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Please vote or nominate interesting facts for the Harry Potter Wiki 'Did You Know?'. Promoted DYKs will be added here and displayed on the main page. Rejected facts will be removed but can be resubmitted. For past DYKs, please see the Archive. For all new nominations please add them to the bottom of the list and follow the template given by the other nominations.

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Quidditch (2 votes for, 0 against)
...that Quidditch is less popular in the Far East, because they prefer using the flying carpet than broomsticks?

Support

 * Support: ÈnŔîčö Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Send me an Owl ) 19:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: Interesting, and it gives some in-universe extra info. -- Margiechocoholic  Medieval_Broomstick.jpg Owl me!undefined 06:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Against
That is not the most interesting fact and after reading that i really don't care! 92.24.86.161 19:37, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Alan Rickman (3 votes for, 1 against)
...that Alan Rickman was the only Harry Potter cast member to find out their character's fate before the release of Deathly Hallows?

For

 * 1) KH 00:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Nice.  02:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Yeah! (He probably wasn't as excited as we are)Prissymis 06:38, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Against

 * 1) I think the DYK should be in-universe like the rest of the wiki. -- Seth Cooper 16:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Cast (2 votes for, 1 against)
...while the films' principal cast is English, Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, Zoe Wanamaker, and Verne Troyer are four exceptions?

For

 * 1) -- Cubs Fan2007  (Talk)  00:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2)  02:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Against

 * 1) I think the DYK should be in-universe like the rest of the wiki. -- Seth Cooper 16:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Knight Bus (1 vote for, 0 against)
...that the Knight Bus cannot reach places from over the sea?

For

 * 1) I can dig. Nice fact. --KristiannaEl 09:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Daisy Dodderige (1 vote for, 0 against)
...that Daisy Dodderidge (1467-1555) was the first landlady of the Leaky Cauldron?

For

 * 1) Cool, nice fact. (Prissymis 02:20, 20 November 2008 (UTC))

Petunia Dursley (1 vote for, 3 against)
...that Petunia Dursley was jealous of her sister, Lily Evans? Petunia wrote a letter to Dumbledore asking to go to Hogwarts.

For

 * 1) Maxwell81350

Against

 * 1) lame.--KristiannaEl 00:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) I think this is already quite obvious to anyone who has read the books, and it's not especially appealing... Margiechocoholic 07:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) -- Seth Cooper  Owl Post  22:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Anthonin Dolohov

Caractacus Phelps (1 vote for, 0 against)
...that in 1979, Caractacus Phelps exploded eight hundred Stink Pellets by droping them from the roof of the Daily Prophet building into Diagon Alley below, as an April Fool's joke?

For

 * 1) Seth Cooper  Owl Post  22:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Squibs and Dementors (1 votes for, 0 against)
...that Squibs cannot see Dementors? Arabella Figg just faked it in Harry's trial.

For
I never knew this... -- Hellabore

I really thought she saw them. Freeworld27 09:21, 11 May 2009 (UTC)Freeworld27

Potter-Watch
Did you know that Remus Lupin used the code name Romulous because in history Remus and were both Latin Gods?

The one-eyed witch statue (4 votes for, 0 against)
..that the name of the one-eyed witch whose statue hides a passageway to Hogsmeade is Gunhilda of Gorsemoor?

For

 * 1) Support: Great fact -- Hellabore
 * 2) Support: That's really great. ÈnŔîčö Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Send me an Owl ) 19:35, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Support: Never knew that!! =D --KristiannaEl 22:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Support: Didn't know that, thanks :D --Finnigan Gorge 18:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Prefects/Head Boys
..that you don't have to be a prefect] to be Head Boy? Lupin was a prefect, but James Potter was Head Boy.

Wealthy Friends
..that after leaving Hogwarts, Remus Lupin was supported by James Potter due to werewolf prejudice in the workplace?

No Death (0 votes for, 2 against)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the only book to not have a named character death in it

For
Oh cool! This is true because only 12 Muggles died. But people don't count them! In Philosepher's Stone Quirrel died. In Chamber of Secrets Voldemort "died." In Prisoner of Azkaban no one really died. In Goblet of Fire Cedric died. In Order of the Phoenix Sirius died :( In Half Blood Prince Dumbledore died :) In Deathly Hallows lots of people died. INCLUDING LUPIN :(

Against
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 * --Rodolphus 13:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * -- Seth Cooper Moon.jpg (Owl Post ) 14:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments

 * That´s wrong.In the case we count mentions: 12 muggles killed by PAeter Pettigrew. --Rodolphus 13:02, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * What about named character.
 * Against. Out of universe -- Seth Cooper Moon.jpg (Owl Post ) 14:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Lily and James Potter (0 votes for, 0 against)
...Lily and James Potter were only 21 at the time of their murder at the hands of Lord Voldemort? (I didn't know this until I started editing the Wiki, the films depict them in their late 20s to early 30s.)

King's Cross (0 votes for, 0 against)
..that the thing Harry saw in King's Cross when he "died" was actually Voldemort's soul?

Comments
WOW! How COOL is that!

...that Draco Malfoy married someone named Astoria?

Cousin's
Did you know that Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are third cousins, that is if Harry's grandparents are Dorea Black and Charlus Potter. Even if not, they are distant cousins. I am only introducing this as fact, not because I feel gross, which I don't.--SEATTLE♥WIZARD 03:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Comments
so cool

Black family
...that Phineas Nigellus Black was the biological great-grandfather of both Walburga Black and her husband Orion?

Comments
did u no only members of the Order can comunicate with Patronuses. others can only use them to ward off dementors