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Harry Potter Dept: His immediate idea was to condense the first five J.K. Rowling novels about the boy wizard into an entertaining five minutes. When Clarkson spied Jeff Turner busking in Covent Gardens he thought that, in the right light and eyeglasses, he could pass for Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the Potter movie adaptations, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The audience reception was so enthusiastic that Clarkson and Turner expanded the piece to an hour and entered the Edinburgh Festival, playing in a 60-seat former church hall. Any poster sporting the Harry Potter name draws a curious crowd and their show, now called Potted Potter, sold out and in 2006, English actor Dan Clarkson was asked by a public relations company if he could work up an act to entertain the hordes of Harry Potter fans expected to line up for hours on a London street for the midnight launch of the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Breed Prince. The pair were paid 300 each to put together a five-minute parody and perform it at 10 p.m., 11 p.m. and midnight for those who couldn't wait until morning to get their hands on the latest Harry Potter exploit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.