Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Amazing things about Harry Potter Series


§  JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday, July 31.
§  JK Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing books.
§  An outbreak of lice occurred among the children cast member during the filming of ‘The Chamber Of Secrets”.
§  Over the course of the Harry Potter Movies, six actors have played Voltemort
§  Dumbledore is an early modern English word for “bumblebee”.
§  The least financially successful Harry Potter film made $90 million more than the most successful Twilight movie.
§  Voltemort means ‘Flight of Death’ in French.
§  The actress who played ‘Moaning Myrtle’ is actually 37 years old and is the oldes actress to portray a Hogwarts student.
§  The Weasley twins are not actually redheads!
§  So many fans visited King’s Cross station to take picture of platforms 9 and 10 that the station management erected a sign that says “Platform 9 ¾”.
§  When JK Rowling herself took an online Sorting Hat quiz, it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
§  The driver and conductor of the ‘Knight Bus’ are named after Rowling’s Grandfathers.
§  The ‘death eaters’ were originally known as the ‘Knights of Walpurgis’.
§   “Avada Kevadra” derives from the Aramaic phrase “Abhadda kedhabhra” which means ‘to disappear like this world’.

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