Harry Potter: That Detail About The Food In The Great Hall Of Hogwarts That You Didn’t Know About

This anecdote on the foods and dishes present in the Great Hall during the banquet scenes will leave you in a corner!

You will never be able to forget the scenes ofHarry Potter during which Ron Weasley (whose car almost appeared in the Final Battle) gawk in the Great Hall like a real pig! All meals (breakfasts, lunches and dinners included) are a real ordeal for Hermione Granger (Emma watson), who each time has to face his best friend stuffing himself. Yet it is certainly not the young Gryffindor who will try to take the bread out of his mouth! You probably didn’t know it, but the films’ production team wanted to be as believable as possible. Which means that during the banquet scenes, all the food was real, and the actors could actually eat it! According to the Seventeen website, director Chris Columbus wanted to make sure that the foods and dishes shown in the films were authentic, and conformed to descriptions in JK Rowling’s books.

Enough to plunge viewers even more easily into the heart of the magical world of wizards depicted on the screen … But that did not only have advantages! Indeed, because of the light of the projectors used during the filming, the food spoiled very quickly, which created a terrible smell. “Lots of big parties took place there. You can film them for three or four days and the first day you walk in there they serve you a plate of food with lots of meats, vegetables and roasted potatoes and you can eat the food.explained Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). After the first day you had to pretend to eat, and on the fourth day you could smell the rotten food before you even entered the Great Hall! Subsequently, the production team decided to freeze the food and create molds to make it look realistic … Fortunately these sequences did not require 95 takes, unlike this mind-blowing scene fromHarry Potter !

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