Maguire was fascinated when Major told Maguire his impressions of Harry Potter. Unlike what the Daily Prophet claimed, the teenager was not, according to John Major, a glory-seeker, a madman or a fool—instead, he was a lad who was given a nasty job that nobody else would do, then he did it. Major quoted Potter describing what he had done with Lord Voldemort as "A bit more dangerous version of taking the rubbish bin down to the kerb."