ONE

Yes my friends, tomorrow we witness the beginning of the end of the Harry Potter movies, The Penultimate Peril, the Second to Last Hurrah- The Deathly Hallows.

to thank those of you who read, I will give you some cool FACTS today

1. Fred and George were born on April Fools Day

2. Peeves, being a poltergeist, was never a living person. He is not a ghost but an indestructible spirit of chaos.

3. Dementors don't breed. They grow whereve there is decay.

4. Rowling has stated that Crookshanks is half-kneazle ( a kneazle is a highly intelligent, cat-like animal that has a penchant for sniffing out suspicious characters and fowl-play)

5. A magical quill detects the birth of every magical child in England, then McGonagall sends them and owl when they turn 11

6. When Ron sees Tom Riddle recieved an award for special services to the school he jokes that "Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've doen everyone a favour" when in fact, Myrtle died because she saw the basilisk that Tom had sent for

7. Most of the wizards in the Black family (extended too) are named after stars or constellations.

Well guys, its been fun, real, enlightening, but most of all MIND BLOWING (ps. the number of facts is no coincidence)

TWO

Once again, clarification: TWO days until the midnight premiere!

Everyone knows that Voldemort and Harry's wands share the same core - a phoenix feather, but what makes their wands different?

Voldemort's is yew, which is traditionally seen as having immense supernatural powers regarding death and rebirth, both of which are things Voldemort obsesses over. Also Yew, according to Celtic lore, is the tree of the day before the winter solstice, around the end of December. Tom Riddle was born at the end of December on New Years eve late at night. hmmm.

Mind blown

THREE

the pressure is on for me to make these last facts particularly mind-blowing, but they will most like be normal run-of-the-mill but hey, its not like my fact will eclipse THE MOVIE IN THREE DAYS.

"the run down definition" of Rubeus Hagrid's name
Rubeus - Latin for something produced by a bramble or thicket, something "wild" (Hagrid has a wild personality...and hair)
Hagrid - most likely comes rom haggard, which means wild or unruly
Rowling has also said Hagrid is named after an old English phrase hag-rid which means you had a bad night, (Hagrid is a big drinker) teehee.

"Neville Longbottom "- MuggleCast just told me his name means "absent-minded proffesor" in Latin

and, perhaps most oddly, "Dumbledore" means bumblebee, which Rowling says she chose because she liked to imagine Dumbledore buzzing aroudn the castle, humming to himself.

Mind Blown

FOUR

Creeping up fast on us now

breathe

breathe

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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...

FIVE

no more joshing around, this is almost real.
The Secret Code Arthur Weasley dials into the phone booth vistor's entrance to the minestry is 62442 which, if you type into a phone while it is on that T9-word setting, can spell MAGIC.
That Rowling thinks of everything, doesn't she?
Mind blowingly everything

6

6 days is less than a week guys, just think about it. On another note, I got interviewed today about Harry Potter for The Capital, and the article should be out next week in...six days! so if anything I said actually gets put in there, you guys will be the first to get a personalized link :)
Onto today's fact:
JKR gives us a hint early on that Fluffy's weakness is music - in fact, we learn it the first time we meet the beloved three-headed canine, who is sleeping when our friends first meet it. Why is Fluffy sleeping though? BECAUSE in the hallway right outside the room with fluffy in it, Peeves is outside, talking in a SINGSONG voice. meaning that Fluffy was lulled into sleep by hearing Peeves sing, which is a top notch use of foreshadowing, in my opinion

BOOOOOOM. MIND BLOWN.

7

One week until the midnight premier, time has just flown by hasn't it?...sort of.

This one is a quicky but a goody in my personal opinion

Hogwarts has a sorting hat because Godric Gryffindor decided the students would still need to be sorted into houses, even after the founders died
Salazar Slytherin, always a top notch guy, contributed a secret chamber to Hogwarts that held a giant snake that, when called, would kill all students "unworthy to attend"...great!
It was Rowena Ravenclaw who made the staircases at Hogwarts move, which, although a pretty cool magical feat, proves to be a pain in the arse - to use the brits spelling - for many a Hogwarts student
Helga Hufflepuff created the menu that is used at Hogwarts, because among her great magical talents is...cooking?

Mind blown

8

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.

9

we are in the single digits kids, I repeat. THE SINGLE DIGITS.

this one's a quicky but fun, and y'all (or the proper, you all) can look for it in the movie opening on NOVEMBER 19th!!!
During Potterwatch, the secret radio station that goes on during Voldy's rule of the wizarding world, those who do the radio show in the underground resistance are forced to choose codenames for example
Lee Jordan - river
Kingsley Shacklebolt - Royal
Fred Weasley - Rapier/Rodent
Remus Lupin - Romulus
All these codenames are hints to the speakers actual name, Lee Jordan's is River and there are two Rivers in Ireland, The River Lee and the Jordan River with the same name
Kingsley Shacklebolt is Royal because well, his name is Kingsley,and (foreshadows he will become Minister of Magic?)
Fred Weasley was originally dubbed rodent, which is easy; rodent=weasel but changes it to rapier, whichmeans sharp. please comment if you can think how that is significant
And lastly Lupin is Romulus, and if you want the full story for that, scale back in time to a post in October for the full story ;)
Well. That was fun. MIND BLOWINGLY SO.

10

bum ba da bum bum bum BUMMMM

to clarify, this means 10 days until the midnight premier on the 18th, so for the rest of you, its technically 11. But lets not get into detail.

The Marauder's Map reads: "Mssrs. Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs proudly present: the Marauder's Map" which is nice and spirited and friendly and stuff until you realize the marauders died in reverse order Prongs is James, and he dies first. Padfoot is Sirius and he dies in OOTP. Wormtail is Pettigrew and he dies halfway through DH. Lastly, Mooney is Lupin (my favorite man) and he dies during the battle of Hogwarts near the end of DH :(

Creeeepily Mind Blowing....

11

I said I would do this fact a few days ago but forgot, so here it is now

Did JK Rowling give her readers some forshadowing that scabbers was not really a rat? did she give that hint to readers in The Sorcerer's Stone? The answer is: maybe.

When Ron tries to turn Scabbers yellow with his little rhyme, nothing happens but why? maybe because Ron says "turn this stupid fat rat yellow" and Scabbers isn't a rat, BUT PETER PETTIGREW. so there. ha.

Mind Blown.

12

a dozen days left, isn't it wonderful??? now, onto the factoid...

What do foreign wizarding schools names mean????

Durmstrang - "Sturm und Drang" is a German phrase meaning "storm" and "stress or urge" also a genre of plays that have an ill sense of foreboding to them. Fitting for a school known for the dark arts hmmm?

Beauxbaton - French for "Beautiful wands" not much meaning other than that, although the students of Beauxbaton tend to be rather proud....

Mind blown

13

Unfortunately it is a rather bad day, so this post won't be quite so mind blowing...

Even though Fred and George Weasley have bright red hair, the actors who play them, James and Oliver Phelps, are naturally brunette. Same goes for Tom Felton who plays Draco Malfoy, he doesn't have blonde hair, he's also a brunette!!!

14 (2 WEEKS)

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.

15

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

16

Almost at the two week mark, and I have to be quick so here comes a lame fact:

George Weasley married Angelina Johnson and had two children, a daughter and a son named FRED.

Sadface, Mind Blown?

17

The clock is ticking...

http://mugglenet.com/ is officially becoming my favourite place for finding these facts, so here is another one to tickle your fancy, This one is a fact evidently disclosed by JK Rowling that she thought of after but never included in the books, It will make all of you not think of Dean Thomas as a tool anymore MARY:

Dean Thomas states that he doesn't know who his father was, although we know he never met him and that his mother was a muggle. What we don't know is his dad was killed by DEATH EATERS when he refused to join them, according to an interview with Rowling.

MIND BLOWN, as a tear roles down your eye in sympathy for little Deanster.

18

this one is a little weird, and i found it on http://mugglenet.com/ it's supposedly foreshadowing for Sirius's death in Order of the Phoenix, when they go to St. Mungos they pass a ward that says Creature Induced Injuries 'Dangerous' Dai Llewwllyn Ward: Serious Bites. The highlighted text, according to some, is a message that Kreacher is Dangerous, Die Sirius. This could be a coincidence but hey, its an odd one...

Mind...BLOWN!

19

The mirror of erised reads: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi, Gibberish? or a trick of the mirror? backwards, with some letters moved together or pushed apart, the mirror reads: "I show not your face but your hearts desire" Sounds fitting doesn't it?

Mind Blown isn't it?

20

This one is better than yesterdays in my opinion

JK Rowling uses the number 7 often throughout the series. There are 7 grades at Hogwarts, 7 books, 7 years old is the general age when wizards and witches begin to show magical qualities, the chapter "7 Potters" in the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort makes 7 Horcruxes, 7 players on a quidditch team, 7 Weasley Children, 7 floors to Hogwarts, Harry paid 7 galleons for his wand, 7 puzzles leading up to sorcerers stone, the basilisk attacked 7 people, 7 snakes on the door to the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry escaped death 7 times from Voldemort. There are actually plenty more than the above mentioned, and if you want to read them, you can click here

Your mind is definately blown

(for funsicles, 7 is a multiple of 42, which just so happens to be the name of my blog)