Happy Birfhday Harry

Facts about Harry Potter 

•  Harry’s birthday is July 31, 1980. Rowling’s birthday is also July 31—but in 1966.^b

• Several publishers rejected the first Harry Potter manuscript saying it was too long and literary, but Bloomsbury Publisher finally accepted it in 1996. The book’s publisher suggested Rowling use the name “J. K.” rather than her real name “Joanne Rowling” to appeal to male readers. She took the “K” from her grandmother's name Kathleen, but neither "Kathleen" nor "K" is part of her legal name.^c
• Owls are the primary means of communication between wizards in Harry’s world. However, in many parts of the word, owls are considered bad luck and harbingers of death.^b
• The name Voldemort comes from the French words meaning “fly from death,” and his entire goal is to conquer death.
• Sirius Black’s tattoos are borrowed from Russian prison gangs
• “Morsmorde” is the command that makes the Dark Mark (the mark of Voldemort) appear and means “take a bite out of death” in French, making it an appropriate call for Death Eaters.^a

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Quote it 

 Hermione Granger

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." 

"Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!" 

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."  

"I will not calm down!" 

"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things--friendship and bravery ."

Harry Potter

"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."  

"Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you." 

"Cut it out," he said firmly, rubbing the scar as the pain receded again. "First sign of madness, talking to your own head," said a sly voice from the empty picture on the wall.  

"Albus Severus..you were named for the two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew." 

"Snapes patronus was a doe. The same as my mothers, because he loved her for nearly all his life, from the time when they were children. You should have realised. "he asked you to spare her life, didn't he?" 

Ronald Weasley

"But why's she got to go to the library?"
"Because that's what Hermione does. When in doubt, go to the library."  

"IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU HARRY!" 

"You should write a book translating the mad things girls do so boys can understand them."

“And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?" 

 

Albus Dumbledore

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." 

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself." 

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." 

"Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?" 

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” 

ME 

So i have been reading Harry Potter since the third grade.  These characters have been my friends when i had no friends and to this day i find comfort in reading of their great adventures and being reminded that love is wort fighting for no matter how dark the days seem. (sorry this was such a dorky post)