All Of The Reasons Emma Watson Is Just Like Hermione Granger
In the Harry Potter books and movies, Hermione Granger starts off as, in the words of Professor Snape, "an insufferable know-it-all." She is often the first to raise her hand when the teacher asks a question. As it turns out, Watson related to Granger's eagerness when she read her first Harry Potter book.
"I started reading Harry Potter when I was 8, [and] I just really identified with her," Watson said in a 2016 interview for Paper. "I was the girl in school whose hand shot up to answer the questions. I was really eager to learn in an uncool way. In a super uncool way, actually. And then the character of Hermione gave me permission to be who I was."
In 2009, Watson made headlines for choosing to take a hiatus from acting in order to attend Brown University (per CNN). Why would a successful actor — who had surely made enough money through Harry Potter to last a lifetime — choose to spend four years on lectures, homework, and exams at a challenging Ivy League university? Based on Watson's self-proclaimed eagerness to learn, it would seem that she sought a college education simply for the love of knowledge.
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