sirius got off on the wrong foot of when Lily introduced him as a childhood friend of hers in their first year on the Hogwarts Express. The feud worsened during later interactions due to Snape's jealousy over James' popularity and talent in Quidditch, as well as James' envy toward Snape's interest in the Dark Arts. Snape would occasionally follow the Marauders around, seeking reasons to get them expelled. At some point, he grew very interested in Lupin's disappearances and, after receiving a tip off from Sirius (actually part of a joke Sirius was playing on him) about getting past the Whomping Willow by poking its bottom knot, followed him through the secret passage under the tree. At great risk to his own life, James saved Snape from certain death at the claws the by pulling him back, but not before Snape caught a glimpse of the werewolf Lupin was transforming into in the Shrieking Shack. All four boys (James, Sirius, Pettigrew and Snape) were immediately told by Dumbledore to keep such discovery a secret, but Lupin's supposed true nature remained clear to Snape, who doubted that James would have done him a favour and believed that his old rival only saved him in order to avoid expulsion. James and Sirius, in turn, furthered their rivalry with Snape by adding him to their list of students to hex and bullying him so in their fifth year (giving him the nickname Snivellus ' and using the humiliating spells Snape himself made up in his copy of Advanced Potion-Making', secretly under the self-used nickname "Half-Blood Prince", ''against him), especially out of boredom. During a part of this ill-treatment campaign in which James hoisted his rival upside-down to reveal his underwear in front of many students, Lily came to Snape's defence and demanded that jinxes be lifted, but this only made things worse; while subsequent lashing out in an attempt to recover his lost dignity, Snape inadvertently called Lily a "Mudblood", a mistake for which she never forgave him despite his repeated apologies. Although she expressed disapproval toward James' bullying by saying he was as bad as Snape, Lily admired the way stood up for his friends and other people treated sadistically by Snape and his gang (consisting of Evan Rosier, Wilkins, Avery and Muliciber).

At some point in the summer of their son's sixth year, both of James' parents allowed Sirius to move in with them after he was disowned by his own pure-blood supremacist family, making him an unofficial member of the Potter family. Sirius was later provided a home for himself when his uncle Alphard Black left his nephew with some of the Black family gold, but Fleamont and Euphemia would often welcome him back to the Potter Cottage for Sunday lunch. By his seventh year, James lost the less savoury aspects of his personality and was appointed Head Boy, despite the fact that he had not been a prefect. This impressed Lily to the point where she finally agreed to date him, which only fuelled his vendetta against Snape even further.

Service In The War
James and Lily were married somewhere around 1978 and 1979, almost a few months after their graduation from Hogwarts. The wedding was kept very quiet because at the same time, the First Wizarding War was occurring in response to the rise to power of the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, a distant cousin of the Potters by descent from the Peverell family through either a daughter or granddaughter of Cadmus Peverell, and his followers, the Death Eaters. The Dark Lord sought thrice to recruit the Potters to his cause as well, possibly when Snape joined the Death Eater ranks and urged his master to do so despite Lily being Muggle-born. However, the couple refused and defied him on all three occasions, leading to their recruitment alongside James' fellow Marauders in the Order of the Phoenix, an organisation created and led by Dumbledore to oppose Voldemort's regime directly.

By 1979, Fleamont and Euphemia Potter died of Dragon Pox within a few days after each other, leaving James to inherit the vast family fortune. This enabled him to comfortably support the family itself without the need for a paying job, but only used this wealth to support Lupin, who was unemployable due to his werewolf status.

The Family's Near-Extinction
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies"

- Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy

Harry Potter, James and Lily's son, was born during the height of the war, on 31 July, 1980. Around that time, Dumbledore witnessed a prophecy made by Sybill Trelawney in her booked room at the Hog's Head Inn which predicted that a child with the power to defeat the Dark Lord would be born to parents who had defied him three times "as the seventh month dies". Voldemort was told only part of the prophecy by Severus Snape, who was caught eavesdropping outside the door by Dubledore's bartender brother Aberforth Dumbledore and ejected from the tavern.

At the end of July in 1980, two infants were born matching this description: Harry and his future Hogwarts classmate Neville Longbottom. Voldemort went after Harry, resolving to murder him, and thus marked Harry as his equal as the prophecy foretold. In remorse for putting the life of a childhood friend like Lily at stake, Snape requested that Dumbledore protect the entire Potter family from the Dark Lord's wrath. Dumbledore agreed, and the Potters went into hiding through the use of the Fidelius Charm over the Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow. They first chose Sirius Black as their Secret-Keeper, but Sirius was worried that Voldemort would suspect him. So he persuaded the Potters to have him act as a decoy and use someone like Peter Pettigrew instead, thinking that this less obvious choice would further protect the family. However, because Pettigrew was secretly working as a Death Eater spy giving Voldemort secret information within the Order's ranks, he betrayed the Potters' whereabouts to the Dark Lord almost a week after the Fidelius Charm was performed, and Voldemort attacked the family in their cottage on 31 October, 1981. He murdered James and then Lily with the Killing Curse, but he first gave Lily the opportunity to save herself, at the request of Snape, who had been in love with her for years. When she refused, Voldemort murdered her, unknowingly invoking ancient magic that protected Harry when Voldemort then attempted to murder him. The Killing Curse rebounded, leaving Harry its only known survivor and Voldemort temporarily defeated. The incident also caused a piece of Voldemort's soul to be embedded in the lightning-bolt-scar on Harry's forehead, inadvertently turning the boy into the extra of the dark wizard's six Horcruxes.

Stripped of his physical form with his powers gone and his army left shocked and distraught, Voldemort fled to a remote forest in Albania, desperately hoping that one of his followers would find him and restore him to power. Harry, who became known as the "Boy Who Lived" for his miraculous survival, was rescued from the ruins of the Potter Cottage by Dumbledore's half-giant trustee Rubeus Hagrid, while Dumbledore himself gave evidence on the Potters' insistence to use Sirius as their Secret-Keeper, for neither he nor Remus Lupin knew of the switch in the plan. Sirius soon discovered what had happened when he went to check on Pettigrew and found his hovel empty with little sign of a struggle. So he rode on his flying motorbike to the ruined cottage, where Pettigrew had already fled with Voldemort's wand, and attempted to have Hagrid give him Harry since he was named Harry's legal guardian in the events of James and Lily's deaths. But Hagrid refused, saying that he had orders to bring the boy to Dumbledore, and Sirius lent the giant his motorbike to take Harry for a ride on. He then pursued Pettigrew all the way to London and cornered him on a crowded street, which the traitor blew up with the Blasting Curse (killing twelve Muggles in the process) and faked his own death by cutting off his index finger before escaping in his Animagus form. Thus, Sirius was left subsequently framed for the Potters' betrayal, as well as Pettigrew's additional twelve murders, and imprisoned in Azkaban without a trial.

Having f was taken in by his mother's sister, Petunia and her husband Vernon Dursley. Harry was raised in the Muggle world by the Dursleys, who treated him poorly and never told him about his wizarding heritage. Because they were blood relatives of his mother, however, Harry benefited from magical protections as long as he could call Number 4 Privet Drive "home". Sometime later the cottage was made invisible to Muggles and left in its ruined condition as a memorial to the Potters and the tragedy that befell them. A sign was added in front of the cottage that depicted that nights events. People would often carve inspirational messages into the wood of the sign, wishing Harry luck and showing their support of him.The Potter memorial was also erected in the aftermath of Voldemort's attack. The memorial is a statue at the centre of the village square in Godric's Hollow. From a distance, it appears as an obelisk, carved with the names of people who died in a war. While Muggles can see only this obelisk, a witch or wizard can see that the memorial changes into a statue of a family as he or she approaches: James, Lily, and an infant Harry Potter.

Between the wars
"Yer a wizard, Harry, and a thumpin' good one I'd wager, once yer trained up a bit, o' course."

- Harry finding out he's a wizard Despite his relatives' efforts to force him to be "normal", Harry was still considered a wizard, and was informed of this fact by Rubeus Hagrid when the time came for him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991. He entered the wizarding world, learned his family's history, and once again became a target of Lord Voldemort, who was still alive but in non-corporeal form and seeking to return to his former power.

Harry's first year
In his first year at Hogwarts, Harry was sorted into Gryffindor when he insisted to the Sorting Hat on not being put in Slytherin. He made best friends with Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger, and later became the youngest Quidditch Seeker ever to make the Gryffindor Quidditch team when a Flying Lesson brawl with his Slytherin rival Draco Malfoy over Neville Longbottom's stolen Remembrall proved him a natural flyer.

During the Hallowe'en celebrations, a Mountain Troll was let into the school by Quirinus Quirrell, who was working as Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor that year and acting as host to Voldemort's soul as part of their plan to steal the Philosopher's Stone from its new underground chambers on the forbidden third floor, since Voldemort believed it would restore him to his body and grant him everlasting life. Only Severus Snape, who was Potions Professor at the time, was aware of the plot and tried to stop Quirrell from trespassing in the Stone's chambers, only to get bitten in the leg by the first chamber's guard Cerberus, named Fluffy. The students, meanwhile, were evacuated back to their Common Rooms, but Harry realised that Hermione did not know about the Troll, since she was in the bathroom crying as Ron had made fun of her earlier that the day. He and Ron went to the girls' bathroom and found the troll already attacking her, and after Harry stuck his wand up its nose, Ron knocked the troll out with its own club using the Levitation Charm. Hermione lied to the professors when they came to investigate to keep both boys out of trouble.

Before his first Quidditch match, respectively against Slytherin, Harry received the new Nimbus 2000 from Transfiguration Professor Minerva McGonagall, which was jinxed during the match by Quirrell and he lost control, which caused him to nearly fall off. Snape intervened again with a counter-curse, but Hermione thought the latter professor was performing the opposing curse and set his robes on fire. This caused Snape to break eye contact with Harry and knock Quirrell over, allowing Harry to regain control and catch the Golden Snitch in his mouth, which ended the match and leaving Gryffindor victorious.

When Harry learnt of Fluffy and how he was protecting the Philosopher's Stone due to a secet agreement between Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel, the creator of the artefact, Harry, Ron and Hermione decided to spend the Christmas holidays looking up Flamel's history. Harry received the Cloak of Invisibility as a gift anonymously from Dumbledore when Christmas arrived, and used it to sneak into the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library in order to steal a book about Flamel, but was almost caught by the school's Squib caretaker Argus Filch, who reported the boy's intrusion to Snape, presenting the broken lantern Harry brought with him as proof.

Harry escaped under the Cloak into an abandoned classroom, where he viewed his parents for the first time through the Mirror of Erised, a mirror that depicts the heart's most desperate desire. When Harry looked into the mirror he saw himself surrounded by family, something he has never had. He saw people with the same features as him; the same green eyes, nose, and knobby knees. He visited the mirror several times before he was approached by Dumbledore about it and sent back to the Gryffindor common room, as the mirror was to be moved moved to its new location in the Philosopher's Stone's underground chamber, convinced not to look for it. After standing up for Neville against Draco Malfoy when the rude Slytherin made the young Longbottom hop back to the common room, Neville in return gave him a Dumbledore Chocolate Frog Card (the first card Harry had ever gotten) which Harry remembered reading Nicholas Flamel's name on the back of. This gave Hermione an easy way to look up Flamel and determine the Fluffy must be guarding the Philosopher's Stone, which was said to hold a elixir providing its drinker immortality known as the Elixir of Life.

Harry's next Quidditch match, this time against Hufflepuff, mounted tensions within the school, for Gryffindor had failed to overtake Slytherin in the Inter-House Quidditch Cup for seven years. Harry was worried that winning the Cup for Gryffindor would be impossible with Snape as a referee, but Ron and Hermione secretly practised the Leg-Locker Curse to use on the Potions teacher in case he showed any signs of attempting to harm Harry. The boy performed his role as Seeker phenomenally before Snape could favour Hufflepuff too much, catching the Snitch within five minutes of the game starting, putting Gryffindor in first place for the Quidditch Cup. He followed Snape into the Forbidden Forest later that night, and mistook his interrogation of Quirrell about the latter teacher's attempt to steal the Stone for Voldemort as an attempt to intimidate Quirrel into handing over information regarding the artefact. He tells Ron and Hermione about it, they unjustly tried to be supportive and encouraging to Quirrell whenever possible for the rest of the year, either by telling people off for laughing at his stutter, smiling at him encouragingly whenever they passed him or arguing with Snape.

Realising how much the trio worked out about the Stone after running into them in the library, Hagrid invited them to his hut to have a talk later. When they arrived, he reluctantly told them that Fluffy belonged to him along with enchantments from the other Professors. The hut soon got too hot for Harry to stand, but Hagrid refused to open a window due to the dragon egg, containing a baby Norwegian Ridgeback named Norbert, hatching in the fire. Draco Malfoy was soon spotted by Harry witnessing the Norbert's hatching through the window, deciding to use the knowledge to get revenge by getting them into trouble for possessing an illegal dragon. The trio luckily saved everyone involved by persuading Hagrid send the dragon to the Romanian dragon preserve that Ron's older brother Charlie Weasley worked at,

Lord Voldemort attempted to attack Harry to gain the Philosopher's Stone in 1992, but the dark wizard's inability to touch Harry, due to the lingering protection from his late mother, continued due to living with her only blood relatives. As such, Quirrell 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.

Second Wizarding War
"I am the chosen one. I have to kill him."

- Harry Potter's future regarding Voldemort Voldemort eventually overcame this by using Harry's blood to regenerate his own body in 1995. Unbeknownst to Voldemort, this act also anchored Harry's life to his own. This was brought to light when Harry and Voldemort had their final confrontation in 1998 during the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry had spent almost a year destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, only to discover during the Battle of Hogwarts that he himself was a Horcrux Voldemort made accidentally that fateful Hallowe'en night in 1981. Harry spoke with his parents, Sirius, Remus briefly through the Resurrection Stone, were they provided him with words of comfort and support. He willingly stood before Voldemort and was struck with the Killing Curse. Because of this, the part of Voldemort's soul within him was destroyed. Because Voldemort had taken some of Harry's blood — and thus Lily's blood, with its magical protections for Harry — within himself, Harry survived the Killing Curse for a second time. Another result of Harry's sacrifice was the protection it offered the defenders of Hogwarts. The two duelled one last time, and Harry defeated Voldemort once and for all, thus putting an end to the Second Wizarding War.

After the war
"Harry and Ron utterly revolutionised the Auror Department in — at the Ministry of Magic. So they — I mean, they are now the consummate — they are experts... And by the time — 19 years later — I would imagine that Harry is heading up that department, which is not corrupt in any way."

- J. K. Rowling regarding Harry's career after the war

After the Second Wizarding War, Harry was recruited into the Auror training programme by Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt. Harry became the youngest Head Auror ever appointed at age 26. Along with his friend Ron Weasley, Harry is considered an "expert" and helped reform and revolutionise the Auror department and the rest of the Ministry.

At some point he was featured on a Chocolate Frog Card for his accomplishments. He also married Ginny Weasley sometime before 2014. The couple had three children — James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna Potter — and thus a new generation of Potters were born into a more peaceful and stable world.

James Sirius began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 2015 and was sorted into Gryffindor House and his sister Lily Luna, who began attendance in 2019, was also sorted into Gryffindor. The exception was Albus Severus who began attending Hogwarts in 2017 and was sorted into Slytherin House, making him the only one in his immediate family who was not in Gryffindor. Harry went on to be the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, having been promoted sometime before the fall of 2020.

Main family
James Potter was the only child of Fleamont and Euphemia Potter. James married Lily Evans and they had one child, Harry, who famously defeated Lord Voldemort. Harry eventually married Ginny Weasley and they had three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna Potter.

Potter relatives
After James Potter married Muggle-born Lily Evans the Potters were then related to the Muggle Dursleys and Evans families. Through Harry Potter's marriage to Ginny Weasley the Potters gained many relatives, as the Weasleys were quite a large family.

Cloak of Invisibility


The Potters descend from Ignotus Peverell, whose Cloak of Invisibility is one of the three Deathly Hallows. Unlike most Invisibility cloaks, it has remained intact for centuries, passed on from generation to generation until it reached Harry Potter. Harry temporarily became the "Master of Death" in 1998, as he was in possession of the Invisibility Cloak, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand. The last item's loyalty to Harry was crucial to his defeat of Lord Voldemort, as the Elder Wand refused to harm its true owner and caused Voldemort's Killing Curse to backfire. Of the three Hallows, Harry only kept the Invisibility Cloak for himself, as it rightfully belongs to his family.

Through the Peverell family, Harry and Voldemort are distantly related, as the House of Gaunt descended from Ignotus's brother Cadmus Peverell, who passed the Resurrection Stone to his descendants in a signet ring.

Vault 687
"Inside were mounds of gold coins. Columns of silver. Heaps of little bronze Knuts."

- Description



This vault in Gringotts Wizarding Bank belongs to the Potter family. It appears to be of moderate depth and deeper underground than the vault of the Weasley family, but not as deep as Vault 713. It is accessible only by a cart operated by one of the bank's goblin employees and by the use of a small gold key.

The vault contains a small fortune, heaps and mounds of Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts. Most of the fortune derives from Fleamonts' invention of Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, sales of which quadrupled the family gold, he also upon retirement sold the company at a vast profit.

Etymology

 * "" is a very common surname of English origin. It traditionally refers to the occupation of making pottery.
 * was a well-known English children's author.
 * is the name for a burial ground for the unknown or unclaimed dead, particularly soldiers and orphans; the Potter family had many members that fit that description.
 * The is a model for making ethical decisions developed at Harvard University. J. K. Rowling has also commented that she has liked the name since childhood.

Behind the scenes

 * In the films, the Potters are played by the following actors:
 * James is played by Adrian Rawlins in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Part 2. The 15 year old James Potter I was played by Robbie Jarvis in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the 11 year old James Potter I was played by Alfie McIlwain in.
 * Lily Potter (née Evans) is played by Geraldine Somerville in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Part 2. The 15 year old Lily Evans was played in a deleted scene by Susie Shinner in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the 11 year old Lily Evans was played by Ellie Darcey-Alden in.
 * Harry is played by Daniel Radcliffe in all of the films. Baby Harry Potter was played by the Saunders triplets in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and by Toby Papworth in.
 * Ginny Potter (née Weasley) is played by Bonnie Wright in all of the films.
 * James Sirius Potter is played by Will Dunn in.
 * Albus Severus Potter is played by Arthur Bowen in.
 * Lily Luna Potter is played by Daphne de Beistegui in.
 * It is seen in two generations that Potter men have fallen in love and married red-haired women: James Potter married Lily Evans, and their son Harry Potter married Ginny Weasley.
 * Harry and his sons James and Albus are the only known Potters to have godfathers. Harry's godfather is Sirius, James' godfather is Ron, and Albus' godfather is Neville
 * The Potter family wasn't one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, though it wasn't known to had Muggle ancestry until Harry Potter's birth in 1980.
 * It is shown in several generations of Potters that they suffer from bad eyesight and are shown to wear full-moon glasses. It is seen in the males of the family such as; Abraham Potter, Fleamont Potter, James Potter I and Harry Potter.

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Notes and references
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