Harry Potter Child Halloween Costumes

Harry Potter
It's a given, of course, that Harry Potter himself tops our list, but it's important to still reflect on why the character has been so universally accepted. He's a sympathetic figure... a kid plucked from unfortunate circumstances and thrust into a magical reality. He realizes he has been gifted with great power. And then he's pitted against the ultimate evil in the wizarding world, Lord Voldemort, who years ago killed his mother and father -- everybody loves an underdog story of good vs. evil. We've watched him grow up in this fantastic setting -- forming friendships, fighting foes, and finding love.

While Harry only partially realizes his deepest desire, to see his dead parents again, he is fathered and mothered by the care-taking adults who surround him -- Albus Dumbledore, Hagrid, Molly and Arthur Weasley, and Sirius Black to name a few. His faithful friends Ron and Hermione are an extension of this ad hoc family -- as close as any real brother and sister. And Harry has needed all the support he can get in his battle against those who would do him harm -- from school bully Draco Malfoy, to soul sucking Dementors, the terrible Death Eaters, and ultimately the Dark Lord himself.


Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley's best girl-pal, is so much more than just a token throw-in for female readers/viewers to identify with. In fact, she narrowly edges out Ron for second place on our list. Why? We're glad you asked... Potter author J.K. Rowling describes her as "very logical, upright, and good." And while she's at first painted as a brainy do-gooder who always plays by the rules, it's fun to watch Hermione develop over the course of the series.

Throughout the novels and films, Hermione remains the voice of reason, but she'll break the law without hesitation if it's for the greater good. And her Spock-like logic is no help at all when hormones come into play -- completely fracturing, in fact, when it comes to her playfully love-hate relationship with Ron


Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is Harry Potter's best friend and ever-present sidekick. But unlike most sidekicks, Ron isn't a coward or a simpleton, nor is he content to live in Harry's shadow. Of the three friends that make up the main cast of characters, Ron is the comic relief -- not an uncommon trait for sidekicks of his ilk -- a characteristic that makes him instantly endearing. And while he lacks Harry's natural magical talent, or Hermione's smarts, Ron overcomes his shortcomings with faithfulness and perseverance.

In spite of his fear of spiders, Ron follows Harry loyally into the Forbidden Forest, and mixes it up with the bad guys more than a few times in the series. He goes from bumbling Gryffindor keeper to Quiddich hero. And works undercover at Hogwarts to co-found the vigilante student group Dumbledore's Army. Ron's flirtation/frustration with Hermione is also a highlight.


Albus Dumbledore
For a character that was introduced into popular culture a mere twelve years ago, it speaks volumes that Professor Dumbledore has already taken his place among the great mentor figures in literature and film. Like Gandalf and Yoda before him Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore plays the role of wise sage, guide, and pseudo-grandfather in the story.

There's a whimsical eccentricity to Dumbledore that might mislead some into thinking he's a kind of absent-minded professor. That would be a mistake as he's proven to be one of the most skilled wizards that ever lived. Dumbledore is a master of occlumency, legilimency, transfiguration, charms, alchemy... just to name a few. Apart from his magical prowess, Dumbledore is gradually revealed as a rather Machiavellian figure who works secretly behind-the-scenes to orchestrate many of the key dramatic happenings in the Potterverse.


Severus Snape
Whether you love him, or hate him, or love to hate him, Severus Snape makes quite an impact in the Harry Potter series. If you're Harry, Snape is a nightmare of a teacher - picking on the boy from the moment he stepped into Potions class, and showing clear favoritism toward Draco Malfoy and other Slytherin students. And yet%u2026 When Harry and his friends thought Snape was the one trying to steal the Sorcerer's Stone, it turned out he was trying to protect it, and every now and again, Snape actually seems like he's trying to help these kids.

Snape turned into one of the most discussed and debated characters from Harry Potter. Is he an evil man with moments of good, or a good man who has some very ugly characteristics? Or something more complicated all together? We couldn't ask for a better actor than Alan Rickman to portray Snape, bringing the same charisma he's given to so many screen villains, from Die Hard on. But wait, is Snape truly a villain or not?


Sirius Black
"Have you seen this wizard?" "Approach with extreme caution!" "Notify immediately by owl the Ministry of Magic." So read the wanted posters plastered everywhere in the wizarding world upon Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban prison, where he'd been sent years earlier for the murder of twelve Muggles and aiding Lord Voldemort. But Sirius is an innocent man. And it's after he is vindicated that the character truly comes alive.

Sirius was a close friend of James and Lily Potter -- so much so that they named him as Harry's godfather. And while he maintains and sort of edgy, rebellious appeal -- emitting a truly badass vibe at times -- it's the father-son relationship that begins to develop between Sirius and Harry that endears the character to us. Sadly, however, Sirius meets his untimely demise before he can truly become the full-fledged father-figure that Harry so craves.


Lord Voldemort
The greatest thing about Lord Voldemort (nee Tom Marvolo Riddle) was that he was rotten to his very core. There would be no redemption for such a wicked spirit. There was never any "good" lying dormant underneath Voldemort's dark exterior. He was never corrupted as a child; he was the corrupter. When other powerful sorcerers don't even have the cajones to speak your name, then you know you've truly arrived as the ultimate master of malice.

As the most sinisterly popularized villain since Darth Vader, Voldemort was truly frightening. In book after book, Harry managed to evade certain death only by the skinny skin of his teeth. We literally could not figure out a way that Harry, as cunning as he was, could ever defeat such a powerfully evil force. Voldemort might not have been able to comprehend love or friendship, but that certainly didn't stop us from taking delight in such a devilishly dreadful dude.


Draco Malfoy
As we follow Harry Potter's path of righteous adventure during his years at Hogwarts, it only makes sense that we follow his cracked mirror reflection. As someone that grew up totally opposite to Harry, the arian aristocratic puke known as Draco Malfoy was privileged, pompous and prejudice. While the threat of Voldemort's return loomed outside the walls of Hogwarts, Harry needed a lesser evil to keep him occupied when school was in session. And Draco did his absolute best to make Harry's life as harried and horrible as possible.

But just when we were beginning to think that Draco was nothing more than a nuisance, he gets charged, by the Dark Lord, with a "mission that shall not be named." All of sudden we're witnesses to Draco's initiation into the ranks of true evil and we find ourselves actually invested in choices. Choices that could lead him to salvation or damnation.


Rubeus Hagrid
For a boy like Harry, who grew up without any friends, a big warm and fuzzy brute like Hagrid couldn't have busted down the door at a better time. And a true friend he was. When the rest of the faculty at Hogwarts were quick to skewer Harry with insults or shrug off his queries with mysterious glares, Hagrid was always there as a true confidant. It's always helpful to have a big lug on the payroll who's got your back, even if he is a bit of a well-intentioned clutz.

At this point in the movie series, Hagrid's most involved storylines are behind him, but his most powerful and emotional moments have yet to come. They're spare, but they still resonate because of his history with Harry, Hermione and Ron. Hagrid has become the surrogate for us, the audience, as we watch our favorite students mature and develop into young warriors. The short scene in Goblet of Fire, when he walks through the woods with our heroes, recollecting favorable times with the three of them, gave us all a cherished memory.

The School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

You can't discuss Harry Potter without discussing Hogwarts. For many years, Hogwarts has been a second home for Harry Potter. In fact, Hogwarts provided a family setting that Harry Potter had never truly experienced before his 11th birthday. Of course, being such a popular setting in the Harry Potter books, there are several fun facts about Hogwarts. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a familiar setting for many readers, so let's take a moment to remember many of the fun facts about this popular fictional school.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #1: School Motto

The school motto of Hogwarts is Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus, which is Latin for "Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon". It may not be your average school motto, but in the wizard world, this is really good advice.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #2: Animals on the Crest

On the Hogwarts crest, you will find a badger, serpent, lion, and raven. These animals represent each house. The Gryffindor House is a lion. The Hufflepuff House features a badger. The Ravenclaw House is of course a raven and most fittingly the Slytherin House features a serpent.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #3: School Punishments

We all know that our main characters have been threatened with being expelled, but for the most part the punishments at Hogwarts are pretty tame. We have seen the characters of the Harry Potter series receive detention, have house points deducted, and we have even seen them sent to their Head of House. Of course, in book 4 Draco was turned into a ferret and Harry Potter was punished severely in book 5, but both of these were rare instances.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #4: Grades

You won't see A's or even B's at Hogwarts. In fact, in the Harry Potter series, you will see grades like outstanding and troll. Passing grades include Outstanding, Exceeds Expectations, and Acceptable. The failing grades include Poor, Dreadful, and Troll.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #5: Required Reading

In the first couple years at Hogwarts, the Harry Potter characters had huge reading lists, but as the series went on, the required reading list shrunk. While during their first and second years students were required to read almost 10 books, they were required to read around half that during their later years.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #6: Restricted Sections

Hogwarts is a large school and inside the grounds you will find several restricted sections. In fact, there are eight forbidden sections that include the Forbidden Forest, the Astronomy Tower, the halls (during certain hours), the girl's rooms (forbidden to boys of course), the third-floor corridor on the right hand side (unless students want a painful death), Hogsmeade (if you aren't a third year or above), the Whomping Willow, and the Restricted Section of the library.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #7: Food

Foodies simply love the sections of the Harry Potter books that feature food. What's not to love, especially when you're reading about a feast? At Hogwarts you will find roast turkey, pumpkin juice, sausages, butterbeer, lamb chops, and so much more.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #8: Parties

The fact is there are some serious parties that happen at Hogwarts. Christmas, Halloween, and even Deathday are big events at Hogwarts.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #9: Age and Founders

Hogwarts was founded around 1,000 years ago by Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw.

Fun Harry Potter Facts About Hogwarts #10: Available Subjects

At Hogwarts, you won't find boring subjects like algebra. Instead you will find subjects that are useful in the wizard world. Students learn about defending themselves from the Dark Arts. Students even learn how to make important potions. As students get older, they can choose classes that they feel will be useful to them.

Here are some facts about Harry Potter you may find interesting. They will help show you why a Harry Potter Child Halloween costume is a splendid choice this year!

- As of 2008, Harry Potter books have sold over 400 million copies and have been translated into 67 languages.

- A picture of Gandalf the Grey (from The Lord of the Rings) can be seen in the collection of great wizards in Professor Dumbledore's study in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.f

- As every Potter fan knows, Dementors are deadly, magical, wraith-like creatures. Rowling revealed that they represent depression and that they were based on her own experience with the disease. The remedy to lighten the effects of a Dementor is chocolate.

- A Harry Potter Child Halloween Costume is the best choice this year.

- Rowling is the first author billionaire
Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire (U.S. dollars) by writing books.

- In 2007, Rowling was runner up for Time magazine's Person of the Year.

- The death of Rowling's mother from multiple sclerosis significantly influenced her writing, and death is a major theme throughout the Potter series.

- The actress who played Moaning Myrtle is actually 37 years old and is the oldest actress to portray a Hogwarts student.g
Rowling discovered "witchy" sounding names such as toadflax, goutwort, grommel, and others in Culpeper's Complete Herbal, a famous book of herbal lore from the 1600s.

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on July 21, 2007, and sold 11 million copies on the first day of its release, breaking Rowling's earlier records for the fastest selling book of all time.

- Rowling said that if she were to be a teacher at Hogwarts, she would teach Charms. If she had a job in the wizarding world, she would write spell books.

- Harry Potter's pet snowy owl, Hedwig, shares her name with two famous saints. One is Saint Hedwig of Andechs (1174-1243), a former duchess noted for her benevolence and compassionate nature. The other is Saint Hedwig, Queen of Poland (1373-1399). The death of Hedwig in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows represents Harry's loss of innocence and coming of age.

- Wizards in Harry's world primarily use owls to communicate
Owls are the primary means of communication between wizards in Harry's world. However, in many parts of the word, owls are considered bad luck and harbingers of death.

- In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, dragon blood is revealed to be an effective oven cleaner.g
Rowling's books were the first children's books included on the New York Bestseller list since E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in 1952.

- When Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in Great Britain, the publisher asked stores not to sell the book until schools were closed for the day to prevent truancy.

- Several publishers rejected the first Harry Potter manuscript saying it was too long and literary, but Bloomsbury Publisher finally accepted it in 1996. The book's publisher suggested Rowling use the name "J. K." rather than her real name "Joanne Rowling" to appeal to male readers. The "K" is made up.

- Rowling's series has stimulated children to read and has concomitantly boosted the sale of other children's literature such C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia series and Lloyd Alexander's The Black Cauldron series.

- A few scholars have suggested that the Harry Potter series is sexist because the three most powerful figures are male, females use their power in ways that make them less appealing than the males, and Hermione is less powerful and less poised than the boys. Other scholars say those claims are unfounded.- Colors play an important role in the Harry Potter novels. For example, shades of red represent goodness, such as Gryffindor's scarlet robes, Harry's red ink, and the crimson Hogwarts Express train. The Weasleys have red hair and a red roof. Green is largely associated with negative events, such as when Harry sees a flash of green when his parents die and the green-colored curse that made Ron vomit.

- Numbers are symbolic in the series, especially 2, 3, 4, and 7. For example, the trio of Harry, Ron, and Hermione suggest the power of three and the spiritual trinity. Harry fatally wounds the basilisk on its third strike, and Hagrid knocks on the front door of Hogwarts three times. Students attend Hogwarts for seven years and there are seven players on each Quidditch. Sirius is also imprisoned on the seventh floor of Hogwarts.

- Rowling said her favorite beast in the series is the phoenix, a mythical sacred bird who ignites into flames when it reaches 500 or 1,000 years old only to emerge from the flames as a new and young phoenix.

- Harry Potter and Rowling share a birthday on July 31st
Harry's birthday is July 31, 1980. Rowling's birthday is also July 31-but in 1966.

- The name Voldemort comes from the French words meaning "fly from death," and his entire goal is to conquer death. In the second Harry Potter novel, Rowling shows us that "I am Lord Voldemort" is an anagram of "Tom Marvolo Riddle," which is his actual full name.

- Harry Potter's name may refer to a "potter's field," which is a cemetery in which people of unknown identity or the very poor are buried. This would be fitting because Harry Potter serves as a type of "everyman," a powerful mythological archetype.

- Rubeus Hagrid, one of Harry's closest friends, is part wizard and part giant. Rubeus is Latin for something produced from a bramble or a thicket, which fits Rowling's description of him as "wild." Hagrid most likely comes from the term "haggard" which also means "wild" or "unruly."
- Cedric Diggory is the only student to die in Rowling's novels. Cedric is a common Welsh name and Diggory is the name of professor in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe who traveled to Narnia where he picked an apple to save his mother. The seeds from the apple grew a tree from which the wardrobe was made.

- Rowling said she may have inadvertently taken the name of Harry's school, "Hogwarts," from a hogwort plant she saw in the Kew Gardens in New York City.

- So many fans visit King's Cross station to take pictures of platforms 9 and 10 that the station management erected a sign that says "Platform 9 ¾" which, in the Potter books, is invisible to Muggles but acts as a gateway for witches and wizards.

- Voldemort's wand is made of yew. Yew is seen by some as having immense supernatural power and being a symbol of death and rebirth, the same immortality that Voldemort seeks. Historically, nearly all wizards have used a magical wand of some sort that channels a wizard's power and acts a symbol of authority (such as a shepherd's staff)

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