15 Reasons The Making Of "Harry Potter" Was Even More Magical Than You Thought

"In Order of the Phoenix there is a sequence when the camera goes inside the Daily Prophet. So we had to make adverts like it was a real newspaper. Sometimes we were surprised that they let us get away with the funny things that we wrote. Now you can see lots of those ads in Diagon Alley. You can see the fun bus — that was an advert in the Daily Prophet."

"The thing in the books is that Rowling never really gave too much detail. I think she was very clever and very intelligent. She let you create your own world. She knows exactly what is there. She knows what is behind the Dark Forest. Sometimes production would have to call her and say, 'OK Jo, what is behind the Dark Forest? We have to design this and we need to know if it's to the left of the castle and is it near the Lake?' She's the one that knows exactly where things are. But in the same way that she let you [her readers] decide, we had to decide."

"The set designer may say, 'We have this set so we need 20 posters in the background,' and we're in charge of creating these from scratch. For the Weasley products we got to do the same. I think in the book there were only seven or eight products that she mentioned and we had to create a three-floor shop and had to populate that shop with lots of products. So we had to create new ones. And it's so funny to see now, people can purchase them at the shop and we invented that while having a coffee."

And if you count pages from the Daily Prophet individually, it's much more. Each issue had almost 20 pages.

It took over two weeks to make one edition and there were more than 30 editions.

"Each was absolutely different and I did it all in Photoshop. It was much easier to move things around and lay things out in layers. It was easy to move the big blocks of texts."

The security editor was Eduardo Lima's mom and he'd often set things in his small village of Caxambu, Brazil.

They would use runes to say things like "sun in Virgo and a moon in Cancer" just to give some type of understanding about the time.

Lima and Mina's team made a really complicated embossed copy with gold foiling, a nice tooling on the back, and laser-cut illustrations — but you never get to see these details in the films. Originally the scene was supposed to start with the camera going into the book to tell the story of the three brothers, but the filmmakers went a different direction. But it wasn't all a lost cause. When Rowling saw the book she said, "I need to have one. I'm sorry I can't wait," and took a copy right from Eduardo's hands.

It took the longest to clear the name.

"We tried, like, 150 names and the only one that we could clear was Divine Magic, and I'm not even sure how that got through. Then they had to figure out the model. When I did the layout I used Gisele [Bündchen] because I thought, OK let's just put that there. But of course, they couldn't get her to do that. It wasn't important to get someone like her. It was fun because all the producers and directors had different ideas of what should be there — a black woman, a ginger, a blonde woman. It took ages to get there. Until one day we said, 'It's shooting in 10 days we need to pick someone.' But the biggest problem was that no one really wanted to make Muggle stuff. Honestly, everything that was Muggle was more difficult because everyone was like, 'Ugh, Muggle stuff is so boring!'"

The producers for the film haven't started to hire their crew yet (although David Yates is expected to come back), but if MinaLima have anything to do with it, it'll be just as magical as the Harry Potter films. Also, this is the first time we'll see a glimpse of the American Wizarding World!