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Daniel Radcliffe was only 10-years-old when he first stepped into the shoes of the boy wizard Harry Potter. Now, as the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of thePhoenix, approaches so too does adulthood for Radcliffe and his co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. IGN.com was among a set of journalists invited to the Leavesden Studio sets to chat with thecast and crew, tour sets, and watch filming take place. We caught up with Dan for a few minutes in a field, moments after he had filmed a sequence just after the decision had been made to formDumbledore's Army, a student group Potter ends up leading.
Q: This is a lot darker for your character particularly, you're angry and having to deal with a lot of things. Can you talk about that?
DanielRadcliffe: I think Harry goes through what every teenager goes through in a way, at that stage. Of course Harry's feelings are exacerbated by the fact that he has had all of these troubles in his life andhas had people try to kill him at numerous times. (laughs). He is incredibly angry all the time. We did a scene the other day where he confesses to Sirius about how he actually feels, how he feelsangry constantly and how he thinks he is possibly turning into a bad person. There's a lot going on inside his head and I think that, for me as an actor, it makes it more interesting to do and I thinkfor an audience it becomes a more charismatic character to watch.

Q: In the last movie, the big thing you got to do was the underwater sequences, the scuba work. Is there something comparable onthis film that you get to do or is it not that kind of film?
Radcliffe: On an emotional level, there is much bigger stuff that I have to do in the fourth film like, obviously, what happens to Siriusand Harry's reaction to that. But there are no major action physical set pieces other than of course the final standoff between Voldemort and Harry and Harry and the Death Eaters and the Order of the...