As you all know (Well I hoped you’d all know) that it was recently Harry Potter and JK Rowlings birthdays. So to celebrate this the SoME Team have decided to gather 25 interesting facts that you might not know about JK Rowling and Harry Potter. So! Here they are!
1. JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday: July 31st
2. She wrote her initial HARRY POTTER Ideas on a napkin while on a train to London
3. The original HARRY POTTER manuscript was rejected by 12 publishing houses before Bloomsbury picked it up
4. JK Rowling was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2001
5. She filled five notebook pages with made up "Q" words before she came up with "Quidditch”
6. Her real name is Joanne Rowling. She has no middle name and instead borrowed the "K" from her grandmother, Kathleen
7. JK Rowling went from being unemployed to becoming a multi-millionaire in five years
8. She published her first book for adults, THE CASUAL VACANCY, in 2012
9. In 2013 she released a crime novel under the pen name "Robert Galbraith"
10. JK Rowling's parents met at King's Cross Station, where Harry takes the Hogwarts Express each year
11. Rowling has said that if Voldemort saw a boggart it would embody his own corpse, since death was always his greatest fear
12. Dumbledore is an Old English word for “bumblebee.” Rowling said she chose the name because she pictured Dumbledore humming to himself
13. Rowling has said that she almost reneged on her promise to herself to keep the Golden Trio alive and killed Ron halfway through the series when she “wasn’t in a very happy place” in her life. She now believes that she wouldn’t really have been able to go through with it, but at the time she considered it “out of sheer spite.”
14. While filming Prisoner of Azkaban, the pockets of Tom Felton’s Hogwarts robes were sewn shut to stop him sneaking food on set
15. When Fred and George Weasley bewitched snowballs to hit Professor Quirrel’s turban, they were unwittingly hitting Voldemort in the face.
16. The Harry Potter series were the most banned books of the century in the U.S.
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel in the series, sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of release
19. During the scenes when Harry, Hermione, and Ron are seen doing work in class, Daniel, Emma, and Rupert were actually doing their real schoolwork or homework.
20. While there were three owls on set in the first film, seven owls were used in total for the role of Hedwig – and they had names, of course. Their names were Gizmo, Kasper, Oops, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo, and Bandit
21. RUPERT GRINT SENT IN AN AUDITION VIDEO OF HIMSELF RAPPING WHY HE WANTED THE PART OF RON.
22. In preparation for his role as Snape, J.K. Rowling revealed a ton of spoilers to Alan to help him craft the role. Some of the secrets weren’t even told to anyone else until the final book
23. She based the character of Hermoine on herself
24. A row with a boyfriend triggered the idea for wizard sport Quidditch
25. J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing books but she lost her billionaire status because she donated so much money to charity.
We hope you enjoyed these facts! Make sure to look out for the next blog!
