Q: Do you remember your audition for the part?

Tom: Vividly. It was open audition for all of the country, I must have been the only child out 20,000 that had no idea what Harry Potter was which made it very hard, ‘cause at the audition they were asking all the children which scene they were looking forward to from the book to come to the film. They got to about two boys away from me when I realized that I didn’t have an answer for them, so the guy next to me said something about Gringotts and goblins, and I was, like, “Yeah, those Gringotts sound awesome!” The director saw right through me.