The world of wizards created by J.K Rowling is undoubtedly beautiful and full of surprises but at the same time, it is also enormously big and detailed. Here are a few facts we have brought together which might surprise you on how much you do not know about your favorite characters and your favorite story. Go. Check them out. 

1. Dementors are not born, instead, they grow like fungi in the darkest of places.

2. When Voldemort died in the battle of Hogwarts, he was 71-years-old.

3. Voldemort was the son of a muggle father(Tom Riddle Senior) and a pure blood mother(Merope Riddle).

4. Harry and Ron both became Aurors. Hermione worked for the Ministry of Magic.

5. Ron later left his job in the ministry and joined George in managing Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

6. Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling share the same birthday: July 31st

7. After Hogwarts, Ginny Weasley became a professional Quidditch play.

8. In America, the game Quodpot is preferred over Quidditch.

9. Professor Minerva McGonagall was once a Quidditch player but gave up playing after an injury.

10. Professor Severus Snape was the youngest Head of House and Headmaster at Hogwarts.

11. Wizarding currency in the UK has three types of coins with no decimal system. The coins are named as Galleons, Sickles and Knuts and in the U.S they have Dragot.

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12. Fred and George were always together except when George's ear was cursed off and when Fred was killed.