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• Daniel Randcliffe's favorite HP book is Chamber of Secrets, Emma Watson's favorite HP book is Prisoner of Azkaban and Rupert Grint's favorite HP book is The Goblet of Fire.
• Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be put in Hufflepuff beacuse he found Griffindor's reputation bravery intimideting.
• Most of the members of the Black family are named after stars.
• Voldemort cannot love because he was concieved under the effects fo a Love Potion.
• The first Harry Potter novel was published in 1998, the same year that the final Battle of Hogwarts take place. "I open at the close."
• J.K. Rowlong has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
• Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle is also an anagram for "immortal odd lover."
• Slytherine house was the first and last house mentioned in the series.
• October 9 of 1995, Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement for the first time to practice the Disarming Charm.
• In the movie scene "Nineteen Years Later", Tom Felton's girlfriend Jade Gordon makes an appearance as Draco's wife, Astoria Greengrass.
• Voldemort is bald because this way people can't use his hair in a Polyjuice Potion.
• Ron's Patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, wich are know for chasing otters. Hermione's Patronus happens to be an otter.
• Voldemort's Boggart would take the shape of his own corpse, since death was his greatest fear.
• Voldemort was 71 years old when he died on May 2, 1998.
• A Patronus is a physical representation of one's soul. Since James Potter's is a stag and Lily's is a doe, they are literally soul mates.
• Molly Weasley's brotherts Gideon and Fabian were killed by Death Eaters in the first war.
• Even though he feared death, Voldemort could not become a ghost because his soul was so damaged.
• George would never be able to evoke a Patronus Charm after Fred's death.
• A Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love one's life because they so often become the happy thought that generates a Patronus.
• Bellatrix Lestrange is actually in love with Voldemort.
• After Kingsley Shacklebolt became the new Minister of Magic, he told all who participated in the Battle of Hogwarts they could have a job as an Auror without N.E.W.T.s.
• Snape hates Neville so much because Neville could have been the other Chosen One, meaning that Lily would have to survived.
• The third scent Hermione could smell emanating from the Amortentia (love potion) was that of Ron's hair.
• Minerva McGonagall played on the Gryffindor quidditch team while she atteneded Hogwarts.
• The Elder Wand is the only known wand in existence with a hair from the tail of a Thestral at its core.
• Dumbledore was gay, and he was in love with Grindelwald.

arwenevenstars:

do you ever listen to a song and feel this deep inconsolable sadness that makes your chest physically ache but yet it’s the most beautiful feeling in the world

(Source: tyrellmargaerys, via tessagray)

captviridian:

WHEN YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER DIES AND YOU JUST HOPE THAT THEY’LL COME BACK BUT THEY NEVER DO AND YOU JUST KEEP LYING TO YOURSELF AND TELLING YOURSELF THEY’LL COME BACK

(Source: twentypercentchance, via haythamchan)

jumpingjacktrash:

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spicyshimmy:

how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH FEELS’ 

was caesar like ‘ET TU ODYSSEUS’ 

sometimes i wonder

oh my GOD

the answer is yes they did. there’s a lot of research about the highly emotional reactions to the first novels widely available in print. 

here’s a thing; the printing press was invented in 1450 and whilst it was revolutionary it wasn’t very good. but then it got better over time and by the 16th century there were publications, novels, scientific journals, folios, pamphlets and newspapers all over Europe. at first most were educational or theological, or reprints of classical works.

however, novels gained in popularity, as basically what most people wanted was to read for pleasure. they became salacious, extremely dramatic, with tragic heroines and doomed love and flawed heroes (see classical literature, only more extreme.) books in the form of letters were common. sensationalism was par the course and apparently used to teach moral lessons. there was also a lot of erotica floating around. 

but here’s the thing: due to the greater availability of literature and the rise of comfy furniture (i shit you not this is an actual historical fact, the 16th and 17th century was when beds and chairs got comfy) people started reading novels for pleasure, women especially. as these novels were highly emotional, they too became…highly emotional. there are loads of contemporary reports of young women especially fainting, having hysterics, or crying fits lasting for days due to the death of a character or their otp’s doomed love. they became insensible over books and characters, and were very vocal about it. men weren’t immune-there’s a long letter a middle-aged man wrote to the author of his favourite work basically saying that the novel is too sad, he can’t handle all his feels, if they don’t get together he won’t be able to go on, and his heart is already broken at the heroine’s tragic state (IIRC ehh). 

conservatives at the time were seriously worried about the effects of literature on people’s mental health, and thought it damaging to both morals and society. so basically yes it is exactly like what happens on tumblr when we cry over attractive British men, only my historical theory (get me) is that their emotions were even more intense, as they hadn’t had a life of sensationalist media to numb the pain for them beforehand in the same way we do, nor did they have the giant group therapy session that is tumblr. 

(don’t even get me started on the classical/early medieval dudes and their boners for the Iliad i will be here all week. suffice to say, the members of the Byzantine court used Homeric puns instead of talking normally to each other if someone who hand’t studied the classics was in the room. they had dickish fandom in-jokes. boom.) 

#friendly reminder that alexander the great had a copy of the iliad that he got from aristotle and carried it around with him #and he publicly identified himself and hephaestion as achilles and patroclus #not even he is above certain elements of what we would call fanboyism

so basically you can feel legit about your “the X to my Y” memes

i knew about alexander, and yet somehow i didn’t see the parallel with, for instance, me insisting that me and seebs are totally karkat and john.

that makes my brain so happy you don’t even know.