Harry Potter Mania Erupts -
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Once again it all starts
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Harry Potter mania erupted once more again as the stars stepped out for the world premiere of the film phenomenon’s latest adventure.
Hundreds of fans burst into screams as the bewildered teenage idols graced the red carpet in New York.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third movie in the hit children’s series penned by author JK Rowling.
Daniel Radcliffe, 14, was stunned by the reaction of the crowd of mostly teenaged girls.
“It’s astonishing – it’s really, really, really scary but it’s brilliant,” he said.
“We have worked on the film for 11 months and it’s really gratifying that everyone came out to support it. It’s amazing.
“And they should support it because it’s a really great film,” he said.
Radcliffe said the boy wizard Harry Potter had grown up in the latest movie, just as he had in real life.
“You have to change the character. If you give the same performance in each film it going to get old very fast. So I think it is very important to change the character,” Radcliffe said.
“I’m the same age as Harry Potter so we kind of grow up together.”
He said some filming had already started for the fourth Potter movie, although the real work gets under way in July.
But before then he has school exams to contend with, he said.
Other stars on the red carpet were Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, Robbie Coltrane, whose character Rubeus Hagrid becomes a professor in the latest movie, and Alan Rickman, who plays Professor Severus Snape.
Harry Potter has proved a global hit and netted a massive £435 million for JK Rowling, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich list.
Radcliffe is reported to be the second richest teenager in Britain following Prince Harry, after recently overtaking singer Charlotte Church.
The Scotsman