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Later, she added that her parents did their best to make her feel comfortable and that her biggest thrill was getting to know her adult co-stars, including Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, and Robbie Coltrane.

Now 12 years old, she said that while making the second film she was relieved to be familiar with the film-making process instead of being new to everything.

She called Thompson's performance as Trelawney "absolutely hilarious".

Watson said she found comfort in already knowing many of the Prisoner of Azkaban crew, who had also worked on Philosopher's Stone.

The actress, who counted herself among the many fans who predicted a relationship between Hermione and Ron Weasley in later Harry Potter books, said, "Hermione and Ron just need to get it together! It just needs to happen and they just need to get on with it."

She was appreciative of director David Yates, saying he was "quiet, very calm, very thoughtful, very sensitive."

Both reinforced the notion that her character, Hermione, should romance Ron Weasley.

Professional relationships
Over the years, Watson has formed a strong platonic bond with fellow Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. She described it as an "unique support system" because "you can’t really explain to someone [other than Radcliffe and Grint] what this experience is like". Although Radcliffe and Grint teased her when they were younger, they now protect her. Watson maintains that no romantic feelings were ever involved. In an interview with the German broadsheet newspaper Die Welt in 2007, Watson explained her reaction to being told that she would have to kiss Grint's character in the seventh film. Although she supported the idea of a relationship between the two fictional characters, she said she "would rather not think about it now", adding that while Grint was "very nice" and "many girls like him", he was not her type. Beyond her peers Radcliffe and Grint, Watson said she greatly enjoyed working with the adult Harry Potter actors, including Helena Bonham Carter, who played Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange and who was "so much fun"; Emma Thompson, who played (divination teacher Sybill Trelawney), and Maggie Smith, who played transfiguration teacher Minerva McGonagall and "who always gives me chocolates at Christmas", and Robbie Coltrane, who played (gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid) and who "is always telling us completely dirty and inappropriate jokes that we are far too young to be hearing, but we love, of course." She added that in the end, all Harry Potter actors form "a bit of a family for us as well". In a 2007 interview with YOU Magazine, Watson praised J.K. Rowling's contribution to the film series: "she has been really lovely and very supportive of the films—she comes on set and she is in e-mail contact with a lot of us. She just said to me, 'You are Hermione, you have completely become her,' which was just so nice and so generous of her [to say]".

In 2003, she described having "a good time as a teenager" despite all the stardom and said that she did not feel that she had lost her youth. However, she says that she is sometimes bothered by being watched by tourists and being a regular target for Internet impersonators. Watson admitted resenting some of her celebrity status in an October 2006 interview with The Times, citing it as one reason for being single: "Guys are either intimidated by me, or they have defences up, or they like to take the piss out of me."

Possible additional paragraph drawn from the above
Watson is close to her fellow Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, describing the three of them as a "unique support system" for the stresses of shooting the films. She has also been positive about the experience of working as a child actor, saying that her parents helped make her feel comfortable, and citing several of the actors, directors and crew she worked with as friendly and helpful.


 * That's without the supporting references, and I'm sure the wording could be improved. I just wanted to give you an idea of the sort of thing I was thinking could be re-added.  If you think this is worth it, I'll clean it up a little more and add references; or you can.  If not, we can just leave it.  I certainly don't think it has to be there, but I think it would be OK to re-add something like this.  Mike Christie (talk) 16:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)