The Nightside

Some Harry Potter Facts.

• Daniel Randcliffe's favorite HP book is Chamber of Secrets, Emma Watson's favorite HP book is Prisoner of Azkaban and Rupert Grint's favorite HP book is The Goblet of Fire.
• Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be put in Hufflepuff because he found Gryffindor's reputation bravery intimidating.
• Most of the members of the Black family are named after stars.
• Voldemort cannot love because he was conceived under the effects of a Love Potion.
• The first Harry Potter novel was published in 1998, the same year that the final Battle of Hogwarts take place. "I open at the close."
• J.K. Rowling has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
• Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle is also an anagram for "immortal odd lover."
• Slytherin house was the first and last house mentioned in the series.
• October 9 of 1995, Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement for the first time to practice the Disarming Charm.
• In the movie scene "Nineteen Years Later", Tom Felton's girlfriend Jade Gordon makes an appearance as Draco's wife, Astoria Greengrass.
• Voldemort is bald because this way people can't use his hair in a Polyjuice Potion.
• Ron's Patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which are know for chasing otters. Hermione's Patronus happens to be an otter.
• Voldemort's Boggart would take the shape of his own corpse, since death was his greatest fear.
• Voldemort was 71 years old when he died on May 2, 1998.
• A Patronus is a physical representation of one's soul. Since James Potter's is a stag and Lily's is a doe, they are literally soul mates.
• Molly Weasley's brothers Gideon and Fabian were killed by Death Eaters in the first war.
• Even though he feared death, Voldemort could not become a ghost because his soul was so damaged.
• George would never be able to evoke a Patronus Charm after Fred's death.
• A Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love one's life because they so often become the happy thought that generates a Patronus.
• Bellatrix Lestrange is actually in love with Voldemort.
• After Kingsley Shacklebolt became the new Minister of Magic, he told all who participated in the Battle of Hogwarts they could have a job as an Auror without N.E.W.T.s.
• Snape hates Neville so much because Neville could have been the other Chosen One, meaning that Lily would have to survived.
• The third scent Hermione could smell emanating from the Amortentia (love potion) was that of Ron's hair.
• Minerva McGonagall played on the Gryffindor Quidditch team while she attended Hogwarts.
• The Elder Wand is the only known wand in existence with a hair from the tail of a Thestral at its core.
• Dumbledore was gay, and he was in love with Grindelwald.

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