Today I Found Out

Rowling's Real Name... and 10 other Harry Potter Facts (2015x80)

: 19, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayi→’t just an extremely accomplished actor, but also a successful musician. He even had a hit single back in the 1960s with the song “MacArthur Park,” which managed to reach number four on the UK charts and number two on the Billboard Hot 100. 2) J.K. Rowling slightly based 11-year-old Hermione on herself at the same age. She even made Hermione’s patronus her favorite animal, an otter. The otter wasn’t just a good choice because of Rowling’s preference, but also because the otter is a member of the weasel family. Further, Ron’s patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which were bred to help in hunting fox’s, groundhogs, badgers, and other animals that live in underground dens, including river otters. 3) The actor who played Professor Flitwick, Warwick Davis, also played Griphook. Outside of Harry Potter, he’s perhaps best known for starring in the phenomenal movie Willow, as well as playing Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi. In The Phantom Menace, in scenes where Yoda was walking around, Warwick Davis also played Yoda. 4) The late Michael Jackson once approached J.K. Rowling about the possibility of doing a Musical Version of Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling said no to the idea. 5) The actress who played Moaning Myrtle, Shirley Henderson, was 37 years old at the time Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was filmed, the oldest actress to portray a Hogwarts student. She was previously best known for her role as Gail in Trainspotting, and Jude in Bridget Jones’s Diary. 6) Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double through the first six Harry Potter films, David Holmes, was paralyzed from the waist down during the sixth film while practicing a flying scene that included an explosion. 7) So many people were Mispronouncing Hermione’s Name that J.K. Rowling had the character sound it out for Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 8) M.O. McGonagall is listed on one of the Quidditch trophies in Harry Potter and t