If you are planning on going for a Harry Potter day trip, you have come to the right place, because this article will tell you some facts about the movie and the book that you might not have known.
- Harry and JK Rowling share the same birthday, the 31st of July.
- JK Rowling came up with the names of the Hogwarts houses on the back of an airplane sick bag.
- Rowling had written a sketch of the last chapter of the last book during her first year of writing, but had locked it away thinking that it was rubbish.
- The dementors represent the depression that Rowling suffered after her mother passed away.
- Rowling came up with the idea of Quidditch after she had a fight with her then boyfriend. She said that Quidditch was a violent game and she at the that point she really wanted to see her boyfriend get hit with a bludger.
- The inspiration of all the plants in the book came from a real book known as Culpeper’s Complete Herbal.
- Roweling turned down the suggestion of naming the American version of the book Harry Potter and The School of Magic and suggested that Sorcerer’s Stone sounds much better.
- Arthur Weasley was supposed to die in the fifth book but Rowling decided that there aren’t many fatherly figures in the book. She had also considered killing Ron but then decided not to do it.
- Rowling killed Lupin and Tonks to show the after effects of a war and how children are left behind after their parents are killed.
- The reason why Harry’s eyes aren’t green in the film is because Daniel Radcliffe had an allergic reaction to the contact lenses.
- The only two people who knew about the real intentions of Snape were Rowling herself and Alan Rickman.