According to J. K. Rowling, Merlin was born sometime during the medieval era.

According to author J. K. Rowling, the original working name for the Death Eaters was " The Knights of Walpurgis.

According to Rowling, this is the department that Hermione Granger joins, after the events of the seventh book, transferring from the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she began her post-Hogwarts career.

According to Rowling, Harry Potter joins the department at the age of 17 and is promoted to department head in the year 2007.

According to Rowling, Order of the Phoenix " was a real turning point for Neville " due to the central role he played in it.

According to Rowling, the story about how these objects came into existence is based upon Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale.

According to an article published in Forbes magazine, " Rowling is facing a rebellion at his fitness chain Gold ’ s Gym after his $ 2 million donation to Karl Rove ’ s conservative group sparked protest from gay rights advocates ".

According to Rowling, the average Hogwarts annual intake for Muggle-borns is 25 %.

According to the book, for a quarter century prior to the destruction, Jeremiah repeatedly issued prophecies predicting God's forthcoming judgment ; advocating the Israelites to put down their idols and repent in hopes of turning away God's judgment and fulfilling their destiny as His chosen people.

According to a government survey, more than a quarter of unmarried men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins.

According to the models, about half of the objects scattered travel outward towards the Oort cloud, while a quarter are shifted inward to Jupiter's orbit, and a quarter are ejected on hyperbolic orbits.

According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

According to figures from the Venezuelan Central Bank, the economy showed signs of improvement in the first quarter of 2011 when GDP rose between 3 % and 4 %.

According to the draft project, the Heysel area lies on a direct subway line connecting it to the European quarter and is to host a new branch of the European school, where EU officials educate their children in their native tongues.

According to estimates, whites make up approximately one-quarter of the population, Indians make up roughly a quarter, and people of Chinese ancestry form roughly 3 %.

According to the Waltham Forest Guardian, " almost a quarter of a million books have gone missing from Waltham Forest libraries amid claims they have been burned or pulped " and the borough's library stock fell by 60 % over the two previous years.

According to author Jeffrey Toobin, later analysis showed that a total of 18 counties — accounting for a quarter of all votes cast in Florida — did not carry out the legally mandated machine recount, but " o one from the Gore campaign ever challenged " the notion that the machine recount had been completed.

According to the records of the Maryland Historical Trust, the “ Hamilton House ” was relocated from Lot 74 to Pennsylvania in the last quarter of the 20th Century.

According to some sources, during the briefings before the operation, Peiper stated that no quarter was to be granted, no prisoners taken, and no pity shown towards Belgian civilians.

According to the International Energy Agency, biofuels have the potential to meet more than a quarter of world demand for transportation fuels by 2050.

According to one tradition, before meeting his patron, Hajji Zayn al-Attar, Hāfez had been working in a bakery, delivering bread to a wealthy quarter of the town.

According to most meteorologists, just one quarter of an inch of ice accumulation can add about 500 pounds of weight per line span.

According to Ben Kiernan ; demographic evidence indicates a toll of about 170, 000 deaths caused by all sides from 1975 to 1980, a sum that represents a quarter of the population ( Kiernan concludes that it was proportionately comparable to the murder of — by his count — 1. 8 million people by the Communist Pol Pot regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 ).

According to Google Trends, searches for the term " unboxing " began to surface in the final quarter of 2006.

According to article 96 of the Turkish Constitution, unless otherwise stipulated in the Constitution, the Turkish Grand National Assembly shall convene with at least, one-third of the total number of members ( 184 out of 550 ) and shall take decisions by an absolute majority of those present ; however, the quorum for decisions can, under no circumstances, be less than a quarter plus one of the total

According to market-research firm Gartner, during the second quarter of 2010 Samsung Electronics took the top position in the DRAM segment due to brisk sales of the item on the world market.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the better residential portion of Chelsea is the eastern, near Sloane Street and along the river ; the western, extending north to Fulham Road, is mainly a poor quarter ".

According to Gann, " It was going back and forth between different tempos: triplet, quarter, dotted quarter, and quarters.

According to the anonymous Gesta Francorum, in what some believe to be one of the most valuable contemporary sources of the First Crusade, "... the slaughter was so great that our men waded in blood up to their ankles ..." Tancred claimed the Temple quarter for himself and offered protection to some of the Muslims there, but he was unable to prevent their deaths at the hands of his fellow crusaders.

According to a Commtouch report in the first quarter of 2010, there are "... 183 billion spam messages " sent every day.

According to the latest projections of the Bureau of the Census, the annual rate of household formations will increase for the next 20 years.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

According to one study, in deforested north and northwest China, the average annual precipitation decreased by one third between the 1950s and the 1980s.

According to a 2004 study, 150, 000 jobs and $ 13 billion in annual production depend on the river crossings connecting Detroit to Windsor.

According to dot-com theory, an Internet company's survival depended on expanding its customer base as rapidly as possible, even if it produced large annual losses.

According to this agreement and in return for an annual subsidy and vague assurances of assistance in case of foreign aggression, Yaqub relinquished control of Afghan foreign affairs to the British.

* According to the June 2009 update of the Cisco Visual Networking Index IP traffic forecast, by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte or 667 exabytes.

According to Livy horses and boxers from Etruria were sent for as the first to participate in the thenceforth annual games.

According to Eberstadt and Banister's data, the annual population growth rate in 1991 was 1. 9 percent.

According to the Vita Lebuini antiqua, an important source for early Saxon history, the Saxons held an annual council at Marklo where they " confirmed their laws, gave judgment on outstanding cases, and determined by common counsel whether they would go to war or be in peace that year.

According to some sources, the boreal forest grades into a temperate mixed forest when mean annual temperature reaches about 3 ° C.

According to a forecast by the PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2008, Vietnam may be the fastest growing of emerging economies by 2025, with a potential annual growth rate of about 10 % in real dollar terms, which would increase the size of the economy to 70 % of the size of the UK economy by 2050.

According to a decision of the prime ministers, the Fund has an annual budget of EUR 5 million since 2007 onwards and EUR 7 million since 2012.

According to the most recent census of 2002, the total population of Zanzibar was 984, 625 – with an annual growth rate of 3. 1 percent.

According to the Intranet design annual 2007 from Nielsen Norman Group, the number of pages on participants ' intranets averaged 200, 000 over the years 2001 to 2003 and has grown to an average of 6 million pages over 2005 – 2007.

According to Health Care Market Guide's annual studies, Mid-Southerners have named Baptist Memorial their " preferred hospital choice for quality ".

According to the court's annual report, appeals take an average of 588 days to reach resolution.

According to the preliminary version of the annual report of Germany's interior intelligence service ( Verfassungsschutz ) for 2010, at the time there were 25, 000 right-wing extremists living in Germany, including 5, 600 neo-Nazis.

According to the latest estimate by the Medicare trustees ( 2011 ), the trust fund is expected to become insolvent in 13 years ( 2024 ), at which time available revenue will cover 90 percent of annual projected costs.

According to IPCC ( 2011 ) estimates of annual losses have ranged since 1980 from a few billion to above 200 billion USD ( in 2010 dollars ), with the highest value for 2005 ( the year of Hurricane Katrina ).

According to them, Sylt lost an annual 0. 4 m of land in the north and 0. 7 m in the south from 1870 to 1951.

... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001 – 2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas.

According to the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute that undertake an annual quantitative survey about electronic monitoring and surveillance with approximately 300 U. S. companies, “ more than one fourth of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and nearly one third have fired employees for misusing the Internet “.

According to the annual university rankings conducted by El Mundo, the Complutense University ranks as the topmost university in Spain, with its Schools of Philosophy, Spanish Literature, History, Pharmacy, Optometry, Journalism, Psychology, and Sociology holding the top national rankings.