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 12 things
you might
not know
about Harry
Potter
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1
J.K. ROWLING AND HARRY
POTTER SHARE A
BIRTHDAY.
They both blow out candles on July 31. And
that’s not the only influence Rowling had on
her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a
bit like her when she was younger.
 . THE DEMENTORS IN
HARRY POTTER ARE
0 BASED ON J.K. ROWLING’S
STRUGGLE WITH
2 DEPRESSION AFTER HER
MOTHER’S DEATH.
Rowling’s mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died in 1990,
after which Rowling suffered a period of depression. She used
the experience to characterize Harry Potter’s dementors,
creepy creatures that feed on human emotion. “It's so
difficult to describe [depression] to someone who's never been
there, because it's not sadness," Rowling told Oprah Winfrey.
“I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it's that
cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling.
That's what Dementors are.”
 J.K. ROWLING
INVENTED THE
NAMES OF THE 0
HOGWARTS
HOUSES ON THE
BACK
“I inventedOF A BARF
the names
3
of the Houses on the
back of an airplane sick bag! This is true. I
BAbut
love inventing names, G I also collect
unusual names, so that I can look through
my notebook and choose one that suits a
new character.”
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4
ARTHUR WEASLEY WAS
SUPPOSED TO DIE.
In a battle between good and evil this epic, not
everyone would make it through alive—that
would have led to “very fluffy, cozy books,”
Instead, Lupin died—a character she had no
intention of killing when she began the books
—and Tonks died during the final Battle of
Hogwarts. “I wanted there to be an echo of
what happened to Harry just to show the great
evil of what Voldemort's doing,” “I think one
of the most devastating things about war is the
children left behind.
 MOANING
0 MYRTLE HAS
AN
5 INTERESTING
INSPIRATION.
“This story was inspired by “the frequent
presence of a crying girl in communal
bathrooms, especially at the parties and discos
of my youth. This does not seem to happen in
male bathrooms, so I enjoyed placing Harry
and Ron in such uncomfortable and unfamiliar
territory”
 MOANING MYRTLE IN HARRY
POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF
0 SECRETS WAS OLDER THAN A
6 STUDENT.
Shirley Henderson was 36
when she played the
who was killed by a basilisk’s
stare in Chamber of Secrets.
bathroom-haunting ghost
of a 14-year-old student
 HALEY JOEL OSMENT
COULD HAVE PLAYED
0 HARRY IN THE HARRY
POTTER FILMS.
7 When Steven Spielberg was attached
to direct the film adaptation, he
wanted Sixth Sense star Haley Joel
Osment to play Harry. But the director
eventually left over a creative clash
with Rowling, and new director Chris
Columbus had to find his star.
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Harry, is that
you?
0 RUPERT GRINT’S
AUDITION WAS
8 Nine-year-old Emma Watson auditioned a total of 8 times. Grint, then
10,UNUSUAL
sent in a video audition, and went in a rather unusual direction: he
said,“I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of
yourself and some information to Newsround”. Then, he did his own
video of himself, first of all, pretending to be his drama teacher who
unfortunately was a girl and then he did a rap of how I wanted so
badly to be Ron. After that, he made his own script and sent it off.
0 ESSAYS ABOUT THEIR
9 CHARACTERS.
The Prisoner of Azkaban director asked to
Watson, Grint and Radcliffe to Write essays about
their characters. they all responded very much in
character. Daniel wrote a page, Emma wrote 10
pages and Rupert didn't deliver anything.
Grint told Entertainment Weekly that he didn't do
his essay, because he did not think Ron would.
 J.K. ROWLING CREATED
QUIDDITCH AFTER A FIGHT
WITH HER BOYFRIEND 1
0
“to create a game, you have to have an enormous argument with your
boyfriend, and then, sit down in a pub, and you invent Quidditch.”

And I don't really know what the connection is between the row and

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Quidditch except that Quidditch is quite a violent game and maybe in
my deepest, darkest soul I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.”

20
80 Pt
Pt
1 DUMBLEDORE
WAS GAY
1 In 2007, the author
was asked by a fan whether or not Hogwarts’s
favorite headmaster had ever been in love, Rowling
responded, “I always thought of Dumbledore as
gay.” “To me it was not a big deal,” “This is a very
old man who has a very terrible job to do. And his
gayness is not really relevant. I always saw him as
a very lonely character.”
MUGGLES CAN’T MAKE
POTIONS .

It happens because there is no way of

making potions without wands.

1 This is why I brought mine today. I

am going to make the teacher give me

2 an A.
 Than
ks!
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