{"id":387185,"date":"2011-04-21T22:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/did-bullying-drive-harry-potters-emma-watson-out-of-brown-university\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T22:58:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:58:40","slug":"did-bullying-drive-harry-potters-emma-watson-out-of-brown-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/did-bullying-drive-harry-potters-emma-watson-out-of-brown-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Did bullying drive Harry Potter&#8217;s Emma Watson out of Brown University?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"128.690736011\">\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 11:58 PM on 21st April 2011<\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e638article-1379250-0BB9D36200000578-122_233x500.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Taunts: Emma Watson, pictured here at Brown University last year, has been the subject of teasing by her fellow students, it has been claimed\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taunts: Emma Watson, pictured here at Brown University last year, has been the subject of teasing by her fellow students, it has been claimed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A source said: &#8216;They would respond with a quote from Harry Potter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The most popular choice was &#8220;Three points for Gryffindor!&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Characters in the films would often shout that phrase out when a student at the fictional Hogwarts school got a correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Watson&#8217;s peers also shouted phrases from the film at her as she watched an American football game, the New York Daily News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Watson, 21, announced she was putting her studies at the Providence, Rhode Island institution on hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I will still be working towards my degree&#8230; it&#8217;s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought,&#8217; she wrote on her website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I&#8217;ve had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/86d1article-1379250-0BB9D37600000578-523_468x387.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"387\" alt=\"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\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did bullying drive Harry Potter&#039;s Emma Watson out of Brown University? 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