Sunday, 13 January 2013

Harry Potter nerds for the win


I love Harry Potter. No one can ever convince me that the series stinks and that is has “plot holes” as big as Africa. Therefore I’ll share some random facts about the universe from Harry Potter, and its creator and master herself, J.K. Rowling. And I’m not only doing this because I’ll be doing a presentation about this topic with my friend Camilla in class tomorrow. Anyways, here goes! (Spoiler alert for those who haven’t read ors seen the films).
In the first film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone there were made 17,000 individually decorated boxes for Ollivander’s Wand Shop.
In the second film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a ghost named Moaning Myrtle appeared for the first time. The actor playing her is the oldest actress to play a Hogwarts student since she was 37 years old.
In the third book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Remus Lupin appeared for the first time. His name can be rearranged to ‘Primus Lune’, which means ‘Full moon’.
In the fourth film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire we all meet Robert Pattinson and we kinda liked him at that point. Later Robert has openly stated that he would rather play Cedric Diggory, who died in this film, than Edward Cullen again.
In the fifth film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the character Lavender Brown had been played by an uncredited black girl, until this film, where she turned white.
In the sixth film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the headmaster, Dumbledore, is killed and at that time he was around 150 years old.
In the seventh book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Hermione tells Harry and Ron that she has never used the spell ‘Obliviate’ before after she used on two Death Eaters, though she did use on her parents in the begging on the book.
One fact to each film/book, not bad aye? Oh wait I got more. (Don’t worry I’ll stop soon).  
Harry and Dumbledore are the only wizards to ever have held all three Deathly Hallows in their hands. The dementors are a reflection of J.K’s depression. It was not in the manuscript that Voldemort should hug Draco but Ralph Finnes (who played You-Know-Who) did it under one take, improvising completely, and that one take ended up in the eighth film.  And now the last one, I promise! One of the reasons why J.K. didn’t kill Hagrid was so he could carry Harry back to Hogwarts. Hagrid was the one to bring Harry ‘home’ in the first book (to the Dursley’s) and he was the one to bring Harry home again in the last book (to Hogwarts).
That’s all for now I hope you enjoyed it. Potterhead for the win!

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