Harry Potter facts

#1
Draco Malfoy attended Fred Weasley's funeral. He stood in the far back, careful not to be seen, and after he thought everyone had left, he lingered a bit. He'd never let on that he secretly thought the twins were quite funny, and he was truly sorry he'd been part of the reason that Fred died. He felt that way in regards to everyone that had been hurt and lost in the war, but he could barely get up the courage to go to Fred's funeral, let alone anyone else's. Draco would never tell anyone he was there, and George would never tell anyone he saw him cry, apologizing to a headstone.

#2
During Colin Creevey's funeral many people came to lay flowers by his grave. Harry wasn't one of those people; instead he brought a photo and placed it gingerly beside the flowers. Even though many years had passed and Colin had grown up into a brave and heroic man Harry still couldn't help but think of him as the excitable young first year who had wanted a photo of him. The photo that was left at Colin's grave bore Harry's signature, scrawled in the corner. It was the only autograph Harry ever gave.

#3
George gave his wand to his son, and kept Fred's wand as his own.

#4
Sirius' last thought, in that split second between life and death was "Here I come Prongs."

#5
Natalie McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person. She was a nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, who was dying of leukaemia. She wrote to JK Rowling asking what was going to happen in the next Harry Potter book as she would not live long enough to read it. The kindly author emailed back, but Natalie had died a day earlier. In tribute, she became a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor - the house for the brave at heart - in the fourth book.

#6
While Harry was growing up he always thought of Mrs. Figg as the extremely boring neighbour. But one morning he woke up earlier than normal and, looking out his window, saw an owl fly down her chimney. And just because he knew his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia would dissaprove, he liked her a little bit more from that moment.

#7
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 when it is releaved that Harry isn't dead, George turns to share this moment with his twin, but then realizes there's no one there.

#8
George would never be able to evoke a Patronus Charm again after Fred's death.

#9
The first and last words ever spoken by Dobby the House Elf were 'Harry Potter'

#10
During the scene where the horcrux version of Harry and Hermione were kissing Rupert Grint got sent off the set because he was laughing too much.

#11
Ron's patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which are known for chasing otters (Hermione's patronus happens to be an otter). Hermione's patronus is an otter because they are J.K. Rowling's favourite animal. They are also apart of the weasel family.

#12
Fred was always the first. The twins' names were as such: Fred and George. He was noticed first, thought of first, did everything before his brother. George never minded this, he'd grown used to following his twin. Until one day, Fred did something first that George would never forget, and never get over. He did the one thing that they should have done together.

#13
Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be in Hufflepuff because he found Gryffindor's reputation for bravery intimidating.

#14
The hug between Draco and Voldemort in Deathly Hallows Part 2 wasn't in the script. The scene took 25 takes and the hug was in only one of them, the one that was chosen for the film.

#15
Albus Dumbledore was homosexual, and harboured romantic feelings towards Grindelwald.

#16
Azkaban no longer uses dementors as guardians.

#17
Harry made sure that the Wizarding world knew that Snape was a hero and was on Dumbledore's side.

#18
Voldemort's curse on the DADA position at Hogwarts has been lifted.

#19
Hagrid was still working at Hogwarts by 2017, at 88 years old.

#20
Harry would take his family to visit Dudley's when they were in the neighbourhood (occasions dreaded by James, Albus and Lily).

#21
Cho Chang was shown to still be attending Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows Part 2, as she was wearing her robes and standing with her fellow Ravenclaws, when in fact she was a year older than Harry and had already completed her seventh year.

#22
Alan Rickman was the only actor to know his characters fate before the release of the Deathly Hallows book. Rowling told him.

#23
Harry, Ron and Hermione were all put on Chocolate Frog cards. Both Ron and Albus Dumbledore consider this their greatest achievements.

#24
Once, in a online chat with fans, JK Rowling revealed that the third scent Hermione could smell emanating from the Amortentia (love potion) was that of Ron Weasley's hair.

#25
Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing (in the novels)