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Jersey Shore's own enthusiastic 12-year-old Scholastic News kid reporter Danielle Azzolina interviews Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter on Red Carpet.

Danielle Azzolina, 12, kid reporter for Scholastic News from the Jersey Shore's Northern Monmouth County section, was on the red carpet at the premiere opening of the new Harry Potter movie: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The event took place in New York City.

Azzolina landed an interview with Daniel Radcliffe, among other Harry Potter cast, including Warwick Davis, Freddie Stroma, Tom Felton, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Producer David Hymen and Director David Yates, according to the Scholastic.com Web site.

It is heart warming how Danielle described her interview with Radcliffe on Scholastic.com that caught national attention through the Sling blog, Los Angeles Times, MSN.com, nymag.com, among others.

In her report, Danielle states:

Radcliffe finally made it to the red carpet and it was my turn to question him. He has eyes that pierce right through you and a nice smile. He is also very gracious. I told him I had two questions to ask. First, I wanted to know how he was most like Harry.

"I think in the way that we value our friends," he said. "Friendship is very important in both our lives. I think I have Harry's natural curiosity as well. He's interested in a lot of things in his world as am I in mine."

Before I got to ask my next question, anxious reporters began to call out questions to him and he asked them very politely to please wait while I asked my second question. That was cool!

I asked him to explain how Harry has changed from the first movie to the sixth. His answer made me laugh.

"Well, he's gotten marginally taller," he said. In a more serious tone, he said that the films have gotten darker from the first to this most recent. "I think Harry has had to become a lot tougher because of that," he said.

To read the full article on Danielle's red carpet experience for Scholastic at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.