365 Days (Part 1) | ✓

127. Know-it-all

127. Know-it-all: Write about something you are very knowledgeable about, for example a favorite hobby or passion of yours.

Oh dear... brace yourself. *fangirl switch: on*

Warning: SPOILERS.

Harry Potter Fun Facts

1. The name Potter was the last name of J.K. Rowling's next door neighbor and playmate as a child: Ian Potter.

2. Rowling was close to writing Dudley Dursley into the last scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with his magical wife and child.

3. In the canon, Neville Longbottom married Hannah Abbot, who would run the Three Broomsticks, although Rowling later admitted the Neville and Luna ship grew in her.

4. Bill and Fleur's child was born on the day of the Battle of Hogwarts, and thus she was named Victoire.

5. The only time Fred and George were apart was when George's ear was blasted off.

6. The only time Fred and George were able to see each other as old men was when they tried to hijack the Goblet of Fire.

7. In the movies, the Phelp twins were only able to shoot the scene of Fred dying a few times because it was too emotionally traumatic to watch his brother die.

8. George later married Angelina Johnson. (Fred's ex-girlfriend...)

9. They named one of their children Fred. (AS YOU CAN TELL, FRED'S DEATH REALLY UPSETS ME.)

10. After Fred's death, George was never able to cast a patronus again.

11. Ginny Weasley played professional quidditch for the Holyhead Harpies for a few years.

12. Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts for her 7th year to finish her last year of school and for her N.E.W.T.S.

13. She later worked at the ministry trying to gain rights for house elves, and then transferred to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

14. Harry and Ron became heads of the Auror department and totally revolutized it.

15. Kingsley Shacklebolt became next minister of magic.

16. Dementers were nort used by the ministry again.

17. Dementors symbolized Rowling's experience with depression in her twenties.

18. When she first conceived the idea for Harry Potter, Rowling wrote it down on a cafe napkin.

19. Rowling was the first person to become a billionaire from writing, and she lost that status because she gave so much money away to charity.

20. Rowling was going to kill Ron off in the last book.

21. She was also going to kill Arthur Weasley in the 5th book.

22. Hedwig's death symbolized Harry's childhood ending.

23. Harry went to Number 4, Pivot Drive in Hagrid's motorcycle and he left that way.

24. Arthur Weasley later fixed up the motorcycle and gave it to Harry.

25. Rowling admitted that Lily may have developed romantic feelings for Snape if he hadn't been so into the dark arts.

26. In the movie, a scen was cut where Voldemort arrives at the castle with Hagrid carrying Harry's body. When Harry shows signs of life, Draco realizes that there's hope, and he tosses Harry his wand. I really freaking wish this had been included.

27. In the movies, after filming the torture scene with Hermione, Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Bellatrix Lestrange, apologized many times to Emma Watson.

28. In the movies, Tom Felton originally tried out for Harry.

29. The last scene of the first movies, where Harry is on the train waving goodbye, was actually the first scene they shot. (The irony.) It was also the only scene in which Hermione wears her buck teeth (because they were hard for her to talk in) and Harry wears green contacts (he was allergic to something in them).

30. Rowling admitted the problem with Daniel, Emma and Rupert playing Harry, Hermione and Ron was that they were just too good-looking. She pictured them all awkward and uncool. She said that if she had met Emma in person, she would not have cast her, but Rowling first met Emma Watson over the phone, where Emma gushed about how much she loved the books, and her excitement sold Rowling.

31. Emma was on the 3rd Harry Potter book when she auditioned.

32. Once, to better understand their characters better, the director asked Emma, Daniel, and Rupert to write an essay on their characters. Emma turned in a 10-page essay, Daniel turned in a 1-page essay, and Rupert never turned in his at all.

33. The actors often did their homework while filming scenes to make it more realistic.

34. Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) made Luna's radish earrings herself.

35. The fashions lady said that she thought Hermione's Yule Ball gown the most important outfit of the film.

36. Rowling purposefully wrote scenes like Ginny beating Cho in quidditch to show that Cho was better for Harry.

37. The third smell amortentia gives Hermione is the scent of Hermione's hair.

38. Dumbledore's boggart is Ariana's dead body.

39. Dumbledore fell in love with Gellert Grindelwald.

40. Snape's portrait was not in the Headmaster's study because he abandoned his post, but Rowling said that Harry later got it hung next to Dumbldore's.

41. Draco Malfoy marries Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of Daphne. She helps him tone down the pureblood crap.

42. In Greek mythology, Cassandra is a seer cursed so that no one believes her prophecies. Trewlawny's great-grandmother's name is Cassandra.

43. She also makes a prophecy that the first to rise from a table of 13 is the first to die. When Mad-Eye Moody falls, at the burrow there are 13 sitting around a table. Lupin is the first to rise. He is also the first to die.

44. Rowling said that she likes to think James Potter (Harry's son) stole the marauder's map from his father's desk for his own use.

45. I figured this one out by reading the series backwards... I am a huge Potterhead. In the 5th book, after Dudley is attacked by dementors, and Petunia makes a reference to overhearing "that boy" telling Lily about Azkaban. Harry assumes it is his father, but in Snape's memories, he tells Lily about Azkaban, and then Petunia is discovered to be eavesdropping. ALL HAIL J.K. ROWLING.

These are just off the top of my head right now... there's many more. Maybe one day I'll post them all in a book.