Don’t mix up the celebrity Emmas.
A photo mistake in HBO Max’s new “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” slipped past producers — but was quickly spotted by die-hard franchise fans.
The highly anticipated two-decade reunion special finally aired on the streaming platform Jan. 1, and viewers almost immediately noticed a glaring error within the first few minutes of the nostalgic retrospective: While Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson discusses how J.K. Rowling’s book series impacted her own youth, a photo of her as a child appears on the screen — only, the photo is not of Emma Watson, but a young Emma Roberts.
“GUYS HELP ME THAT[‘S] LITERALLY EMMA ROBERTS NOT EMMA WATSON,” tweeted an observant watcher at 7:39 a.m. on Saturday, along with side-by-side screenshots of the moment the picture appeared in the special and Roberts’ Instagram post of the image.
“Minnie mouse ears!” Roberts, 30, captioned the photo when she posted it in 2012.
The tweet alerting internet denizens to the special’s mistake quickly accrued thousands of likes and caught the attention of producers, the Wrap reported.
By Monday morning, the erroneous Emma pic had been fixed, replaced in the special with a shot of a young Watson from the set of the film.
Emma Watson (left), not to be confused with Emma Roberts (right)Getty Images“Well spotted Harry Potter fans! You brought an editing mistake of a mislabeled photograph to our attention. New version is up now,” a representative told the Wrap in a statement.
Other unexpected news to follow the special’s release includes the fact that Watson apparently had an extremely difficult time accepting the death of her pet hamster Millie after she passed away on the “Harry Potter” set.
“I was beside myself,” Watson said in the special of her 11-year-old grief-stricken self, Insider reported. “I kept wanting to pick up dead Millie, and like stroke and touch dead Millie.”
To help with her mourning process, set designers built Millie a custom velvet-lined coffin, complete with a name engraving.
The “Potter” franchise has been under scrutiny since critics have accused Rowling of transphobic rhetoric.
Others raised concerns that Rowling, 56, was being “canceled” from the production when she didn’t appear in trailers for the special. However, Rowling ended up being featured during a scene in which cast members describe how the novelist had made an an indelible impact on their lives.
