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==**‍‍The Boy Who Lived... ‍‍ **

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//"Oh, my dear boy, we're not going to punish you for a little thing like that. It was an accident. We don't send people to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts!"//

It's probably quite easy to work out where this quote is from...yes, you guessed it, Harry Potter (and the Prisoner of Azkaban to be precise). I love reading books, and when I feel like relaxing and taking time out from the world, one of the book series I always fall back on is the Harry Potter saga.

Written by Gloucestershire born English novelist JK Rowling, the Harry Potter books have attracted world-wide attention, sold millions of copies, rendering Rowling the first author to become a billionaire, and have also been transformed into blockbuster movies, with the last movie recently coming to cinemas. The end of the both the books and the movies, for some, has been likened to the end of an era, as the characters we grew up with through our teenage years, who we laughed and cried with, have finally been put to rest. Below is the trailer for the last movie - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II - for you to check out if you haven't seen the film. (But seriously, just go watch it now).

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Now, I am quite the Harry Potter fan, and so you can share in the wonder and joy of the magical Harry Potter series, here are 10 fun facts you may not know about Harry Potter...

//1. The Hogwarts school motto is "Draco domiens nunquam titillandus" which is Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon".// //2.Molly Weasley's maiden name is Prewett.// //3.Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fools' day//  //4.James Potter was a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team (although the movie claimed he was a Seeker).// //5. If placed in front of a mirror, the inscription on the Mirror of Erised ("Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi") reads, "I show not your face but your heart's desire."//  //6.The animal an Animagus turns into is a reflection on his/her personality//  //7.A magical quill detects the birth of every magical child and records it in a book and Professor McGonagall sends an owl to each child when he or she turns eleven.// //8.Witches and wizards have longer life-spans than Muggles.// <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; text-align: center;">//9.Dean Thomas's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them. Neither Dean nor his mother know.// <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; text-align: center;">//10. Hermione at age 11 is loosely based on JK Rowling when she was that age.//



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