Harry Potter Facts

In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".

In the Harry Potter series, Tom Riddle has a different name depending on which language the book is in, in order to preserve the anagram in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

London's King's Cross railway station features a Platform 9¾ installation complete with a luggage trolley disappearing into the wall, created as a tribute to Harry Potter.

Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.

Shirley Henderson, who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) in the Harry Potter films, was 36 years old when she first portrayed the teenage ghost in Chamber of Secrets.

Rupert Grint became an ice cream man after Harry Potter — not for publicity, but because it had been his childhood dream all along.

12 publishers rejected J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter manuscript. She was a single mother on welfare. They said it was too long and not suitable for children. Publisher number 13 gave the manuscript to his 8-year-old daughter. She read one chapter and demanded the rest immediately. He paid Rowling an advance of 2,500 pounds. Then told her she would never make money from children's books. The franchise is now worth $25 billion.