7 amazing Harry Potter Facts

1. WHEN Arthur Weasley takes Harry and his pals to the Ministry of Magic they must first dial a secret code into a telephone keypad. He enters the number 62442. The letters underneath those numbers on a standard mobile phone spell out the word "magic".

2, IF a muggle spotted Hogwarts, they would just see an old ruin with a sign "Keep out, dangerous building".

3, NATALIE McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person.

 4.LORD Voldemort is definitely NOT Harry's dad. Rowling has a retort for anyone who develops this theory: "You lot have been watching much too much Star Wars."

5, HERMIONE'S Patronus is an otter because JK Rowling likes otters and sees herself in Hermione.

6, ROWLING named the driver and conductor of the Knight Bus after her grandfathers, Ernie and Stanley.

7, WIZARDS find garden gnomes a pest because they eat the roots of plants, and, like moles, make little piles of earth.

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