My Never-Will-Be-Complete List of HP Canon Things I Love in Books 1-6, Begun Pre-Book 6 and Continued Up Until Book 7 Was Released.

Harry's first birthday cake, how much he loves Hedwig, the way she eats his toast and nibbles on his ear, Dudley, Platform 9 and 3/4, Ron trying to turn his rat yellow, that Hermione's parents are dentists, Draco Malfoy from the very first glimpse, the Sorting Hat, Peeves, McGonagall's house pride, the way she says, "Have a biscuit, Potter," Oliver Wood's Quidditch fanaticism, the first time Harry flies, the idea of a Remembrall, Lockhart, the fact that Hermione has a crush on Lockhart, Remus Lupin in all his past and present and future, the way Harry and Ron and Hermione work together at the end of PS/SS, the Mirror of Erised, Fawkes, that Dumbledore sends his champion Fawkes and the Sorting Hat, the idea of the enormous hourglasses of points, how Hogwarts changes and its moving staircases and trick steps, S.P.E.W., Azkaban, Mr. Weasley's flying car, The Burrow, Mrs. Weasley's kitchen magic, the Trio itself, Ron's dress robes, Viktor Krum, the way JKR writes accents like Fleur's and Hagrid's, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, okay really all the Weasleys, the Weasley family dynamic, Mrs. Weasley's clock, Floo powder, the Knight Bus, Kirley from the Weird Sisters, Harry's accidental Knockturn Alley visit, Moaning Myrtle, Aberforth Dumbledore, Cedric Diggory, the Potterstinks buttons, Ron and Harry's fight, Pansy Parkinson, the Slytherin Common Room and its lake-windows, that Ginny goes to the Yule Ball with Neville despite Harry asking her afterwards, Harry's dancing, Dumbledore's love of socks and knitting and sweets, the Quidditch World Cup, Quidditch, the way Harry almost jumps because of the Veelas, Nearly-Headless Nick, Potions class, Professor McGonagall, the way Professor Flitwick gives Harry a box of squeaking mice to show his pleasure at the Quibbler article, how Ginny coughs like Umbridge in the Hog's Head, the fact that they study love in the Department of Mysteries, Hermione and Hogwarts A History, the House of Black, the Hogwarts Express and how Draco always finds the Trio to mock them, Ron being a Prefect, Mrs. Weasley's Boggart, Mad-Eye Moody and his elementary wand safety, Thestrals, Luna Luna Luna, Rita Skeeter, Neville's Mimbulus whatever, Neville and his mum and the gum wrappers, Neville's grandmother's hat, the DA, "I must not tell lies," the way Harry punches Draco with the Snitch still in his fist, Occlumency, Fred and George's fireworks, Lee Jordan's Quidditch commentary (and Luna's!), Snape's Worst Memory, Sir Cadogan, Phineas Nigellus, magical portraits altogether, photographs that move, Colin Creevey, the giant squid, Portkeys, Ernie Macmillan and his pompous actions, Cho Chang, how Harry feels awkward about his arms hanging at his sides, how Harry always presses at his hair when he’s nervous or embarrassed, how Cho is so weepy but is totally a Quidditch dork, Hermione's SNEAK spell, the fake Galleons, the Room of Requirement, Hermione's knitting, the fact that Dobby takes all the hats, the way Dobby strings the Room of Requirement with baubles that say "Have a very Harry Christmas!" on them, how Harry draws a line between him and his father, the twins leaving Hogwarts, Peeves saluting them, the phone booth to get into the Ministry, the shop window to get into St. Mungo's, the portrait who insults Ron at St. Mungo's, Sirius's mother's portrait, the way JKR uses silkily to describe Snape's voice all the time, Roonil Wazlib and Harry's cheekiness, Hermione Confunding McLaggen, Slughorn's little dinners, Slughorn's ruse when Dumbledore and Harry visit, the Put-Outer, McGonagall's Animagus, the fact that Harry doesn't pack for Dumbledore, the wineglasses, "Remember my last!", Harry being made Quidditch captain, Katie Bell, the way Harry tells Katie of course she's on the team, the fact that Cho flees into her compartment after seeing Harry on the train, Harry asking Luna to the party, Harry's yellow eyebrow, Won-Won, Ron's "I'm tall," Hermione's insistence the Prince doesn't have to be male, all the hidden items in the Room of Requirement, Tom Riddle, Tom Riddle and the ocean, Tom Riddle and the orphanage, Tom Riddle and Dumbledore, Tom Riddle and his box of stolen objects, Tom Riddle and his handsomeness, Tom Riddle and his wanting to stay at Hogwarts, the fact that he rearranged his name to get Lord Voldemort (it makes me laugh), Kreacher, Hermione giving Kreacher a quilt, Narcissa "Cissy" Malfoy, Bellatrix, the fact that Lucius doesn't escape from Azkaban with the rest of the DEs even though nearly every post-OotP fic predicted they would, Gringotts, Mollywobbles, Arthur and his airplanes, Molly and her boggart, Mad-Eye Moody and his creepy eye, how Harry sees the Weasleys' Gringotts vault that one time and feels badly, Harry thinking Ginny & Co are talking about Mrs. Weasley and feeling defensive though they’re actually talking about Fleur, the Dementors breeding, Rufus Scrimgeour and his lion scars and how tough-old-politician he is and how I want to know if he is related to the Scrimgeour who wrote the Beater’s Bible, Harry's fist gesture, "I told him I was," Harry having to force Dumbledore to drink, "I'm with you," Madam Rosmerta, all the Zacharias Smith hate, Dumbledore's suit, Pensieves, Griphook, Regulus, the Hogwarts founders, how Draco whoops for joy when he gets the cabinet to work, Professor Trelawney and her sherry, the fact that Draco is better than Harry at Occlumency, Harry's trepidation at Ron calling Lavender Lav-Lav, Romilda Vane and Harry's fangirls, "I know, I can love!" and how he wants to say, "Big deal!", Lily being good at Potions, Harry's Invisibility Cloak, Slughorn's love for crystallized pineapple, his Aragog eulogy, Fang, Pureblood incest, U-No-Poo, the Ministry's special cars, the Mermish singing at Dumbledore's funeral, the centaurs paying him tribute, the fact that Umbridge is there, the fact that Luna narrated the last Quidditch match ever, Harry's and Draco's waning interest in Quidditch, the Fat Lady being irritable and telling him the password's changed when it hasn't, Abstinence, Weasley jumpers, the garden gnomes, Celestina Warbeck, Fleur's mockery of it, Fleur, the last line of HBP ending with Ron and Hermione, that Dumbledore was the first Chocolate Frog card Harry got, Fudge's bowler hat, "That's because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon!", Harry's knobbly knees, Gringotts, "We got Potter! We got Potter!", Remus's love for chocolate, Artemisia Lufkin, the mermaid in the Prefect's bathroom, the fact that there's a diving board in the Prefect's bathroom, how so many key things happen in bathrooms (beating the troll with Hermione! seeing Malfoy cry! getting to the Chamber of Secrets!) at Hogwarts, that Ron tells people off for making fun of Quirrell's stutter, Hagrid's coat, Hagrid's rock cakes, Harry thinking Norbert looked like a crumpled black umbrella, the way Hermione dances on her chair after Harry wins a Quidditch match and does "a sort of jig" after Malfoy gets detention, quills with Anti-Cheating spells, Harry imitating the Bloody Baron to scare off Peeves, Nearly Headless Nick, the room of flying keys, Quirrell doing nonverbal magic way before we knew about it, "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure," Hagrid making Harry a photo album of his parents, Hagrid's stoat sandwiches, Hagrid’s hut with pheasants hanging from the ceiling, the way Hagrid had a live owl in his pocket the first time he went to get Harry, how Hagrid is the boatman and also the safekeeper and transports Harry but protects him too, guiding the way but also guarding it, Hagrid’s whiskery kiss when he left Harry at Privet Drive as a baby, Dumbledore saying “You did find your father, you found him inside yourself,” The Burrow and its fat brown chickens, de-gnoming gardens and the gnomes wandering dizzily in sad little lines, Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle comics, PERCY ACCIDENTALLY SITTING ON ERROL, "You have told me this at least a dozen times already," the enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall, Howlers, the Deathday party, Percy and Penelope, Justin Finch-Fletchley's terror of Harry, "Scared?" / "You wish," strawberry and peanut butter ice creams, "Wangoballwime?", Beaubaxtons, Durmstrang, "Weasley is our King!", Dumbledore's scar in the shape of the London Underground, the singing valentine sitting on Harry's ankles, Pigwidgeon, Crookshanks, talking mirrors, the moment Harry believes Sirius in the Shrieking Shack, Sirius signing Harry's Hogsmeade form, the Marauders forever, the Time Turner, Malfoy's dementor costume, Hermione slapping Malfoy, Madam Pomfrey's enormous block of chocolate, every single sweet in the magical world and the fact that they are Dumbledore's predictable passwords, the fact that when Ron curses himself with slugs Malfoy laughs so hard he's on all fours pounding on the ground, the Whomping Willow, the fact that Snape teaches an entire lesson on werewolves hoping someone will catch on, the fact that Quirrell wears a turban to cover up Voldemort sticking out the back of his head, how Sirius says Voldemort’s name too, Ron’s attachment to Scabbers, what a good friend Hermione is to Hagrid even when she’s taking double courseloads, Hermione taking Muggle Studies even though she grew up as a Muggle, Remus Lupin’s obstacle course final exam, Remus giving Harry Butterbeer, Malfoy’s total dorkiness and song-writing and button-making and dressing up as a Dementor, Probity Probes, Side-Along Apparation, how often JKR uses the word “gamboling” in OotP, the way Harry and Ron duel with Fred and George’s fake wands in the back of a classroom and Ron’s parrot-wand bites off the head of Harry’s, Tonks and Lupin talking about Scrimgeour the morning of Harry's hearing (long before Book 6), interdepartmental memos at the Ministry being paper airplanes that wait in the lifts, Fred and George and Ginny's "He got off, he got off, he got off" war dance, The Sorting Hat's warning song, Ron talking with his mouth full, Harry's love for treacle, rhetoric about school accountability all over Umbridge's involvement, Neville trying to attack Malfoy for his joke about people addled by magic, Nearly Headless Nick humming "Weasley is our King," how Hermione has told Harry and Ron about fifty times in multiple books that no one can Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts, Harry destroying Dumbledore's office, how Dumbledore and Hermione have a lot of the same ideas, Harry's personal growth after seeing Snape's Worst Memory and how Dumbledore admits that the statue in the Ministry lies, that neglect and indifference can do more damage than outright dislike and that wizardkind is now paying the price for mistreating and abusing fellow magical creatures, Harry’s connection between Snape’s eyes and Hagrid’s but saying that Snape’s had no warmth, the way McGonagall asks for Wood the first time Harry meets him and he worries she might be asking for some kind of stick, Gabrielle Delacour, the way Harry’s Potions marks slip after he loses the Prince’s book and Slughorn chalks it up to him being lovesick over dating Ginny, and last of all, this exchange:

'I still can't work out how you two got the best-looking girls in the year,' muttered Dean.
'Animal magnetism,' said Ron gloomily.


I love you, Harry Potter. (And this is not even counting Book 7!)