The HIDDEN SECRETS of Harry Potter World 

We’re heading to Universal in July and my daughter just saw this video as we were doing some “research”, she squealed with happiness when she saw Molly’s hair and Harry Potter! Molly is our favorite! Keep doing what you do, Molly! 💜

As much as I miss the Jaws ride, Diagon Alley is a worthy successor, and probably the best themed area of any theme park in the world.

The book "Moste Potente Potions" is the restricted book where they found the recipe for Polyjuice Potion!

I dont know if someone said this but the trolly between platform 9 and 10 there is a glass that make the people look like they are walking through the wall.

Another little detail in the Hagrid's queue that many people miss is a nod back to the previous ride that was on the site: Dueling Dragons/Dragon Challenge. When you first enter the indoor portion of the queue and about 10 feet beyond where the Lily and James graffiti is located there is a faded advertisement mural on the wall (easiest to spot immediately across from you as you enter the hall before turning left towards the u-turn). It features a red and blue dragon snarling at each other and advertises a Dragon Dueling Club.

I love that Molly has that necklace. Of course she does.

Molly! I have an idea for you to pass on if you get the opportunity! Can you imagine a Harry Potter two-night experience with Hogwarts?? You know, like the Star Wars hotel. Just Harry Potter! OMG, we could have our own adventure with Hagrid, or battle the Basilisk! Eat at the feast each night and enjoy sleeping in 4 poster beds with hangings. It's just a thought of mine, but I thought I would put it in another true Potter fans head! I love your videos!

I think Dumbledore chose Ron as a Prefect for two reasons. One was because he thought it would be good for Ron to learn some responsibility, and knew that Hermione would be keeping his worse impulses in check (as well as the fact that Ron is basically a good kid raised by good parents, so his worst impulses were just that, impulses). The second is that he knew the Trio would need to be doing more and getting away with more, and giving Ron the authority rather than Dean or Neville or Seamus (the only other choices) would help make sure they weren't hindered by a well-meaning classmate filling the role. Remember, this was the year Harry had been dragged through the mud all summer in the papers, and Neville was the only one of the other three boys who stated unwaveringly that he believed Harry. Neville would definitely have been a great second choice, but I'm not sure he had the confidence to lead at that point; that came after the trip to the Ministry, as well as getting a wand that had chosen him rather than his dad's old wand. I firmly believe having the wrong wand was part of why Neville was so bad at certain types of magic before that point, and why he got so badass once he got one better suited to him! Personally, I'm amazed Umbridge never took away Ron's status as Prefect and gave it to Seamus or Dean.

Molly! It’s a troll foot umbrella stand - not gorilla foot 🤣

This video saved my butt. Stumbled across it and noticed I bought 1park 1 day pass instead of 2park - 1day. Thankfully was able to get it refunded and repurchased correctly before i had any issues on my upcoming August trip.

Molly, remember Hagrid told Ron and Harry how much he liked Charlie. The terrific trio sent Hagrid’s dragon to Charlie in Romania. And that Charlie could have been a pro quidditch player if he hadn’t gone to chase dragons in Romania So He was mentioned.

I love details, both obvious and obscure. These videos are fantastic! 💜

This was the most comprehensive tour I've ever seen on this particular theme park. I've seen things I will never get to see thank you so much

Finally someone mentioning Charlie Weasley! Although he wasn't a major character in the book, he was one of the coolest ones since he worked with dragons!!

YES, HP are my favorite Molly videos.....thanks for brightening my day.

I'm going for the first time in JULY and I can't wait !!!! Thank you for all your videos they are very helpful and informative x

I've read the books and seen the movies only once years ago. You've made this look so interesting that I plan on rereading and rewatching them so the next time I am visiting family in Florida I can go there! Great job on this video!

Looove these HP videos so much, learn something new every time

Thanks Molly!!! I enjoyed going with you and learning about HP World!

Fantastic video and great commentary. Nice work!

Hello, I just stumbled across your page and absolutely love it, you might have already talked about this in the past, but when you were walking through diagon Alley your video quality was just amazing in this video. Could I ask you what kind of camera you use?

Out of the 10 I ONLY knew the rubber duck one! LOL Thanks Molly for another great video!!!

All the TMs working at Filch's are students that have received Detention. When you are checking out you can ask them what they did to get put in there and they'll give you a funny backstory!

This is sucha awesome video. Thank you

Give us all the Universal videos! When this started I thought there was no way you would have shown anything I didn't know about but you sure did!!! Also, this rant in defense of Dean Thomas for Prefect was hilarious!! I support this stance though & that's not something I knew before I watched this video.

These videos just prove that I’ve only scratched the surface on my theme park Easter egg knowledge. I love these so much and I can’t wait to see what other parks/lands we get more of these for.

"Don't make me turn this broom around!" LOL!

Thank you for the information I have been missing alot.

I have never been on the Jaws ride but I’ve been on the backlot tour at Universal Hollywood and it looks exactly the same. The jaws part is still there. Looks like you need a trip to Universal Hollywood!

We need a blooper reel someday - with clips like Molly calling the troll foot umbrella stand a gorilla foot, or referring to "stink snap"! ;-) And please, no one get defensive on Molly's behalf, bloopers are a part of recording *anything* and some of the best movies and TV shows in the world have blooper reels!

And “Most Potente Potions” is the book Hermione takes from the restricted section in the second book where they find the Polyjuice Potion recipe!

Great video!!

I knew about all the eggs EXCEPT the screen used items in the shops! That’s awesome, wish they had a sign that stated that to draw your attention to!

We were on the fence about adding Universal to our Disney trip but this is making me think it’s a must.

Thought the umbrella stand was a troll foot, not a gorilla foot?

When me and my siblings were on the Hogwarts ride, they brought us to a backstage section on accident instead of where all the others riders went. There was just an elevator or the way out. We went in the elevator out of curiosity and there was a button that said “No Muggles Allowed”. Of course we pressed it and it opened up into a black curtain and we got too scared to look behind it. Regret it to this day. 😂 I wanna know what was behind it.

15:27 Ahahaha. I love the Hewlett Packard joke

Absolutely amazing video…. Again

I saw this on my homepage and was like is that Molly with pink hair!? Hell yeah it is 😆🙃 love the hair Molly missed your videos haven't been on RU-vid much recently but so glad to see your videos it was a great way to wake up

great video!

Look at Molly being a HP geek. Love it!

When looking at the Weasley family photo in Bill’s office at the Gringotts ride… NOTE: it’s not Domhnall Gleeson in the photo. He wasn’t cast as Bill at that point so Richard Fish is in the photo playing Bill 😛

The hairrrr!!! It's amaziiiing!!!!😭❤️

Another nod to the Jaws ride is that wheel on one of the giant telescopes in one of the shops (forgot the name) is the same wheel that was used on one of the boats! Edit: the shop is Wizeacres Wizarding Equipment! It’s the telescope on the left.

15:07 I'm shocked you didn't show the through-the-wall effect at 9 3/4! We almost missed it completely, as there were very low lines that day, and a cool Universal staff person called our attention to it, and even took our phone made a video of us walking through the wall, that uses a sweet mirror special effect. I'm sure you must know about it, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw HIDDEN SECRETS. Anyway, great video, really enjoying.

You were SO CLOSE to a secret unmarked magic wand spot!!! I wondered if you know about it ?

We're headed there in July so I've been watching all your videos and more.

Sorry if someone already commented this, I didn’t read through all the comments, but there is one more jaws tribute that you missed!

Pretty sure that the foot umbrella stand is a TROLL foot, NOT gorilla.

I still don't get why Universal couldn't get Emma Watson to do the voice over for the Hogswarts Express show.

Love the new hair!!!

My favorite youtube channel

"no, we have hermione granger at home" LOL

Amazing hair Molly!

Molly, yes you do need the tiara 👍🏼

The umbrella stand is a troll foot. Also don’t forget Moste Potent Potions, the textbook for Polyjuice potion 👍🏻

luv the hair

" I am glad nothing bad happened to you hedwig" Molly said to a tweeting animal

The ‘secrets of the darkest art’ was the first book I noticed in that stack!

Inside of Wiseacre’s Wizarding Equipment, the shop you exit through after riding Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, you might spot some unusual telescopes. Located around the upper part of the store, these strange contraptions are said to contain parts from boats on the old JAWS ride. One of the larger telescopes feature parts from a brass ship compass that was located in the old ride’s queue. Other props from the JAWS attraction were used around the land as well, including a rope ladder and chains in the blacksmith shop, and an old crate on the right side of the preshow area for Escape from Gringotts.😁

Just left Universal on Thursday and wish I would have noticed the secrets

And almost forgot that I'm also a slytherin too. 🐍🐍🐍🐍

The way hogsmeade was clouded ahhhh felt so right!

I'm impressed :)

I can’t believe you didn’t mention this- in the room of Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure line with all the eggs in cases- the Golden Egg from the triwizard tournament is hidden there on the right side, about eye level halfway down

That purple hair is awesome!!

Hi Molly, I thought the trunk is actually Mad Eye and not a boggart. That’s what a staff member once told us anyways. Love these videos!

A couple more sets of shark teeth can be spotted inside of Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley, hiding among the trinkets on the bottom row of the center glass case. These sets of jaws are said to have been recycled props from the old attraction, given a second life here in the Wizarding World. 😁

Where do you go to get to the front of the actual Hogwarts Express?? That's an amazing picture spot!!

I remember when diagon alley opened. So many people wearing school robes...even adults like me. Seems like its kinda going away.

Someday if I go there I can look for those Easter eggs.

I want to go there so bad! I'm a mega HP fan (Ravenclaw) but I'm also now living in Spain, so going to Universal in Florida would not be cheap. When would be the best time to go -- off season with fewest people but not a time when rides are closed for maintenance? I appreciate any suggestions. This is the one thing that would get me back on US shores (for a few days).

I know this is probably common knowledge but I just wanna say it. At the magical menagerie in Diagon Alley there is a big snake that you can look at through a side window by the restroom. If you listen to the snake you can realize it starts to speak in parseltounge for a breath time before going back to hissing. I love the detail and I wanna share it so much.

Showing me this right after I just got back

Another one of those books in the stack with the Darkest Arts is Moste Potente Potions, which is the book Hermione uses to brew Polyjuice Potion in Chamber of Secrets. And the blast-ended skrewt is also seen in Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore movie in the cave scene with the little crab guys.

10:38 she just said gorilla foot instead of troll foot 😂 on a side note I knew most this stuff even though I’ve never been there because I’ve been watching a lot of videos since I really want to go there

Hi Molly! Have I told you that I love your hair color!! I have. Haven’t I?😘❤️

I completely agree with Molly. I am always thinking Ron... Why?

“Don’t make me turn this broom around” 💀💀💀💀

Not sure if it’s true, but I’ve also heard that some Jaws ride parts are in the telescopes and gear at the top of Wiseacres. 😉🦈🔭

Man I went to nocturn alley last week and none of the lamps were on. I was wondering why it was so ridiculously dark. The videos I’ve seen it wasn’t pitch black like it was for us

9:06 is it the killing curse or floo powder? That’s where Harry ended up by accident

Is it confirmed thru official channels that there are only 3 Jaws references? that is cool AF that they put those there.

We have never been there! It's in our list, but WDW has been our spot. Once we get moved there, we plan to visit Harry!

Has anyone in the comment asked where her earrings are from? Cuuuute.

How does she always have so much room to see everything?? Every time I go I can barely even look at anything in the stores because it’s so packed with people. It’s like sensory overload every time.

As to Ron becoming a prefect, his deepest desire from the mirror of Erised was becoming head boy and quidditch captain. Maybe because of Ron’s services to the school in the prior years had something to do with it. Maybe Dumbledore thought that was the next best thing for Ron to feel accomplished in comparison to Harry. Maybe Dumbledore thought Harry had too much on his plate and he needed more free time and not forced to so many tasks. That’s my take on it.

What the heck is that bridge thing over Diagon Alley? You see it right as you walk in and look up.

If you stop for a few seconds, under the bricks, before entering Diagon Alley, listen carefully-you can hear the bricks moving apart, letting you in. There's also another cool thing you can do. It involves the apartment building, next to the train station. I won't say what it is. I like to "perform this task" and then tell people around me to watch what happens.......it makes me feel like I have a magical touch. Also ,the shrunken head talks in the Knight Bus, although I'm not sure how often that happens......

I strongly recommend this to H.P. Fans if it’s their first time only or, new ones

you missed one theres one in wiseachers if you look up theres a bits of the old boats

Inside Wisearces all that metalwork hanging is JAWS! They were parts taken from the mechanical shark. Also Jaws the ride is still up and running at Universal Studios Japan. When you buy a wand, it comes with map that shows all the shops and spell locations. If you stand in certain spot in Nocturne ally, there's a black light that shows the "secret" spell locations. Inside The 3 Broomsticks, there's shadow animations that pop out on the walls. One is Dobby slowly walking by Inside Gringotts bank, the bags in marble hall have REAL (plastic shaped) Galleons, sickles and knuts inside

I knew about the first thing about my experience in this part of H A R R Y POTTER to be true diagonalley

Oh the blasty thing is included in fantastic beast 3

Also when they teletransport and say “diagon alley” it turns green then too! Isn’t borgin and burkes where Harry arrived instead of the other spot in the second movie? Where he said “diagonally”? 😂

Supercar bolndie turned into superpink portterhead!

Want another secret? Use Siri and say lumos and activate Siri again and say nox. All Harry Potter nerds need to know this.

I was never allowed to watch or read harry potter, and i still cant sadly. but we are going in june and i hope i can buy one souvenir without my parents getting pissed.

Also is it weird I would like to see a bogart so I know what my greatest fear is?

My granddaughter loves the hair. She did not recognize you at first.