500 Harry Potter Facts | ✔︎

Facts 311--320:

#311:
When JK Rowling visited the set of Diagon Alley for the first time, she stood there with a tear in her eye because it was just as she had imagined it.

#312:
Rowling considered having Neville kill Bellatrix in revenge for his parents.

#313:
Hermione's middle name was going to be Jane. But because Rowling didn't want her to have the same middle name as Umbridge, she changed Hermione's middle name to Jean.

#314:
'Hagrid' is short for 'Hagridden' which is used to describe a person who was tormented or harassed by a witch.

#315:
JK Rowling gave Harry a large fortune of money because she was poor at the time and wanted Harry to have a lot.

#316:
Emma Watson admitted that she once had a crush on Tom Felton.

#317:
Emma Thompson, who played Professor Trelawney, and Sophie Thompson, who played Mafalda Hopkirk (The Woman Hermione turned into using Polyjuice Potion in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1) Are sisters in real life.

#318:
Every wand in the films were created on-site. No two wands are alike. Not even the Weasley twins' wands.

#319:
Rowling thought that Draco shouldn't be appealing. She said that it worries her that so many people are attracted to him.

#320:
Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix, admitted to accidentally bursting Matthew Lewis' (the actor who played Neville) ear drum and causing him internal bleeding by poking her wand in his ear while filming.