Located at numer 93 of Dragon Alley, is the shop of Fred and George Weasley. While still student at Hogwarts they started to have the idea of developing a serie of practical jokes to sell. They started developing their jokes at the Burrow in their room, through an Owl Post correspondency, even if Mrs. Weasley tried hardly to avert them from their goal, since she didn’t agree with this dream, she wished instead they had a job at the Ministry like their father. Even if she continued to burn their orders, they didn’t give up, at the Quidditch World Cup they bet all their life’s savings with Ludo Bagman, who lost, but paid them with Leprechauns’s gold, which vanished after a few hours. They eventually got the money for the shop from Harry Potter, who won the Triwizards Tournament but after Cedric Diggory didn’t enjoy the won.
During their seventh year at Hogwarts they started testing some of their products on students, mainly first-years, under the disagreeing eyes of the Prefect Hermione Granger. They used Weasleys’ Wildfire Whiz-bangs and Portable Swamp on school to free Hogwarts from Umbridge’s Tyranny. The twins right after set off on their broom, making swear Peeves to give her trouble, and swore to every student who wished to buy their products to use them against her a discount.
Argus Filch banned all of Fred and George’s products from Hogwarts in 1996. However after they opened Weasley Wizard Wheezes employing a shop assistant named Verity, they did start selling love potions by Owl Order disguised as cough potions, as Argus Filch couldn’t recognise one potion from the other. They also intended to buy Zonko’s Joke Shop in Hogsmeade in order to extend their business. The twins were strict with their businesses, as they threatened a boy for attempted shoplifting and charged their younger brother Ron full price for all the products. However, they allowed Harry to take anything he wanted, free of charge, which was because of his being their investor. They also accepted patronage from Draco Malfoy (whom they hated), allowing him to buy Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, which he would use against Dumbledore’s Army later, something Ron would resent the twins for. Their mother, despite not initially approving their dream, was glad to see they managed to make such success and joy in their career.
Although much of their products were meant for fun and games, when the Ministry bought 500 Shield Hats for staff protection, the twins decided to expand their products to a more serious line of Defence Against the Dark Arts, as many bureaucratic employees could not cast so much as a decent Shield Charm. They also made a mockery of Lord Voldemort by placing one of their product’s slogan on the front window: U-No-Poo, which led their mother to fear for their lives, but Ron to laugh.
When the you bump into fame at a really young age as Daniel did, 10 years old, is really difficult to handle it. Daniel, today 30 years old, revealed that for many years he fought an alcoholism problem.
I felt like s**t at school, so it was amazing to be on a set where my hyperactivity and everything that used to upset my teachers, was something to be encouraged.
He was a normal child, and the next day he was the most discussed young actor of the cinema. One of the most loved roles ever.
The easier way to forget I was being watch was to be drunk. But then when you’re drunk, people watch you even more, because you’re drunk. So you drink even more! It has a great impact on your psyche.
Then in the 2012 the choice to give up drinking, that as often happens, arrived unannounced, casually.
I woke up one morning, after a very rough night, and I said to myself “Enough. You can’t go on like this.”
Now Daniel is finally free was alcohol, and he’s sure of one thing: the love for his job.
There was never a day where I wished it didn’t happen to me, where I wish I never was Harry Potter.
Ginevra Molly Weasley was born on August 11th to Molly and Arthur Weasley, she grew up during the first Wizarding War, during which her maternal uncles, Gideon and Fabian, were killed by a group of Death Eater led by Dolohov. Ginny was the first daughter of the Weasley family, and had six elder brothers: Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, and Ron. They grew up at the Burrow, on the outskirts of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon, England. Despite her brothers were really keen to play Quidditch she was never allowed to play with them, but when she was six she started breaking into the family broom shed and train by herself, she used each of their broom in turns and was never caught, the thing was found out only when Hermione mentioned it to Fred and George eight years later.
On 1 September, 1991, she accompanied her mother to King’s Cross Station to see off her brothers as they departed for Hogwarts. Despite being too young to attend the school, she still begged her mother to let her go with them. While saying goodbye to her brothers, she found out that Harry Potter was on the train, and tried to get her mother to let her go on the train to see him. As the train pulled out, she began to cry, despite her brothers promising to send her loads of owls and a Hogwarts toilet seat. She ran along the platform after the train, half-laughing and half-crying, then stopped to wave them off.[
When the Hogwarts Express returned to King’s Cross in June 1992, Ginny was with her mother to welcome her brothers back and was again excited to see Harry, pointing him out to her mother as he came through the barrier between platforms nine and ten.
Ginny attended Hogwarts on September 1st 1992, that summer she travelled to Diagon Alley with her family to buy her school supplies, and her excitement at finally going to Hogwarts was tempered by the fact that, due to the Weasleys’ financial situation, she would have to make do with a lot of second-hand products, including her robes and books. In Flourish and Blotts, however, she became the owner of a brand new set of Gilderoy Lockhart’s collected works. Harry, having been given them by Lockhart as a publicity stunt, gave them to her since he could afford a set of his own and was embarrassed by what Lockhart had done. With this act of kindness and recognition, Ginny finally spoke in front of Harry, standing up to Draco Malfoy when he started to insult him. Draco was with his father, Lucious, and the elder Malfoy took the opportunity to insult the Weasley family for associating with the Muggle parents of Muggle-born witch Hermione Granger and — in his eyes — being a disgrace to wizards. During his tirade, he managed to slip Tom Riddle’s Diary into Ginny’s battered second-hand copy of A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration.
She was sorted into Gryffindor House, like all the Weasleys before her. She discovered Tom Riddle’s diary in amongst her school things and began writing in it. To her amazement, the diary wrote back, and she started to confide in Tom Riddle’s memory, writing about how her brothers teased her, how she had to come to school with second-hand robes and books, and how she thought that Harry would never like her. She poured her heart out to the diary, and told Tom’s memory all about Harry’s story.
At least once, Ginny went down toward Rubeus Hagrid’s hut, hoping to see Harry there. In confiding in the diary her deepest fears and secrets Ginny became increasingly vulnerable to Tom Riddle’s memory, which began to pour a little of his own soul back into her and slowly started to influence her. By the start of October, the signs of the influence began to show on Ginny. She started to look peaky, but a spate of colds in the school covered up the true nature of her condition. Her brother Percy forced her to take Pepperup Potion to get her over it. By 31 October, the memory of Tom Riddle was able to take full control of Ginny and used her to open the Chamber of Secrets, releasing its resident monster. Which then petrified Argus Filch’s cat, Mrs Norris and put all the other students in great danger.
Following the attack, Ginny seemed upset over Mrs Norris, and her brothers put it down to the fact that she was a cat-lover. She opened the Chamber of Secrets another two times, resulting in the petrification of Colin Creevey and Justin Finch-Fletchley. She became more visibly upset, and again, her brothers put it down to other causes — she sat next to Colin in Charms, and that she was worried that Ron might be expelled if he got in trouble. Fred and George attempted to cheer her up, but went about it the wrong way by leaping out at her from behind statues covered in fur or boils.
Ginny confided in the diary, however, that she thought she was going mad. She woke up with rooster feathers on her robes, and could not remember where she had been at Hallowe’en and when Colin was attacked. She started to think that she was attacking everyone. The missing pieces of her memory were starting to take a serious toll on her psyche and it was effecting her health beyond the point of looking peaky.
Along with her brothers, Ginny remained at Hogwarts over Christmas, instead of going to visit her brother Bill in Egypt with her parents. She had started to become suspicious of the diary, and several weeks after Christmas attempted to get rid of it by throwing it down a toilet in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom. Once free of the diary, Ginny sent Harry an anonymous Singing Valentine on 14 February, 1993. He received it in front of her, as she was going into a Charms lesson, when he was accosted by the dwarf assigned to deliver it. During the delivery, Harry’s bag was torn and the contents were dropped onto the floor. To Ginny’s horror, she saw that Harry now had the diary. To make matters worse, Draco Malfoy implied that she had sent Harry the Singing Valentine in front of everyone.
Ginny was fearful that Harry would discover her secrets, such as her feelings for him and how she thought he would never return her affections. In addition to the fact that she might be responsible for the attacks, so she waited until the boys’ dormitory was empty. After the dormitory was empty for the day she then ransacked Harry’s belongings to recover the diary. Retrieving it, Ginny was once more overcome by the memory of Tom Riddle and opened the Chamber again, this time petrifying Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater. It is unknown how she felt about this, but it could be deduced that she most likely felt particularity upset about Hermione being petrified as she was a close friend of her brother and of her crush.
Ginny tried to tell Harry and Ron what was going on, but could not get the words out, and she was interrupted by Percy. The memory of Tom Riddle was furious, as he had been planning on taking on Harry Potter himself after learning his story. Realising that Harry would come to save Ginny, he made her write a farewell on a corridor wall, then enter the Chamber of Secrets to die. She had poured so much of her life into the diary that she could not fight Tom’s control of her, and the last thing she remembered as she lay down on the floor of the Chamber was Tom coming out of the diary. The memory of Tom Riddle had fed off her, gaining enough strength to become corporeal and regain the appearance of his 16 year old self. As Tom grew stronger, the life in Ginny faded away until she slipped into an unconscious state.
Ginny awoke in the Chamber to find that Harry had saved her, and destroyed Riddle’s diary by piercing it with a basilisk fang, and Ginny’s vitality was restored to her. Tearful and scared, Ginny revealed what had happened to Harry and was sure she was going to be expelled from school. After leaving the Chamber with the aid of the phoenix, Fawkes, Ginny was reunited with her parents in McGonagall’s office. Despite her fears, Dumbledore did not place the blame on her, saying that older and wiser wizards had been duped by Lord Voldemort, and he sent her to the hospital wing to recover from her ordeal with a mug of hot chocolate.
Following this traumatic experience, Ginny returned to normal and was happy and relaxed for the rest of the school term. At the end of the school year, she travelled back to King’s Cross with her brothers, Harry, and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express, playing Exploding Snap. She also mentioned that at some point she had walked in on Percy and Penelope Clearwater kissing in a classroom during the year, and begged her brothers not to tease him about it.
In the summer right before her second year at Hogwarts, Ginny travelled to Egypt in the summer of 1993 with the rest of her family to visit her brother Bill after her father won seven hundred Galleons in the annual Daily ProphetGrand Prize Galleon Draw. She visited various tombs, but her mother would not allow her to go in the last one because of all the mutant skeletons.
On the Hogwarts Express, Ginny was separated from her brothers until the train stopped because of the Dementors. In the dark, she found her way into the compartment containing Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Professor Lupin. When the Dementors came to the compartment, Ginny was one of the worst affected by them as she had horrible experiences with Tom Riddle’s diary last year. She went very pale and shook like mad, eventually sobbing and having to be comforted by Hermione.
Later in the year, after Harry fell from his broomstick in a Quidditch match during a storm, Ginny visited him in the Hospital Wing. She had made him a get well card that sang shrilly when opened and presented it to him while blushing furiously.
n the summer of 1994, Ginny spent a lot of time with Hermione Granger, who was staying at the Burrow before and after the Quidditch World Cup. They shared Ginny’s room and tent at the World Cup and solidified their growing friendship. Aware of her interest in Harry Potter, Hermione advised Ginny to relax around him more and show him what she was really like, since she could barely talk if he was in the same room as her. She even suggested that Ginny start going out with other available boys to mark time until Harry starts taking more notice and returns her feelings and becomes available. Although she was still shy around Harry, who was also staying at the Burrow, Ginny took Hermione’s advice and was much more relaxed and spent time with him, Ron, and Hermione.
She attended the Quidditch World Cup final on 25 August with the majority of her family, as well as Harry and Hermione. During the match she was shown to being wearing a green shamrock hat in support of the Irish. Ginny was shaken by the appearance of Death Eaters in the aftermath of the Irish victory.
Ginny returned to Hogwarts, which hosted the Triwizard Tournament that year, she rooted for Harry the unexpected fourth champion and maintained a good relationship with Hermione. Ginny was the only one that Hermione confided in when Viktor Krum asked her to the Yule Ball. As a third year, Ginny was not allowed to attend the ball unless asked by an older student. Neville Longbottom asked her to go after Hermione turned him down, having already accepted Viktor, and Ginny accepted since she was friends with him. However, she still harboured feelings for Harry and was displeased to hear that he had asked Cho Chang to the ball. She was even more despondent when Ron suggested that Harry take her to the ball since he did not have a date. Struggling with the idea that she could have gone with Harry, she nevertheless remained loyal to her agreement with Neville and attended the ball with him. At the ball on Christmas, she met Michael Corner and started dating him at the end of the year.
After the revelation of Lord Voldemort, Ginny stayed at 12 Grimmuld Place becoming an active part of the Order of Phoenix, even if due to her age she was the only one never allowed to the meetings. When Harry was acquitted at his hearing on 12 August for using magic in front of a Muggle while under age, she was extremely pleased and sang and danced with Fred and George shouting “He got off, he got off, he got off…!“.
Ginny returned to Hogwarts on 1 September, 1995 with her brothers. During the train ride on the Hogwarts Express, Ginny introduced Harry and Neville to Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw in her year. With the arrival of new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbridge and a theory-based course, Harry, Ron, and Hermione decided to form a study group to teach practical defence spells. Ginny joined the group, bringing her boyfriend Michael with her, and several other Ravenclaws. They all met in the Hog’s Head where Ginny first demonstrated her sense of humour by mimicking Umbridge’s cough. During the first official meeting of the group, she came up with the name for the group — Dumbledore’s Army, which to her was a better name with the same initials of the name Harry’s then-girlfriend Cho Chang came up with.
That very year Harry, along with Fred and George, received a lifelong Quidditch ban from Umbridge for attacking Draco Malfoy after their game against Slytherin (although their bans were lifted right after Umbridge was removed from Hogwarts). Ginny tried out for the team and became the new Seeker. Although she admitted that Harry was a better Seeker than her, and that she preferred playing as a Chaser and scoring goals.
Following the attack by Nagini to her father, she was sent instantly at 12 Grimmuld Place along with her brothers that very night, and the following day in St. Mungo’s Hospital where she saw Harry, who hugged immediately, overwhelmed by her gratitude towards him to have saved his father. After this, she started noticing that Harry was not talking to anyone anymore, but he was starting to spend more and more time alone, when she found out that he was believing that he has been possessed by Lord Voldemort and attacked her father, she went furious and confronted him railing on him, demanding him why he didn’t confront someone who had actually been possessed by Lord Voldemort. Ginny spent Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place and visited her father again on Christmas Day. During this visit, along with Ron and Hermione, she found out the truth about Neville Longbottom’s parents, and how they had been tortured into insanity by Barty Crouch Jr, Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange using the Cruciatus Curse at the end of the First Wizarding War.
Returning to Hogwarts after Christmas, Ginny played her first game for the Gryffindor House team against Hufflepuff. Despite losing the match, Ginny captured the Golden Snitch, although she downplayed the achievement by saying it was not a fast Snitch and that the opposing Seeker, Summerby, had a cold. Probably as a result of her being more confident and relaxed in front of Harry, her willingness to stand up to him, and their shared experiences of being a Seeker, Harry and Ginny grew closer and became better friends.
Around Easter, Ginny had had her first real one on one conversation with Harry in the library, during which they ate Easter eggs together. When she persuaded him to talk to Cho (who had recently broken up with him in order to defend Marietta despite her treachery), Harry confided in her that he needed to speak to Sirius, and she encouraged him to do so, even insisting that she might be able to help. It’s around this time that Ginny started to speak to Harry like a friend, and Harry in turn began to enjoy her company, although Ginny bringing chocolate into the library infuriated Madam Pince to the point of violently chasing her and Harry out. Ginny then went to Fred and George, and asked them to find a way for Harry to speak with Sirius. In May, Ginny played her second game of Quidditch for the Gryffindor team against Ravenclaw. She managed to capture the Golden Snitch, beating Cho Chang and securing the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor. In the aftermath of the victory, Michael became very moody and sulked about the result. Because of his attitude, Ginny dumped him shortly after the match.
When Harry had a vision of Sirius being tortured in the Department of Mysteries by Voldemort on 18 June, he informed Ron and Hermione. The latter convinced Harry to check to see if Sirius was at 12 Grimmauld Place before rushing off to rescue him, and Ginny and Luna came to their assistance. With Harry and Hermione breaking into Umbridge’s office, and Ron distracting her with news that Peeves was wreaking havoc, Ginny and Luna stopped people from entering the corridor leading to the office by saying that someone had flooded it with Garrotting Gas. Unfortunately for them, Umbridge saw through their ruse since she knew of Peeves’s true location and ordered the Inquisitorial Squad to round them up. Ginny was captured by Cassius Warrington, and when Neville saw what was happening and tried to help, he was caught as well.
Convinced that Sirius was in mortal danger, Harry resolved to travel to London and rescue him. Although Harry tried to prevent Ginny, Neville, and Luna from accompanying him, Ron and Hermione eventually persuaded otherwise. Once they were surrounded by Death Eaters, at Harry’s signal, all six D.A. members fired Reductor Curses at the shelves to distract the Death Eaters and began running. Ginny, along with Luna and Ron, were separated from the other three and were chased through various rooms by Death Eaters. In one room containing a three-dimensional representation of the solar system, one of the Death Eaters grabbed Ginny by the ankle. Luna used the Reductor Curse on a model of Pluto, causing it to explode in the Death Eater’s face, but Ginny’s ankle was broken in the process.
Following the battle, Ginny recovered in the hospital wing at Hogwarts where Madam Pomfrey fixed her ankle in a trice. On the train ride back to London, Ginny revealed that she had ditched Michael, who had moved on to Cho Chang while she Ginny had moved on to Dean Thomas.
During the summer of 1996, in her brother’s shop she bought a Pigmy Puff that she named Arnold. On 1 September, she met up with Dean Thomas on the Hogwarts Express, but was interrupted by fellow D.A. member Zacharias Smith, who attempted to get information out of her regarding what had happened that night in the Department of Mysteries. Tired of his continued questioning, she cursed him with the Bat-Bogey Hex and was seen by the new Potions master, Horace Slughorn. Ginny feared detention, but Slughorn was so impressed with the hex that he invited her to take lunch with him as part of a select group of students he hoped to cultivate and induct into his Slug Club.
As term started, Ginny tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, of which Harry had been made the Captain. She excelled as a Chaser and was given a spot on the roster. Following one Quidditch practise, she and Dean were caught kissing by Harry and Ron. She and Ron had a blazing argument over her kissing Dean in public, but Ginny countered that Ron only saw it as being wrong because he had never kissed anyone before. The argument led to a frosty relationship between the two siblings which lasted for quite some time. During the first Quidditch match of the season against Slytherin, Ginny scored several goals to help the team to victory. Following the match, she purposely crashed her broomstick into the commentary box because the commentator, Zacharias Smith, had been making disparaging remarks about the Gryffindor team. Her feud with Ron over his attitude towards her and Dean was worsened when, in the aftermath of the victory, he began going out with Lavender Brown, who he often snogged in public. Ginny branded her brother a “filthy hypocrite” for his actions, but more less seemed to be over the row they previously shared.
Ginny played in the Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, where Ron’s bedridden status forced Harry to play the reserve Keeper Cormac McLaggen. During the match, McLaggen took one of the Beater’s bats and pelted a bludger directly at Harry. Harry was knocked unconscious and suffered a fractured skull. Dean, who had been playing as reserve Chaser in place of Katie Bell, laughed about the incident, causing him and Ginny to have a row. Ginny subsequently visited Harry in the hospital wing. Ginny and Dean were going through a rocky patch, and in April they finally split up when she accused Dean of always trying to help her through the portrait door into the Gryffindor common room. In reality, Harry had been wearing his Invisibility Cloak and bumped into her while under the influence of Felix Felicis, but the incident finally brought an end to their already unstable relationship. Despite the break-up — or because of it — Ginny was still her usually bubbly self and hung around with Harry and Ron more because of Quidditch training. She also defended Harry’s use of the Sectumsempra curse against Draco Malfoy, even if it had earned him a detention that forced him to miss the last Quidditch match of the year.
With Harry in detention, Ginny took the role of Seeker for the Gryffindor team for the final match against Ravenclaw. They won the match and the Quidditch cup, and, during the post-match celebrations, Ginny and Harry spontaneously kissed. Ginny who had never really given up on Harry, was over the moon, as was he, as he had been harbouring feelings for her all year. Ginny and Harry started dating, although their time together was limited due to Harry’s weekly detentions and Ginny’s O.W.L. reviews.
During the night the Death Eaters penetrated Hogwarts, Ginny duelled with Amycus Carrow, but suffered no injuries due in part to the Felix Felicis potion. In the aftermath, Ginny was shocked to find that her brother Bill had been badly injured and permanently scarred by Fenrir Greyback. She was able to lead Harry away from Dumbledore’s corpse and up to the hospital wing, where Harry broke the news that Dumbledore had been killed by Severus Snape. She seemed to accept Bill and Fleur’s relationship after witnessing the love between them.
Ginny took her O.W.L.s, despite the tragedy that had occurred at the school and spend most of her time with Harry. She attended Dumbledore’s funeral, along with several others. At the funeral she sat next to Harry, Hermione, and Ron, instead of sitting with the rest of her family. After the former headmaster had been laid to rest, Harry broke up with Ginny. He feared that if Voldemort knew how he felt about her, she would become a target and he could not knowingly endanger her life.
After the death of Dumbledore, the Order of Phoenix had to move Harry from Dursley’s House to the Burrow, while all her family took active part in the operation she stood behind with her mother, waiting for the Portkeys. Over the next few days, Ginny interacted little with Harry because of their split, despite her feelings towards him. However, while setting the table for dinner Harry let slip that he, Ron, and Hermione were about to set off on a quest to stop Voldemort. This caused Ginny to go pale and comment that she suspected that the trio’s plans were something of the manner, considering Harry’s drive to defeat Voldemort. Harry then tried to convince Ginny that he had spoken in haste and was just kidding, she did not believe it. On Harry’s seventeenth birthday, Ginny confessed that she did not know what to give Harry since anything she gave him would have to be small enough for him to carry around with him. Instead, she “kissed him like she never had before” in the hopes of giving him something to remember her by. She did this in case he meet someone else on his travels, something he assured her would be unlikely to happen. Ginny felt comforted by this and viewed it as the silver lining she had been looking for. However, they were interrupted by a disapproving Ron, with Hermione in tow. As Harry exited her bedroom it was mentioned that Ginny might have for once finally succumb to tears.
On 1 August Ginny served as a bridesmaid at Bill and Fleur’s wedding, along with Gabrielle Delacour. When Gabrielle batted her eyelashes at Harry, Ginny coughed loudly to indicate her annoyance. She wore a golden dress and as the ceremony began, her Auntie Muriel remarked in a carrying whisper that her dress was far too low cut. Ginny responded to this by turning around and winking at Harry. As part of the new Ministry’s regime, Hogwarts attendance became mandatory and Muggle-borns were being rounded up. Ginny was present on the Hogwarts Express on 1 September, 1997 when it was raided by three Death Eaters in search of Harry Potter. Once at school, Ginny joined up with Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood to restart the D.A. and defy Snape’s regime. They openly defied authority and snuck out at night painting graffiti on the walls of the corridors — “Dumbledore’s Army, still recruiting”. On one occasion, they attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor’s Sword from Snape’s office because they had knowledge that Harry needed it, but were caught and punished. Ginny served detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest and was banned from all trips to Hogsmeade. Ginny and Neville were left to lead the D.A. without Luna after she was abducted by Death Eaters over the Christmas holidays. Ginny didn’t return to Hogwarts after the Easter’s holidays.
When Harry came back to Hogwarts searching for Horcruxes, Neville managed to let Ginny know through the coins they used for D.A. meetings, she came instantly back with her brother’s and family. As more members of Dumbledore’s Army and the Order of the Phoenix arrived for battle, Mr and Mrs Weasley forbade their daughter to take part in the fighting, since she was under age. Ginny furiously argued against it, as it was hypocritical, since Harry was much younger then her when he faced Voldemort all the previous times. Also she did not want to leave when her whole family and Harry would be fighting and wait at home for news. Remus Lupin offered a compromise: Ginny would stay in the Room of Requirement so as to be on the scene, but would not involve herself in the fighting. Although she did not like it, she grudgingly agreed. She proceeded to stay in the room.
On 2 May during the battle, Harry needed the Room of Requirement to change form into the Room of Hidden Things, in order to retrieve one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, Ravenclaw’s Diadem. He asked Ginny to leave the room, on the proviso that she would re-enter it once he had completed his task, not believing that she would. Freed of her sanctuary Ginny joined the battle with a flourish. She and Nymphadora Tonks were later seen by Harry firing well aimed jinxes from a high-up window into the crowd of fighters below.
After the break Voldemort conceded to them to take care of the injured and the dead, the battle begin again and Hermione, Ginny, and Luna found themselves fighting against Bellatrix, who casted a killing curse which missed Ginny by inches, after this Molly took on the battle killing Bellatrix.
After the Second Wizarding War, Ginny and Harry rekindled their passionate romance. She became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies for several years. At some point she and Harry were married and her last name became Potter. Ginny eventually retired and the couple had a family. She gave birth to three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. She later became the senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.
This week I was a little absent from the blog, because I bought the Hogwarts Castle to built by Wrebbit 3D. The castle is divided into two parts:
The first part is basically the Great Hall, and it’s 850 pieces, while the second is the Two Towers and the Astronomy Tower, and it’s 875 pieces. It took me nearly 48h to built the whole, there are no instructions to built it except for some guide lines for the Dormitory tower, and some other parts. Here I place some photos and tips to help you build it, I started from the 850’s one.
The first thing you have to do is separate pieces, into: borders and garden, towers, and castle. Then you can start assemble the border, this is the shape you should obtain in the end. The next move is personal, you can choose from where to start, I started from the great hall building the front wall, the one with the door, and then the Great Hall itself behind it. Then I put on the square passageway in the garden, and put on it the wooden pieces. I then built the two “connectors” one of which is a bridge. Then you can start building the two towers, above the little one you have to place that wooden “circle” closed.
You can then start to build the towers, and the roofs.
To built the second part of the castle I recommend to do the same thing, start from the borders, and build the boundaries.
Then you can start building the two towers, and the front door, then the two walls along the sides. Then you can build the big wall, with the door, in the back. You can now start building the other walls which bounder. You can then pass to the towers, first the astronomy, which has three walls.
Then you can build the roofs, and the middle part.
This is what should look like in the end, the final effect is really amazing, a little bit complex to built, but trust me it worths the fight! I leave you here the links where you can buy the both of them:
Even if Fantastic Beasts and The Crimes Of Grindelwald hasn’t gained as expected, Fantastic Beasts’s saga is a loved film, as by the Potterheads, so as by the critics.
This spin-off as eagerly anticipated, will be divided into five films, about the third film has been many rumours, of it being postponed, to shut down this rumours is Dag Fogler, Jacob Kovalski in the film, in his opinion the reason of the postposition is to be searched in the complexity of the film:
Yeah, we’ll begin in autumn. The film will be huge! The reason is that the third is bigger than the first two together. We need more time to prepare, and they didn’t want to force things, so they had to postpone. I can tell you we’re shooting in Brasil. I don’t know anything more, I’m having the script when we’ll start shooting.
He was the husband of Pandora Lovegood, with whom he had a daughter, Luna Lovegood. He had to raise Luna alone after Pandora died in a tragical magical experiment accident.
He created The Quibbler which can be described as the anti-christ of The Daily Prophet, since it had been writing everything the Prophet was trying to conceal and more, like the Crumple-Horned Snorkack.
In 1994 him and Luna attended the Quidditch World Cup, in 1996 he published the story of Harry Potter about him seeing Lord Voldemort’s return written by Rita Skeeter, it was a free edition which helped him to gain readers, and Harry to gain supporters.
The Lovegoods used the money received from selling the story to the Prophet to travel to Sweden over the summer to search for a Crumple-Horned Snorkack. When Rufus Scimegour became Ministry of Magic, Xeno wrote an article which said that Scimegour was a vampire, however he was never able to publish it because the Ministry intervened.
In the summer of 1997 he and Luna attended Bill and Fleur’s wedding, where he didn’t miss the opportunity to show his support at Harry. There Victor Krum recognised the symbol of Lovegood’s necklace as the Grindelwald’s sign.
After the Ministry fell in the control of Lord Voldemort, Xenophilius made through the Quibbler his support towards Harry very clear, which he paid high. Luna was kidnapped by the Death Eaters, and kept at the Malfoy’s Manor, Xeno driven crazy by the fear for his daughter, when Harry came to visit him to ask him about the Deathly Hallows, tried to sell him in exchange of his daughter. After Harry, Ron, and Hermione managed to escape he was arrested and sent to Azkaban for he was accused of lying.
She was born in 1951 to Cygnus Black III and Druella Black, who raised her teaching her to be proud of her blood-puritness. She was the elder sister of Narcissa and Andromeda. She attended Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin, and she eventually married Rodolphus Lestrange a pure-blood wizard, with who she continued the pure-blood line of the Black family. What did not her sister Andromeda, in fact after she married the muggle-born wizard Ted Tonks she cut off every contact with her. Her and her husband swore loyalty to Lord Voldemort, and together became Death Eaters, in particular Bellatrix will be one of the most loyal. Even if she married him by the way, she never truly loved him, in fact unlike he sisters she never mentioned him in conversation or carried him a child, her true love was instead Lord Voldemort to whom she was used to speak in a “romantic” way.
During the first Wizarding War Bellatrix and her husband fought for Lord Voldemort, and remained loyal to him till the very end, in fact after his fall they were processed together with Barty Crouch Jr and Rabastan (her brother in law), and accused of the torture of Frank and Alice Longbottom with the Cruciatus Curse, but instead of declaring themselves under the Imperius Curse they seemed on the contrary proud of what they’d done, and faced their faith wide-arms, sustaining that Lord Voldemort would have rewarded them.
They were all sentenced to life prison in Azkaban, where they spent the most of the time during the two wars when Voldemort was still regaining his power. When Voldemort regaind his power there was a mass-breakout from Azkaban which included Bellatrix.
After that her, her brother in law, her husband and Lucios Malfoy took part in a recovery shipment to the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry, to collect the prophecy Lord Voldemort had heard about. She first outraged when heard Harry talking about the Dark Lord as a half-blood, when the Order of Phoenix arrived they started fighting she disarmed and defeated her niece, Ninphadora, then started fighting with her cousin Sirius, who was taunting her in the duel, she was able to struck him with the killing cruse, sending him through the veil guarding the Death Chamber. Discovering that his only relative had been killed, Harry chase her in the hall where he attempted to use on her the Cruciatus Curse in vain, when she realised that the prophecy had been destroyed she started panicking and repeatedly attempting to summon it in vain from Harry who laughed at her efforts and dismissed her pleadings for leniency from her master due to being unaware that the latter had just arrived at the Ministry.
Bellatrix pleaded with her master not to be punished and tried to warn him that Albus Dumbledore was nearby, but he ignored her and concentrated on attempting to kill Harry. With the rest of the Death Eaters immobilised and caught by the Ministry only moments later, Bellatrix was the only Death Eater not to be apprehended due to Voldemort intervening on her behalf, a testament to his acknowledgement of her loyalty to him.
After this tragic not successful attempt of catching the prophecy, and more Death Eaters caught by the Ministry, Voldemort let out his rage on Lucios Malfoy who was at the moment in Azkaban, and started to pressure his son Draco, to repay his father’s mistakes. He asked Draco to kill Dumbledore, and even if everybody thought it was a noble chargment, his mother Narcissa recognise it was an affair too big for a boy, so she and Bellatrix went to Snape‘s house, asking him to help Draco in his task. Bellatrix was against this idea since she didn’t trust Severus, but in the end she performed the Unbreakable Vow between him and Narcissa.
During the second Wizarding War, Bellatrix was actually the only family member that was really pleased with the presence of Lord Voldemort at the Malfoy’s Manor, when he however will taunt her referring to her family tree and defining it not “pure” by mentioning the marriage between her nephew and the werewolf Remus Lupin, she will once again show her loyalty saying that she would have been more than pleased to depurate the raw apples from their family tree. Later a group of Snatcher will bring three suspect to Malfoy’s Manor, since she suspected that one of them was Harry, she immediately call Draco to identify him, until she noticed the Gryffindor’s Sward in the hand of a Snatcher. She completely freaked out and started asking where did they get them, when she get that was inside Hermione’s purse, she wanted to interrogate her, torturing her with the Cruciatus Curse, and carving on her arm “Mudblood”.
While she was torturing Hermione, Harry and Ron where closed in a cellar where they found Griphook, and Ollivander, there Dobby managed to apparate and to save Griphook and Ollivander, then he came back to save Harry, Ron and Hermione. He tried to crash a chandelier above Bellatrix, which consented Hermione to escape, when they were about to leave, Bellatrix throw a knife, which hit and killed Dobby.
During the battle of Hogwarts she finally managed to kill her nephew Ninphadora Tonks. After that she fought Ginny, Hermione and Luna all three at once, missing Ginny with a curse by inches, at that point Molly Weasley intervened and managed to hit her in the chest with a fatal curse, after a duel where Bellatrix kept snagging and taunting Molly.
The bank was built by Grincott, a Goblin, in 1474 and it has place in Dragon Alley, London. Shortly after it was possessed by Ministry, in 1500, when Tertius who was walking home from Grincotts, heard two wizards talking about Curse-Breakers job vacancies, he applied and was accepted. But in the end in 1865 the Ministry decided to put the bank back into Goblin’s hands. On 29 November 1926, Gringotts was put on lockdown with protective enchantments cast. The only other period when the bank was under the control of the Ministry was during Voldemort’s empire of dread, from 1997 till 1998, when he possessed the Ministry.
From Diagon Alley, a set of white stairs leads up to a set of burnished bronze doors. The doors are flanked by a goblin in a uniform of scarlet and gold, though during the Second Wizarding War the goblin was replaced instead by two wizard guards with Probity Probes. This is the entrance to Gringotts, and it leads into a small entrance hall and another set of doors.
Engraved on these silver doors are the words:
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.
Through these doors, also flanked with goblins, is a vast marble hall long counters stretching along its length with doors leading off to the vault passageways with around a hundred goblins sitting at them. The vaults extend for miles under the city and are accessible through rough stone, complex and interconnected passageways by means of magic carts that are operated by goblins. Dragons and other mysterious beasts lurk in the depths as additional security devices.
The vaults themselves vary in size and security. The largest, most well protected vaults belong to the oldest wizarding families and lie deepest beneath the surface. Those vaults closer to the surface seem to be smaller and have fewer security precautions surrounding them — they use keys, for example, rather than requiring the touch of a goblin to gain access. The rules around who is allowed to access vaults seem to change; sometimes wizards are asked for identification or a key to be allowed access, yet both Molly Weasley and Bill Weasley are able to get gold from Harry’s vault for him.
It seems that only blood relations can inherit a Gringotts vault, and also that any vault belonging to a criminal will remain guarded and untouched, as when all the Lestrange family were sentenced to Azkaban for life, their vault was not evicted.
Grincotts uses different strategies of protection, first of all the deepness, the lower it is, the safer you are. In second the keys, going down several Vaults requires keys to enter. Third the Goblins touch, it could be a simple nail, as Vault 713, or whole hand’s palm as Lestrange’s Vault, it depends on the deepness of the Vault. Fourth, dragons and sphinxes guard the lowest, so highest, level.
More there are the Thief’s Downfall which wash away every sort of enchant, it can be deadly; and Probity Probes which are used on customers to detect enchantments, magical concealments, and hidden magical objects. And as if this could all not be enough, objects in Grincotts cannot be summoned.
The Grincotts management is under the Goblin regime, known Goblins who works for Grincotts are:
Gringott – founder of the bank
Ragnok
Griphook
Ricbert
Bogrod
Gornuk
Nagnok
Blordak
Snaglok
But also guards, and humans:
Patricia Rakepick – Head Curse-Breaker
Bill Weasley – worked as a curse-breaker for Gringotts in Egypt, retrieving artefacts from ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids, later took a desk job in 1995 to work with the Order of the Phoenix.
Fleur Delacour – took a part-time job with Gringotts after participating in the Triwizard Tournament, supposedly to improve her English.
Vault 1
The known Vault are:
This vault is known to contain lots and lots of Knuts inside it and people have to use the Mine Cart to come around in every corner of it. This vault also contain lots of Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires, yellow gems and Diamonds.
Vault 2
This vault is known to contain lots and lots of Sickles inside it and people have to use the Mine Cart to come around in every corner of it. This vault also contain lots of Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires, yellow gems and Diamonds.
Vault 3
This vault is known to contain lots and lots of Galleons inside it and people have to use the Mine Cart to come around in every corner of it. This vault also contain lots of Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires, yellow gems and Diamonds.
Weasley Vault
The Weasley family has a vault that is closer to the surface than Harry Potter’s vault, and had fewer security measures. When the Weasleys entered it in the summer of 1992, the vault contained only a small pile of Sickles and a single Galleon, all of which Molly Weasley took out.
Vault 687
Harry Potter first ventured to Gringotts in 1991, when he learned that his late parents had left him a great deal of money in a vault. Harry’s vault required a key for entry, and was at a moderate depth.
Vault 711
Vault 711 belonged to Sirius Black, and perhaps to the Black family in general. Sirius used gold from his vault to pay for Harry Potter’s Firebolt in 1993. In 1996, it contained a “reasonable amount of gold”. Given its depth, it is likely a high-security vault. Upon Sirius’ death, he left all the money in the vault to Harry in his will.
Vault 712
Instead of being used as a regular vault, Vault 712 is used by the goblins as a (presumably unsanctioned) lounge, suggesting it is unused.
Vault 713
Vault 713, a higher-security vault, held a small grubby bag, inside of which was the Philosopher’s Stone. It is reasonable to assume that the vault, like the stone housed within it, belonged to Nicolas Flamel and his wife. Rubeus Hagrid was charged with moving it from Gringotts to Hogwarts in 1991 while he took Harry Potter to Diagon Alley, which he succeeded in doing.
Lestrange Family’s Vault
The Lestranges, a very old pure-blood family, had a vault in Gringotts guarded by a dragon and full of treasure protected by the Geminio and Flagrante curses. The security of this vault was even higher than that of Vault 713, as a goblin had to place his entire palm on the door to open it, rather than just a finger. It, at one point, was used to store the sword of Godric Gryffindor, unknown to the Lestrange’s that it was actually a fake.
Travers’s Vault
When Ron, Harry, and Hermione broke into Gringotts, they ran into the Death Eater named Travers who was also heading toward the bank. He had a vault that required a key, because he was holding it when he ran into Hermione (disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange).
No matter how many measures the Grincotts Bank had taken, thiefs always found their way in, as the most famous break in, in 1991, when the Vault number 713 was forced open. Luckily nothing was missing, since that was the Vault that Hagrid and Harry had emptied the same day earlier. The culprit was not caught, though it is later learned Quirrell broke into the vault acting under orders from Lord Voldemort. Also the protection around the vault was minimal at the time, since it no longer contained anything and thus had nothing to guard.
The second most famous break in was committed in 1998 by Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, whose purpose was to break in into Lestrange’s Vault to steal the Horcrux hidden in it, and destroy it. They used a Confundus Charm on the guards, so that they could enter unchecked, then used the Imperius Curse on the Goblin to persuade them to let them forward. In the Lestrange’s Vault however they met particular measures to deal with, it has been added on the fake treasure the Gemino and the Flagrante Curses, which meant that at every touch of the objects the thief got burned and the object got multiplied infinite times. They still managed to flee from the bank riding a half-blind dragon which was part of the security of the bank.
It’s been a week now since some mysterious stories popped into the Warner Bros profile with the hashtag #UnlockTheMagic, what at first seemed to be just a funny play for fans soon revealed a more valuable contenent.
The Warner Bros Studios in London are adding a special piece to their tour, in fact from 6th April you will able to step into:
Now, visitors of the Studio Tour will be invited to walk through the film set of the grand marble-clad banking hall of Gringotts themselves, discover the costumes and prosthetics that went into characters such as Bogrod and Griphook, and learn all about the transformation that actors such as Warwick Davis went through to achieve their goblin makeovers.
After that, fans will get to enter the Lestrange vault, which featured in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Legendary film props will be on display, such as the Sword of Gryffindor and the Hufflepuff Cup, which was magically replicated 7,014 times during the scene where Harry, Ron and Hermione try to secure it, due to a curse put upon the item. And yes, of course, you’ll get the golden opportunity (get it? Because it’s a bank full of gold…) to get your very own Lestrange vault photo.
If you are from England (UK Only), 18+ you can try to win the tickets for the opening:
Cedar and Dragon Heartstring, ten and a quarter inches, fairly flexible.
Cedar
Whenever I meet one who carries a cedar wand, I find strength of character and unusual loyalty. My father, Gervaise Ollivander, used always to say, ‘you will never fool the cedar carrier,’ and I agree: the cedar wand finds its perfect home where there is perspicacity and perception. I would go further than my father, however, in saying that I have never yet met the owner of a cedar wand whom I would care to cross, especially if harm is done to those of whom they are fond. The witch or wizard who is well-matched with cedar carries the potential to be a frightening adversary, which often comes as a shock to those who have thoughtlessly challenged them.
Dragon Heartstring
As a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the most flamboyant spells. Dragon wands tend to learn more quickly than other types. While they can change allegiance if won from their original master, they always bond strongly with the current owner.
The dragon wand tends to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, though it will not incline that way of its own accord. It is also the most prone of the three cores to accidents, being somewhat temperamental.
Muggle Worthy Case 