Albus Potter

Albus Potter is the middle child and second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley Potter.  He is named after two headteachers of Hogwarts: Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.

Albus is Neville Longbottom‘s godson (Pm) and, when he was six years old, his best friend was Rose Granger-Weasley (CC1.10).

Albus attended the 2014 Quidditch World Cup Final with his family, where his father introduced him and his brother to Viktor Krum. He was the only one of the Potter family supporting the Brazil National Team, as his hero was the Brazilian Chaser Gonçalo Flores (QWC). However, by the time he starts at Hogwarts two years later, he and his best friend both despise Quidditch (CC1.4).

Before getting on the Hogwarts Express for the first time, he is quite nervous about being sorted into Slytherin, thanks in large part to the goading of his older brother James (DH/e). Albus worries that it is not a house of “brave wizards”, but Harry says that he was named after a Slytherin who was one of the bravest wizards he knew (CC1.2). Harry further reassures Albus that the Sorting Hat will take his personal choice into account if he wants it to (DH/e).

He meets Scorpius Malfoy on the train (CC1.3) and, recognising that they both have issues with their famous parents, they sit together and eventually become best friends. To the shock of the other students and the delight of Scorpius, Albus is sorted into Slytherin (CC1.4). He and Scorpius are kindred spirits – they both carry a burden stemming from their family identity (CC2.6) and feel that they are misfits and “losers” in comparison with the other students at Hogwarts (CC1.4, CC2.8, CC2.16). His father Harry, in particular, could not bring himself to accept that Albus was unpopular and uncooperative in school and he questioned why Albus was content to have only the one friend (CC1.4). The father-son relationship continues to deteriorate (from bad to worse) during Albus’s first few years at Hogwarts (CC1.7).

Prior to leaving for his fourth year, Albus hears about a confiscated Experimental Time Turner while eavesdropping during Amos Diggory’s visit to their home (CC1.6). When he later has confirmation of its existence, Albus decided that he wants to use it to “save” Cedric Diggory – something his father had refused to countenance. He then persuades Scorpius to jump off the Hogwart’s Express (CC1.11) and, together with Amos’s niece Delphi, they steal the Time Turner from the office of the Minister for Magic. His plan is to prevent Cedric from being killed as a “spare” at the end of the Triwizard Tournament (CC1.6, GF32).

Their trips back into time to change history were not a success. They first try to prevent Cedric from achieving a high score during the First Task with dragons (CC2.6, CC2.7, GF20). History changed, but not in the ways they expected (CC2.9). Albus and Scorpius made a second attempt by trying to humiliate Cedric during the Second Task underwater (CC2.20, GF26), but this intervention caused history and their own lives to go horribly wrong (CC3).

Left stranded in time by Delphi during the Third Task (CC3.20, GF31), Albus ingeniously sends a message to his father in the future. The grown-ups – Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley – use the Golden Time-Turner and work together with Albus and Scorpius to ensure that time and history remain unchanged. Following these events, the relationship and understanding between Albus and Harry improves (CC4).