When the "Harry Potter" film series is completed, its three young stars, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, will have inhabited J.K. Rowling's universe for half their lives.

Radcliffe, who is now 19, was 11 when he was cast as the boy wizard for the series' 2001 debut. Watson, now 19, was 10 when she auditioned for the whip-smart Hermione Granger. Grint, the eldest of the trio, is 20.

"I've probably been Ron as long as I've been Rupert," says Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, the ginger-haired, perpetually hungry friend of Harry and Hermione.

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