500 Harry Potter Facts | ✔︎

Facts 251--260:

#251:
The Harry Potter film series has become the highest-ranking motion picture series in history.

#252:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the only film in the series where you see Hermione flying on a broom.

#253:
Alfonso Cuaron, the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban said he "Would have loved the opportunity " to return and film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, David Yates, who directed the fifth Harry Potter movie, was the one who actually directed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

#254:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the highest grossing film of 2011.

#255:
JK Rowling revealed that Lily was pregnant with her second child when Voldemort killed her. Even worse, she had finally talked to James into making peace with Snape, and even wanted to make him the child's godfather.

#256:
The First Harry Potter book was released in America in 1998. The same year the battle of Hogwarts took place. "I open at the close".

#257:
The role of Teddy Lupin was filmed and played by Luke Newberry, but the part was cut from the film.

#258:
When Arthur Weasley and Harry use a phone booth to get to the ministry, the numbers Arthur presses are '62442', which spells out 'Magic' on a mobile phone.

#259:
In one scene, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie, a box of cereal can be seen with the name 'Cherri-owls'.

#260:
Steve Kloves, who wrote the first four films, returned for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie. When JK Rowling read Kloves' script, she crossed out a passage in which Dumbledore recalls a past female love. Kloves was surprised to see that Rowling crossed it out because she said "Dumbledore is gay".