He also says, with an incredibly straight face, that he's bought an ice-cream van in case his acting career falters. I've really enjoyed what I've done so I want to carry on if I can, he says. Watson, now an attractive 17-year-old with dark eyes and a winning smile, has yet to work outside the Potter family .
She is still at school and says the need to cater for her education - not salary demands, as rumoured - was the main reason she was the last of the three to sign on for the sixth and seventh Harry Potter movies. Dan and Rupert have left school, but I'm not ready to let go of that part of my life, she says. After finishing her final two years of secondary school she hopes to take a year in which she will travel and wind up commitments to the final Potter films, then go to university.
She also wants to continue acting. This is my fifth time around and now I have a lot more confidence in my ability as an actor, she says. I felt like I spent the first two just constantly being in awe and trying to find my feet, and not knowing whether I was doing it right or if I was any good or why I was there.
But I consider myself an actor now, which is nice. All three have matured enormously since they were first introduced to the world's media at a massive launch at the 15th century Knebworth House in Hertfordshire in 2001. They were shy pre-teens and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was about to start a box office avalanche that has yielded more than $4.
7 billion. This week, as they file in and out of a room at Claridge's, the opulent hotel in London's Mayfair, they are confident young adults. Radcliffe recalls while he was in Australia making ( a really heartfelt, sweet and genuine film ) he was star-struck when he met Eric Bana at an awards ceremony.
If I had met him on a set and we were working together I probably would have coped a lot better, he says. But I was, 'Hello, it's very nice to meet you, Mr Bana', and he obviously thought, 'I'm talking to a strange young child and I need to move away'. But, you know, he seemed very nice.
He finds it sort of hilarious that Las Vegas bookmakers are taking wagers on whether the boy wizard lives or dies in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , the imminent Rowling book, the details of which have been under more security than George Bush on a street walk in Baghdad. Radcliffe is saying nothing that might stack the odds one way or the other. I've got no idea.
I mean, the thing about the Harry Potter books is they're never just simple. If Harry was to live, which I'm starting to think he might do, it doesn't mean he won't incur terrible losses even though he's survived. If there is any sort of victory at the end of the books, I'm sure it will be very much a Pyrrhic victory and he will undergo terrible things to come out the other side alive.
Grint puts in a plug for Ron's demise, saying it would be really cool to play a death scene, but he pleads ignorance of Rowling's intentions. I'm really looking forward to seeing what's in store, he says. But it's going to be weird to have it end, because it's been such a big part of my life.
I can't wait, she says of the seventh book. But to contemplate the fact that she might die is just too depressing. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens Wednesday.
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