Exclusive | Harry Potter stars recall worrying about crossbow incident on set with JK Rowling: Its the boss!

Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes has new treats. “Harry Potter” stars James and Oliver Phelps, who played mischievous twins Fred and George Weasley in all eight movies, return to host Season 2 of Food Network show, “Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.” “I’m the kind of person that will forget to put the oven on preheat.And then I’m like ‘ah, it’ll be alright!’” James, 39, told The Post. Returning Sunday, Nov.

2 (8 p.m.) and streaming the next day on HBO Max and Discovery+, the Harry Potter-themed baking competition series is judged by Carla Hall and Jozef Youssef, and features teams of pastry chefs making edible creations that tie into the Wizarding World.“Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking” films on location at Warner Bros.Studios Leavesden in Watford, England, where the Harry Potter movies were filmed.“When we were filming in The Great Hall, I literally had a flashback to when we were filming the first movie,” said James. He recalled that the twins’ birthday fell during the production schedule.

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” director Chris Columbus, “got us to stand on the table, and got over 500 kids in the Great Hall to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to us.I completely forgot about that, until we were filming this.”He noted, “So, that was quite cool to remember.” While walking around the Potter set filming “Wizards of Baking,” Oliver, 39, didn’t think he’d ever be in there again, “let alone filming a TV show,” he told The Post.

“It transports you back.” One moment he remembered was an awkward moment with controversial author JK Rowling. There used to be a lot of “waiting around” on the set of the movies, which were in theaters between 2001 and 2011. The Phelps twins often hung out in Rupert Grint’s dressing room, and one day they made a “crossbow, to play darts with.”“We’re lining up this crossbow….just as JK Rowling stuck her head around the door to say hello.We’re like ‘hello...