The Harry Potter series, which has attracted great attention around the world, has become one of the biggest parts of popular culture with its movies after its success as a book. We can say that a whole generation grew up with 8 films in the series, which were broadcast over a 10-year period. Now, the team, which we watched growing up, is once again appearing in front of the audience with the program Return to Hogwarts.
The program, which was broadcast on HBO Max on the first day of the new year, took the fans back to their childhood years. Return to Hogwarts, which has the taste of a documentary-talk show, reunited the cast to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series. Meanwhile, some unknown facts about the series emerged. In this news, we have compiled information that even the hardest Harry Potter fans may have overlooked…
Emma Watson was in love with Tom Felton:
Emma Watson, who plays the bookish and bright-minded member of the trio, Hermione Granger, shared that she fell in love with Tom Felton for a while, who played Draco Malfoy, who remained the ‘bad’ character of the series for a long time. Watson states that in a private painting class, when asked to ‘imagine what God looks like’, Felton drew ‘a girl with a skateboard wearing her hat backwards’ and fell in love from then on. Although Watson had these feelings for a long time, it was announced that nothing happened between them.
Daniel Radcliffe’s discovery story:
Chris Colombus, who directed the first two films of the Harry Potter series, states that he could not find a suitable actor to portray the lead character for a long time. Daniel Radcliffe, who was 10 at the time, played the lead role in the mini-series David Copperfield, which was broadcast on the BBC. Deciding that Radcliffe was perfect for the role of Harry Potter, Columbus set to work. On the other hand, the family of the 10-year-old actor did not want Radcliffe to be included in a series that would last at least seven movies. The possibility of filming in the USA also did not appeal to the family. But one way or another, Daniel Radcliffe managed to become Harry Potter.
Draco’s father might not have been Draco’s father:
Lucius Malfoy, who appeared as one of the villains of the series from the beginning, undoubtedly has an inseparable place in the series. However, Jason Isaacs, who plays Draco Malfoy’s father, states that he is not actually a candidate for this role. Isaacs, who participated in the trials for the character of the ‘dishonest celebrity’ professor Gilderoy Lochart, who was originally in the second movie of the series, states that he was very upset when he was told to read Lucius Malfoy lines. When he read Lucius Malfoy lines ‘downy’ and ‘frustrated’, he was judged to be great for the role. It is also very difficult to imagine another actor in the character of Draco’s father.
Dumbledore, who thinks the phoenix is real…
One of the most memorable scenes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is between Harry Potter and the phoenix Fawkes. Fawkes, whom Dumbledore looked up to as his own bird, was specially prepared for the movie by the setting teams. However, according to the information obtained from the production team, Richard Harris, who played the character of Dumbledore in the first two films of the series, believed that the bird was ‘real’. Of course, Harris didn’t think he was a ‘phoenix,’ but he did believe it was a very tame true bird. Whether he was able to figure out whether Fawkes was real or not remains a mystery.
Hogwarts on fire:
One of the first images that appear in the minds of many people when Hogwarts is mentioned are the candles hanging from the ceiling and the doors opening to that hall. Well, did you know that those candles are real? Daniel Radcliffe explained that real candles were used in the fourth film of the series, Goblet of Fire, but later they melted and started to fall to the ground, burning the ropes on which they were hanging.
Was there any of this information that you did not know before? Or, as a fanatical Harry Potter fan, did you already know them all? Is there any information that is not here that you know of? You can share your thoughts with us in the comments section.
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