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BY ANGEL MENDEZ

ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY

While millions of fans say goodbye, the entertainment industry welcomes the boy wizard and the cast of Harry Potter with open arms... but to what? After nearly a decade of filming the eight Harry Potter movies, what’s next for the trio?

“The bond between Rupert, Emma, and myself is pretty unique because nobody else in the world knows what it’s like to go through all of this... from a young age and go through this mad, surreal, and wonderful world for ten years. We’ve grown up on set together.”

Despite their ten-year bond, all three cast members have plans to continue performing in the entertainment world separately.

Daniel Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter, currently performs on Broadway in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

But in film, Radcliffe is staying true to his Potter roots with more dark-sided tales. In January 2012, he will star as Arthur in “The Woman in Black.”

“The Woman in Black” will be much darker than any of the Potter films I think. Yeah, I guess I am attracted to darker tales, and there’s something much more interesting about them. I don't want to make a boring love story about two people who meet and then are happy. That's boring, and that doesn't exist.I also do like playing slightly disenfranchised characters like Arthur is in “The Woman in Black.” He's someone who's grieving and whose grief has put him to the edge of madness and also has sort of made him ostracize himself from society. I guess I like the dark stuff. I find it more interesting.”

As for Emma Watson, the intelligent Hermione Granger, she recently announced she’d be starring in a new film adaption of “Beauty in the Beast.” In the meantime, she told Regis and Kelly after previous doubts, she plans on continuing in her acting career.

“It’s funny. For a while, I thought I might end up doing something different, and I just went and did this movie called, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in Pennsylvania, and I just had the best time. Having an experience outside of Potter that was just as great really certified for me that acting is what I really wanted to and really focus on.”

Watson’s love interest in the Potter series, Ron Weasley, is played by Rupert Grint. Access Hollywood asked Grint about his future plans.

“It has been kind of ten, solid years of working, and it’d be nice to kind of not do anything for a while. I do want to continue doing more films really. I did a couple too after the last movie, which were really different to this. It was really nice and a nice change, as well.”

As the cast moves on, it leaves the millions of fans behind, but Radcliffe says this ending should be acelebration of the inevitable.

“One of the French King Louis, I'm not sure which one, since I lose track after a certain point - his last word were, he turned to all the people around him and said, 'Why are you crying, did you imagine I was immortal?' It's that same thing; it's like it had to end sometime, and we may as well celebrate it instead of getting too sad.”