500 Harry Potter Facts

Facts 21--30

#21
Remus was killed by Antonin Dolohov and Tonks was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.

#22
Professor Quirrell was technically a temporary Horcrux, as were the animals Voldemort inhabited during his years of exile.

#23
Rowling has said that Pansy Parkinson did not end up marrying Draco because she had always hated Pansy. "She's every girl who ever teased me in school. She's the Anti-Hermione. I loathe her."

#24
Maggie Smith was J. K. Rowling's personal choice for the role of Professor McGonagall.

#25
Harry personally destroyed only one of the seven Horcruxes--Tom Riddle's Diary.

#26
James and Oliver Phelps, the actors who play Fred and George Weasley, admit to getting caught switching roles on set.

#27
The location and name of Hogwarts were chosen by Rowena Ravenclaw. She dreamt that a warty hog was leading her to the cliff by the lake.

#28
Rowling said she almost included a Weasley cousin in Slytherin.

#29
Neville Longbottom asked the Sorting Hat to put him in Hufflepuff because he found Gryffindor's reputation for bravery to be intimidating.

#30
Minerva McGonagall was once engaged to a muggle named Dougal McGregor.