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44 unusual facts about Harry Potter


Arthur A. Levine Books

The imprint is most notable as the publisher for the American editions of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing

UK magazine n-Revolution rated the game 2.4/10, citing as problems unresponsive Wii controls and a general feeling that the developers were cashing in on the Harry Potter phenomenon by releasing a similarly themed game.

Bjorli

Because of its unique mountainous terrain, this is the filming location for one scene in the Harry Potter movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" which came out in July 2009 in the United Kingdom and United States.

Black Annis

J.K. Rowling wrote the newsletters for the Harry Potter Fan Club in 1998 and 1999, depicting excerpts from issues of the in-universe wizarding newspaper The Daily Prophet.

Book of Potions

Book of Potions (or Wonderbook: Book of Potions) is a 2013 augmented reality video game developed by SCE London Studio in conjunction with J. K. Rowling as a companion to the Harry Potter series and as a followup to the Wonderbook's debut title, Book of Spells.

C. Buddingh'

Cornelis (Kees) Buddingh' (7 August 1918 – 24 November 1985) was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator, and the father of Harry Potter translator Wiebe Buddingh'.

Chudleigh

The village's name is spoofed as "Chudley" in the Harry Potter books.

Data Design Interactive

Data Design Interactive worked with global brands and licences including Kawasaki, Mini, Harry Potter, BMW, Austin Mini, Rover, Austin-Healey, Spearmint Rhino, Habitrail, Lego, London Taxi, Tonka, EARACHE records and Nickelodeon.

De Kiekeboes

In 2007, only the Dutch translation of the final Harry Potter book sold more copies.

Dewi Sandra

She enjoys reading, becoming addicted to it after being introduced to the Harry Potter series as a teenager.

Drummond Street, Edinburgh

A former first floor café on the corner with Nicolson Street is reputedly where J. K. Rowling began writing the Harry Potter series.

Dugald Campbell

With the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, it has been revealed that she may be his great-granddaughter.

Elizabeth Goudge

J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, has recalled that The Little White Horse was her favourite book as a child.

Frima Studio

It is from these premises that the production of Flash games for Hollywood brands such as Harry Potter and Looney Tunes allowed the business to develop and make a name for itself.

Goathland

Goathland railway station was used as the location for Hogsmeade railway station in the Harry Potter films, and the line filmed for Harry's journey.

GWR 4900 Class

In the Harry Potter films, No. 5972 Olton Hall is used to pull the Hogwarts Express.

5972 Olton Hall has during her mainline career being used in the Famous Harry Potter Film series taking the young witches and wizards from Kings Cross in London to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.

Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors

Warner Bros. filed a lawsuit against production company Mirchi Movies to stop the release of the film due to the similarity of its title to that of the Harry Potter film series.

Harry Porter

For the fictional character, see Harry Potter.

Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup

Although the original Quidditch rule disallows having more than 2 chasers in the scoring area at the same time (known as Stooging, as stated in Quidditch Through the Ages), doing such behaviour in this game will not result in penalty.

The user plays in the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup competition, competing amongst the four houses of Hogwarts: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra

Their winter concert in March 2005 mainly used work by Jean Sibelius, a Finish composer, and featured an owl from the Oregon Zoo for a Harry Potter-themed piece.

Jimm Larry Hendren

The court decided that the local school's rule requiring parents' written consent to read the Harry Potter books was unconstitutional.

Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania

In later years, it would produce the paper used for the books in the Harry Potter series.

Karel De Gucht

In June 2005 De Gucht caused a minor diplomatic spat with the Netherlands when he referred to the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende as "a mix between Harry Potter and a rigid bourgeois without charisma" in an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, a popular Belgian newspaper.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7

The game covers a wide range of characters, as well as locations, of the last three books and four films.

Mooncalf

Mooncalf is also the name of a species of magical creatures in the world of the Harry Potter series.

Neapolitan Mastiff

Fang from the Harry Potter films (in the books, Fang is a boarhound, an old term for a Great Dane, while in the films he is a Neapolitan Mastiff).

Oscar Pill

The series has been compared with Harry Potter and was the winner of the 2011 Teen Readers' Prize.

Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Oxford is featured more often in literature and the cinema; films with scenes shot in Oxford include Shadowlands and the Harry Potter movies, while Radcliffe Square was used in the filming of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights.

Popzilla

Celebrities such as Britney Spears, K-Fed, Criss Angel and even fictional ones like Harry Potter have all been targets in some of the early sketches released on YouTube.

Realize Bradenton

"Harry Potter" book series illustrator Mary GrandPré produced an iconic soft-geometry style poster for the event, the proceeds of which went to support local children's music programs.

Rémi Ochlik

The published, printed poem (a variation on her reading on BBC) also references L'amour est dans le pré (the French version of Farmer Wants a Wife), Dexter (TV series), and Harry Potter.

Renee Mallett

As a freelance writer Renee has done everything from spend the night at the scene of the infamous Lizzie Borden murders to interviewing some of the cast of the Harry Potter movies.

Roger Argente

In great demand as a session musician, Roger has recorded film scores with top studio composer's Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Howard Shore, David Arnold, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, Danny Elfman and Lalo Schifrin working on such recent films as Gladiator, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and James Bond.

The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens

DVD Verdict said about the movie "Nothing about this film is the least bit coherent. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch," and went on to compare the movie's plot line to that of the Harry Potter franchise.

The Pardoner's Tale

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated in an interview that her short story "The Tale of the Three Brothers" from The Tales of Beedle the Bard is loosely based on "The Pardoner's Tale".

The Unwritten

Wilson wrote a series of books about a boy wizard called Tommy Taylor, filled with fantasy, even being compared to the Harry Potter series.

Timothy Hunter

Since the 1997 publication (and subsequent success) of the first book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, fans of The Books of Magic have noted some similarities between the two protagonists: both are normal, bespectacled teenage boys who have lost their mothers, and discover that they are destined to become powerful magicians while gaining an owl as a pet.

Timsons

In recent years, Bungay-based Book printer Clays used its Timson presses to produce the complete series of Harry Potter adventures including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which sold more than 2 million in the first 24 hours.

Trailblazer Travel Books

Janine, of French descent, is an award-winning photographer and a graphic designer who has work has included Harry Potter.

Treacle tart

In the Harry Potter series, Harry's favourite dessert is treacle tart, a dessert often found at the Hogwarts feasts.

Wangler

Author J.K. Rowling used the word in the third installment of her Harry Potter novel, The Prisoner of Azkaban leading to a growing use of the otherwise seldom heard term.

Zbeng!

Additional publications include a series of "Zbeng!" student diaries, "Zbeng!" notebooks, a series called "Zbengale" which featured the characters of "Zbeng!" as children, a series which spoofed "Harry Potter," Zbeng Manga, a series called "TsvaZveng!" which featured the characters of "Zbeng!" as soldiers, and a monthly "Zbeng!" magazine.


Absent-minded professor

An example of this would be the characterisation of Merlin in The Sword in the Stone—particularly the Disney adaptation—and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

Andrew Hewitt

At Abbey Road and Air Studios he has performed on many film scores, for such conductors as John Williams and Howard Shore - including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Doomsday, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Golden Compass and A Christmas Carol.

Brad Neely

Neely's work includes the comic series "Creased Comics" and the Harry Potter spoof Wizard People, Dear Reader, which consists of an alternate soundtrack of narration in the style of a book on tape, which viewers can play over the muted movie.

Carlsen Verlag

The publisher's program focuses on books for children, i.e. Harry Potter, Rugrats', and The Adventures of Tintin.

Carnelli

There is no strict one-to-one relationship between titles and works — What a Girl Wants is, unrelatedly, a Christina Aguilera song and an Amanda Bynes movie, while the first Harry Potter book is known both as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Charlotte Ritchie

Educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich South London, she took part as an uncredited extra in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and went on to play the lead character in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cherie Lunghi.

Croton capitatus

British author J. K. Rowling did not deliberately name the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from her Harry Potter series of books after the hogwort.

Cúla 4

Cúla 4 has also dubbed some children's films into Irish including Harry Potter, Jungledyret Hugo, Free Willy.

Earth in the Balance

In the Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot," Al Gore himself references the book and its "far more popular" fictional future sequel, Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth.

Goathland railway station

It is famous for appearing in the television series Heartbeat, as Hogsmeade station the Hogwarts Express stop at in the Harry Potter films and in the end of the video of Holding Back the Years, a Simply Red song released in 1985.

Greenhills School

Students are also encouraged to start a club of their interest, such as the Harry Potter Club, Magic: The Gathering Club, Horse Club, an a capella Group, an Ultimate (Sport) team, and Photography Club.

Hal Oreif

Hal also served for 9 years as Chief Technology Officer in Warner Bros. Entertainment where he scaled websites and mobile applications for brands such as Harry Potter and The Matrix getting 100s of Millions Visitors per day .

Harry Potter action figures

This is a list of action figures produced by Mattel for the Harry Potter film series for films 1 through 4 and produced by NECA for films 5 through 8.

Hornsea

Adrian Rawlins, the actor best known for playing Arthur Kidd in The Woman in Black (1989) and James Potter in the Harry Potter films currently lives in Hornsea.

James Runcie

From October 2006 to October 2007, Runcie spent a year filming J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life for ITV, as the author was completing the final novel in the Harry Potter cycle, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

John Steinhoff

His methods have also been used in creating special effects for movies such as Harry Potter and The Core.

Lizzie Mary Cullen

Lizzie also is working with Six String Productions, record label of Tom Felton, star of Harry Potter and a musician.

M on the Bund

Notable guests that have dined at M on the Bund include Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, supermodel Tyra Banks, the Ferragamo family, the United Kingdom's Prince Edward, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the queen of Thailand and prince of Holland.

Martin Ballantyne

Later in 2005, Ballantyne was given a small role in the British film Cashback (2006), written and directed by Sean Ellis, which starred, among others, Sean Biggerstaff from the Harry Potter films.

Ninja High School

The comic often features parody versions of other comics or television shows, usually Japanese, like Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Harry Potter, Superman, The Powerpuff Girls, Terminator, Ninja Gaiden, Transformers and the Gundam series.

Nodwick

They've also encountered characters who appear to be from other sources as well (a pageful of cameos including Xena and Harry Potter in one issue, Death from The Sandman appearing in another, Spider-Man being chased by an amorous Lolth in a comic strip in Dragon Magazine, etc.

Poppy Montgomery

In April 2011, Montgomery completed filming a television biographical film Magic Beyond Words, playing Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling.

Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo

Shaggy tries to use the staff against the gryphon by the power of "Houdini, the Wizard of Oz, and the English kid with the glasses", meaning Harry Potter.

Sound Charades

Occasionally, truly masterful clues are given: for example the film Dirty Harry was clued with the single line "Potter! ... Don't do that.", delivered in an impression of Alan Rickman's portrayal of Severus Snape.

Stephen Glicker

He had worked with some of the largest licenses in the world including Harry Potter, The Lion King, and Blue's Clues, as well as many others.

Streetballers

At more than $5700 per screen, it outstripped better-known films with nationwide showing such as Harry Potter and G.I. Joe to rank ninth in the country in per-screen viewership.

Tony Scannell

He is currently playing the role of a police officer in an audio book, Autumn of Terror, written by Neil Story, produced by Martin Faulks, and co-starring Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley from Harry Potter).

Warthog Games

Since 1999, the company also developed expertise in children's titles, with releases based upon well known franchises such as Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Harry Potter and Asterix.