Locations

  • Diagon Alley can be read as the word “diagonally.”
  • Knockturn Alley can be read as the word “nocturnally.”
  • Grimmauld Place sounds like a “grim old place.”
  • Albus Dumbledore’s office’s door is a griffin, which makes it turn into a “Gryffindor”.
  • King Cross Station is the place where Rowling’s parents met.
  • There was a wizard called Eldritch Diggory. He trapped Muggles into his island and tortured them to death. When he died, the Ministry of Magic realized there was such a place. But at that time, the island was full of Dementors. They wanted to shut down the island but they were afraid the Dementors would take revenge.
  • In 1718, Damocles Rowle insisted on using the island as a jail because it could save time and energy.
  • In 1998, Kingsley Shackebolt ordered not to use Dementors as the guardians of Azkaban since they aren’t trustworthy or it isn’t right to make prisoners feel depressed.