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In the nine years since the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book of the series about the boy wizard, author J.K. Rowling has given fans a lot of info regarding the world the books are set in. Just after announcing that the new spinoff movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, will be a trilogy, here are seven other facts we learned about what happened after the books ended.
1. Professor Albus Dumbledore Was Gay
Months after the release of the last book, Rowling was part of a major event at New York City's Carnegie Hall and she was asked whether the enigmatic Hogwarts headmaster had ever fallen in love, to which she replied that she'd always figured he'd been in love with his great teenage friend and ultimate foe, Gellert Grindelwald.
Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron reported at the time that the revelation received a standing ovation.
2. Neville Longbottom Married a Hufflepuff
Sure, in the movie version of the Battle of Hogwarts, Neville goes up to tell Luna Lovegood that he loves her, but that never happened in the books. The same day that she talked about Dumbledore's sexuality, Rowling revealed that Neville, who grew up to be Hogwarts' Herbology professor, actually married a smaller character from the series, Hannah Abbott.
3. Two Other Weasleys Almost Died
Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend and Hermione Granger's future husband, almost didn't survive the books. Even though Rowling had promised to keep the trio alive, at one point she seriously considered killing off Ron, she confessed to Daniel Radcliffe in an interview from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 home release.
Speaking to Today in 2007, Rowling also revealed that she was very close to killing off Arthur Weasley during the iconic Battle of Hogwarts, but ultimately decided against it. However, determined to kill a father figure, she decided to end the lives of newlyweds Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks after they've just had a baby, Teddy, whom Harry ends up raising.
Still, none of that logic could save Fred, RIP.
4. Ron and Hermione Don't Necessarily Have the Happiest Marriage
Fans of the book series where devastated in early 2014 when Rowling told British outlet The Sunday Times that she thought bringing Harry's two best friends together had probably been a mistake, but that perhaps they could work it out through magical marriage counseling.
5. Hermione Graduated Hogwarts But Harry and Ron Didn't
Knowing the Golden Trio, this doesn't seem too surprising. After taking that leap year where they were very busy hunting down pieces of Lord Voldemort's soul and trying not to get killed by Death Eaters, Hermione went back to Hogwarts, got her N.E.W.T.s and excelled academically in every possible way, as usual.
Harry and Ron? After the Battle of Hogwarts, Kingsley Shacklebolt was desperate to get new Aurors to join the Ministry of Magic and accepted everyone over-age who'd go in, Rowling told Pottercast in 2007.
6. Draco Malfoy's Parents Kind of Hate His Wife
Lucius Malfoy and his wife Narcissa (née Black) were never exactly in the "supportive mom and dad" school of parenting, considering they forced their underage sun to join the ranks of wizard Adolf Hitler and try to kill Dumbledore, who was one of the most powerful wizards in the world. All that considered, it's no shock that they wouldn't easily approve someone Draco dated.
Writing on Pottermore, Rowling revealed that Draco's wife, fellow Slytherin Astoria Greengrass, had softened her views on blood purity and didn't teach her children to think of Muggles as below them, which didn't sit well with the Malfoys.
Besides, she wasn't among the "Sacred Twenty-Eight" wizarding families, so that's another reason for Christmas parties to be awkward.
7. The "T" in Voldemort's Name is Silent
While it's a well-known fact that Voldemort's name comes from the French word for dead, "mort," it wasn't until last year that fans learned that it was also pronounced the French way.
Back in September, Rowling tweeted that, although she did write the name thinking of the "T" as silent, she thinks she's "the only person who pronounces it that way."
With one new play on the way (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and three more movies set in the Harry Potter universe, Rowling will surely make more random revelations in the years ahead!
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