July 10, 2009 Potter premiere brings magic to Manhattan Play video

(NECN/APTN/Warner Bros.) - Potter-mania swept Manhattan Thursday as the sixth movie in the fantasy franchise premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

After facing torrential downpours earlier in the week at the film's London opening, the cast of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was greeted with sunshine and screaming fans in the Big Apple.

"They're a pretty amazing bunch," said Radcliffe of his fans.

"The guys in London we had as well - rain, hail, they stayed out there.

Somebody just said they'd been here eighteen hours, which is unbelievable. I don't think there's anything I would wait eighteen hours for, like not even like an organ or something that I needed," he added.

In 'Half-Blood Prince' the peril for Harry and his best pals Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley gets greater and greater, and Radcliffe was quick to drop one of the film's biggest spoilers: Dumbledore's death.

"Dumbledore's death scene was not going to be a walk in the park. That was quite a tough scene to do," he explained.