HARRY POTTER FACTS THAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW OF

- We’ve been pronuncing ‘Voldemort’ wrong all our lives. It’s a French word for ‘flight of death’. If you break it down, it will be Vol de mort and the ‘t’ in the nave goes silent. But that doesn’t matter because he is ‘He who must not be named’ anyway.

- The story of Azkaban is very scary. Azkaban wasn’t originally a prison, it was a fortress. It was used by a wizard named Ekrizdis who practiced dark magic. He would lure in muggles into the fortress in order to torture or kill them.

- James Sirius Potter started Hogwarts in 2015. Yes, he turned 11 that year and started his Hogwarts education on September 1^st, 2015. He was also sorted into Gryffindor.

- Dolores Umbridge’s character is inspired by a real person. JKR said she had an absolute dislike for that individual but never reveals who it was. She also added by saying that Umbridge is probably even more evil than Voldemort himself.

- Prof McGonagall was married to her previous boss at MOM. She was initially married to Elphinstone Urquart for the Ministry of Magic. Sadly, he died by Tentacula bite only 3 years into marriage. She never married again.

- Harry’s lightening bolt scar is ‘cool’. JK Rowling thought about the shape of the scar on Harry’s head a lot. She wanted the protagonist to have a ‘cool’ scar and not stuck with a doughnut-shaped scar.

- Fred and George threw snowballs on Voldemor’s face. If you recollect in the first book, the Weasley twins were throwing snowballs which bounced off the turban of Professor Quirrell. Now that we know, inside the turban lay our very own Voldy.

- Many people didn’t know how to pronounce Hermione’s name. JK Rowling decided to add Hermione teaching Viktor Krum how to pronounce her name in the 4^th book because until then not many people were sure how to pronounce her name. it’s her-my-oh-nee, by the way.

- Hagrid doesn’t have a patronus. The patronus charm is a relatively difficult one to produce. Hagrid didn’t attend Hogwarts in the 3^rd year and hence, he wasn’t able to produce a patronus. But our head cannon would be, if he was able to, it would take the shape of Fluffym the three headed dog.

- The sorting hat goes through ‘hatstalls’. Sometimes, when the hat can’t decide which house to put a witch or a wizard in, it takes longer than usual. This is known as Hatstalls. It happened in the case of McGonagall as the hat couldn’t decide whether to put her in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw and also in case of Harry Potter.

- Harry and Tom Riddle were related. Both of the were descendants of the Peverell family. Voldemort was supposedly descended from Cadmus Peverell, who was the 2^nd brother and owner of the resurrection stone and Harry descended form Ignotus Peverell, the owner of the Invisibility Cloak.

- Hufflepuff won the house cup last year. Yes, it’s the age of Hufflepuff. If you think Hufflepuff is a ‘meh’ house, remember the mighty Cedric Diggory and also, Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts.

- Hargrid’s motorcycle actually belonged to Sirius Black. It was revealed that the flying motorcycle that Hagrid used actually belonged to Sirius Black. Later on, Arthur Weasley fixed the motorcycle and it came to Harry.

- The DA kept their coins. Remember in the Order of the Phoenix when Hermione designs coins for all members of the DA so that they could send messages about the DA meetings? All the members kept the coins as ‘badges of honor’ after the war.