Originally posted by: ashi rocks
thanx remixfan. Well, I'll continue it:
6) A girl who had leukaemia wrote to JKR asking hre for the plot of book4, because she knew that she would die before GoF came out. But sadly, before JKR replied back, she died of cancer. JKR was so moved that she gave her a tribute by naming one of the minor characters in book4 by her name, i.e Natalie McDonald(she's in the chapter when the first-years are sorted in GoF and she's sorted into Gryffindor).
7) In OotP, the number Mr.Weasley dials when he and Harry are in the telephone box while going to the Ministry of Magic is 62442. When you dial this nmber from your cell phone, you get a message on your phone: "Magic"!!! I tried this but it didn't work. It seems it works only in the UK and USA. But do try it and let me know if it works.
8) Well, this is a well known fact. The last word in book7 is "scar" currently, but JKR has said that it might change as she starts writing the last book in thre HP series.
9) The working title of the 2nd book i.e Chamber of Secrets was actually The Half Blood Prince. Certain crucial pieces of information in book six were originally planned for 'Chamber of Secrets'. But then she realised that it would give away too much info.
10) JKR's favourite character other than Harry, Ron, Hermione etc is ..........................Dean Thomas!!! Infact in an earlier draft of The Philosopher's Stone, she had included Dean in Harry, Ron and Hermione's first brush with Fluffy, but then later changed him to Neville. She also has a backstory to Dean which never got into the books because again Nevilles's story was more important to the central plot and there wasn't much space in the books.
Okay, tell me if you want any more! 😊
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