--- title: Daniel Radcliffe Explains Harry Potter Prank description: While promoting his new film, Daniel Radcliffe relives an epic Harry Potter prank. canonical: https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T16:31:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:21.405Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Alan Rickman Played an Epic Prank on Daniel Radcliffe While Filming "Harry Potter" og:description: While promoting his new film, Daniel Radcliffe relives an epic Harry Potter prank. og:url: https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fb899f7216370c3/69876302a988ca70006aa109/radcliffe-rickman.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Special New York Luncheon in Honor of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alan Rickman Played an Epic Prank on Daniel Radcliffe While Filming "Harry Potter" twitter:description: While promoting his new film, Daniel Radcliffe relives an epic Harry Potter prank. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fb899f7216370c3/69876302a988ca70006aa109/radcliffe-rickman.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alan Rickman Played an Epic Prank on Daniel Radcliffe While Filming _Harry Potter_ > Sponsored content. 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Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Rickman at a luncheon for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," at 21 Club, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, in New York.Dave Allocca—AP by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Oct 28, 2014 4:31 PM UTC Daniel Radcliffe, who’s busy promoting his new film _Horns_, took to [Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2khgud/i%5Fam%5Fdaniel%5Fradcliffe%5Fama/) to answer troves of questions for fans this week. Unsurprisingly, the fans were itching for answers to _Harry Potter_ queries from the actor who played The Boy Who Lived. When asked about the best prank that was played on the Potter set, Radcliffe replied, “I should probably \[tell\] about the one that was pulled on ME, rather than any I pulled. Because it came from a very unexpected place.” The unexpected place? The mind of Alan Rickman, who played Professor Severus Snape, Harry’s _bête noire_ at Hogwarts. Rickman pranked Radcliffe on the set of _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ with a jape that sounds like something Fred and George Weasley might have pulled off. “There’s a shot in the great hall of all the kids sleeping in the great hall, and the camera starts very very wide, and comes in so that it’s an inch from my face,” Radcliffe wrote on Reddit. “Alan Rickman decided he would plant one of those fart machines in my, uh, sleeping bag, and they waited until like – the camera had come in for this huge DRAMATIC developing shot, and then unleashed this tremendous noise in the great hall.” “I immediately thought: ‘This is one of the other kids f–king around, and we were going to get in trouble.'” But as it turns out, it was one of the members of Britain’s acting royalty. “I think I laughed a lot, was probably a bit embarrassed, but it was really really funny.” Watch a young Radcliffe and co-stars Rupert Grint and [Emma Watson](http://time.com/3541308/daniel-radcliffe-emma-watson-sex-symbol-feminism/) explain the prank on the DVD extras from the film: ### PHOTOS: See the Harry Potter Theme Park Gringotts-Themed Ride  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando  Universal Orlando _Read next:_ [_Watch Daniel Radcliffe Rap ‘Alphabet Aerobics’ with Jimmy Fallon_](http://time.com/3545579/daniel-radcliffe-alphabet-aerobics-fallon/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/"},"headline":"Alan Rickman Played an Epic Prank on Daniel Radcliffe While Filming Harry Potter","datePublished":"2014-10-28T16:31:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:21.405Z","description":"Oh, Snape","url":"https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/","keywords":["celebrities","Newsfeed","Harry Potter","Emma Watson","daniel radcliffe"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fb899f7216370c3/69876302a988ca70006aa109/radcliffe-rickman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5fb899f7216370c3/69876302a988ca70006aa109/radcliffe-rickman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Special New York Luncheon in Honor of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2","caption":"Special New York Luncheon in Honor of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2","creditText":"Dave Allocca—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3543864/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-snape-prank/","name":"Alan Rickman Played an Epic Prank on Daniel Radcliffe While Filming Harry Potter"}}]}] ```