Harry Potter is a 13-year-old wizard and the main protagonist of The Prisoner of Azkaban. A student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry is an orphan whose parents were murdered when he was a baby, and he now lives with his non-magical aunt, uncle, and cousin during the summer. Harry is a “a highly unusual boy” with “round glasses” (1), and he is “small and skinny for his age” with “jet-black hair.” (6). His most distinguishing feature is his “thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning” (6), the one souvenir from the night his parents were killed. Harry is nicknamed “The Boy Who Lived,” alluding to the fact that he somehow survived when the evil wizard Lord Voldemort attempted to kill him along with his parents. As a result, Harry is treated like a celebrity in the wizarding world, which greatly annoys him.

Harry loves Hogwarts, because it is the first place he has felt like he belonged, and because he is isolated from the outside world during his summers with his relatives, Harry has formed strong friendships with his fellow witch and wizard, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

In his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry is full of adolescent stubbornness.