Harry Potter Facts | ✓

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1. Hermione's last name was going to be Puckle.

2. Hedwig was played by a male in the movies.

3. If a Muggle were to come across Hogwarts, all they would see was a sign that said, "Keep out, dangerous building."

4. Fred and George were born on April Fool's Day.

5. Snape was partially based on a teacher JKR once had.

6. King’s Cross station is where young wizards hop on the Hogwarts Express to get to school. What you might not know is that the station holds special meaning for J.K. Rowling: it’s where her parents met.

7. The reason Snape hates Neville so much is because he could have been the Chosen One, which means Lily could have survived.

8. After the horcrux in Harry was destroyed, he lost the ability to speak Parseltongue.

9. Professor McGonagall was on the Gryffindor quidditch team when she attended Hogwarts.

10. After Voldemort was killed, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to complete her seventh year.

11. Voldemort was killed on May 2.

12. Lily and Severus have the same Patronus animal- a doe.

13. George was never able to make a Patronus after Fred's death.

14. JKR would often get asked how to pronounce Hermione's name, so to clear up she made Hermione teach Viktor Krum how to pronounce it in book four.

15. JKR originally planned to kill Arthur Weasley in Order of the Phoenix, but instead swapped him for Sirius Black.

16. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all put on Chocolate Frog cards.

17. After the Battle of Hogwarts, Kingsley Shacklebolt became the new Minister of Magic.

18. Ron's Patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which is known for chasing otters. Hermione's Patronus happens to be an otter.

19. No one found the Resurrection Stone after Harry, because it was stamped underground when the centaurs ran to aide wounded people at Hogwarts.

20. Wizards and witches live longer than muggles. Dumbledore is 150 and McGonagall is around 70.

21. There is a special potion for developing photographs. Ot's that potion that also makes photos move.

22. Fred and George did not pay attention to Peter Pettigrew on the Marauders' Map because they hadn't heard the story of Peter and Sirius and even if they had, they'd have no reason to think that one is the man murdered years ago. Plus, they used the Map for their own mischief and thus focused on only the places they needed to. And finally, you must remember there were hundreds of little dots moving on the Map at any given time and the twins did not know all the students by the name.

23. In the Spanish translations of the Harry Potter books, Neville's toad, Trevor, is translated into a turtle.

24. Dumbledore is an early modern English term for "bumblebee".

15. Vol-de-Mort means flight or theft of death in French.

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

17. The Hogwarts school motto is "Draco domiens nunquam titillandus" , which is Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon"

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

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

20. When Arthur Weasley takes Harry to the Ministry of Magic they must first dial a secret code into a telephone keypad. He enters the number 62442. The letters underneath those numbers on a standard mobile phone spell out the word "magic".