During his visit he served as Assistant Director, and worked in the Art, Costumes, Visual Effects, Animals, Props, and Set departments.

Greg Anderson doesn't really know what part of his internship is going to show up on the MTV screen, and he's under so many confidentiality clauses he couldn't say if he did.

“I thought they were going to look at me and say, ‘What’s your favorite Madonna album,’ or something,” he said. “I’m interested in pop culture to a degree but I’m heavily into classical music. I mean, that’s my life.”

Greg screamed for the TRL camera as requested, then returned to Julliard to graduate, receiving his bachelor’s degree in music. An hour after the commencement ceremony he got a call asking him to be on an upcoming Harry Potter-themed TRL.

“It was really a blast, it was fun,” Greg said. “But that’s not really me you saw on the show. We generally don’t sit in front of a TV camera and scream our heads off.”

Since he and his friend Liz were the final two competitors, both knew they would be partaking of the grand prize – a trip for two to London.

“We knew we were going instantly after the second round, and we had to express excitement and act all competitive with one another. After I had won and she had lost, it was all this kind of fake confusing. They kept on telling us, ‘You have to jump around, scream, as loud as you can, run around, jump into the camera, throw the ball.’ They said so often they get people on the show and they just stand there. So we gave it to them.”

“Anyone could have won,” he said. “Dan Radcliffe picked first, and he picked my number,” moving him along to the next and final round. Greg guessed closest to Dan’s height in videotapes, and that was it, he had won. A reluctant trip to the NYC TRL studios had eventually handed him a prize most fans would kill to get.

TLC: Did you have any idea that you were going to win?

GA: No. I don’t think MTV knew at all who was going to win. They cared more about how we acted on the screen, that we were excited to be there.

The producer asked us questions, “Who plays Hagrid,” and all that. “What's Harry's owl's name,” something ridiculous like that, and then, “How many times have you seen the movie, how many times have you read the books.” I know they definitely wanted fans.

So they were obnoxious, in your face activities [in New York], and then in London it was so much more laid back. I didn't have to scream my head off.

I remember, especially, getting to talk with Dan and Emma briefly in the US on the show. They were so nice, and so down to earth and just charming and engaging, I was just completely blown away. It was really impressive to hear them conversing as real people. Especially because I'm 22, so it just seems a little weird to be too enthusiastic. I just don't want to weird them out or anything. But they made it so easy. Dan said they had just started filming the maze sequence…and he seemed really excited by how they had done it and seemed to think it was really impressive.

I picked up the first Harry Potter book and then I read the first three that weekend without stopping. I finished the four books and then read them all over again over Christmas break and then I'm sure at this point I've read them all four or five times. I've only read the new one three times - I apologize.

The MTV thing, they really want me racing around. They want to show me out of breath, and show me pampering these stars and interacting with Dan and Emma and Rupert.

The lady from Warner Brothers told me I’d just be working on the set every day in a different department, and she mentioned filming with the director and on the set itself.

You just have a sense of this different world, when you see the backstage documentary sort of things at the end of your DVD, but to actually be there with all of the lights and the hot or the cold of the set and all the people yelling before the actors say their lines in front of a camera, I just, I imagine that energy is going to be unbelievable. You always hear how much money goes into these movies, and to actually be there, seeing them expand it all with the huge sets and the cameras – I just know it's going to be really exciting. I feel slightly guilty because I feel like this would be the filmmaker’s dream, the budding filmmaker who wanted just to see it all happen, it should be them who gets to do this.