36 Harry Potter Facts for Geeky Hogwarts Students Spending the Weekend Studying Wizarding World Humor

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Eleonora Bader
Mar 29, 2024 11:30 AM EDT

Thunk! Books topple over from a nearby shelf and you get up hastily to put them back in the right order before Madam Irma Pince comes whipping around the corner to see what happened. The last thing you need is a sharp reprimanding… You already had that yesterday in Mcgonagals class when you failed to transform a rat into a teacup. You look up at the big oak bookcase in wonder… How much knowledge is stored in the Hogwarts library? You couldn't imagine anyone finishing all the books stored in there, not even if they lived to be a hundred.

Well, off you go to study again… You wonder what Harry Potter felt when he strode through the halls of the library. Did he also hate transfiguration? Maybe you'll meet him one day and get to ask.

Scroll down for the most entertaining Harry Potter facts of the week, and when you're done, check out this young DnD player who got kicked out of a game due to their age.

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  • 01
    FACTS @DAILY POTTERED IN THE FILM, HERMIONE GRANGER IS SEEN WITH HER PARENTS AND RON WEASLEY AT THE BURROW. IN THE BOOK, THERE IS NO SCENE AND HERMIONE ONLY TELLS HER FRIENDS WHERE SHE SENT HER PARENTS.
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  • 02
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED MIRIAM MARGOLYES, FAMOUS FOR HARRY POTTER, SPARKED CONTROVERSY URGING ADULT FANS TO MOVE ON AS THE SERIES IS FOR CHILDREN. SHE STRESSED ITS 25-YEAR-OLD RELEASE AND SUGGESTED FANS SHOULD LET GO. FANS ARE UNHAPPY WITH HER REMARKS.
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  • 03
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED IGOR KARKAROFF WAS MODERED BY DEATH EATERS IN 1996 AFTER HE DID NOT RETURN TO VOLDEMORT FOLLOWING HIS REBIRTH. HIS DEATH OCCURRED DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE SECOND WIZARDING WAR.
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  • 04
    FACTS BORGIN IG/@DAILYPOTTERED THOUGH TOM WAS BRILLIANT AND RECEIVED MANY OFFERS TO WORK FOR THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC, RIDDLE DECIDED TO WORK AT BORGIN AND BURKES AFTER GRADUATION. WHY? WELL, HE COULD CONVINCE WIZARDS TO SELL HIM THEIR OLD MAGICAL ARTIFACTS AND HEIRLOOMS. WONDER WHAT HE'D NEED THEM FOR...
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  • 05
    BOOK VS MOVIE IG/@DAILYPOTTERED IN THE BOOK PROFESSOR BINNS TOLD HARRY AND HIS CLASSMATES ABOUT THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS IN THE MOVIE PROFESSOR MCGONNAGALL TOLD THEM ABOUT THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.
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  • 06
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED DURING THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS, FRED IS KED BY AUGUSTUS ROOKWOOD IN AN EXPLOSION. BEFORE HIS DRTH, FRED RECONCILES WITH HIS ESTRANGED BROTHER PERCY, WHO ARRIVES AT HOGWARTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIGHT AND APOLOGISES TO THE FAMILY FOR NOT BELIEVING THEM.
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  • 07
    FACTS PRIVET DRIVE @DAILY POTTERED THE NAME "HEDWIG HAS A SYMBOLIC MEANING. IT IS DERIVED FROM THE OLD HIGH GERMAN NAME "HADWIG," WHICH MEANS "BATTLE" OR "WAR." THIS NAME CHOICE MAY REFLECT THE OWL'S ROLE AS HARRY'S LOYAL COMPANION AND PROTECTOR THROUGHOUT HIS BATTLES AGAINST EVIL.
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  • 08
    FACTS @DAILYPOTTERED MOVIES NEVER EXPLAINED THAT VOLDEMORT MADE HIS OWN NAME TABOO. WHENEVER HIS NAME WAS SPOKEN ALOUD, DEATH EATERS AND SNATCHERS WERE ALERTED TO THE LOCATION OF THE SPEAKER. AT TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, HERMIONE GRANGER BROKE THE TABOO WHICH LED TWO DEATH EATERS TO THE GOLDEN TRIO.
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  • 09
    BOOK VS MOVIE IG/@DAILYPOTTERED CHO CHANG IS PORTRAYED AS A SEEKER IN THE BOOKS, SHOWCASING HER QUIDDITCH SKILLS AND ROLE ON THE TEAM. THE DETAIL OF CHO CHANG BEING A SEEKER IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE MOVIES.
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  • 10
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED HARRY POTTER IS UNIMAGINABLE WITHOUT DANIEL RADCLIFFE. INITIALLY, AMERICAN ACTOR UAM AIKEN WAS OFFERED THE ROLE BUT HAD IT RETRACTED DUE TO J.K. ROWLING'S PREFERENCE FOR BRITISH ACTORS. RADCLIFFE, A PERFECT FIT, THEN ASSUMED THE ICONIC ROLE OF THE BOY WHO LIVED, MAKING THE SERIES COMPLETE.
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  • 11
    BOOK VS MOVIE IG/@DAILYPOTTERED IN THE BOOK, PARVATI PATIL'S BOGGART IS A MUMMY IN THE FILM, IT IS A GIANT SNAKE.
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  • 12
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED J.K. ROWLING SAYS DRACO DOESN'T HAVE A PATRONUS BECAUSE HE NEVER LEARNED THE SPELL, BUT I THINK IT'S BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY POWERFUL HAPPY MEMORIES TO USE.
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  • 13
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED CEDRELLA BLACK MARRIED SEPTIMUS WEASLEY, BEARING THREE CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM IS SAID TO BE ARTHUR WEASLEY, RON'S FATHER. NARCISSA MALFOY, DRACOS MOTHER, WAS BORN NARCISSA BLACK. HARRY'S FATHER, JAMES, WAS ALSO BORN INTO A BLACK FAMILY. THIS MEANS THAT, IN SOME CONVOLUTED WAY, HARRY, DRACO AND RON ARE ALL RELATED VIA THE BLACK FAMILY.
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  • 14
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED ALAN RICKMAN WAS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER BEFORE BECOMING AN ACTOR. HE WORKED AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER TO SUPPORT HIS ACTING CAREER IN ITS INITIAL STAGES.
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  • 15
    FACTS KNIGHT BUS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED STAN SHUNPIKE AND ERNIE PRANG, THE CONDUCTOR AND DRIVER OF THE KNIGHT BUS RESPECTIVELY, TAKE THEIR FIRST NAMES FROM ROWLING'S OWN REAL-LIFE GRANDFATHERS.
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  • 16
    Ж FACTS ZMIES IG/@DAILY POTTERED HARRY POTTER APPEARED IN THE SIMPSONS BEFORE HE EVEN APPEARED IN HIS OWN MOVIE? THE CHAPTER WHERE HE APPEARS WAS RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 6, 2001, 24 DAYS BEFORE "HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE".
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  • 17
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED HELEN MCCRORY WAS INITIALLY CAST AS BELLATRIX LESTRANGE BUT HAD TO WITHDRAW DUE TO PREGNANCY. SHE LATER PORTRAYED NARCISSA MALFOY IN "HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE."
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  • 18
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED SAOIRSE RONAN, AT 13, NEARLY LANDED LUNA LOVEGOOD IN HARRY POTTER. SHE LOST TO EVANNA LYNCH BUT LATER SOARED TO FAME IN DIVERSE ROLES. DESPITE INITIAL DISAPPOINTMENT, HER JOURNEY LED TO OSCAR RECOGNITION AND LITTLE WOMEN STARDOM.
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  • 19
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED KATE WINSLET'S AGENT REJECTED THE ROLE OF HELENA RAVENCLAW, STATING THAT KATE WINSLET WOULD NOT FOLLOW THE TREND OF APPEARING IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, UNLIKE MANY OTHER ACTORS. HOWEVER, THE ROLE WAS LATER PLAYED BY KELLY MACDONALD.
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  • 20
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF FILMING THE FRANCHISE'S S INSTALLMENTS, MAKEUP ARTISTS EMBLAZONED RADCLIFFE AND HIS STUNT DOUBLES WITH HARRY'S ICONIC LIGHTNING BOLT SCAR MORE THAN 5,000 TIMES.
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  • 21
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED FLEUR AND HERMIONE DISLIKED EACH OTHER DUE TO JEALOUSY AND ARROGANCE BUT EVENTUALLY GREW TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER. THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER IN THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS, WHERE FLEUR SAVED HERMIONE'S LIFE.
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  • 22
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED TWO AMERICAN ACTORS WANTED TO BE IN THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES SO BADLY THEY OFFERED TO DO IT FOR FREE-ROSIE O'DONNELL AND ROBIN WILLIAMS. BUT ROWLING SAID NO BECAUSE SHE WANTED A CAST THAT WAS ONLY BRITISH OR IRISH.
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  • 23
    FACTS IG/@DAILY POTTERED IN THE SCENE FROM THE BOOK, DRACO IS FOUND EXPRESSING A SINISTER DESIRE FOR HERMIONE'S DEMISE, PROMPTING RON TO REACT FIERCELY AND MOVE TOWARDS DRACO, READY TO CONFRONT HIM FOR HIS DISTURBING STATEMENT ABOUT HERMIONE.
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  • 24
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED ROWLING'S DISLIKE OF CHEMISTRY IN SCHOOL LED HER TO ASSIGN SNAPE THE SUBJECT OF POTIONS, REMINISCENT OF HER OWN NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES. SURPRISINGLY, WHILE CRAFTING SNAPE'S CHARACTER, SHE DISCOVERED A NEWFOUND INTEREST IN THE TOPIC, PERHAPS SUGGESTING HE WASN'T AS TERRIBLE A TEACHER AS INITIALLY THOUGHT.
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  • 25
    FACTS IG/@DAILYPOTTERED JASON ISAACS ORIGINALLY AUDITIONED FOR GILDEROY LOCKHART, BUT CHRIS COLUMBUS ASKED HIM TO TRY FOR LUCIUS MALFOY TOO. BUT ISAACS DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY ANOTHER BAD GUY. ISAACS ALMOST TURNED IT DOWN, BUT FAMILY MEMBERS CONVINCED HIM TO DO IT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO VISIT THE SET.
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  • 26
    FACTS @DAILYPOTTERED ALBUS DUMBLEDORE INVENTED A WAY FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX TO USE PATRONUS AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, ALLOWING MESSAGES TO BE DELIVERED WITH THE CASTER'S VOICE. IT WORKED BOTH IN CORPOREAL AND INCORPOREAL FORM, ENSURING SECURE AND EXCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE ORDER.
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  • 27
    BOOK VS MOVIE @DAILY POTTERED IN THE BOOK, AMOS DIGGORY IS DESCRIBED AS HAVING A SCRUBBY BEARD AND NOT WEARING GLASSES. IN THE FILM, HE HAS NO BEARD AT ALL AND HE WEARS GLASSES THAT ARE NOT MENTIONED IN THE BOOK.
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  • 28
    WE FACTS @DAILYPOTTERED DOLORES UMBRIDGE, IS A HALF-BLOODED WITCH. AFTER HER PARENTS SPLIT, HER MUGGLE MOTHER TOOK HER SQUIB BROTHER BACK TO THE NON-MAGICAL WORLD AND DOLORES NEVER SPOKE OF THAT SIDE OF HER FAMILY AGAIN. N
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  • 29
    FACTS @DAILY POTTERED WHEN RUPERT GRINT WAS TALKING ABOUT EMMA WATSON, HE ONCE SAID. "EMMA IS A PRETTY GIRL. HAVE DANIEL OR I EVER HIT ON EMMA? SHE IS QUITE POPULAR WITH THE CAST. AS FOR WHO HAS THE WORST CRUSH ON HER? ME OR RADCLIFFE? I'D RATHER NOT SAY.
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  • 30
    FACTS @DAILYPOTTERED HELENA BONHAM CARTER, WHO YOU MAY KNOW BETTER AS BELLATRIX LESTRANGE IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, WAS INVOLVED IN A PRETTY DRAMATIC LOVE TRIANGLE. IN THE 1990S, SHE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH KENNETH BRANAGH (WHO PLAYS GILDEROY LOCKHART), THE HUSBAND OF EMMA THOMPSON (WHO PLAYS PROFESSOR TRELAWNEY). I WONDER IF IT EVER CAME UP ON SET?
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  • 31
    BOOK VS MOVIE @DAILYPOTTERED IN THE BOOK HARRY HAS INTERVIEW WITH RITA SKEETER, IN HALF BLOOD PRINCE HARRY'S INTERVIEW WITH RITA SKEETER IS OMITTED FROM THE FILM.
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  • 32
    FACTS @DAILY POTTERED BOTH SIRIUS BLACK AND HARRY POTTER SAW EACH OTHER AS SUBSTITUTES FOR JAMES POTTER DUE TO THEIR DEEP EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS AND SHARED HISTORY WITH HIM.
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  • 33
    THEORY P X X X X X X X 228 calcu @DAILY POTTERED MINERVA, HAVING EVERYTHING BUT LOVE, GAZED INTO THE MIRROR OF ERISED. IN ITS REFLECTION, SHE SAW HERSELF AND DOUGAL MCGREGOR, HER MUGGLE LOVE, SMILING AND DEEPLY IN LOVE. IT WAS A VISION SHE LONGED FOR, A LOVE UNTAINTED BY FEAR OR SECRECY.
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  • 34
    FACTS @DAILYPOTTERED THE FORM YOU TAKE AS AN ANIMAGUS IS CLOSELY RELATED TO YOUR PERSONALITY, AND IS OFTEN ALSO THE SAME FORM YOUR PATRONUS TAKES.
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  • 35
    FACTS -DAILYPOTTERED- MOST BLACK FAMILY MEMBERS ARE NAMED AFTER STARS OR CONSTELLATIONS. SIRIUS IS KNOWN COLLOQUIALLY AS THE "DOG STAR REFLECTING ITS PROMINENCE IN ITS CONSTELLATION, CANIS MAJOR (GREATER DOG).
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  • 36
    FACTS -DAILY POTTERED- AT THE TIME OF FILMING ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND DEVON MURRAY (SEAMUS FINNIGAN) HAD THE RECORD OF MOST PROP WANDS BROKEN ON SET.
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