#Emma Watson Reveals Her All-Time Favorite Harry Potter Scene

During the “Harry Potter” reunion special, available to stream right now on HBO Max, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe revisited the scene where their characters danced together in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” the penultimate film in the franchise.

At this point in the film, Harry and Hermione are exhausted from their search for Voldemort’s horcruxes, and they’ve just been abandoned by an exasperated Ron. It’s one of the lowest points their characters have ever been. They’re both grieving Ron’s departure, they don’t know where to look for horcruxes anymore, they’re tired of running for their lives, and don’t know if they’ll live to see the next day. In an attempt to cheer up his friend, Harry approaches her, taking Slytherin’s locket, one of Voldemort’s horcruxes, off of her neck, and pulls her up to her feet. As Nick Cave’s “O Children” plays on the radio, Hermione and Harry share a slow dance.

Watson conveyed that she thought it would be “really awkward” for Hermione and Harry to dance in that grim moment. A decade later, it has become one of her favorite scenes from the entire film franchise. Watson said to Radcliffe during the special:

“The scene that I thought was going to be really awkward, and I wasn’t sure about at all, which was us doing our dance, now that’s one of my favorite scenes from the whole of the series. Because the level of familiarity that you and I had with each other at that point, I don’t think I could have done a scene like that with any other actor. So much said in the scene, it was unspoken, I loved that. And also, in the same way as characters, they got to have a moment of fun. You and I got to have a moment of fun, which we also needed at that point.”