Facts about Harry Potter you might not know

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1. Fred and George Weasley's birthday is on April fool's day.

2. Harry and Ron never came back to Hogwarts to do their 7th year. They were recruited with Neville Longbottom as aurors. After that Neville went teaching in Herbology at Hogwarts.

3. Dumbledore died aged 115 while Voldemort died at age 71.

4. Draco was named after the dragon constellation and his last name translates to "evil doing."

5. J.K Rowling stated that the t in Voldemort is actually not to be pronounced.

6. Tom Felton (Draco Malloy) originally auditioned for the role of Harry and Ron.

7. Bellatrix Lestrange was always a little off but she only truly snapped after she had two miscarriages and a still birth. After that she was so distraught she stopped trying for children.

8. Ron's boggart changed from spiders to seeing Hermione in pain.

9. Hermione was named after a character from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

10. J.K Rowling regretted not putting Harry into Slytherin as she thought it would of made a better plot device.

11. She also regretted not making Harry a girl so she could date one of the Weasley twins to make some Ron and twin drama.

12. One other thing she regretted is killing Florean Fortescue. She says she regrets it because: "unlike many other characters who died of a plot necessity" Fortescue's death was just the result of her writing herself into a wall.

13. The Chamber of Secrets was one of the only rooms not the Marauders Maps.

14. If you die under the affects of the Polyjuice potion, you don't go back to your original form.

15. The least successful Harry Potter movie made approximately 90 million more dollars than the most successful twilight movie.

16. Slytherin is the first and last house to be mentioned in the series.

17. Richard Harris only agreed to take the part of Dumbledore after his granddaughter threatened to never speak to him again.

18. Dobby was played by an orange ball and a stick and was digitally added afterwards.

19. Both Harry and Voldemort's wands were made out of one of Fawkes' (Dumbledore's Phoenix) features.

20. All the deaths in Harry Potter are symbolic:
James and Lilly Potter: to establish the story line and to show that sometimes have to sacrifice things for those you love.
Cedric Diggory: to show Voldemort's mercilessness.
Sirius Black: to show Harry's lack of parental figures.
Albus Dumbledore: to show the death of a great leader can't stop a war.
Hedwig: to show the end of Harry's childhood.
Mad Eye: to show the death of a soldier
Dobby😭: to show even the smallest of creatures can die a hero's death.
Fred Weasley: to show that some deaths you just can't get over. And that's Ok.
Tonk's and Remus Lupin: to establish orphans of war.
Colin Creevey: to show that the good die young, even when they're not suppose to.
Severus Snape😭😭: to show that you can always change your ways. Always.

21. Jennifer Lawrence was seen reading Harry Potter on the set of Hunger Games during cuts.

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