“Thankfully, neither is the case,” the actor promises. “It’s one of the most exciting sequences in the film.” With all eyes on his post-Potter form, he reckons he’s upped his game to deliver his finest work yet: “I think it is, absolutely.

“I think it’s equivalent to my work in the last Potter film, which I was pleased with for once. And, I hope, better than that.”

In truth, the harsh criticisms of Radcliffe’s Potter form now feel misjudged. Cast after his touchingly forlorn TV debut in 1999’s David Copperfield, he was a mite stiff in the early Potters.

But that goes with the turf of a film series largely unique in tracking an entire adolescence: re-watched from the perspective of Deathly Hallows, where he simply is Harry, the early films look like awkward but necessary first steps en route to growing into the role’s skin.