In 2007, author JK Rowling lectured to students and, according to an article by The Observer from the same year, was asked: "Did Dumbledore, who believed in the power of love, ever fall in love?" Rowling's response: "I've always imagined him as gay".
Before the premiere of the movie Fantastic beasts: The crimes of Grindlewald, it was announced that Dumbledore (played by Jude Law) would be openly gay.
Witches and wizards toilet habits (2019)Pottermore is the online forum for Potter fans where many of Rowling's additions to Harry Potter's universe are born. Toilets appear several times in Harry Potter. The basilisk (big snake) from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets moves around Hogwarts through the pipe system. The Ghost Dissatisfied Myrtle also hangs mainly in the school's bathroom.
Apparently, the magician's values brought in the muggler's plumber skills in the 18th century. Before that, people were pooping on the floor and waving it away.
Uncle Vernon and BrexitJK Rowling is a Brexit opponent. Unlike the Harry Potter world's saddest mugger, Uncle Vernon.
Professor McGonagall's heartache (date unknown)At Pottermore, Rowling has written a background story about Professor Minerva McGonagall. There we find out, among other things, that her father was a mugger and her mother was a witch. The mother kept her powers secret for the father for a long time. When McGonagall's great love, a muggler's life, freed her, she felt compelled to say no, based on how her mother's lies affected the family. She later married a former chief of the sorcery, but he died.
Voldemort and the Mute T: 2015JK Rowling speaks fluent French - maybe that's why she reminded us via Twitter in 2015 that Voldemort is pronounced without "t" at the end. As in the French word for death - mort (with mute "t").