--- title: One Direction's Liam Payne Bought Harry Potter's Flying Car description: Payne confessed that he had purchased one of the cars used as the Weasley family's flying Ford Anglia. canonical: https://time.com/4114322/one-direction-liam-payne-bought-harry-potters-flying-car/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-16T16:34:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:56.250Z og:title: Liam Payne Proves He's the Biggest Harry Potter fan og:description: The One Direction singer owns a crucial prop from one of the films og:url: https://time.com/4114322/one-direction-liam-payne-bought-harry-potters-flying-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Liam Payne Proves He's the Biggest Harry Potter fan twitter:description: The One Direction singer owns a crucial prop from one of the films twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # One Direction’s Liam Payne Proves He's the Biggest Harry Potter Fan ## Video: J.K. Rowling Reveals A 'Harry Potter' Play Is In The Works [Watch (HLS stream): J.K. Rowling Reveals A 'Harry Potter' Play Is In The Works](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DGvt7frX.m3u8) (1:21)  _Published 2015-06-26. Author J.K. Rowling tweeted she's been working on a new play called_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 16, 2015 4:34 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 16, 2015 4:34 PM UTC One Direction’s Liam Payne made it clear that he was a huge Potterhead when he celebrated his birthday in August with a Hogwarts-themed party complete with spell book cake. Now, the 22-year-old singer has revealed that his love for the wizarding world goes even further than a Harry Potter soirée. During Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show on Monday morning, Payne confessed that he had purchased one of the cars used as the Weasley family’s flying Ford Anglia during the filming of _Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_. “I bought the _Harry Potter_ car and I put it in my garden. You know the blue car, the flying one?,” he said. “I bought one because I’m a bit of a geek.” Payne also announced that he had been sorted into the same Hogwarts house as Harry Potter himself, according to the [Belfast Telegraph](http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/liam-payne-i-own-flying-harry-potter-car-34204102.html). “I did the test on the website. My friend got Hufflepuff and I got Gryffindor. 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