PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Emma Watson, British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the series "Harry potter", Friday, denied reports that she was bullied at Brown University - an assertion supported by classmates who said thatIf anything, it has been at the shelter to be stigmatized and.
"The reason why I took a semester off the coast of Brown had nothing to do with bullying", Watson wrote on its Web site. "I've never been bullied in my life and certainly never Brown."
Watson said that it is not clear what are his plans for the fall semester, the beginning of its third year. As many of his "Brown comrades", she writes, is considering studying abroad.
Brown did not comment on media reports this month citing anonymous Brown "Insider" who claimed that Watson had been bullied in school.
The New York Daily News article posted online April 21 argued that when Watson responded correctly to the questions in class, his classmates would scream, "Three points for Gryffindor!" - a reference to the film "Harry Potter".in which the students dormitory houses are awarded points for the questions they answer correctly. Character of Watson lives in Gryffindor.
"The incident"10 points to Gryffindor"never arrived," writes Watson, who denied this rumour before. "Accusing Brown students of something as serious that bullying and which leave me seems beyond unfair."
The rumor that a student was once exclaimed "10 points for Gryffindor" after Watson responded correctly to a question is widespread on campus in the spring of 2010, the semester in which he would have to occur, according to several Brown students current and recentinterviewed by the Associated Press.
But, they said, it was considered as part of Brown folklore and students were, on the contrary, protector of Watson.
"We are trying to take care of our own to Brown, and I think that we try to make sure that it feels like someone else," said Megan Estes, a junior Brown who said that she does not know Watson, but worked on the production of a campus theatre production in which the Star "Harry potter" has acted.
In addition to the commentary of Gryffindor, he had little meaning on campus that Brown students heckled or antagonize Watson, said Estes and other students.
In class, students were respectful of Watson, said Bianca Dahl, invited Professor who teaches a course on global humanitarian aid that Watson attended briefly at the beginning of the spring 2010 semester.
"There were taking aware of it, but in a protective manner," said Dahl. "I can't understand this faculty or students would allow bullying to occur."
Some students went up to with respect to the Dahl him approach warn that actress took the course after she made reference in the conferences on the books "Harry potter" and a line of humanitarian mode created by U2 singer BonoShe said. Watson is involved with a line in the same way.
Allison Zimmer, who graduated last year and has been editor-in-Chief on weekly newspaper magazine Brown campus culture in the year freshman Watson, said that she often met Watson with friends in the dining room of Brown, its library and other places of normal campus.
"At the beginning, there was a bit of an aura around it." People said, Oh, "I did my first Emma Watson spotting." But which faded after the first weeks, Zimmer said. "It was almost not cool to mention."
The newspaper has consciously decided to cover normal as student Watson and not to give in his presence additional attention, Zimmer and other current and former editors at the journal say.
Watson Friday comments come a week after Vanessa Davies, his spokesman, told the Associated Press that the actress would transfer to another University in the fall because it "has decided to pursue a different course that unfortunately does not Brown."
Yet it is "possible and probable that she can return to Brown during his last year," Davies told the AP.
Davies has not identified the University at which Watson will transfer, but said it was "affiliated with Brown." It has no details on what can mean.
Brown refused to comment on the plans of Watson.
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