The Boy Who Continued to Live as Harry Potter and Actually Could Not Really Escape It Ever

Around 11:30, everyone lined up and gazed at the sea, waiting for the water taxi to take them to the next event. “In case you were wondering what that convocation in the corner was about,” Radcliffe said, referring to his time with his parents, “I did finally hit a point at which I needed to be somewhere where no one was asking me for anything.”

-Susan Dominus profiled Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe for the New York Times Magazine this week, and it’s sort of unexpectedly heartbreaking. (He’s starring next as a young Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings.) A far more uplifting read, surely: Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?