Bonnie Wright Confirms There Is a ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Group Chat (Exclusive)

• Bonnie Wright revealed to PEOPLE that there is a Harry Potter cast group chat — and a “heavily populated” one at that — ahead of a performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway on April 30
• Wright plays Ginny Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films
• The 34-year-old actress tells PEOPLE she still keeps in touch with lots of fellow Harry Potter alumni, even though it’s a bit tricky now that “everyone lives all over the world”

Yes, the cast of the Harry Potter films still keeps in touch — and no, they don’t use owls!

While catching up with PEOPLE before a performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on April 30, Bonnie Wright (who plays Ginny Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films) confirmed that the movie cast does have a group chat — and a massive one at that.

“There is a group WhatsApp, people,” the actress and environmental activist, 34, tells PEOPLE at New York City’s Lyric Theater, hours before hitting the stage for a post-show talkback with the cast of the Broadway play.

“That’s all I can say,” Wright adds coyly. “There is one, yes.”

As for who in the original cast — which includes Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley — is actually in the group chat, Wright only hints that it’s “very heavily populated.” (One likely member, however, is Tom Felton, who recently told PEOPLE he is quite active in a chat with his former costars.)

Separate from the massive chat, however, the California-based actress also keeps in touch with lots of fellow Harry Potter alumni, even though it’s a bit complicated now that “everyone lives all over the world.”

“In recent years,” she tells PEOPLE, “Evanna Lynch and Tom Felton lived in L.A. too.” But unfortunately, the actors — who played Draco Malfoy and Luna Lovegood in the films, respectively — “don’t right now,” she adds. “So I’m just there.”

“But I see [James and Oliver Phelps] a lot — who play, obviously, my twin brothers. They’re who I’ve seen most recently,” she continues. “And then I did see Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang. She’s also a good friend. And Afshan Azad-Kazi, who played Padma Patil.”

Plus, Wright adds, “there’s a lot of the crew I’m also friends with, so when I go to London there’s a few people that I meet up with.”

The star also has plans to chat with Grint — who played her older brother Ron in the films — soon, as the actor, 36, welcomed his second daughter last month.

“I need to officially congratulate him,” Wright says of Grint, “not just my internal excitement when you learn everything.”

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Following the April 30 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child show, Wright appeared as a special guest, chatting with several of stars of the Broadway play — including Sarah Killough, who plays Ginny.

And being at the show — which picks up after the events of the final Harry Potter film, 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — brought Wright right back to set, she tells PEOPLE, even though it’s been more than a decade since she last stepped into Ginny’s shoes.

“I mean, I love how they’ve imagined it for a play,” the star says of the story. “I think it’s just so clever because I think theater has its own kind of magic to it. It’s nice to bring in these like practical effects, which you don’t really get to rely on as much in filmmaking.”

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Though it has been years, Wright — who started filming the Harry Potter movies at just 9 years old — says she still finds herself thinking about the films often, and never gets tired of revisiting them. And when she links up with her former costars, they act as real-life Pensieves of sorts, reminding her of things long forgotten.

“I’ll just have memories, like fragments,” Wright explains, “and you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot about that.’ Or sometimes I’ll be doing interviews with other actors from the films, and they’ll recall some story and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about that.’ And I’ll just be like, ‘How did I forget about that? That was a great moment.’ ”

This, she adds, is “always what’s so fun when we do things together … you just get to kind of reminisce.”