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How to Create Your Own Harry Potter Character

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You can write a story full of beautiful, descriptive language and breathtakingly vivid settings, but if you don't have your own Harry Potter character in your story, it won't be the best.


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    Create your Character. To create your own Harry Potter character, you really need to know your character. If you know him/her like the back of your hand, there character will come to life in your story and really make it a whole lot better. So, to start off with learning the inside out of your character, simply get to your computer and open a new word document.
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    Start by writing your character's full name and their feelings about their name. (You can write how they got their name and what that name means.)
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    Name your character. Next, write all of your character's family's full names. Grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, parents, everyone. (You can write your main character's feelings about all of her family and what they are like.)
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    What house will your character be in? If you want you can go online and look up the sorting hat quiz. Answer all the questions the way that your character would. Then submit, and see what house your character would be in. Be sure when you draw your character to make them look like a person from their house. For example if your character is a Ravenclaw draw their school uniform to be a Ravenclaw.
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    Write your character's best friend(s) names and five words or more - you can do however many you like - describing them-not physically, but what they are like. (You can describe their physical traits if you like.)
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    Write your character's enemy or enemies. Do the same thing you did for your character's friends and make sure to write why your character and this/these person/s are enemies. If your character is in any house other than Slytherin, you might want to make their enemy or enemies a certain Slytherin or all Slytherins.
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    Write many other things about your character as well. You can write things like how they appear like, their customs, their family's traditions, their neighbors and their neighborhood; basically every little thing about your character.
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    Draw a picture of your character. You should draw your character or find a picture online that you think describes your character. The drawing doesn't have to be the best, it's only for you to see what your character looks like. This might seem like a lot of things to do for one character, but if your character is interesting-which is necessary for a good story-then making up all of these things about your character will be fun. --
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    Determine your character's boggart. What is their biggest fear?
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    Determine your character's wand. Shorter wands generally go for shorter people, or whose character is 'somewhat lacking', and less flexible wands go for wizards with less adaptability. Go to Pottermore to read about wand woods and cores.
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    Every witch/wizard has a pet at Hogwarts. You can a pick a toad, cat or an owl. If your character is in the Ravenclaw house or Hufflepuff house, it will prefer a cat. If your character is poor, it'll have a toad. Something common would be an owl.
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    Pick the school your character goes to,The most common one is Hogwarts. Students in Beauxbatons and Durmstrang can also be male or female.
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    Determine your character's special abilities or features. Is she a Parseltongue? Is he an expert on non verbal magic? Try adding things like this to make your wizard truly unique.

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  • How do you make yourself a Harry Potter character?
    wikiHow Contributor
    Follow these same steps, but answer the questions as you would answer them and go through it as if you were the character. Imagine yourself directly into the HP universe and think about how you'd like to fit in.
  • What is Neville Longbottom's toad's name?
    wikiHow Contributor
    Trevor. But, you don't have to copy! Maybe Neville is his dad, and your character named his toad after him.
  • What if I don't have any electronics?
    wikiHow Contributor
    Luckily, you don't need electronics! Just a pencil and paper and some good ideas. You can easily do this without the internet.
  • How do I post it on the internet so my friend can see it?
    wikiHow Contributor
    You can post your story on wattpad.com or fanfiction.net, your friends would be able to see it there.
  • Does it say what kind of wand?
    wikiHow Contributor
    On the Pottermore website, you can either take the wand test, or read Mr. Ollivander's notes on wand wood and wand core.
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  • If you don't even know what to write about, simply making a character up will give you story ideas.
  • Just have fun!
  • If you want to, you can develop other big characters in your story too and this will help you understand your story even better.
  • Be creative!
  • If you don't like your main character, then start your character all over again.
  • If you are trying to make a character that could actually exist in the wizarding world, don't give them certain traits that don't mach with their behavior, or their upbringing. For example, don't have a "Pureblood" know everything about the muggle world that a muggle-born would, and they should know more about the wizarding world than a muggle-born.
  • Try not to take last names or families from actual characters in the wizarding world, unless this is maybe a fanfiction. Try to make up your own history, family, and look. It's way more fun!

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