Daniel Radcliffe Answers A 'Harry Potter' Question He'd Never Been Asked
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— -- There are very few "Harry Potter" questions that Daniel Radcliffe hasn't been asked.
However, during his "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit, one fan managed to pose a query that Radcliffe hadn't heard before: "If you had a Horcrux, what would it be?"
"Um... that's a really good question. First of all, congratulations to you for asking me a Harry Potter question I have NEVER been asked before, that is not easily achieved!" he wrote. "I would say... I was gonna say my iPod, prolly put it in that, but I would put it inside an album on the iPod, so you'd have to open that album. So I somehow want it to be connected to a particular album that means something, like Ziggy Stardust. So that's how I'd want to do that."
For those not familiar with the franchise, a horcrux is an object to which a "Harry Potter" character can attach his or her soul.
The actor, now 25, also answered a few other "Harry Potter" questions for fans, including the following.
Harry Potter is obviously a Gryffindor, but what is Daniel Radcliffe? I mean, I... to me, it's not a... to me I absolutely think I would be in Gryffindor! But there's never any doubt of that for me. Yeah. I like, maybe I'm just biased because I played one for so long, but I could never picture myself in any other colours.
Assuming you read all the Potter books before their respective films were made, did you ever get upset about changes or omissions from the stories when you were reading your script? Ehm - not particularly. I think we had very quickly become aware that stuff was not going to be in all the films that we couldn't fit everything in, I think I remember the thing early on that me, Emma and Rupert were all slightly surprised by, that we had all ABSOLUTELY LOVED the chapter in the Chamber of Secrets book about the - I think was it Nearly Headless Nick's Birthday Party? But I think it was some sort of a ghost birthday party that was not in the films, and I remember at the time we were all quite surprised by that. I know some people would have been quite happy to see a 4 hour long Harry Potter movie with every detail in there, but some people also would not have...
Daniel, did you put your name into the goblet of fire?!?!?! You know what, I don't think we did I'm pretty sure. Because I think that by that point, they had figured out my handwriting was so bad that they would never let it be seen in the film. So I'm pretty sure one of the props guys wrote "Harry Potter" neatly on a piece of paper for me to put in.
When you auditioned for your role in harry potter did you have any idea that it would turn out to be this major of a movie series? Not really. Even as a kid, I hadn't the full scope of the Harry Potter phenomenon, hadn't really, ever, made an impression on me I guess? Obviously I'd read the first couple of books, but I wasn't as into it as a lot of my class was, so no, I could never have imagined it was as big as it was. I think maybe it's only now that I'm really starting to get a fuller sense of how wide-reaching it was, and how many people's lives it affected, which is very cool.