DES MOINES – He’s a box office star, a best seller and now Harry Potter has something else to boast about: He will be cast in butter for the world-famous Iowa State Fair.

Butter sculptor Sarah Pratt said giving Potter a place of honor next to the fair’s famed butter cow inside the Agriculture Building’s refrigerated glass case was a no-brainer.

“The marketing department at the fair and I were looking for something that would be a timely pop-culture thing to do, and with the new movie and new book coming out, it seemed appropriate,” she said.

Pratt, 30, is a special education teacher from Norwalk who took over as lead sculptor last year, after more than a decade as Norma “Duffy” Lyon’s apprentice.

The butter cow is a state fair tradition, and it’s typically accompanied by a more topical sculpture with a pop culture theme. Last year, Pratt crafted a butter sculpture of Superman, when native Iowan Brandon Routh starred in the newest version of the film.

Pratt expects her butter Harry to look more like the character on the book covers than Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Potter in the movies.

Pratt said she is still deciding on a pose. She would love to create Harry flying on his Quidditch broom, but the trick will be finding a way to do it without the supports being too apparent.

“To try to balance it in some sort of way is the challenging part,” she said. “I won’t really know the weight of butter or how to balance it or get the frame just right to get the look of flying.”