500 Harry Potter Facts | ✔︎

Facts 281--290:

#281:
Dumbledore actually has an animagus form. It's a Swan.

#282:
Neville was an Auror with Harry and Ron before teaching Herbology at Hogwarts.

#283:
Unlike many other characters in the books, Harry is not based on a real-life person.

#284:
Arthur Weasley's dearest ambition is to find out how Airplanes stay up.

#285:
'Albus' is a Latin Word for 'White'.

#286:
The most ordinary wizarding levels a student can receive is 12.

#287:
The official names of the rooms in the Department of Mysteries are: The Brain room, The Hall of Prophecies, The Death Chamber, The Time Chamber, The Space Chamber, and the Ever-Locked room (the love chamber).

#288:
Merlin, the most famous wizard of all time, was a Slytherin.

#289:
A handwritten copy of Rowling's Tales of Beedle Bard sold for $4,000,000 (£3,034,394.92).

#290:
Victor Krum fell in love with a girl back home in Bulgaria.