The secrets of Harry Potter: GL wanted to learn more about Daniel, who plays Harry Potter for the third time in The Prisoner of Azkaban. And while we were at it, we got Emma and Rupert on the line. Those two have the roles of Hermione and Ron. But you already knew that.

Who is Daniel Radcliffe?

When you want to get to know someone better, you go straight to the source. So we had the British cutie call us from London. Daniel's accent makes him, actually, a bit hard to understand over the phone. But it also makes him sound sooo polite. Here's what we know about Harry ... and what we found out about Daniel.

Harry is in Gryffindor at Hogwarts Academy.

Daniel attends private school, not for wizards. And while students are assigned to sorting houses, Daniel does find that cliques form. "Yeah, that's something I really don't like at all. I hate it the way you get a lot of people just kind of fraternizing and not associating with other people." When we ask him if he is part of any clique, he flatly answers, "No. I hope not."

Harry is great at Quidditch.

Daniel likes rugby. "I take rugby a lot, but at my school we're not allowed to play full-contact rugby, unfortunately." Daniel likes to run too. "I run about 100 meters, but the reason I'm not on a track team is because I'm not really at school much."

Harry rides a Nimbus 2000.

Daniel doesn't drive anything. He's 15, and the driving age in the UK is 17. But his dream ride is a fire-red Cadillac. "Like the one in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I actually prefer motorbikes by quite a long way. For now, my parents drive me."

Harry has magical powers.

Daniel wishes he had speed powder. "So I could get places really fast." And where is he in such a hurry to get to? "New York or Kyoto. If it was Kyoto, I would visit all the temples and stuff. They're all really interesting. I've been there once, and it was amazing. If it was New York, I'd walk around all the streets and go to Central Park."

Harry can sometimes predict the future.

Daniel is a tad uncertain about his future. "I'm not sure. I don't know what I'm going to do ... I can't really say yet. We finished filming so I'm kind of not doing anything. I've actually got some free time, you see. Reading and watching films and just chilling out really. I'm about to start reading 1984 by George Orwell."

Harry doesn't have a girlfriend.

Daniel has a crush. If he were to have a girlfriend, what would she be like? "She would be Scarlett Johansson, um, who I've recently fallen in love with. Um ... I would love to meet her." You know, the 20-year-old New York-born actress who's been cleaning up with her Lost in Translation success.

Harry has mentors.

Daniel has movie idols. "One of my favorite actors in the entire world, which I've just worked with, is Gary Oldham, which was an honor and a privilege. Ralph Fiennes is also someone I think is fantastic. And Phillip Seymour Hoffman is someone I'd love to work with." Work with in what? "Urn, anything that has a good, interesting script, a good character, and an interesting director--anything really that has those things"

Harry has two best buds in Hermione and Ron.

Harry has two true friends in Emma and Rupert. In fact, he gets on well with almost everyone on set. "We really get along as a kind of whole, urn, kind of like a family." The three do keep in touch when not filming, but don't see each other often. "We see so much of each other--we're on set for like 10 or 11 months of the year--the month we have off, we tend to go separate."

Who is Emma Watson?

Emma is a bit more chatty than Daniel, which we like. She's open and upbeat--a totally normal 13-year-old, who wishes she had an invisibility cloak to sneak into a Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert at the London Arena.

Besides rocking out Emma likes to read--and she's excited about recommending her favorites. "The last good book I read, and I've been raving about it everywhere, was Malorie Blackman. Noughts and Crosses. Best book in the world. But so sad at the ending. Anyway, the other two, Knife Edge and An Eye for An Eye, they're so good, the Malorie Blackman series."

And, yes, she reads the Harry Potter books, The Prisoner of Azkaban, of course, being the one on which the most recent movie is based. "I was already halfway through it when I began filming, so I was a massive fan even before we started. I was really excited about the third one--it's my favorite book, it's my favorite script, it's my favorite part for Hermione. I think it's going to be the best one."

The first two Harry Potter films--The Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets--raked in nearly $2 billion at box offices around the world, and instant acclaim and fame for its young stars. Emma is getting used to the recognition and fast adjusting to her celebrity status. "I suppose the best thing that's ever happened to me was, urn, this completely stunned me, a guy asked me to sign a 50-pound note. I was absolutely flabbergasted, I couldn't believe it. I was like, 'You know I can put this on paper if you'd like,' and he was like, 'Nope, no.' I was like, 'Whoaaah!'

The most glamorous thing that's happened to me ever, I was doing the Jay Lend show, and we were late for the [Harry Potter] premiere in Los Angeles. So a helicopter picked me up and took me to the premiere. You should have seen my face--I was over the moon!" Perhaps not as over the moon as she was when she met Brad Pitt, who was at London's Chapman Studios, where HP is shot. "I was, aw God, you shoulda seen me. I was just a wreck. It was amazing."

Besides bumping into leading men and getting flown in by helicopter for red-carpet events. being a star also means having a dressing room--and Emma's is the most elaborately decorated on the HP set. "When I first came into it, it wasn't the incest thing I'd ever seen. It was just like big white Wails. urn. plain carpet. I had to do something about it, so I asked if I could paint it. So I painted one of the walls in a masse painting of everything I like. So I've got on it, I've got fashion bags, I've got my favorite car, which is a Mini, I've got ice cream, I've got chocolate, it's just covered. It's really big and really colorful and really happy, so that's cool. And I bought lots of posters and yeah, it's a really bright room. And on my door, I've got a massive star, which is really cool."

Emma is far from being a demanding celeb, but there are certain items she doesn't like to be without during filming. "I'm really picky about my shampoo and conditioner, and I must have a hair dryer with me 'cause it really annoys me when I have my hair wet. Oh, I have to have my mobile phone--I feel lost without it--lip gloss, definitely, hmm, what else? Oh, my teddy bear, definitely. It's actually a rabbit, called Bunnykins. Oh, I have a ridiculous eccentric pair of slippers I got for Christmas, by Roxy--and they're bright pink and fluffy, just brilliant, and I love them."

The role of Hermione in The Sorcerer's Stone was Emma's first professional acting job, and she hasn't forgotten her humble beginnings before that big break. She's a perfect example of what the payoff can be if you hone your acting chops by landing parts in school plays. "My first play, was Arthur." The Young Years, which is a really English play about the Knights of the Round Table. I played Morgan la Faye, who is, surprisingly enough, a witch. My first ever sort of dramatic thing I did was when I was at primary school. We had to recite poems, and we did poetry a lot. I won something called the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, which at the time, I was really pleased about." Not bad, moving up from the Daisy Pratt to winner of the AOL Award for Best Supporting Actress for Chamber of Secrets.

Emma's somewhat of a star athlete, too. She plays field hockey, tennis and rounders, which is kinda the English version of baseball. "Field hockey is one of my favorites. I love netball [basketball]. I love athletics. "Emma rattles off her sporty aspirations and all the other things she wants out of life: "I have so many ambitions. I would like to play hockey for England--that would be good. I'd love to win an Oscar, but I dunno when that will happen. I want to have seen all the world, pretty much every country, just because I love seeing different places. So many things I want. lots of things. Health, be happy, good jobs, race marriage, kids."

She's got it going on, right? But. as it turns out. even international fame doesn't help when it comes to interfacing with the opposite sex. "I try, but it's so hard. Buys are just, ugh, especially teen-age boys--it's just one-word answers to every question you give them. They're annoying. It's awful. You'd think that because I'm an actress, I could get away with it. but no. If anyone thinks I'm like that, no, especially around boys. I get so stressed out. I'm like any other teenager, I really am. I'm far from perfect, nave massive spots in the middle of my nose."

Emma fares much better, at least conversationally, with her female pals--a close-knit group of four or five she kicks it with when filming wraps. "If we're outside school, we go to the center of Oxford and watch a film. We hang out in Starbucks. We go and choose CDs, talk, go to each other's houses, normal girly stuff."

Her favorite pig-out food is McCoy's Salt & Malt Vinegar chips. "One of my bad things is a craving for crumpets. Crumpets and muffins, with chocolate spread. That's my favorite."

Oh, and one more thing. "I make great pancakes."

Who is Rupert Grint?

you know how Emma complains about teenage boys having one-word answers to every question? That's Rupert! He's so shy, in fact, that he requested Emma be on the phone when we spoke with him. Hey, why not?

Girls' Life: How has your life changed since you've done the films?

Rupert Grint: It's a little bit different, but we try to keep it as normal as we could. We still do normal things. It hasn't really changed that much, just a few things. You get recognized, but it's basically the same.

Are you treated differently in school?

RG: Not really. Emma Watson: I started a brand new school in February. After the first couple days, people take second looks and are a bit funny, but then they realize you're a normal person and kinda forget about it.

Are you guys already cast for the remaining sequels?

EW: I think we're both playing in the fourth one.

Is it difficult to film for so many months out of the year?

EW: Just being away from friends and family. RG: Yeah.

Ron Weasley has four brothers and sisters. Rupert, de you come from a large family?

RG: Yeah, yeah, I have quite a large family. I'm one of five children. And yeah, so it's quite big. I'm the oldest.

Is your household similar to the Weasleys?

RG: No, not really.

Do you feel that you have much in common with Ron?

RG: When I was reading the books, I felt I could relate to Ronald. We've both got a big family, we've both got ginger hair, little things like that.

Are you a conscientious student?

RG: I'm all right. I've never really enjoyed school so much, either. EW: I'm not as work-oriented and teacher-praising.

Do you guys socialize off-screen?

EW: We see each other so much, every day for like a year, that the time we do get off we just want some space. But we do get along really well.

RG: Yeah.

Do you feel the fame has put any strain on your life?

EW: Not really. It's longer hours than what we put in at school.

RG: Don't get any homework.

If you guys could cast some sort of a spell, what would it be?

RG: Hmm. EW: I'm going with the good-old diplomatic one--world peace.

What would you do If you could get your hands on an invisibility cloak--would you have one?

RG: Oh, yeah, definitely. They're really useful. Yeah, um, you could use it for anything, really, like for detention. That'd be really good.

EW: Or going down to the fridge in the middle of the night to get food, nobody would see you.

Good one!

Behind the magic

We got the HP cast to spill about some of the stuff that happened on set during filming.

* EVEN EMMA FORGETS HER LINES, "The Prisoner of Azkaban has really hard lines to say, complicated words." Emma has a favorite line, one after Hermione and Ron get into an argument and she says, "Do you think you can come up with another clever way to get us killed?" before slamming the door.

* THE KIDS DO SOME OF THEIR OWN STUNTS. "I get thrown around by the Womping Willow tree. Chased by werewolves, Damentors, the lot," Emma tells us. "There's a lot of Quidditch in the rain," Daniel says. "They sprayed me down before each shot, then sprayed rain on me during the shot. Quidditoh can be quite exhausting." He's probably hooked to a harness, but Daniel's not telling: "I can't say. It'll ruin the magic."

* THE BOYS OUTNUMBER THE GIRL. "Yeah, Rupert and Daniel are just horrible to me all the time," Emma jokes. "Sometimes, you crave female company. My chaperone looks after me when I'm on set--I can talk to her."

* EMMA HAS AN ON-SET EMBARRASSING MOMENT. The kids have those Hollywood chairs with their names on them. "They're kind of flimsy, and mine had one of its legs on an electrical wire. I sat down, and it fell backward. My legs were up in the air like a chicken, and everyone was laughing at me. It took me ages to get out of the chair. Really, really embarrassing."