• JK Rowling said that the name ‘Lord Voldemort is pronounced without the’ t ‘.
• JK Rowling and Harry Potter have the same birthday, July 31st.
• Throughout the Harry Potter franchise, there are already 6 actors who have played Voldermort.
• In the Spanish translation of the Harry Potter books, Trevor, the toad by Neville Longbotton is translated as tortoise instead of frog.
• The least commercially successful HP film earned approximately $ 90 million, far more than the most successful Twilight film.
• The name ‘Dumbledore’ is actually an early modern English word for ‘Bumblebee’.
• Vol de mort means “Thief of death” and “Flight of death” in French, and it means “To wish death” in Latin.
• Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliff voiced the cartoon Edward Cullen in the Twilight parody of “The Simpsons.”
• As a huge fan of the film, Michael Jackson proposed a Harry Potter musical to JK Rowling. Rowling thought that a musical presentation wouldn’t work for the franchise, and she didn’t want to risk the franchise.
• The actress who played the role of Moaning Myrtile is actually 37 years old, the oldest actress to play a student role at Hogwarts.
• Knight bus driver and driver Ernie and Stanley are named after JK Rowling’s grandparents.
• The Weasley twins in the movie are not actually redheads in real life.
• JK Rowling is the first author to become a billionaire by writing books.
• In 2007, Rowling became a finalist for Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
• It was the story of Rowling’s mother with multiple sclerosis that inspired her to write the Harry Potter series, and the theme of death runs throughout the series.
• Rowling’s Harry Potter series was the first children’s book to be on the New York Bestseller since EB White’s 1952 book Charlotte’s Web.
• So many Harry Potter fans visit King’s Cross station and take pictures of platforms 9 and 10, the management turned it into a real tourist spot by putting up a sign that says “Platform 9 ¾”.
• JK Rowling said that when she took the Sorting Hat online quiz, she qualified for Hufflepuff.
• The Knights of Walpurgis was the original name of the Death Eaters.
• The Hogwarts School motto reads “Draco Domiens nunquam titillandus”, a Latin phrase meaning “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
• There was an outbreak of lice among the cast members on the set of Chamber of Secrets.
• “Avada Kedavra” is derived from the Aramaic phrase “Abhadda Kedhabra”, which in English means “to disappear like this world”.
• Believe it or not, many publishers rejected the first Harry Potter manuscript, saying it was too long and too literary. Bloomsbury Publisher accepted the manuscript in 1996, and the publisher suggested that Rowling change her name to “JK” instead of her real name “Joanne Rowling” to attract male readers. She took the letter “K” from Kathleen, her grandmother’s name.
