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From JK Rowling to Emile Zola ... Harry Potter and the coming of age

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20051026
Author:Stephen McGinty

FIVE years on, it appears Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Potter have grown up together. When the child actor was first unveiled as the world's most famous boy wizard, he was an 11-year-old whose conversation scarcely stretched beyond the intricacies of the World Wrestling Federation.

Now, four films later, Radcliffe has grown in the real world and developed a taste for the weighty novels of Emile Zola and the music of Pete Doherty's former band, the Libertines.

And as Harry has his first screen love interest in fellow Hogwarts pupil Cho Chang, played by Scottish actress Katie Leung, 18, it ...

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