--- description: The enchanting video took more than a month to make title: Short Film Builds Hogwarts With 'Prisoner of Azkaban' Pages image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This Short Film Recreate Hogwarts Using Pages of _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 13, 2015 3:34 PM CUT by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 13, 2015 3:34 PM CUT _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ begins with Harry secretly doing his homework in the middle of the night, hiding under the covers in his bed while studying the history of witch-burning, and hoping that his Muggle aunt and uncle don’t catch him. Appropriately, then, this stop-motion short by [Unpopular Now](http://www.unpopnow.com "undefined") begins with a child reading in bed — reading _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,_ in fact. But when he puts the book down and goes to sleep, Hogwarts itself, built from the pages of _Prisoner of Azkaban_, materializes beside him — like magic! The enchanting short film, which took more than a month to make, reminds us that before _Harry Potter_ was a theme park or multi-billion-dollar movie franchise, Hogwarts and the rest of the magical world existed just like this: on paper, and in our imaginations. Watch it above. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/12/harry-potter-stop-motion-short-film "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4071551/film-hogwarts-pages-azkaban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4071551/film-hogwarts-pages-azkaban/"},"headline":"Watch This Short Film Recreate Hogwarts Using Pages of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban","datePublished":"2015-10-13T15:34:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:45:07.423Z","description":"The enchanting video took more than a month to make","url":"https://time.com/4071551/film-hogwarts-pages-azkaban/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4071551/film-hogwarts-pages-azkaban/","name":"Watch This Short Film Recreate Hogwarts Using Pages of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"}}]}] ```