"I was sad. I'm a bit of a sentimental buffoon, so I was already feeling tearful and nostalgic before they started months of shooting. You should really wait for the last day I think for that kind of behaviour."

"Luckily I think the Harry Potter experience has an afterglow in that these films will be released and are coming out over a long time, until July next year.

"And then I have a suspicion that they'll be in everybody's DVD collection until the next format comes along and replaces it so I don't think Harry Potter's going away for a very, very long time."