All Of The Reasons Emma Watson Is Just Like Hermione Granger

Publish date: 2024-03-17

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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