1. Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling share the same birthday - July 31st. 2. J.K. Rowling herself was offered a chance of playing Harry Potter's mother in the movies, yet she turned it down. It would have been interesting.
3. During the eight movies that put the Harry Potter saga on the big screen Daniel Radcliffe, the main character, wore about 160 pairs of glasses, breaking or growing out the most of them.
4. J.K. Rowling knew how the story would end almost seven years before the very first Harry Potter book was even published. She wrote a synopsys of the end and even if she didn't know how the characters would get there, that was the end from the very beginning.
5. Dolores Umbridge. Certainly the most hated of Rowling's characters, even more than Lord Voldemort. And when the famous Stephen King says that he truly liked how Umbridge turned out it is surely a hit.
6. Emma Watson didn't want to audition for Hermione, and she was the last girl to read for the part. Surprising, but she easily won.
7. Do you like Quidditch? If you are a Harry Potter fan you surely know this rather brutal sport, which had a long and fascinating history in the world of Harry Potter. There is even a book about the history of Quidditch. Just for the real fans, of course. And as J.K. Rowling said, the idea for Quidditch came to her after a fierce fight with her boyfriend.
8. The feared by all Dementors were inspired by Rowling's battle with depression when she was in her 20s.
9. So far the Harry Potter books have been translated in more than 70 languages. And they keep on selling.
10. After the success of the books and the movies (not to mention toys, collectibles and games) Rowling received a surprising offer from no other than Michael Jackson, who wanted to do a musical about the boy wizard. Unfortunatelly, the author declined the idea.
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