Facts about harry potter that will knock you off your broomstick

Harry’s birthday is July 31, 1980. Rowling’s birthday is also July 31 – but in 1966.

The actress who played Moaning Myrtle was 37 years old at the time “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was filmed. She is the oldest actress to ever portray a Hogwarts student.

Rowling said the inspiration for the name of Harry’s school in the books, “Hogwarts,” may have unconsciously come from the name of a plant she saw in the Kew Gardens in New York City.

Contrary to popular belief, the ‘t’ at the end of Voldemort is silent. The name comes from the French words meaning “flight of death.”

An outbreak of lice occurred among the children cast members during the filming of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”

 
Tom Felton auditioned for the roles of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, but was chosen to play Draco Malfoy instead.

 Over 400 million Harry Potter books in 67 languages have been sold worldwide as of 2008.

  Fred and George were born on April Fool’s Day.

The only time the Weasley twins were ever apart were when George’s ear was cursed off and when Fred was killed.

Dementors are based off J.K. Rowling’s time of depression in her twenties.

Rowling said the Harry Potter series might not have happened if her mother hadn’t died. 

Voldemort was 71 years old when he died in the Battle of Hogwarts.

There are 700 fouls in Quidditch.

“Expecto Patronum” literally translates to “I await a guardian” in Latin.

Rowling said if Voldemort saw a boggart it would take the shape of his own corpse, since death was his greatest fear.

When he died, Dumbledore was 150 years old.

The Malfoys’ last name comes from the Latin “maleficus,” which means evil doing.

Dementors don’t breed; they grow like fungus where there is decay.

Harry first arrived at 4 Privet Drive on Hagrid’s motorbike. He left for the last time the very same way.

In Prisoner of Azkaban, Trelawney refuses to sit at a table with 12 other characters because she would be the 13th and the first one to get up after that would die. In Order of the Phoenix, 13 members of the order are sitting and Sirius is the first to stand. That is why he died at the end .

Severus Snape is the only death eater who can produce a patronus.

If a muggle comes across Hogwarts then  it would come across as an old building with a sign board saying" keep away, dangerous building."

The first and last words ever spoken by Dobby the House Elf were ‘Harry Potter’.

Ook, the owl that played Hedwig, was the first actor cast in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.