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

According to Rowling, a quarter of the annual Hogwarts intake have two non-magical parents ; thus far in canon, there have also been some children known to have been born to one magical and one non-magical parent.

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 Dr. Ellis, the average 20-year-old American woman is capable of far greater sexual arousal than her partner.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

According to Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of natural selection, features such as camouflage evolved by providing individual animals with a reproductive advantage, enabling them to leave more offspring, on average, than other members of the same species.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, China's per capita food availability and consumption have increased, and average per capita food availability has grown from less than 1700 kcal in 1960 to 2570 kcal per day in 1995.

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 Payscale, Dartmouth College alums have among the highest average starting salaries ($ 58, 200 ) in the United States, as well as the second highest average income ten years after graduation ($ 123, 000 ), placing after Harvey Mudd College and tying with Princeton University.

According to the ETC, the average rural inhabitant of Ethiopia has to walk 30 kilometers to the nearest phone.

According to this view, " after observing a long run of red on the roulette wheel, for example, most people erroneously believe that black will result in a more representative sequence than the occurrence of an additional red ", so people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out.

According to Lipper, the average US domestic equity mutual fund decreased 37. 6 % in 2008.

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

According to the utilitarian, justice requires the maximization of the total or average welfare across all relevant individuals.

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, an average adult male will weigh and measure, while an average female will weigh and measure.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

According to the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 198, 600 Physical Therapists employed in the United States in 2010, earning an average $ 76, 310 annually, or $ 36. 69 per hour, with 39 % growth in employment projected by the year 2020.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

According to Box Office Mojo, his films have grossed an average of $ 26, 009, 723.

According to Mediamark Research Inc., the average age of the New Yorker reader in 2009 is 47 ( compared to 43 in 1980 and 46 in 1990 ).

According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".

According to the third film in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ; Hogwarts, the main setting of the series, is said to be close to Dufftown in an article of the " Daily Prophet ".

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 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.