By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:58 PM on 21st April 2011
Taunts: Emma Watson, pictured here at Brown University last year, has been the subject of teasing by her fellow students, it has been claimed
Emma Watson was bullied by classmates at a top US college who taunted her with lines from the Harry Potter movies, it has been claimed.
The actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the franchise, would answer questions in class at Brown University only to find her fellow students would make wisecracks.
A source said: ‘They would respond with a quote from Harry Potter.
‘The most popular choice was “Three points for Gryffindor!”‘
Characters in the films would often shout that phrase out when a student at the fictional Hogwarts school got a correct answer.
Watson’s peers also shouted phrases from the film at her as she watched an American football game, the New York Daily News reports.
Last month Watson, 21, announced she was putting her studies at the Providence, Rhode Island institution on hold.
‘I will still be working towards my degree… it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought,’ she wrote on her website.
‘As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I’ve had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible.’
Determined to fit in: The actress, pictured here during her first semester at the school in 2009, wanted to be treated like any other student
Watson is now busy working on a number of fashion projects before she turns her attention to the promotion trail when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is released in July.