Are there any hidden things in the Harry Potter series?
Question by Macy: Are there any hidden things in the Harry Potter series?
Are there any other things that J.K Rowling mentioned about characters in the HP series like how she said Dumbledore is gay and Bellatrix is in love with Voldemort, stuff like that? Those are the only two I know.
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Snape was in love with Lily Potter
Brandon2510
November 27, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Everything you would want to know is here.
http://www.jkrowling.com/
Amber
November 28, 2012 at 12:04 am
1, WHEN Arthur Weasley takes Harry and his pals to the Ministry of Magic they must first dial a secret code into a telephone keypad. He enters the number 62442. The letters underneath those numbers on a standard mobile phone spell out the word “magic”.
2, IF a muggle spotted Hogwarts, they would just see an old ruin with a sign “Keep out, dangerous building”.
3, Natalie McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person.
She was a nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, who was dying of leukaemia. She wrote to JK Rowling asking what was going to happen in the next Harry Potter book as she would not live long enough to read it.
The kindly author emailed back, but Natalie had died a day earlier. In tribute, she became a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor – the house for the brave at heart – in the fourth book. When Rowling was later in Canada for a promotional tour she visited the McDonald family.
4,HERMIONE’S Patronus is an otter because JK Rowling likes otters and sees herself in Hermione.
5, Fred and George, the owners of Diagon Alley’s new Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, celebrate their birthday on the stupidest day of the year, April Fool’s Day.
6, Sirius Black is named after the brightest star in the night’s sky, also known as the Dog Star. This is very apt since when Sirius used his skills as an animagus he turns into a big black dog.
7, Peeves was never a living person. He is not a ghost but an indestructible spirit of chaos, who can unscrew chandeliers, throw walking sticks and generally cause mayhem.
8, Dumbledore is an old English word for a bumble-bee. JK Rowling says she believes this suits the Hogwarts head because “one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself.”
9, There are about 3,000 wizards in Britain.
10, Professor Flitwick is so short because he has goblin ancestry, probably through his great-great-great-grandfather.
11, Dean Thomas always thought he was a muggle after being raised by his mother and his stepfather when his father walked out on the family when Dean was very young.
What he doesn’t know is that his wizard father never told his wife what he was because he wanted to protect her. He was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them.
12, In the world of wizard wonga there are 29 bronze knuts to a silver sickle and 17 sickles to a gold galleon. In muggle money a galleon is worth about £5. But exchange rates can vary.
13, Harry could not see the thestrals until his fifth year because it was only then he really appreciates what deaths mean. He was in his cot, so he never saw his parents die – just flashes of green light. He didn’t see Professor Quirrell die. Only when he witnessed Cedric Diggory’s death, and it had sunk in over the summer, could he see the thestrals.
14, Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth is the barman at the Hog’s Head in Hogsmeade. He smells of goats.
15, The Death Eaters were once called the Knights of Walpurgis.
16, To remove the tail that Hagrid gave Dudley in the hut on the rock, the Dursleys went to a private hospital where the staff were very discreet and said that a wart had got out of control.
17, NEARLY-HEADLESS Nick was beheaded – well, almost – for messing up a bit of dentistry. He was trying to straighten Lady Grieve’s teeth, but instead she sprouted a tusk. When his head was on the block the executioner swung his axe 45 times but still didn’t completely remove it from Nick’s neck.
18, A Magical quill detects the birth of every magical child, and records it in a book. Then Professor McGonagall sends an owl to each child when he or she turns 11.
19, A WAR took place in the wizarding world at the same time as the Muggle Second World War. The evil wizard Grindelwald was finally defeated by Dumbledore in 1945, the same year as Hitler’s downfall.
20, Ron was amazed to hear that Tom Riddle received an award for special services to Hogwarts, saying jokingly: “Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favour.” He DID murder Myrtle, through the Basilisk.
21, There’s more than meets the eye to Aunt Petunia. But she’s not a squib. she is the offspring of a wizarding family who are not able to practise magic themselves. Lily recieved the gift.
22, IF JK Rowling writes an eighth Potter book it will be an encyclopaedia of the wizarding world to use up all the background on characters left out of the books.
🙂
Suesane Lee
November 28, 2012 at 12:22 am