Growing up and growing Potter.

Watson, 17, is keen on the Potter mythology that the DVDs provide. "It's really interesting, especially with the end of the books -- the release of the seventh one.

"It was really interesting how many different interpretations the books are open to, and how everyone had a different theory: 'Harry's going to die!' Or: 'Are Hermione and Ron going to get together?' It was really interesting and the DVD really deals with that interest and looks in depth at the films and the themes."

Producer David Hayman says Rowling's books "are the real reason" for the success of the Potter franchise "and the real gift that allows us to keep it alive and keep it fresh, because she's created these characters that we are all invested in.


Daniel Radcliffe is seriously committed to the next two Harry Potter movies. But he also yearns for a life, a career, after the Potter phenomenon fades.

"Yes," he muses to Sun Media during a shared two-on-one session to mark tomorrow's DVD debut of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, "I hope there is one."

Today, the 18-year-old Londoner is dog-tired, yet still game, proud of his contributions to the Phoenix DVDs.

We sit in a funky three-walled diner that is one of the sets for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due in theatres in 2008. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will follow in 2010.

"This is an industry that can be very fickle and can be very perfidious sometimes and will turn its back on people," Radcliffe says.