Harry Potter – The Ultimate Book of Facts

There are rumours that JK Rowling isn’t finished with Harry potter just yet - although no-one can say what age Harry would be if she does write another book.

If you’re not from Great Britain or Ireland, sadly you’ll never be admitted to Hogwarts. It is exclusively for children from these two countries

Dementors are the embodiment of depression - a disease that she has suffered with at periods throughout her life.

Rowling used the word ‘Muggle’ to be similar to the word ‘mug’, which means a gullible person

Have you noticed how many of the Weasley family have names from Medieval times and also the legend of King Arthur? There is Arthur himself of course, Percy from Sir Percival (one of the knights of the round table), Charles (from Charlemagne, a medieval king), Fred from Frederick Barbaross (an emperor who took part in the crusades).

The first muggle quidditch world cup took place in March 2013, and featured 56 teams from four countries.

If you look carefully at the credits at the end of Goblet of Fire, you’ll see the phrase ‘No dragons were harmed in the making of this movie

There is an official Harry Potter t-shirt which features a ‘wanted’ poster of Bellatrix Lestrange, saying that she was convicted of murder. However, in the books, she was in fact sent to Azkaban not for murder but for torture - of Alice and Frank Longbottom of course.

The Books
In The Goblet of Fire, there is a character called Natalie McDonald. A heart-warming story is behind her... Natalie was a real nine-year-old girl who was a huge Harry Potter fan. She had incurable leukaemia however, and knew she did not have long to live. Natalie wrote to JK Rowling to ask her what happened in the next book, but sadly by the time JK Rowling wrote back Natalie had died of her illness - so Rowling immortalised Natalie in the book.

When JK Rowling took an online ‘sorting hat’ quiz, she was placed into Hufflepuff!