10 Things You May Not Know About Harry Potter

I am a fan of Harry Potter. Having read and listened to all the books in the series, I thought I knew everything there was to know about The Boy Who Lived, but evidently not. In my search today for some unusual things about Harry Potter, I discovered the following 10 gems:

• Voldemort is supposed to be pronounced with the "t". A French word, it means flight of death.
• Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling share the same birthday.
• There have been six actors who have played Voldemort over the series.
• Dumbledore is a Old English world for bumblebee.
• The least successful Harry Potter movie made $90 million more than the most successful Twilight movie.
• The actor who played Moaning Myrtle, Shirley Henderson, is 37 years old. She was also amazing as Kate in the BBC version of The Taming of the Shrew.
• The Weasley twins in real life are not redheads!
• J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire from writing a book.
• The Hogwarts motto translated from Latin means never tickle a sleeping dragon.
• There is a sign at King's Cross Station in London that says Platform 9 and 3/4 because there are so many fans who come to the station looking for the platform.

There are many more unusual facts that you can research online. I laughed a lot while researching this blog topic. There is also an online Harry Potter game you can play. It's called Pottermore. It looks totally confusing, but probably not for extreme Harry Potter fans.


I'd like to thank J.K. Rowling. She made me want to learn to read.