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The countdown is ON! only 10 days left until the day of the midnight premiere, which means we are 2/3's of the way through this wonderful blogging experience.

I already gave you a nice/sad fact about Dean Thomas first time around this countdown (his mysterious lack of father is due to the fact that he was killed when he refused to join the death eaters) but in Rowling's first draft of Sorcerer's Stone Dean Thomas was named Gary.

What a tool

Ew...

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When Rowling read the script for the sixth Harry Potter film, she noticed a line where Dumbledore mentioned a girl he once had a crush on when he went to Hogwarts. It was at this point that Rowling revealed to the film makers that this wouldn't do because she had always seen Dumbledore as being gay... The cat was out of the bag and well, you know the rest. (Unfortunately, I can't take credit for this beautiful photo, I found it at images2.fanpop.com)

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Now this fact isn't quite my normal style, but it's interesting, mind blowing, and a little bit creepy...

Earlier this year when i was watching the JK Rowling/Oprah interview, Rowling revealed an interesting and little known fact about the book to movie transitions. Apparently once upon a time, a nice, normal, and alive man named Michael Jackson approached Rowling and asked if he could make a musical adaptation of the book

series. Needless to tell you, she said no. But could you imagine the mind blowing weirdness that would result from a Harry Potter Musical???

oh wait...

FOUR

Creeping up fast on us now

breathe

breathe

breathe

When A dementor comes near you, it doesn't just make you sad, it makes you depressed. Having never been depressed I can't say what this feels like, But JK Rowling can. There was a period in her life when she was clinically depressed and impoverished, and when she describes the effect dementors have on people, she is using her real life experiences with depression. As a counterattack, Chocolate cures a person after a dementor encounter, which makes sense, because chocolate is a well known aphrodisiac...

Intresting...Mind blowing...

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8 days left, and an extra special shout out to Mary Purnell, whose birthday happens to be today. and another extra special shout out to Darren Criss, star of a very potter musical and who was on Glee last night! Yay to both of you!!!

Now onto today's magical mystery tour: Rowling likes to use play on words for places in more than one instance, here are three examples:
Diagon Alley - Diagonally
Knocturn Alley - Nocturnally (Things that come out in the night, Knockturn ALley is a dark place?)
Grimmauld Place - Grim old Place (it is kind of depressing)

Boooom.

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JK Rowling originally wrote in another Weasley in the Harry Potter Series, Malfada Weasley who would be a Slytherin! WHAAAAT? An evil Weasley? She was supposed to appear in the goblet of fire, with both her parents being muggles or non-magical. According to Rowling's idea, she would've been a rather annoying character, who would let information slip to Harry, Hermione, and Ron about death eater news when she heard their children talking in the slytherin common room. She was supposed to be a highly gifted witch (which would annoy Hermione). Instead, Rowling thought it would make more sense to have an adult dig up the dirt, and thus, Rita Skeeter was born.

you can read all that in more detail here! at Rowling's official site (so you know i didn't make this up, or know it off the top of my head.)

Booooom. Mind Blown. 14 days.

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Hopefully I still have enough facts to amuse you all for about 15 more days before I do my official REVIEW of the movie!!! (not so official)

Well here is your daily sampling of HP: Rowling got the name Potter from a family who lived down the street from her when she was a kid, the real Potters have stated that they were besties with the author and often played make believe magic games with her when they were all children, but Rowling has always denied these claims saying she never personally knew the family and just really liked their surname. Owned.

I'm not going to ask if your mind was blown because I fear it's getting on the nerves of my adoring fans. But, I just mentioned it anyways so it's still a win win para mi