Harry Potter stars Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint pose for the cameras at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Soaked in the rain, but dashing as ever - in particular, Emma Watson!

Her character is intelligent in the Harry Potter series, but Emma Watson is smart in the real world too.

With the Harry Potter film franchise finally coming to a close, Emma can now start looking to her future and she has decided to go the academic route for awhile. The actress applied and received acceptance from several Ivy League schools, including Yale, Brown, and Harvard, but in the end she choose the hustle and bustle of NYC.

Emma reportedly plans to attend Columbia University in the fall. In an attempt to gain some anonymity, Emma changed her name while being included into the student directory, filing under “Charlotte E Watson” instead of her given name “Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson”.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will soon be released in theaters nationwide (July 17) and the new look banners are out already.

We had a first look at the character banners from the new movie, including Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Dumbledore (Sir Michael Gambon)!

Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) and Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) round out the new images from the second-to-last entry in the phenomenal J.K. Rowling saga.

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson is believed to have started dating an Australian drama student. Apparently she met him at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where she is studying.

Who’s the guy, you ask? Well, his name is Angus Willoughby & he’s 19 years old. We don’t have any pics of him as yet, but we are working on it.

Way to go, Hermione..oops..Emma!

As the sixth installment of the famous Harry Potter series nears completion, one of its stars Emma Watson candidly states that the movie is going to be a lot of fun. She spoke at the National Movie Awards, claiming that the movie will be a romantic comedy.

The actress who plays Hermione Granger in the adaptation of the popular book, says that .It.s got Ron.s first kiss with Lavender in it, which is quite big news. It.s much more of a romantic comedy, it.s much funnier than any of the other ones..

The movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is due out in July 2009. The other big stars in the movie include Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley.