Potteriana - interesting facts about the main character adulting

The most famous wizard of the 21st century and its creator both celebrate their long-awaited birthday on July 31. So, hurry up and congratulate Joan on this momentous date! And Harry is no longer a boy - he'll be 41 in 2022! And that's not the only character trait that J.K. Rowling was able to "share" with her favorite characters.

The writer readily states that even Hermione is very similar to herself in her distant youth, but her favorite animal can safely be called an otter, which is Hermione's patronus. And, of course, Joan Rowling and Dumbledore just love to drink delicious lemon sorbet, and Joan herself says that the principals of a magical college have quite "good taste"!

The birth of a wizard boy

Harry Potter was born into a family of wizards, James and Lily Potter, but when he was very young, his parents were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort, who had found out about the place where they hid from him. The funny thing is that all of these incidents happened to him on the evening of October 31, 1981, when the baby was only three months old!

After his parents died, the boy was taken into the home by his aunt Petunia, who was Lily's own sister. She took the boy into her home and then managed to still fully support his protection. While living with the Dursleys, to the insidious Voldemort and all his minions, Harry became utterly inaccessible, but this protection could only affect him until the corresponding coming of age, or until the very moment when Potter himself would not consider his home on Tees Street as his own.

The 11th birthday that changed everything

On the eve of Harry Potter's eleventh birthday on July 31, many things changed in his life. The boy had a letter from the magical Hogwarts, which was brought to him by Rubeus Hagrid, who appeared in his hut at midnight, in a great thunderstorm. He told the young boy how his parents had died and revealed to him the need to study at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and then simply decided to take Harry with him to London, where he bought a real cake and everything he needed to study.

The first year Harry made friends at Hogwarts with Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and the smart Hermione Granger. But the next year, the boy had to meet the fantastic hero Dobby, who came to dissuade the boy from studying in the wizarding department. By the way, the writer Rowling gave her brainchild the last name of her childhood friends - brother and sister, because she did not like her last name at all...

Note that Rowling often inserted the number 7 in her work, sincerely believing that it is her true talisman and gives success to her "Potteriana".

What else did the writer gave the characters from her personal life?

Rowling gave her characters many options from everyday life. For example, on the flying bus, the conductors were Ernie and Stanley, the grandparents of the real Rowling, and Sirius Black, who turned into a big black dog, he is so named after... of the bright star in the sky, Sirius!