What You Need To Know About Draco Malfoy

• Draco Lucius Malfoy is loosely based on bullies Rowling encountered during her school days.
• Draco Malfoy's first-draft names were Draco Spungen, Draco Spinks, and Draco Smart
• Draco's surname, Malfoy, is derived from the French phrase mal foi, meaning "bad faith."
• After the war, Draco Malfoy & family avoided imprisonment in Azkaban due to their last-minute switch in allegiance 
• Draco Malfoy married Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of his classmate Daphne Greengrass.
• Draco Malfoy and Astoria Greengrass had a son together named Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy.
• Draco, Astoria, and Scorpion live in Malfoy Manor
• Draco Malfoy is good at compartmentalizing his life, which makes him skilled at Occlumency & at bullying others 
• Draco Malfoy was attracted to be a Death Eater, but the reality of what it meant was way too much to handle  
• Draco Malfoy would have attended Durmstrang Institute, but his mother didn't want him staying far away from home. 
• Draco Malfoy was one of the series' most popular characters due to Tom Felton's performances, much to JKR's dismay  
• Draco Malfoy had a fondness for green apples. 
• Draco Malfoy was the only known follower of Voldemort to receive Voldy's hug.
• Draco Malfoy was not capable of producing a Patronus as it is not magic routinely taught at Hogwarts.
• JKR has discarded a scene (twice) where Theodore Nott goes to the Malfoy home to visit Draco.
• Draco Malfoy made an effort to be Harry's friend because he thought it would be cool to turn up at Hogwarts being his friend. 
• Draco Malfoy made peace with Harry but they were still not considered to be anything at all near friends. 
• IGN listed Draco Malfoy as their ninth top Harry Potter character.  
• It was made clear to him that he was triply special: firstly as a wizard, secondly as a pure-blood, and thirdly as a member of the Malfoy family.

"Like every other child of Harry Potter’s age, Draco heard stories of the Boy Who Lived through his youth. Many different theories had been in circulation for years as to how Harry survived what should have been a lethal attack, and one of the most persistent was that Harry himself was a great Dark wizard. The fact that he had been removed from the wizarding community seemed (to wishful thinkers) to support this view, and Draco’s father, wily Lucius Malfoy, was one of those who subscribed most eagerly to the theory. It was comforting to think that he, Lucius, might be in for a second chance of world domination, should this Potter boy prove to be another, and greater, pure-blood champion. It was, therefore, in the knowledge that he was doing nothing of which his father would disapprove, and in the hope that he might be able to relay some interesting news home, that Draco Malfoy offered Harry Potter his hand when he realised who he was on the Hogwarts Express." - Pottermore

Deathly Hallows Part 2 Complete Deleted Scenes

thanks to TheButterbeerBoy :)

Deathly Hallows Part 1 Complete Deleted Scenes

1. Ron and Arthur talking
2. Petunia and Harry about Lily's death
3. Dudley and Harry
4. Yaxley at the Granger's home
5. In the Ministry of Magic (Arthur, Ron, Harry)
6. Hermione, Ron and Harry talk about Horcruxes
7. Harry and Ron chase a rabbit and fight
8. Hermione and Ron throwing stones

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What You Need To Know About Severus Snape

• Severus Snape (9 January, 1960 – 2 May, 1998) was the son of the witch Eileen Prince and Muggle, Tobias Snape. 
• Rowling has described Snape as a gift of a character.
• Rowling has described Snape as a gift of a character.
• Snape taught Potions because he was based on JKR's chemistry teacher that she was most disliked.  
• The chemistry teacher who has been claimed as a major inspiration for the character of Severus Snape is called John Nettleship. 
• Rowling borrowed Snape's surname from the village of Snape, Suffolk.  
• Snape was one of JKR's favourite characters to write. 
• After the publication of PoA, there was one female fan who guessed Snape loved Lily, making JKR wonder how she had given herself away.  
• Because Snape abandoned his post, a portrait of him does not immediately appear in the Headmaster's office following his death. Harry lobbied to ensure that Snape's portrait be installed in the Headmater's office after Snape's death.
•  Harry made Snape's true loyalty and heroism known in the Wizarding world 
• JKR had planned Snape's back story ever since she wrote the first book because the whole series is built around it  
• Rita Skeeter published a book about Snape's life, entitled "Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?", sometime after his death. 
• Severus means “stern” in Latin, and is the root of the English word “severe”.  
• Snape is one of the youngest teachers to be recruited at Hogwarts school. 
• Snape attended Hogwarts exactly twenty years before Harry Potter.  
• Lily Evans may have grown to love Snape romantically if he wasn't so drawn to the Dark Arts. 
• Snape's role:
  told Voldemort of the prophecy -> begged Voldemort to spare Lily -> enabling her to sacrifice her life for Harry -> enabling the protection that protected Harry for so long -> led to Voldemort's death.  
• Snape is the only Death Eater who could conjure a Patronus. 
• Alan Rickman was the only actor who knew about his character's fate way before the 7th book was released.  
• Dumbledore allowed Snape to be a horrible teacher because he believed there are lessons in life & horrible teachers are one of them. 
• Dumbledore never gave Snape the DADA job before the book 6 because he was afraid it would bring out the worst in Snape.  
• Severus Snape's last words to Harry were simply "Look at me", to see Lily Evans' eyes once more before he died. 
• Harry gave one of his sons the middle name Severus, and this son was the only one who had Lily's exact eyes. 

Official Harry Potter Prequel by J.K. Rowling

*set three years before the birth of Harry Potter*

1977

The speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted,”Whoa!” Sergeant Fisher slammed his large foot on the brake, thinking that the boy who was riding pillion was sure to be flung under his wheels; however, the motorbike made the turn without seating either of its riders, and with a wink of its red tail lights, vanished up the narrow side street.

“We’ve got ‘em now!” cried PC Anderson excitedly. “That’s a dead end!”

Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit.There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour’s chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brick wall and the police car, which was now crawling towards them like some growling luminous-eyes predator.

There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like,towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall,tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside.

“Get off the bike!” he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it.

They did as they were told, finally pulling free from the broken wing mirror, Fisher glared at them. They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair, his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter’s guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in t-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

“No helmet!” Fisher yelled, pointing from one uncovered head to the other. “Exceeding the speed limit by-by a considerable amount!” (In fact, the speed registered had been greater than Fisher was prepared to accept that any motorcycle could travel.) “Failure to stop for the police!”

“We’d have loved to stop for a chat,” said the boy in glasses,”only we were trying-”

“Don’t get smart-you two are in a heap of trouble!” snarled Anderson. “Names!”

“Names?” repeated the long-haired driver.”Er-Well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce…Bathsheba…Elvendork…”

“And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy OR a girl,” said the boy in glasses.

“Oh, our names, did you mean?” asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage.”You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!”

“Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheek little-”

But neither James nor Sirius was paying attention. They were suddenly as alert as gundogs, staying past Fisher and Anderson, over the roof of the police car, at the dark mouth of the alley. Then, with identical, fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.

For the space of a heartbeat both policemen imagined guns gleaming at them, but a second later they saw that the motorcyclists had drawn nothing more than-

“Drumsticks?” jeered Anderson. “Right pair of jokers, aren’t you? Right, we’re arresting you on a charge of–”

But Anderson never got to name the charge. James and Sirius had shouted something incomprehensible, and the beams from the headlights had moved.

The policemen wheeled around, then staggered backwards. Three men were flying-actually flying- up the alley on broomsticks-and at the same moment,the police car was rearing up on its back wheels.

Fisher’s knee bucked; as he sat down hard; Anderson tripped over Fisher’s legs and fell on top of him, as flump-bang-crunch- they heard the men on brooms slam into the suspended car and fall, apparently insensible, to the ground, while broken bits of broomstick clattered down around them.

The motorbike had roared into life again. His mouth hanging open, Fisher mustered the strength to look back at the two teenagers.

“Thanks very much!” called Sirius over the throb of the engine.”We owe you one!”

“Yeah, nice meeting you!” said James. “And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!”

There was an earth-shaking crash, and Fisher and Anderson threw their arms around each other in fright; their car had just fallen back to the ground. Now it was the motorcycle’s turn to rear. Before the policemen’s disbelieving eyes, it took off into thin air: James and Sirius zoomed away into the night sky, their tail light twinkling behind them like a vanishing ruby.

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From the prequel I am not working on-but that was fun! J.K. Rowling.2008

What You Need To Know About Sirius Black

• Sirius Black III (1959 - 18 June, 1996), also known by his nickname Padfoot, was a pure-blood wizard, son of Orion and Walburga Black
• Sirius Black's parents, Orion & Walburga, were both Blacks by birth. Orion & Walburga's grandparents were brothers.
• Sirius Black never knew the reason his brother (Regulus) died. Regulus was killed by the Inferi guarding one of Voldemort's Horcruxes
• Sirius is a traditional Black family name, recurring in at least three generations. Means that our Sirius Black is Sirius Black III.
• When he was at Hogwarts, Sirius, along with James, was immensely popular.
• Around 1977, Sirius and James were involved in a motorbike chase with two policemen (shown in Harry Potter Prequel).
• Sirius attended James' wedding to Lily Evans as best man.
• During Voldemort's glory, Sirius never trusted Lupin, suspecting he was a spy. He trusted Pettigrew instead.
• The direct line of the ancient Black family ended with Sirius' death.
• Harry gave his first son, James, the middle name Sirius to honour his godfather.
• The name "Sirius Black" is a pun on his Animagus form of a black dog, as the star Sirius is known as the Dog Star.
• Sirius is derived from the Ancient Greek Σείριος, Seirios, meaning "glowing" or "scorcher".
• Sirius began to laugh hysterically when the Aurors lead him to jail because James and Lily's death had unhinged him.
• Harry's child that was named after James & Sirius (James Sirius) often teases the child whose middle name is Severus (Albus Severus)
• Mr. Weasley eventually fixed Sirius’s motorcycle and gave it to Harry.
• When Sirius returned in GoF, JKR initially had him stay with an old witch on the edge of Hogsmeade, named Mopsy The Dog Lover.
• In JKR's opening draft, there was a character named Pyrites as a servant of Voldemort. He was meeting Sirius in front of the Potters' house.
• Sirius was the only guest who attend Harry Potter's christening.
• Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.
• Rowling described Sirius as a bit of a loose cannon and a case of arrested development.
• Rowling also described Sirius as brave, loyal, reckless, embittered and slightly unbalanced by his long stay in Azkaban.

What You Need To Know About Lord Voldemort

• Voldemort's mutilated soul was trapped in limbo (place where Harry met Dumbledore in DH2) forever, unable to move on or return as a ghost.
• Voldemort couldn't return as a ghost because his soul was damaged after being mutilated into several pieces.
• Voldemort is actually pronounced as /ˈvoʊldəmɔr/ (with silent t)
• "Vol de mort" in French means "to flee from death"
• Rowling did not base Voldemort on any real person.
• If Voldemort looked into the Mirror of Erised, he would see himself, all-powerful and eternal.
• Voldemort's boggart was his own corpse or dead body which shows his extreme fear of death.
• The fact that Voldemort was conceived under a love potion was related to his inability to understand love.
• JKR has said that everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised Voldemort herself and cared for him.
• When Voldemort is seen on the back of Quirrell's head, Ian Hart, who plays Quirrell, does Voldemort's voice.
• Voldemort went after Harry instead of Neville because he identified with the half-blood boy & decided he must be the greater risk.
• JKR said that had Ginny Weasley died and Tom Riddle escaped the diary, Voldemort would have become stronger
• Ralph Fiennes' favourite line in the series is "I can touch you now" from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• Harry's scar gives him a magical window into Voldemort's mind.
• Voldemort is the last surviving descendent of Salazar Slytherin.
• Voldemort thought that Tom Sr. left Merope because he hated magic, which is the reason Voldemort hated Muggles.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle = I Am Lord Voldemort = Immortal Odd Lover.

What You Need To Know About Luna Lovegood

• After leaving school, Luna became a famous wizarding naturalist, travelling the world in search of strange creatures.
• As an adult, Luna discovered and classified many species that had never been encountered before.
• As a naturalist, Luna was never able to find the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, and agreed that there are some things that do not exist.
• Harry and Ginny gave their daughter Lily, the middle name Luna, considering Luna to be a dear friend.
• Luna married fellow naturalist Rolf Scamander, grandson of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them author Newt Scamander
• Luna and his husband, Rolf Scamander, had twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander Scamander.
• Luna means "Moon" in Latin. People believed that the moon caused craziness.
• In a DH2 deleted scene, Luna leaves Shell Cottage to return to Hogwarts. Harry tells her it's not the same place,Luna replies "Neither am I"
• JKR has said that Luna is the anti-Hermione, as Hermione is inflexible and logical, as opposed to Luna, who relies on faith.
• IGN listed Luna as their 12th top Harry Potter character, saying that looniness made her a "delight".

What You Need To Know About Ginny Weasley

• After the war, Ginny became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies for several years
• After becoming a Quidditch player, Ginny became the senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.
• Ginevra is the Italian form of the name Guinevere, which means "fair one".
• Ginny's Patronus is a horse.
• Bonnie Wright's favourite Ginny Weasley quote was "Good luck."
• Ginny was the first girl to arrive in the Weasley family in generations

What You Need To Know About Neville Longbottom

• Neville was originally short, plump, and blond.
• While he was being sorted, Neville asked the Sorting Hat to place him in Hufflepuff. He felt intimidated by Gryffindor's reputation.
• Severus Snape hated Neville so much because if Voldemort had chosen to chase Neville instead of Harry after listening to the prophecy, Lily would have still been alive.
• Voldemort chose to chase Harry instead of Neville because of Harry's half-blood status & thought that Harry must have been the greater risk.
• After the war, Trevor (Neville's toad) escaped into the Hogwarts Lake.
• Neville briefly worked as an Auror immediately following the war, and became Herbology Professor at Hogwarts later.
• Neville's students were impressed when he showed them his Dumbledore's Army coin, which he & the other DA members kept as a badge of honour.
•  Neville married his former classmate and D.A. member Hannah Abbott.
• Neville and Hannah lived at the Leaky Cauldron, where she became the landlady.
• Neville is an English name originally derived from Norman French for "new town".
• Matthew Lewis has been wearing a fat suit for most the films except in the Deathly Hallows for the role of Neville.
• The original last name for Neville's character was "Pupp"
• Matthew Lewis' favourite line is "why is it always me?"
• Matthew Lewis has said that the Neville Luna moments in DH is merely a summer fling before Neville and Luna marries their partners.
• Matthew Lewis had to wear fake teeth for the fourth film.

What Happened on July 2??

In 1998:

• Edward Randell, who played Justin Finch-Fletchley, was born. 
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published. 

In 2008:

• Elizabeth Spriggs, who played The Fat Lady in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, died at the age of 78. 

What You Need To Know About Hermione Granger

• Hermione Jean Granger was born on 19 September 1979 & was nearly 12 when she first attended Hogwarts.
• Hermione resembles JKR at a younger age, with her insecurity and fear of failure.
• Rowling has described the character of Luna Lovegood as the anti-Hermione as they are so different.
• Because of her encyclopaedic knowledge, Hermione can always be used as a plot dump to explain the Harry Potter universe.
• Hermione's name is derived from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
• JKR wanted Hermione's name to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it
• Hermione's original last name was "Puckle", but Rowling felt the name did not suit her at all.
• In 1998, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to attain her N.E.W.T.s.
• Hermione was featured in Chocolate Frog Cards, along with Harry and Ron
• Hermione is the godmother of Harry and Ginny's oldest child, James Sirius.
• Hermione attained a high position in the Ministry, first through the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
• In that department, Hermione continued her work with S.P.E.W., working for the rights of underprivileged non-humans such as house-elves.
• Hermione then went on to attain a high position in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement
• Hermione, with the assistance of Kingsley Shacklebolt, eradicated the old laws biased in favour of pure-bloods.
• Hermione translated The Tales of Beedle the Bard from the original, which was written in runes. Her translation was published at some point.
• Hermione's Patronus, an otter, is JKR's favourite animal. Otter is in the same family as weasel, which is the origin of the surname Weasley.
• In early drafts, Hermione was supposed to have a Muggle sister.
• If Hermione looked into the Mirror of Erised in the summer of 1997, she would have seen the trio alive, unscathed, and Voldemort defeated. she would also see herself closely entwined with Ron.
• After the war, Hermione found her parents in Australia and restored their memories.
• Hermione was one of Near Hatstalls since the Sorting Hat spent nearly 4 minutes trying to decide between Gryffindor & Ravenclaw for her.

What Happened on July 1st??

In 1996:

Cornelius Fudge was sacked from his office of Minister for Magic after
the wizarding community screamed for his resignation for a fornight,
as a consequence of Department of Mysteries battle.

Rufus Scrimgeour, hitherto Head of the Auror Office, succeeded Fudge
in the Minister for Magic post.