All Of The Harry Potter Professor's Bloopers
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00:00 "I have a terrible facial hair problem."
00:02 While the professors in Harry Potter may have a wand up there, you know what?
00:06 The actors themselves love pulling pranks and laughing on set.
00:11 "I remember that it was called a wand broomstick!
00:15 [Laughter]
00:16 Whoops!"
00:17 1.
00:18 Disrespecting Professor Umbridge is something we can get behind
00:22 While we can't tell you why this deleted scene of Professor Trelawney exists,
00:27 we are just so glad that it does.
00:30 The theory is, they were just doing a long pan shot of all the professors and Emma Thompson
00:35 was improvising, and being so ridiculous, they paused and focused on her.
00:41 "Rules that ought to be...
00:45 Prolimited."
00:46 Seriously, we could just sit here and watch this for another minute or two.
00:51 Maybe an hour.
00:52 Or...
00:53 We could watch the entirety of Harry Potter told through Professor Trelawney's eyes.
00:58 "Thank you, Professor Umbridge, but it really was most illuminating."
01:03 2.
01:04 The internet will never let Daniel Radcliffe forget this one.
01:08 Michael Gambon and Alan Rickman pulled the best prank on Dan.
01:12 "Really, really funny."
01:13 "Uh, for you?"
01:15 While he's supposed to be silently sleeping in a room full of other young wizards, the
01:20 mayhem began.
01:21 "In our dreams, we enter completely our own world."
01:27 The best part was,
01:28 "Dan has us to have his sleeping bag next to this particular girl that he fancies."
01:34 It was Alan Rickman who planted the fart machine.
01:37 "And we like to swim in the deepest waters."
01:42 But it was Michael who was pressing the button.
01:49 Michael and Alan were good buddies on set.
01:51 Michael was always making Alan laugh, and they were lucky if they got a take where he
01:56 didn't crack.
01:57 "S-O-U-R-C-E."
01:58 3.
01:59 We would take Maggie Smith as our dance partner any day of the week.
02:06 "This leg moves first."
02:09 Maggie in character, teaching Rupert Grint to dance while she's hanging out in her robe,
02:14 is just hilarious.
02:15 "Put your hand on my- your right hand on my waist."
02:19 It's probably good we've got visuals to describe the scene, otherwise you might have
02:23 thought something else.
02:24 "No, you will have to lead eventually."
02:26 Her metaphors are the perfect cocktail of elegance and quirkiness.
02:31 "Inside every boy, a lordly lion prepared to prance."
02:35 And Rupert Grint was just a wee bit embarrassed of the whole situation,
02:39 telling onlookers that no one is to breathe a word about the moment.
02:43 "You're never gonna let him forget this, are you?"
02:47 "Never."
02:48 Logic meets technology.
02:50 Alan Rickman whacked his hand off the camera and only had this anticlimactic thing to say.
02:58 And yet, it's still hilarious.
03:00 He's not one to break character too much unless Michael Gambon's around, but odds are this
03:06 footage wasn't salvageable anyways.
03:09 5.
03:10 A thousand takes would make for a long day.
03:13 Robbie Coltrane's responses to literally everything are just hilarious.
03:18 "Teen, chill."
03:19 "One thousand, take one."
03:22 "Was that a thousand?
03:24 Wahey!"
03:25 Robbie, we're not sure a thousand takes is necessarily a good thing.
03:29 "We do our best to do it."
03:31 6.
03:32 If only Ron were as talented with a wand as he is with a quill.
03:36 Rupert Grint was caught doodling a nasty image of Alan Rickman.
03:40 "Alan Rickman was standing right behind me and I was so scared."
03:44 Life imitates art sometimes.
03:46 If you're playing the quote-unquote evil dark arts teacher, you should just expect some
03:52 sassy students.
03:53 "The picture wasn't nice either.
03:55 It was, uh, yeah, I think I exaggerated a few of his features."
03:59 Well, Alan Rickman, like the true gentleman he is, kept Rupert's art.
04:04 "I made him sign it and I have it in my possession.
04:08 And I'm very fond of it."
04:11 7.
04:12 Now for the hero of our generation.
04:15 When Filch's cat is petrified, in the movie Kenneth Branagh's character said,
04:19 "Ah, thought so.
04:21 So unlucky I wasn't there.
04:22 I know exactly the counter-curse that could have spared her."
04:25 But we found another improvised take.
04:27 "It was definitely a curse that killed her.
04:30 Probably the transmacriffian torture.
04:31 Encountered it myself once in Oogadougou." 8.
04:36 Poor Richard was too gentle for this world.
04:39 Richard Harris thought the animatronic of Fox the Phoenix was real.
04:43 And so when no one else was in the room, he was interacting with the bird.
04:48 And the sneaky tech people were puppeting said animatronic from outside of the room
04:53 to let him believe in the magic.
04:55 Nobody ever told him the bird was fake, and we think it's just better that way.
05:00 "Pretty good, huh?"
05:01 9.
05:02 Children are a nuisance.
05:04 While Professor McGonagall would never threaten to hurt a student,
05:08 "We never use transfiguration as a punishment."
05:11 Maggie Smith might not be so strict with herself.
05:15 Like how about this moment, she pretends she's going to thump one of the kids with a scroll.
05:20 Yes, yes, we know, it's all teasing.
05:24 10.
05:26 Robbie Coltrane goofing about in the motorcycle makes everyone on set burst out into giggles,
05:32 including Dan.
05:37 This lovable goof can probably make even the grumpiest of people laugh on a bad day.
05:43 11.
05:44 Our least favorite professor is full of personality.
05:48 While Professor Umbridge is evil in the movie, behind the scenes Imelda Staunton and McGonagall
05:54 were best buds.
05:56 Imelda sings,
05:57 "Oh, disloyalty.
05:58 Yes.
05:59 Ah!"
06:00 and she blah blah blahs about.
06:05 "Blah blah blah blah, disloyalty.
06:08 Oh!"
06:09 12.
06:10 We still find it hard to believe Hogwarts hosts a rave.
06:14 Did you know Professor Flitwick crowd-surfing at the Yule Ball was only meant to be a joke?
06:20 It's true.
06:21 "I said, 'Wouldn't it be funny if Flitwick did a stage dive?'"
06:23 The director went away for the weekend and Warwick Davis couldn't believe his ears.
06:28 "He said, 'We're gonna do that.'
06:29 And I said, 'I was only joking.'"
06:31 Here's hoping he enjoyed himself and maybe ticked something off the bucket list.
06:36 13.
06:37 Never let go, Filch.
06:38 "Take your hands off me, you filthy scrimp!"
06:41 David Bradley wasn't meant to hang on to Tom Felton forever, but he just wasn't ready
06:47 to let go, even while the cameras weren't rolling.
06:50 But hey, maybe he had a perfect grip and just didn't want to lose it.
06:55 14.
06:56 What is it with Harry Potter and gas?
06:58 "He was a little boy, obviously, in the first one.
07:00 And he said he was really traumatized by her."
07:02 Miriam Margulies hasn't bothered to watch most of the Harry Potter movies.
07:07 "Well, I've only been to the ones I'm in, and I fall asleep."
07:12 If you remember Professor Sprout with the screaming plants, she's not happy about her
07:17 time on Harry Potter.
07:19 Or rather, not happy she wasn't in all of them.
07:22 "That was a brave oversight, and I'm holding you responsible."
07:25 Miriam traumatized Daniel Radcliffe when he was a wee boy.
07:30 She's quite the character, which you'd know if you've ever seen her on a talk show.
07:34 Age is but a number, and she's hilarious.
07:37 "I've been told there was a swear jar involved on set."
07:41 Well, a young Dan didn't appreciate her behavior with the cursing.
07:44 "I was probably careful when it was you, but when, you know, with the other kids I
07:48 didn't bother."
07:51 That wasn't the worst part, though.
07:53 It was the farting that really got to him.
07:55 "I'm very proud of it."
07:57 Number 15
07:58 It doesn't take Michael Gambon a transformation spell to alter his performance.
08:02 Michael's a bit of a goofball.
08:04 "When we do the scene now again in a minute, I should change my-"
08:08 This cracks up Radcliffe.
08:09 "In a completely different way."
08:12 Michael, we applaud your nuance.
08:14 The cast of Harry Potter still leaves us laughing, even all these years later.
08:19 Do you ever wish you could go back in time and experience it again for the first time?
08:24 Let us know in the comments, and thanks for hanging out with us here at The Things.