Daniel Radcliffe Reveals the Strange Prop Used in the First 'Harry Potter' Films

Although the magical world of 'Harry Potter' was brought into the world more than twenty years ago, we never stop learning new unknown trifles about the universe, all thanks to J.K. Rowling's Twitter account. The author is rather notorious for her persistent habit of sharing (often pretty weird) new facts about the wizards and witches of Hogwarts; however, this time it was Daniel Radcliffe's turn to reveal a bizarre piece of trivia about his early experience on set of the 'Harry Potter' films.

During a recent interview with Hollywood Reporter, while promoting his new comedy series, 'Miracle Workers', with his co-star, Karan Soni ('Deadpool'), the actor was asked (as always) to share something about his life on set of the franchise with underpinned the childhoods of a generation. It was then Soni who eagerly volunteered the weird and wonderful prop which the young cast had to use during the filming of the first few films, while Radcliffe nodded in agreement. "Their teeth were falling out," Soni explained. "They would have a cast made of all their teeth. So that if one fell out, they could have a prop tooth put in. Just so they could keep filming."

The first film was released in 2001, when Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint were only around ten years old: of course, the age at which you lose your baby teeth. And with more than twenty children in the cast, the directors probably had to keep a resident dentist on set to save the gummy mouths of these toothless actors. Perhaps Hermione's muggle parents?

We already know that Emma Watson was originally going to wear an entire set of false teeth for her role as Hermione, as the character in the book is supposed to have buck teeth, but in the end the actress can only be seen wearing them in the last scene, on the train, because she had difficulty talking with them in. How many scenes, I wonder, are the young actors wearing their false teeth in the final cut?

Sink Your Teeth Into This...

Cute trivia such as this is what fans love discovering, but the facts which Rowling shares are not always so adorable. The creator recently announced (for some unknown reason) that, at the start, Hogwarts had no plumbing system in place so wizards and witches would simply do what they had to do in the corridors and then use magic to clean it up. The most worrying part of this (rather unwelcome) news is that no type of vanishing spell exists... So where did everything go? Perhaps the next time Rowling takes to her keyboard she might provide us with the answer.