Natalie McDonald,
who appears on page 159 of
Harry Potter and
The Goblet of Fire, was a real person. She was
a nine year old girl from
Toronto,
Canada,who was dying of
leukemia. She wrote to J.K
Rowling asking what would happen in the
next Harry
Potter book, as she wouldn't
live long enough to
get to read
it. The author wrote back, but Natalie had already
died a day
earlier. In tribute,
she became a 1st year
student
at Hogwarts, named by the
Sorting Hat to Gryffindor-
which is
the house for the
brave .
♥