Miscellaneous Facts

• Harry paid seven gold Galleons for his wand.
• Harry got Hedwig's name out of the book A History of Magic.
• Scabbers was Percy's rat before it was Ron's. Ron got him when Percy got Hermes for becoming a prefect.
• There are a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts.
• During their first Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall changed her desk into a pig.
• There are seven hundred ways of committing a Quidditch foul and all of them had happened during a World Cup match in 1473.
• When Dumbledore looks into the Mirror of Erised, he sees himself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.
• James & Lily were head boy & head girl at Hogwarts.
• Dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709
• Tom Riddle won the Medal for Magical Merit while at Hogwarts
• For their finals the first year, the students had to:
  Charms - make a pineapple dance across the table
  Transfiguration - turn a mouse into a snuffbox
  Potions - make a Forgetfullness Potion
• The teachers that help protect the Sorcerer's Stone:
  Sprout - Devil Snare
  Flitwick - flying keys
  McGonagall - chess board
  Quirrell - troll
  Snape - potions puzzle
  Dumbledore - Mirror of Erised
• When Harry stayed at The Leaky Cauldron, he stayed in Room 11.
• For their finals the third year, the students had to:
  Transfiguraiton - turn a teapot into a tortoise
  Charms - perform a Cheering Charm
  Care of Magical Creatures - keep a flobberworm alive for 1 hour
  Potions - brew a Confusing Concoction
  History of Magic - essay on medievil witch hunts
  Astronomy - not noted
  Herbology - not noted
  DADA - a sort of obstacle course outside in the sun, where they had to wade across a deep paddling pool containing a grindylow, cross a series of potholes full of Red Caps, squish their way across a patch of marsh while ignoring misleading directions from a hinkypunk, then climb into an old trunk and battle with a new boggart
  Divnination (Harry & Ron) - look into the Orb and tell what you see
• Hermione's boggart in the DADA finals their 3rd year turned into McGonagall saying Hermione had failed all her classes.

  
  

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