Dan Radcliffe apologized to Robbie Coltrane for Phone Prank

Daniel Radcliffe’s tendency to prank his fellow Harry Potter cast-mates often added levity to the set, but there was at least one time when his antics went a little too far.

Reportedly, Robbie Coltrane, who portrayed Hagrid in the films, was once a victim of a prank where the young actor changed the settings on his friend’s phone from English to Turkish. The joke seems harmless enough—except that Coltrane was left unable to make calls!

The infuriated actor had a hard time finding anyone on set who could change the settings of his phone back to English, and Radcliffe was left feeling understandably sheepish about what he had done. Coltrane remembers the event clearly:

Eventually we found a girl in the Harry Potter make-up department who was Turkish Cypriot. She phoned her mum and was chatting away in great detail until they sorted it out. I think Daniel was so upset at what had happened that he wrote me that note...'Dear Mr. Coltrane, I'm sorry I changed your mobile telephone into Turkish...

Have you ever been part of a prank gone too far? Let us know in the comments!

Book Review: Harry Potter, Page to Screen (in stores tomorrow!)

Almost exactly a year ago, Harper Design (an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) released their Harry Potter Film Wizardry, an interactive look at the making-of the Harry Potter film adaptations. This week, they follow that success with Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey - a massive new book featuring lavish behind-the-scenes images and, surprisingly, intricate and masterful storytelling.

The book dives (head-first) once again into the film adapatations of the beloved book series, showing us a world on the other side of the film camera. Yet where the first book maybe stopped itself from being too complex in detail (although it was physically complex, with paper handouts and prop replicas scattered throughout the book), the intention with this book is clearly to be "definitive." All stops are pulled out, and the result is a 530-page guide that's much harder to resist than it is to pick up (the book's weight according to Amazon is seven-and-a-half pounds, nearly 3 times greater than Film Wizardry and a greater weight than the last three Potter books combined, in hardcover).

MuggleNet's full review of Harry Potter, Page to Screen, which will be released tomorrow (October 25), is available now and can be continued at this link. Will you be purchasing this book for this Holiday Season?