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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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"There was nothing about the starry sky that night to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening"

Opening lines of Sorcerer's Stone...and here we go.

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"Never wondered how you got that mark on yer forehead? That was no ordinary cut. That's what you get when a powerful, evil curse touches yeh -- took care of yer mum an' dad an' house, even -- but it didn't work on you, an' that's why yer famous, Harry" Bringing you back to Sorcerer's Stone, with a relate quote to Deathly Hallows - Hagrid style