Interesting Harry Potter Facts


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1. Emma Watson has spent 45% of her life shooting the Harry Potter series.
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2. do you like harry potter because you can slytherin my bed
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3. "Harry Potter" is mentioned 18,956 times throughout all the Harry Potter books.
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4. Harry Potter is 32 years old
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5. A year before it came out, J.K. Rowling revealed the plot of the fourth Harry Potter book to a girl who would die before it was published.
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6. Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies, saying "There's no challenge.'
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7. The ‘soul-sucking’ wasp, Ampulex dementor, is named after the Dementors in Harry Potter because of the way it paralyses cockroaches.
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8. How long will my Harry Potter references go unnoticed? Always.
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9. Fans of Harry Potter tend to be more politically tolerant, politically active, open to diversity, and less authoritarian.
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10. why go out tonight when you can stay home and watch Harry Potter
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11. Immediately after the release of new Harry Potter books, there were half as many children in the ER of most hospitals.
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12. Every Harry Potter movie is on the list of top 50 highest grossing films of all time.
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13. The most common sentence in the Harry Potter books is ‘Nothing happened.’ The most common starting price of Grand National winners is 25/1.
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14. J.K. Rowling wrote the final chapter of the 7th Harry Potter book 9 years before the 1st book was even released.
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15. J.K. Rowling seriously considered killing off Ron and putting Hermione and Fred together in the Harry Potter series.

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