Updated 01 November 2002, 13.06

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Well, it certainly helps you have ruffled brown hair, round glasses and a Hogwarts scarf.

Magic mark

But Neil, who's 11, from Derbyshire can go one better.

"I've even got a scar on my head!" he says. "I got it when I fell off a chair when I was 2 or 3."

Neil became a lookalike after his nan saw an ad in a national magazine.

"I met five other Harry lookalikes when I went up to the magazine thing in London - it was weird meeting people who looked like me!"

Even before that, Neil's classmates at primary school all thought he looked like the young wizard.

"When I was walking to the playground I'd hear people call out 'Eh up Potter!'" says Neil.

"I got my Hogwarts uniform by having a look around the shops. My favourite bit is the scarf my mum made. And I like magic!"

Big prize

Tom, who's 12, from Newbury, won a Harry Potter lookalike competition in the Daily Mail and scooped a £1,000 prize!

"I don't look like Daniel Radcliffe - he looks like me!" says Tom cheekily.

"My teacher kept going on about how I look like Harry Potter. My mum made me a cape and hat and my grandma knitted my Hogwarts scarf."

Then his dad thought it would be a good idea to get Tom signed up with a lookalike agency.

"I'm told I could make up to £250 for an appearance, but I'd do it for cheaper!" says Tom.

Harry's friends

Of course, not all Potter lookalikes have to be Harry.

11-year-old Lucy, from Avon, is signed up with the Lookalikes Ltd agency as Hermione.

"We went to watch the film and my mum and dad thought I looked like Hermione," she says.

"So my dad went on the internet and found out about the agency. We sent photos to Newsround and I won a fancy dress competition at my school."

Lucy hopes there'll be some interesting work coming her way now that Chamber of Secrets is coming out.

"I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, I can't wait 'til the next film!"

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