Eagle-eyed fans catch embarrassing swap in ‘Harry Potter’ special

Don’t combine up the celeb Emmas.

A photograph mistake in HBO Max’s new “Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” slipped previous producers — however was shortly noticed by die-hard franchise followers. 

The extremely anticipated two-decade reunion particular lastly aired on the streaming platform Jan. 1, and viewers nearly instantly seen a obtrusive error inside the first couple of minutes of the nostalgic retrospective: Whereas Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson discusses how J.Ok. Rowling’s e book collection impacted her personal youth, a photograph of her as a baby seems on the display — solely, the photograph isn't of Emma Watson, however a younger Emma Roberts. 

“GUYS HELP ME THAT[‘S] LITERALLY EMMA ROBERTS NOT EMMA WATSON,” tweeted an observant watcher at 7:39 a.m. on Saturday, together with side-by-side screenshots of the second the image appeared within the particular and Roberts’ Instagram publish of the picture. 

“Minnie mouse ears!” Roberts, 30, captioned the photograph when she posted it in 2012.

The tweet alerting web denizens to the particular’s mistake shortly accrued 1000's of likes and caught the eye of producers, the Wrap reported

By Monday morning, the faulty Emma pic had been mounted, changed within the particular with a shot of a younger Watson from the set of the movie.

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Emma Watson (left), to not be confused with Emma Roberts (proper)
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“Properly noticed Harry Potter followers! You introduced an enhancing mistake of a mislabeled photograph to our consideration. New model is up now,” a consultant instructed the Wrap in a press release.

Different sudden information to comply with the particular’s launch contains the truth that Watson apparently had an especially tough time accepting the demise of her pet hamster Millie after she handed away on the “Harry Potter” set. 

“I used to be beside myself,” Watson mentioned within the particular of her 11-year-old grief-stricken self, Insider reported. “I saved wanting to choose up lifeless Millie, and like stroke and contact lifeless Millie.”

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“Minnie mouse ears!” Roberts, 30, captioned the photograph when she posted it in 2012.
Emma Roberts/Instagram

To assist along with her mourning course of, set designers constructed Millie a customized velvet-lined coffin, full with a reputation engraving.

The “Potter” franchise has been below scrutiny since critics have accused Rowling of transphobic rhetoric.

Others raised considerations that Rowling, 56, was being “canceled” from the manufacturing when she didn’t seem in trailers for the particular. Nevertheless, Rowling ended up being featured throughout a scene during which forged members describe how the novelist had made an an indelible influence on their lives.

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