James Potter bio

Name: James Potter

Age: 21 when he died

House: Gryffindor

Special Abilities: : Animagus, a stag to be exact.

Heritage: Unknown

Family: Wife- Lily Evans Potter
Son - Harry James Potter

First Mention: Sorcerer's Stone.

Personality: From what we see in Book 5, it seems that he was a lot like Sirius, charming, a prankster, and had a strong hatred of Snape. He was also very brave, as we see when he stands up to Voldemort. He was also probably really audacious and disregarding towards the rules,
according to Sirius in Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix.

James Potter is first mentioned at the beginning of The Sorcerer's Stone. Besides that, we don't learn much more about. That is until Harry goes to Hogwarts, and makes the Quidditch team. We then learn that James Potter was also very good at Quidditch, and is perhaps where Harry got his knack for the sport. At the end of Book 1, Harry gets a picture album with his parent's photos, and that's the last we hear about Harry's parents until about book 3.

In Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry learns a lot more about his parent's deaths. He gets to hear their last words in his head. We know that James and Sirius were best friends, as well as Remus. We learn a lot of what James must've been like by the fact that Remus tells Harry on some occasions how his dad would've felt.

The last bit of information we get on James is from the Fifth book. In Snape's pensieve, we see how James was at about Harry's age, and Harry is upset by it. James is walking with the rest of the Marauders, a snitch in his hand engraved with the letters 'LE'. He then proceeds to play several pranks on a young Severus Snape, how can't retaliate, and is only stopped when a livid Lily asks him to.

Besides that we don't know much about James.