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1) the vanishing cupboard was mentioned in the 2nd book! it was thrown and damaged by nearly headless nick in the hopes of distracting filch from giving harry detention. (when filch caught harry 'befouling the castle' with mud splattering everywhere after his quidditch training, and when harry was brought to filch's office and saw the qwikspell letter just when filch went out of the office to check on the noise, this noise which was in fact caused by the crashing of the vanishing cupboard! then rmb in the 6th book, malfoy had to repair the vanishing cupboard, the one montague got lost in previously (was it in the 5th book?), and was travelling to and fro non stop unable to escape. the exact same cupboard that malfoy used as a means for his fellow death eaters to enter hogwarts.
(note: did i get it right? the cupboard was called vanishing cupboard, right? not too sure about this)
2) in the 3rd book, when the trio were at hagrid's just before buckbeak's execution, and they were led out of the house through the backdoor when the ministers+dumbledore+executioner were arriving, harry stepped out and felt "unreal". haha this is just one particular foretelling by jkr that i've never noticed =D the unreal feeling must have been the fact that harry felt that someone was watching him, which is in fact true, cos his future self was hiding somewhere. brilliant, isn't it!
(note: i clearly need to read more times!)
3) i'm wondering.... when lupin appeared in the shrieking shack (right after sirius brought them all into the shrieking shack by force), harry asked how did lupin know where they were, and lupin said he was studying the marauder's map, and that he saw 3 people going into Hagrid's, but bringing a fourth person out with them out of Hagrid's house, the someone else being peter pettigrew, of course. but im wondering, at that point in time, the future self of hermione and harry were hiding near Hagrid's house right before the time of the execution that should have happened, preparing to free buckbeak when the time was right. why didn't they appear on the map as well? lupin would have been shocked to note 2 harrys and 2 hermiones, right?
4) the cursed opal necklace (claimed the lives of 19 muggles up to date) and the vanishing cupboard (and the hand of glory too, but this one is obvious) was mentioned in the 2nd book when harry ended up in Borgin and Burke's by accident when he floo-ed wrongly. :) the vanishing cupboard being the twin, the one that helped death eaters enter hogwarts in book 6.
5) notice how the books always emphasize some sort of telepathic connection between filch and mrs norris? i'm really curious about that. wonder if jkr will clear that up in the 7th book. i've this suspicion that mrs norris might actually be an animagi =\
yup! that's all so far :) just wanted to share them haha.
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6) ron claimed in the 5th book that prefects can't take points. but in the 2nd book, percy threatened or really did take points from them when he saw harry and ron sneaking near myrtle's toilet thinking they were up to no good.
(well jkr cleared that up heh. in an interview she said, "Prefects can take points; Ron got it wrong in Order of the Phoenix, which makes him a pretty poor prefect, eh?")
7) in the 2nd book, nearly headless nick suffered the full blow of the murderous glare of the basilisk but he couldn't die again, but he saved justin from receiving the full blow and so justin was merely petrified, and so nearly headless nick was like this floating black mass that had to be moved by ernie (or someone else) using a large fan to fan the ghost to the infirmatory (haha i found this part really cute!) the petrified victims were then revived by giving them mandrake potions, but how does a ghost take the remedy? haha!! they didn't exactly clear that up... it's not a very important detail though :)
and here are some other things that i found on mugglenet which jkr mentioned in interviews and can't be found in the books. interesting stuff!
- Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fools' day (no joke).
- Dean Thomas's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them. Neither Dean nor his mother know.
- James Potter was a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team (although the movie claimed he was a Seeker).
- The Gringotts' goblins return the Muggle money they acquire back into circulation. (note: this is so econs LOLLLLL. circular flow of money.)
- The approximate value of a Galleon is about five pounds ($7.30 or 8.00 Euro), though the exchange rate varies.
- A few of the Hogwarts professors have spouses, but that information is restricted for reasons we will find out about later.
- To remove the tail that Hagrid gave Dudley in the hut on the rock, the Dursleys went to a private hospital where the staff was very discreet, and said that a wart had gone out of control.
- There is more to the cats in the story (Crookshanks, Mrs. Figg's cats, Mrs. Norris, etc.) than meets the eye.
- A magical quill detects the birth of every magical child and records it in a book and Professor McGonagall sends an owl to each child when he or she turns eleven.
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