As fans continue to count down the days to the July 15th release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, we continue with the second part of our Harry Potter special.

As well as chatting to Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint I also got to meet Emma Watson who plays Harry and Ron's best friend, the studious and righteous Hermione. Emma is even more stunning in the flesh than she looks on screen or in the many magazine spreads she's done for fashion titles lately.

We spoke about the new aspects to her character in this film, her decision to go to college in the US in the autumn and her passion for fashion.

You can hear it all by clicking below.

No Harry Potter movie is complete without Draco Malofy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts. Draco is played by the rather cute Tom Felton, who seems to have shot up in the last few years and is now over six feet tall. And he couldn't be unlike his character if he tried. He's one of the friendliest and chattiest of all the cast.

We talked abou the bleach blonde hairdo he CHOSE to put up with in playing Draco, his love for music and his new Twitter addiction (btw, if you are on Twitter yourself and want to follow him you can get him at twitter.com/tomFelton)

Listen to the interview below.

And finally, my last interview of the day was a double-hander with two of the Half Blood Prince's female cast. Bonnie Wright and Jessie Cave play Ginny Weasley and Lavendar Brown. While Bonnie has been in the movie series since the beginning, this is Lavendar's first Harry Potter experience.

We chatted about the growing relationship between Harry and Ginny, how Jessie's family feel about her being in Harry Potter and about which other character in the movies they'd love to play if they had the chance.

Check it out below.

And if all that wasn't enough, a week later I got the chance to talk to Evanna Lynch who plays Luna and Matthew Lewis who plays Neville when they came to Dublin for the Irish premiere of the movie.

The pair were a joy to interview and like their fellow cast members, look so grown up. Matt is much better looking himself than the Neville character he has to portray and the pair had plenty to say about the costumes and make up they have to endure (but very much enjoy) as part and parcel of their work on Harry Potter.

Listen to the interview below.

The eagerly awaited Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opens nationwide on Wednesday July 15th. Last Monday I headed off to the plush Claridges hotel in London's city centre to speak to a number of stars of the sixth Harry Potter movie. As a complete Potter fanatic it was a thrill to meet the main cast for the first time and I found them to be a pleasant, polite, level-headed and incredibly mature bunch of young adults.

First up is the boy wizard himself Daniel Radcliffe. My first meeting with him was when he almost knocked me down as he raced down the corridor of Claridges as I left another interview. With one of his trademark shy smiles and a quick "Sorry!",  he was gone but when I went in to interview him later in the afternoon we had a bit of a joke about our brief introduction.

Now almost 20 years of age (it's his birthday later this month), he's spent half his life playing JK Rowling's creation but like any guy his age he's mad about music, equally fascinated and perplexed by girls and insists he's not very grown up despite appearances.

You can hear what he had to say by clicking below.

Next up was Harry's best friend Ron, played by the unassuming and slightly shy Rupert Grint. Rupert of course has just recovered from a bout of swine flu and he seemed a bit less animated and somewhat more tired than the others but he was happy to talk about his kissing scene, filming Quidditch, and his now famous ice-cream truck.

You can hear that interview by clicking below.

Director David Yates has been on board since the start of the fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and he's remaining at the helm for the final two-part adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He's a soft-spoken gentleman but showed a clear passion for all things Potter and is well-respected by his young cast.

You can hear what he had to say here (including how Ireland's Cliffs of Moher ended up in the movie)

Click here for Part Two of our Harry Potter special, including interviews with Emma Watson (Hermione) and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy).