Scenes from the cutting room floor and other tidbits

Harry

• Physical
• Athletic, wiry/lean build like Loki/James, with most of his features (nose, eyebrows, cheekbones, wild curl of his hair)
• Shorter like tony (5’7”) with his jawline and the shape of his eyes, and his dark brown hair color)
• Sick kind of undertone to skin when they meet, but natural slight tan when healthy (between both parents)
• Hair that sticks up just like James’, but dark brown like tony (not James black)
• Eyes like emeralds (Lily’s were more jade, so he matches Loki)
• Thin, like he just grew a lot but also like he hasn't been eating
• Scars: forehead (inflamed b/c horcrux), right hand (i must not tell lies), left forearm (slice from dark knife by Pettigrew), upper right arm (basilisk puncture, all the way through), right shoulder (dragon fire, wraps around shoulder just a little), small and faded cuts and burn marks and calluses on his hands and wrists from doing manual labor, belt marks on his back
• Mental/emotional
• ADHD
• Smart, more academically intelligent than in canon but still very oriented to practical learning and only interested in things that he can see the value in (follows his interests, not knowledge for knowledge’s sake)
• Also very observant, notices people’s body language and details
• Feels very deeply
• was sweet as a baby, which Loki remembers, and joyful and mischievous
• Abuse and trauma has made him very empathetic
• One cause of his saving people thing (also, low value on his own life from Dursleys followed by praise from school/Dumbledore for entering life threatening “heroic adventures” instead of getting an adult)
• Tends toward forgiveness, compassion/understanding, but very distrustful to start, especially with adults
• Doesn’t see himself as powerful and accomplished, just combo of luck and circumstantial necessity that made him do impressive things
• Brave and self sacrificing, but has no clue how wonderful he is
• Cinnamon roll - after he lets his guard down, he’s just pretty genuine and soft until he needs to fight something, then he’s Powerful Leader Harry Potter, and he has no clue he is either adorable or a badass
• Mannerisms
• Sarcastic and sassy, more self deprecating than taunting or messing with others
• fidgets/moves constantly
• Not super talkative and very fast from Dursley's abuse (but also natural traits, just brought forward as survival mechanisms)
• Tends to defer to others opinion unless he feels some sort of moral conviction
• Abuse response but also just high empathy and generally laid back thing
• Magic
• Always felt natural
• Can “sense” it (cite feeling from Ollivander’s shop, can get a feel for someone from the sense of their magic)
• It was part of what made him a good DA teacher, he could tell how people's magic worked and taught them accordingly (paired with his very observant nature, he's a natural teacher)
• Hermione - cool and rigid, best for structured/logical things
• Ron - relaxed and blunt, not meant for precision but strong and reliable
• Loki - ancient and very powerful, also familiar, warm like a sunning snake, quick and always shifting
• Stronger than others but doesn’t see it that way, has already started casting wordlessly, can do wandless when stressed, powerful
• Fended off 100 dementors at once
• Threw off Imperius curse from Barty and Voldy
• Held up when wand connected with Voldy
• Learned Patronus at 13
• Trauma/triggers
• When stressed - cooks, fidgets, finds small spaces
• Panic attack triggers - being restricted around the arms (ptsd flashback to graveyard), portkeys, when someone's yelling at him or being visibly/physically angry, the word freak, being touched unexpectedly, being locked in somewhere
• Differences from canon
• Hung out a lot more with Fred and George, lots of pranking and he can tell them apart/knows them as individuals
• Used the invisibility cloak to do pranks on his own or walk around the castle on nights he couldn’t sleep, knows the place better than the marauders and twins
• Respects the castle, so she helps him out (like w/ room of requirement and tunnels in chamber of secrets)
• Neglected the whole time with Dursleys, never more than 2 meals a day, withholding food as most frequent punishment with being locked away, started cooking/cleaning at 5, making all meals and doing major chore lists by 8, first accidental magic at 4 which started slapping, progressed from there - first beating at 7, first belt lashing at 9, never stopped - not to the point where they broke him, but often enough that he flinches, touch starved
• Kept his grades low to avoid punishment as a kid, kept the habit up in Hogwarts but read and learned a bunch in his free time so he's close to Hermione in knowledge but his is more specific to his interests
• Knew he was in a war, so he had started teaching himself some basic stuff to be prepared
• Can already apparate maybe?
• Learned and taught basic healing spells during DA
• Trains with a knife and magical dueling
• Rules and limits are sort of a guideline for harry as opposed to a hard boundary - rules changed to accommodate his relatives desire to punish him growing up and Dumbledore fudged the rules for him a lot, so he doesn't put much stock in them, and growing up without magic and learning that him wishing hard enough to make things happen as a kid was actually accidental magic fed the belief that magic can do anything, so he constantly pushed boundaries of what's “possible”  and performs amazing feats