Chris Columbus deserves his flowers for being the original director of the first two Harry Potter movies . But not all directors can make their own movies exactly the way they hoped they would. In the case of Columbus, he reveals one Harry Potter moment that “still keeps me up at night” years later.

With an HBO Original Harry Potter TV series underway, Chris Columbus expressed to RadioTimes how “envious” he was not to be involved in the upcoming show. Previously, the American director believed the HBO adaptation was a “fantastic” idea to include book material that was left out of the movies. For example, Columbus got real about one moment that didn’t make it to the final cut of the franchise that “still keeps me up at night,” involving a missing Harry Potter character :

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