Harry Potter 3: Don’t pause at 1 hour and 52 minutes if you want to keep the magic going!

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón in 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third part of the famous magical saga, adapted from J.K. Rowling’s works, tells the story of a young wizard at Hogwarts school in the new year, while a mysterious escape from the prison. He wants to find her at any cost.

Despite the many screenplays and visuals, the film has minor gaffes and mistakes, as is usually the case with a production of this scale. So many details that have not gone unnoticed by Michelle and Michelle, our Faux Fitting experts.

At the end of the feature film, for example, during the sequence where Harry and Hermione try to arrange the escape of Buck the hippogriff near Hagrid’s house, did you take a good look at the back of their shirts?

If you take a freeze shot at 1 hour 52 minutes and 56 seconds (for Hermione) and then at 1 hour and 53 minutes (for Harry), you can see that we can very clearly distinguish the batteries of their microphones that are covered. under their clothes. A device (not too discreet) that still allowed Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson to film the scene without the sound engineers needing to use a pole.

Moreover, looking at the sequence as a whole, we see that the famous batteries appear only in the shots where the two actors are talking to each other and disappear in the ones where they remain silent. Therefore, the scene was most likely filmed once with sound recording and a second time without microphones.

This fun little glitch that briefly ruins the magic of the movie isn’t the only one hidden in the film. Indeed, from Alan Rickman’s study, the reflection of a huge microphone in Lupine’s classroom or even the mysterious appearance of a number on the screen, (re)discover our mock adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban…