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Fun Facts about Harry Potter

RyGuyRyGuy Posts: 7,837 mod
edited March 2012 in General
Just seen this on Tumblr, most of you prolly know most of this but I just wanted to share :D


20 Facts You May Not Know About Harry Potter

HP Fact 62: J.K. Rowling has stated that Lord Voldemort is pronounced with out the ’t’.

JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday, July 31.

In the Spanish translations of the Harry Potter books, Neville Longbottom’s toad, Trevor, has been translated as a turtle instead of a frog.

Over the course of the Harry Potter movies, 6 actors have played Voldemort.

Dumbledore is an early modern English word for “Bumblebee”.

Epic Facts #583: The least financially successful Harry Potter film made $90 milling more than the most successful Twilight movie.

Dragon blood is an effective oven cleaner.

Epic Facts #273: Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe voiced the cartoon parody of Twilight’s Edward Cullen, on “The Simpsons”.

Vole De Mort means flight of death in French.

MJ pitched a musical version of HP, but was shot down.

The actress who played Moaning Myrtle is actually 37 years old and is the oldest actress to portray a Hogwarts student.

The driver and conductor of the Knight Bus, Ernie and Stanley, are named after Rowling’s grandparents.

The Weasley twins aren’t actually redheads.

J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing books.

So many fans visit King’s Cross station to take pictures of platforms 9 and 10 that the station management erected a sign that says “Platform 9 3/4”

Rowling has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz, it sorted her into Hufflepuff.

The Death Eaters were originally known as the Knights of Walpurgis.

The Hogwarts school motto is “Draco domiens nunquam titillandus” which is Latin for “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”

An outbreak of lice occurred among the children cast members during the filming of Chamber of Secrets.

“Avada Kedavra” derives from the Aramaic phrase “Abhadda Kedhabhra,” which means “to disappear like this world.”
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