Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by

J. K. Rowling

James Potter Character Analysis

Harry's father. James and his wife, Lily, died when Harry was one year old, trying to protect Harry from Voldemort. Harry admires his father and takes pride any time someone says that Harry looks like James, but this begins to change when Harry decides to enter Snape's memory in the Pensieve. There, Harry sees fifteen-year-old James torture Snape for no reason, show off for girls, and sees that Lily appeared to hate James. Sirius and Lupin explain to Harry that James was good at everything and embarrassingly full of himself, but he became less arrogant in his late teens. James and Lily were active members of the Order of the Phoenix.

James Potter Quotes in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix quotes below are all either spoken by James Potter or refer to James Potter. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Twenty-Nine Quotes

He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory of what his father had done on a summer's day more than twenty years ago...

And then he remembered Sirius in the fire upstairs in the Gryffindor common room... "You're less like your father than I thought...The risk would've been what made it fun for James..."

But did he want to be like his father anymore?

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Professor Severus Snape, James Potter
Page Number: 667
Explanation and Analysis:
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James Potter Quotes in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix quotes below are all either spoken by James Potter or refer to James Potter. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Purpose of Education Theme Icon
).
Chapter Twenty-Nine Quotes

He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory of what his father had done on a summer's day more than twenty years ago...

And then he remembered Sirius in the fire upstairs in the Gryffindor common room... "You're less like your father than I thought...The risk would've been what made it fun for James..."

But did he want to be like his father anymore?

Related Characters: Sirius Black (speaker), Harry Potter, Professor Severus Snape, James Potter
Page Number: 667
Explanation and Analysis: