Hogsmeade

The miniature version of Hogsmeade had over 20 shop windows filled with tiny window dressing.

Hogsmeade was 42 x 24 x 8 ft high at a scale of 1:16.

The full-sized version of Hogsmeade built for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was based on the miniature version created for previous films.

In all film adaptations to date, Hogsmeade has been shown as a small snowy roof-topped array of shops. Whether the weather is always like this at Hogsmeade is unknown; while on-screen visits to Hogsmeade have usually been shown as taking place in winter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban shows Hogwarts students departing to pay it a visit in autumn. The village, however, is not seen.

There is a recreation of Hogsmeade Village at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.

In the film adaptation for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the set is actually the Diagon Alley set used in the first two films redesigned to look like Hogsmeade. Likewise, Honeydukes is the set of Ollivanders in the first film and Flourish and Blotts in the second.

Here are a list of shops and buildings in Hogsmeade:

Deverish & Banges

Dogweed and Deathcap

Dominic Maestro's

Gladrags Wizardwear

Hairdressing salon

Hogsmeade Post Office

Hogsmeade Station

Honeydukes

Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop (what Harry refers to as 'the haunt of happy couples')

Potage's Cauldron Shop

Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop

The Shrieking Shack

Spintwitches

The Hog's Head

The Magic Neep

The Three Broomsticks Inn

Tomes and Scrolls

Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment

Wizarding Wireless Network Headquarters

Zonko's Joke Shop

Costumes

Over 25,000 items of clothing have been used on Harry Potter.

Over 600 school uniforms have been created for Harry Potter.

The scenes with the largest number of cast and extras to dress have been the battle scenes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with 400 Death Eaters and Snatchers and the Great Hall scenes with 400 children and teachers present.

Animal Actors

The largest amount of animals on set on any given day was 60 animals for a scene in Professor McGonagall's classroom.

Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid, once got a fruit bat stuck in his beard during a scene in Hagrid's hut.

The largest animal to be brought on set was a hippo.

The smallest animal to be brought on set was a centipede.

After filming 40 kittens to go on moving plates in Umbridge's office, the kittens went on to be domestic pets, with their new owners unaware of their famous origins.

There have been 250 animals used across the Harry Potter film series (not including insects).

Hospital Wing

The Hospital Wing started its life in Chamber of Secrets as the fountain end of the girls' bathroom.

It was then revamped into the hospital wing and revamped again for Prisoner of Azkaban, which involved lifting the 45-ton set and rotating the set 90 degrees.

The backing seen through the windows is scenically painted with cutouts of other parts of the school.

Looking down to the far end you will see a 2/3rd scale miniature of the Clock tower.

The inspiration for the hospital wing came from the Oxford School of Divinity.

In the actual school layout, the corridor leading up to the clock tower is in fact a bridge to the clocktower.

It took 12 weeks to build.

The bedside cabinets were originally made for a WWII film called In Love & War.

Makeup

A dentist was on standby for many of the young crowd scenes to replace teeth which wobbled and fell out – to prevent continuity issues involving teeth.

Harry's infamous scar has been put on by makeup approximately 5,800 times. This is not only on Daniel Radcliffe, who has had the scar applied approximately 2,000 times, but also on his doubles and stunt doubles, all of whom wear the scar.

Robbie Coltrane once got a mini-fan caught in his Hagrid beard and had to have it cut out.

190 liters of shampoo and conditioner were used on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

55 liters of hair tint/hair dye was used on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Approximately 2,182 liters of shampoo and conditioner have been used across all the films, enough to fill 28 bathtubs.

Disney Pixar's 'Brave'

Disney and Pixar are coming out with a movie, Brave, in 2012. But wait ... this is a Harry Potter app, right? What's Brave doing here? Well, here are some nice facts about it:

Kelly Macdonald, who has the lead, voices Princess Merida. Kelly Macdonald also plays Helena Ravenclaw, the Grey Lady in Deathly Hallows: Part 2.


Emma Thompson, who voice Princess Merida's mother, Queen Elinor, also plays Professor Sybil Trelawney.

Robbie Coltrane, who we know as the lovable Rubeus Hagrid, will voice Lord Dingwall.

Julie Walters, a.k.a. Molly Weasley, voices the Wise Woman.

And if that wasn't enough, the score for Brave will be composed by Patrick Doyle, who had also done Goblet of Fire.

Sirius's Parents

Both of Sirius Black's parents, Orion Black and Walburga Black, were related. Their great-grandparents, Phineas Nigellus Black and Ursula Flint-Black, were the same.