National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow. Ever wanted to write a novel? Warm up your word processor at midnight!
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, on this day in 1492, Sir Nicholas "Nearly Headless Nick" de Mimsy-Porpington was nearly beheaded (but completely killed) in his nearly-botched execution on this date. His ghost spends the next 500 years with a head that can go up and down like a toilet seat, but still cannot qualify for the Headless Hunt.
John Keats, one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement, was born on this day in 1795
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, this is the date in 1981 that Lord Voldemort unsuccessfully attacked the infant Harry, giving him his trademark lightning-bolt scar and some of Voldemort's powers
