Did Harry Potter's Tom Felton Have a Crush on Emma Watson, Who Used to Dig Him?

The two played Draco Malfoy and Hermoine Granger in all eight movies

By Corinne Heller Apr 06, 2016 8:23 PMTags
Watch: Did Tom Felton Ever Have a Crush on Emma Watson?

Sorry, Draimione shippers.

In 2011, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in all eight Harry Potter movies, revealed to Seventeen that when she was filming the first two movies, she had a crush on co-star Tom Felton who plays her and her friends' nemesis and junior Death Eater, Draco Malfoy. Their characters were between 11 and 12 years old. Watson, now 25, added that the actor, who is now 28, was her first crush. But was the feeling mutual? Apparently not. Sad face.

"We were always very close, but no, nothing of that nature," Felton told E! News Tuesday at the premiere celebrating the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Hollywood. "Sorry to disappoint."

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Felton had said in 2011, in response to Watson's past crush on him, that it was "very flattering for a 12-year-old boy," adding, "It's nice that we've become friends since then and we can kind of look back and have a laugh at it."

He also revealed that he did fancy another, older co-star—Helena Bonham Carter, who played fellow Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange.

"Coincidentally, that was my childhood crush," he said.

At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter premiere, Felton was also joined by fellow Harry Potter alumni Evanna Lynch, 24, who played the mysterious witch Luna Lovegood, Warwick Davis, 46, who played Professor Flitwick and other characters, and Fred Phelps and Oliver Phelps, 30, who played twins Fred and George Weasley.

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"We always stay in touch, don't get me wrong," Felton told E! News about his co-stars. "We're all, you know a family. We're just usually in four different corners of the Earth at any given time, so events like this give us a good chance to get back together again."

—Reporting by Tierney Bricker