* authors: Gerhard Hiss, J\"urgen M\"uller, Felix Noeske, and Jon Thackray * title: The Brauer characters of the sporadic simple Harada-Norton group and its automorphism group in characteristics~$2$ and~$3$ * abstract: We determine the $2$-modular and $3$-modular character tables of the sporadic simple Harada-Norton group and its automorphism group. * status: submitted