Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to his Harry Potter glasses. He had an allergy to nickel, and they were quickly replaced with hypoallergenic specs. Also, did you know that his glasses had no lenses? This was to prevent reflections from anything happening behind the scenes. The glass lens was added in post-production.
100 Mind-Blowing Potter Facts
Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.
Daniel Radcliffe had the same stunt double for the first six Harry Potter movies – until the double was paralyzed from an accident on set during the filming of the 7th movie.
The whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages, and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of the film.
The Hogwarts Express from the Harry Potter movies is a real train in Scotland.
Daniel Radcliffe broke over 80 wands while filming the Harry Potter movies because he used them as drumsticks!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the only film in the series not on the 50 highest-grossing films list.
In 1871, Potter Palmer, a Chicago businessman, built Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel, for a wedding gift for his wife, Bertha, who in 1893 asked the hotel’s pastry chef to make a chocolate cake-like treat that would be easy to transport for the World’s Columbian Exposition. The result of this request was the Palmer House Brownie, made of thick chocolate and topped with a walnut and apricot glaze and later published in a Sears Roebuck Catalog in 1898.
The least successful Harry Potter film made less than the most successful Twilight movie. “Prisoner of Azkaban” is the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film at $796,688,549 worldwide. As the third film in the Harry Potter film series, Prisoner of Azkaban was outsold by Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 by over US$30,000.
Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary “Peter Rabbit” children’s stories in 1902.
Researchers from India recently discovered a new species of green pit vipers. They named the snake after Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter universe.
Harry Potter is the third most-read book in the world, coming behind only The Holy Bible and The Holy Quran.
80% to 90% of all special effects seen in Hollywood movies post-2002 have been created with the help of Linux. Linux was used for Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and many other big franchises.
The world-famous characters Sherlock Holmes, Mr Bean and Harry Potter are in originated from Britain.