500 Harry Potter Facts

Facts 351--360

#351
"Hagrid" is short for "hagridden" which is used to describe a person who was tormented or harassed by a witch.

#352
J. K. Rowling gave Harry a large fortune of money because she was poor at the time and wanted Harry to have a lot.

#353
Emma Watson admitted that she once had a crush on Tom Felton.

#354
Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix, admitted to accidentally bursting Matthew Lewis', who played Neville, ear drum and causing him internal bleeding by poking her wand in his ear while filmimg.

#355
Rowling thought that Draco shouldn't be appealing. She said that it worries her that so many people are attracted to him.

#356
Every wand in the films was created on-site. No two wands are alike, not even the Weasley twins' wands.

#357
Emma Thompson, who played Professor Trelawney, and Sophie Thompson, who played Mafalda Hopkirk, (the woman Hermione turned into using Polyjuice Potion in Deathly Hallows Part 1) are sisters in real life.

#358
Hermione's middle name was gong 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.

#359
Rowling considered having Neville kill Bellatrix in revenge for his parents.

#360
When J. K. 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.