Last Updated on August 2, 2021
July 31st marks (arguably) the most popular fictional character's birthday; Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived was born on this day back in 1980. He grew up in a cupboard under the stairs on 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey. That was before being whisked away by Hagrid to attend Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. He would eventually go on to take down the dreaded Voldemort, bang his best friend's sister, and list PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 as his favorite movie of 2015. In any case, his closest confidant, Ron Weasley, decided to hit the bottle pretty hard before wishing him a happy birthday. He also suspiciously looks a lot like Simon Pegg these days…
On a personal note, while I would list myself as a mild Harry Potter fan, I've found that my life has always been intertwined with J.K.'s creation. When working at Borders book store (remember those???), the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was an insane event that prompted me to read the series. As fate would have it, I ended up working at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter when it opened at Universal Orlando 5 years ago, thus meeting a great deal of friends of whom we still haggle over trivial Potter factoids to this day. For example, that's not Ron's wand in the above video! I digress…happy birthday Harry Potter!
The next film in the Potter-verse, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, is scheduled to hit theaters on November 18, 2016.
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