The power to pluck knowledge, engage in commerce, seek inspiration or commit crime at the four corners of the globe is on a desk in virtually every home in the western world. Now everything’s connected to everything else, has the computer reached its nadir? Is earth now one giant supercomputer, eerily prophesised in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series?

The 30 year old who shakes your hand warmly is nothing like a ‘throwback’, as Australians have snobbishly been described in a recent profile on his Suicide Squad co-star Margot Robbie. Courtney has the air of someone who belongs. He’s urbane, focused and – when he starts to talk – still unmistakably Australian.

Of course, there are few more visible or beloved movie franchises at the commercial end of the spectrum for an Oscar winner to dive into in this day and age than the Potterverse