What you didn't know…

July 13, 2011 04:19 pm | Updated August 16, 2016 01:16 pm IST

Daniel Radcliffe. Courtesy: Warner Bros Productions

Daniel Radcliffe. Courtesy: Warner Bros Productions

Featured creatures

Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid, once got a fruit bat stuck in his beard during a scene in Hagrid's hut.

In “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Ron's vomit slugs were in fact, puppets. Rupert Grint chose orange-flavoured slime to make the experience more palatable.

250 body casts have been made of actors for deaths, petrifications and stunning spells.

Aragog, the acromantula (giant spider), had an 18 ft. leg span

Makeup facts

A dentist was on standby for many of the young crowd scenes to replace teeth which wobbled and fell out — to prevent continuity issues involving teeth.

Harry's infamous scar has been put on by makeup approx 5,800 times. This is not only on Daniel Radcliffe, who has had the scar applied approx 2,000 times, but also on his doubles and stunt doubles, all of whom wear the scar.

Robbie Coltrane once got a mini-fan caught in his Hagrid beard and had to have it cut out.

Favourite sets and props

Emma Watson

Set: Ministry of Magic

Prop: The Time Turner

Rupert Grint

Set: The full sized Wizards' chess set in “Philosopher's Stone”

Prop: The Deluminator

Daniel Radcliffe

Set: Ministry of Magic

Prop: Harry's Glasses

Tom Felton

Sets: The Great Hall (for sentimental reasons) and The Courtyard (for dramatic reasons)

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