Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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For our latest mission, we sent an 11-year-old actor dressed as Harry Potter into New York's Pennsylvania Station to search for Platform 9 3/4. Harry wandered the station with a caged owl and a luggage cart and asked both strangers and transit employees how to get to the Hogwarts Express, presenting them with his Platform 9 3/4 ticket.

Created and Directed by Charlie Todd
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Produced by Deverge
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Music by Tyler Walker
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Movies In Real Life is presented in part by Fandango
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Producers: Alan Aisenberg, Andrew Soltys
Director of Photography: Ilya Smelansky
Editor: Deverge
Camera: Denis Cardineau, Ilya Smelansky, Spencer Thielmann
Sound: Ken Barbera
Photography: Arin Sang-urai
Props and Costumes: Aleks Arcabascio
Production Assistants: Juan Cocuy, Cody Lindquist, Michael Tannenbaum
Owl Design and Creation: Jamie Bressler
Cast: Sebastian Thomas as Harry Potter
This is one of over 100 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past ten years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Food Court Musical, and the famous No Pants Subway Ride, to name a few. Visit our website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.

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