"It was September 29, 2000," said Daniel Radcliffe about that first day for filming of Sorcerer's Stone. "Me, Emma [Watson], and Rupert [Grint] had all traveled up that day in a minibus, and we sat on the back seat -- which was undoubtedly my influence -- pretending that we were DJs on a radio station."
After initially beating more than 40,000 young hopefuls to their roles, the series' wide-eyed stars have spent nearly half their life casting spells at Leavesden Studios outside London, where the Harry Potter sets are housed.
"Before this film you never really thought about it ending, you kind of just thought it was going to go on for ever. It's going to be quite a moment I think because my whole childhood is really in this place," said 21-year-old Rupert Grint.But Grint quickly goes to stress that he is ready to leave Hogwarts' gates behind him and move on to new ventures -- this time without the help of magic potions. "I think I'm ready to move on and get out into the real world and see what it's like."
"I'll never forget walking through those amazing doors for the first time, as we have done many a time since," Tom Felton told CNN. I also remember auditioning here. "The crazy thing about the audition was that, at my very first audition -- when they had thousands of kids in, day in day out -- Emma Watson was standing next to me and we did it together. And I came back in two weeks and she had been cast!"
The end of the Harry Potter series is surely not the end of the road for the saga's global stars, although they admit they may not have dry eyes as they leave set for the last time.
"It will be very, very sad to think that I can't come here every day and work with my best friends all the time." claimed Daniel Radcliffe"Tears will be shed, I'm sure," said Felton. "Tears of joy and tears of leaving it all behind as well. I know we're all very excited to see what's going to happen afterwards and where we'll all going to go."
"But saying that, I think most of us right now are just trying to appreciate the time we have left."
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