5 Harry Potter Secrets You Definitely Didn't Know . . . Until Now

Rowling's bibliography covers many of the edits made to the series, including the cut of Nearly Headless Nick's song. "The Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick" can now be read online and was hard for Rowling to leave out of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The author later described it as "superfluous to requirements," but it was still a painful edit.