Harry Potter: The Original Forty (By JK Rowling) 

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I love how there are enough Pottermore articles to create endless spin-offs but WB and JK are just like, “Nah let’s just do the whole thing over again.”

I've been working on JUST the background story, characters and cities of my fantasy novel for half a decade now, so hearing that it took Rowling ten years for all that kind of makes me hopeful that my story will one day be read and enjoyed even by a few hundred people. That would be my dream.

I hope some day someone will compile Rowling's notes into a book. I'm dying to see how she actually worked on the series.

I’ve read so much HP fan fiction that I knew all of the character names that weren’t in the actual HP books and actually forgot they weren’t used in the books. 😂

I am a mother of five and I have written three books... and am knee deep in another...and I can assure you, naming the characters is just as hard as naming your own child. It's personal and it's forever. Naming forty characters would have sent me over the edge!!!😬😆💖

I’m grateful how patient she was, remembering and choosing name is really difficult. Her 10 years paid off, a masterpiece was created.

I did some diggin, Goldstein is a distant relative to Tina and Queenie, but he is also a distant relative to Luna Lovegood, who went on to marry someone from the scamander family.

So that makes: 8 Gryffindors 9 Slytherins 11 Ravenclaws 7 Hufflepuffs That leaves 5 of them unsorted. Just wanted to do this because the distribution, house wise, of these 40 was a question I always had. Kind of interesting to see Ravenclaw is the one with the highest number of students, and Hufflepuff the lowest. But for all we know, the remaining five could be Hufflepuffs, as Helga Hufflepuff wanted "the rest" i.e. the ones that weren't favourable to the other 3 founders

About Isobel McDougal, she was utilised in the first book, but was named "Morag McDougal". Her name appeared when Neville gave her the sorting hat right after falling from the stool after his own sorting.

It's sad what fanfic does to your brain- I am shocked beyond words that Daphne and Tracy don't play a bigger role in the books because they're all over fanfic 😂

Fun fact: in the Dutch translation of the first book during the sorting ceremony it said Bella Zabini, because the translator didn't know Blaise was a male character since apparently the name Blaise can be used for both girls and boys. The sixth book revealed Blaise to be male, so for the translation of that book the name changed to Benno, a boys name.

We can all agree Hermione's original last name surely is interesting…………………

*disclaimer* In the sorting ceremony harry would be in his first year, meaning luna didnt start hogwarts yet, so the last name "Moon" couldnt have benn her.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of these unused character names show up in the HP television show.

I guess since Draco is Latin for Dragon, I presume Spinks was meant to represent Sphinx.

I hope the upcoming tv show will have all of these characters in the background. They might add them some lines, storylines maybe, or even nothing, but it would just be amazing to have the full cast for all 7 seasons

I always admire how much effort great writers put into their work and J.K. Rowling is no exception. But you'd think with this much effort J.K. Rowling could give us fans some new Wizarding World stories that are better than the Cursed Child and the second and third Fantastic Beasts films. I'm still hoping for TV shows about the Hogwarts Founders, Lord Voldemort's origins, the Marauders, Harry's career as an Auror, and the other magical schools.

These scribblings are common for most writers. We tend to keep notes and many of what we originally plan or think about the novel ends up not making sense as the piece comes together as a whole and develops. Tolkein originally had Strider be an experienced hobbit who knew the woods well, then as he wrote he kept his essential character the same but changed his background to be Aragorn, the true king in rags, without a throne. It changes the entire tone of the story. One of the most fun and interesting things about being a writer is no matter how much you plan, you always seem to discover things you never expected while you are writing, if you allow yourself to. And having the instincts and trust in the story to allow it to grow and develop into something stronger is important.

That wasn't Mrs. Morris' hair. I thought for sure it was Millicent's own cat's hair.

I saw the documentary with the original notebook of the characters. I was planning to go back, pause the video and investigate the names, but you did it for me and much better. Thank you!

Interestingly enough, there was actually a Hufflepuff called Kevin in the books (specifically, Goblet of Fire). His name, however, was Kevin Whitby not Kevin Entwhistle

What I love about Luna's name is that she's still Moon because Luna is Moon in spanish ❤ it may not be her last name but it got her a really cool and cute name ✨🌙

After the characterscharacter’s name, there are some symbols, the first column might be gender, the third one is obviously their house. But I’m not so sure about the second one. My theory is that they are blood status.

i love the takes made by movie flame, its like i started like a month ago but have almost binge watched the entire channel, i love the insights he presents. biggggg fannn!!!!!!

its so cool to know the history of harry potter characters from there creation to finished result

Crazy to me how many fan fictions there are out there where Harry is really good friends with or even ends up dating some of the people on the never appeared at all list lmao.

I think Quirrell has the potential to have an interesting story of them struggling to get by with the knowledge of their father being tide to Lord Voldemort.

This was a really interesting Deep Dive into the original 40. I'm working on some novels myself. I've already done alot on the worldbuilding, the background of my main character, and several side character backgrounds that I want to Implement as well.

Amazing video as usual! ❤❤ Can you do a ranking of the most tragic characters in Harry Potter next?

I think it was interesting to hear about all the name changes plus some of the students that were never mentioned in the books. Great video.

great video! would absolutely love to see what changed other than just their names so if the article mentions it I'd definitely watch that video xD

I wonder if Zacharias Smith came from Sally/Georgina but seems that the latter was supposed to be Gryffindor while Zacharias ofc was a Hufflepuff and Smith is pretty common surname so hard to say. Thanks for the video.

There were stars next to a lot of the original 40, as you can clearly see at 2:30. As far as I know, the stars didn't represent the religion of the characters but their blood purity. I don't know if Anthony Goldstein was always meant to be Jewish, but the star isn't any proof.

Thank you for the awesome video Morgan!

Bro how many funny last names names did Rowling think of - Puckle for Hermione, Spungeon for Draco and Puff and Sidebottom for Neville😅

Your channel is so underrated! I've been watching you since I was 13-and I'm 16 now

luna is the Spanish word for moon.

I love your vidoes thank so much for hard work you are amazing

thanks for the hard work bringing us content that we love Morgan 💯 you the goat 🐐

This video has opened so many new perspectives! There is a play, Puffs, which is based on Harry Potter but not affiliated. And the main trio of characters (all hufflepuffs) are named Wayne Hopkins, Megan Jones, and Oliver Rivers. And there’s another character named Sally Perks. I truly wonder if this is somehow where their inspiration is from

I'm writing a comment because you asked me to. I'm a 72 year old woman from rural central NY. When the first Harry Potter books were written I dismissed them as children's books. Then I saw the first 2 movies and liked them but I knew I'd never read the books because of the amount of details in the books. But of course I realized eventually that all that detail is very important to understanding the story. The more I watched the more questions I had. I really became a fan after experiencing Harry Potter at Universal. That's where you come in! I can't tell you how much your videos have helped me to connect all those complicated dots. I thought you were a friendly young man with knowledge and passion I admire. I've watched so much I think of you as a friend. Thank you for helping me.😊

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Apparently there were 10 Gryffindors in Harry’s year, I’d love to know who the other 2 unnamed girls Hermione lived with for 6 years but never mentioned once

40 characters that never made it to the pages or screen, unless they were changed. Well u can put *all* of ur ideas in one shot, unless if ur creative enough to make it work. That's just how it is with novelist. Can we have a vid on talking about original character, such as Nigel Wolpert who's a combination of Colin and Dennis Creevey, and Bem (3rd film only, referred to as Boy 1. He's a Nigerian Gryffindor)?

Nah is it just me or that michal corner looks like Mike from Stranger Things 😂😂

hello! today i made a harry potter corner on my shelf and i put your channel name as an honorable mention for teaching me so much! thanks!

Wait, I thought Oliver Wood is older that Harry. Wasn’t he like in the 5th year when Harry entered Hogwarts? Maybe that Oliver River is different person Btw, great video! I always wondered how many students got invited/ entered Hogwarts each year.

Patel and Patil actually have the same meaning from 2 different areas if India and I didn’t realise that until looking it up after watching this. A very insightful video that lead to some very interesting reading😅

This was so cool!

Please do a Tier Ranking of the action scenes in the 8 Harry Potter movies.

As Harry walked down the halls with his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Puckle, around the corner swing his greatest enemy SPUNGEN MALFOY.

Heard it here first thanks MovieFlame

Amazing video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

Some interesting coidences: Queenie Goldstein and Tina Goldstein, and then we have an Anthony Goldstein Hepzibah (idk how to spell her name, the one Who Tom Riddle manipulated to get Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's cup) Smith, and Zacharias Smith (The annoying hufflepuff), and then we have a Sally Smith Since they are technically Cannon, are they related? (I think the Smith thing is more likely tho)

7:42 keeping the trend rowling.. I see what you did there 😂 Neville Hotbottom would have been fitting 😂

Thanks for doing it. I didn't even know that the Original forty existed before you made this Video.

FunFact: (that probably is only funny to me) in the german translation Blaise Zabini was refered to as a she in the sorting ceremony.

Please make a video ranking Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts characters good to evil

Do we know if Anthony Goldstein is related to Tina & Queenie?

9:22 Donovan 😂

Tracey Davis and Daphne Greengrass, forever live on our heart as two loveable Slytherin princess..

9:38 i thought that was luna i was like oh i know who thats gonna be

There was a digital collection of Rowling’s original work on the British museum website. Not sure if they still have it

I wish we could have a Neville & Hannah spin off. I would love to know how they became a couple and how Neville became a Hogwarts professor and Hannah the owner of The Leaky Cauldron

From student to teacher I see… quite interesting. Adding an “l” as well…

Great video!

I think you do a video on 70 Harry Potter characters patroness

RRRRGgghHH Lisa Turpin did make it into the books

This man is so good no one is better than him at RU-vid videos

The best Potter RU-vidr not up for debate with me

Can you do the life of Dumbledore, the life of Sirius Black, and the life of Peter Pettigrew?

4:41 Hermione:oops

Very cool topic!

It’s 4 am right now and I have to ask if you’ll ever do any Lotr (lord of the rings) content or life of videos

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People who love how he say patil🤣🤣

Great video Morgan 😁😁😁 I understand where j.k is coming from and i don't really understand it as I was born with learning difficulties

The Caretaker's name is Moon in Hogwarts legacy, lol!

great idea for a video

Did MovieFlame just tease a Back to the Future video? 👀

Sue Li would have been a much better name for Cho Chang than the one we got.

Also Luna is Spanish for moon

Morgan I am such a big fan!

hey Morgan! I was watching hp and the goblet of fire and I noticed that when they were going to watch the match Fred said “see you later cedric” but in the book it says the Weasley twins were not talking to cedric because he beat them in the quitditch match so….

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Neville Puff!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is weird, but can u talk about the fan cast characters, like Lorenzo a d Matheo. You can also do the marauders fancast

Love the metal posters but can't buy because of the Purchasing Power Parity.. It's costing me 2800 in rupees

I need her dedication for planning. I'm (slowly) writing my own book and it's becoming clearer to me that I need to put a lot more thought into it

I think it would be cool if you put harry potter characters into districts of panem from the hunger games and them put hunger games characters into hogwarts houses like a crossover

If JK were smart she would let some authors take a stab at the Potter-verse like it's done for the Star Wars books. Hell, I'm not sure if anyone here has ever heard or Norman G. Lipperts but he's a fan who made an entire work of fan fiction (like 5 or 6 books) of James Potter. The man had a whole site dedicated to the Potter-verse called Elder Crossing I think. James Potter & The Hall Of Elders Crossing was a fantastic work of art even if it was fanfiction. She could have sanctioned that to be cannon to the rest of her work buy she chose not to. It sucks because the expansion of the Potter-verse could be epic with her blessing. But maybe she's got some kinda Tolkien-esque thing going on that we don't know about and she's bidding her time before unleashing it on us.

Can you make a video about the the triwizard tournament!?

My theories,.is Anthony Goldstein a part of Tina Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts's family.

Where would I find the background information about Ernie MacMillan, Hannah Abbott, and Justin Finch-Fletchley??

Everything has a beginning.

I love how many of these names have bad their way into various fanfic, even if they were never used in the books.

I thought it's a list of students in Harry's year? Oliver Wood is older

please do a harry potter what if series!