41. For the role as Hermione, Rowling wanted someone who had brains and not just looks. She kept in touch with some alternatives before finding Emma Watson. Already over the phone, Rowling decided that this was the girl they had been looking for. But when she met Emma, she found out that the actress had both brains and looks, and of course, she got the part. Some people just seem to have everything from birth.
42. Bill and Fleur Weasley had three children: Louis, Victoire and Dominique.
43. Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that he was drunk during some of the scenes in the movies.
44. The eight book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is to be released in July this year.
45. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be translated and to buy in Swedish in October.
46. With some of the money from the movies, Rubert Grint bought a private ice cream van, which he brought to the set of the last movie.
47. When J. K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was gay, many reacted, for example saying that "he didn't look gay". Rowling answered with the splendid phrase "Maybe that's because people who are gay look just like everybody else".
48. Minerva McGonagall had been married to a previous Minister of Magic before working as a teacher.
49. The original title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
50. Robert Pattinson, aka Cedric Diggory, aka Edward Cullen, got his breakthrough in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Then he moved on to lesser great things: Twilight.
Hello! I hope you like these facts. In the next chapter I'm going to focus on facts about different characters, such as Luna, Draco and Neville.
Please let me know if there are more characters you wish me to write about. Thank you.
(By the way, I don't hate Twilight, I'm just a very devoted Harry Potter-fan)
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100 Things You Didn't Know About Harry Potter
Non-FictionThe thought in every potterhead's actual head: 'The seventh book and the eight movie is completed and they're both great, but what about me? Is this the end of the adventure?' Well, it isn't. Read this book and you'll find out why!
