'Potter' Starlet Says She's Brown-Bound

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Emma Watson tried valiantly to keep her choice of college under wraps, telling Teen Vogue in June, "I probably sound like a paranoid nut, but I'm doing this because I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. I want to do it properly, like everyone else." Unfortunately, the 'Harry Potter' star had no magic spell to keep her costars' mouths shut, and Daniel Radcliffe revealed the name of Watson's future university to the Guardian last week.

Now that the cat's out of the bag, Watson herself is ready to chat about heading to the States to attend Brown University. She tells Paste magazine, "I've got a place there to read literature... I'm not trying to hide or anything like that. It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter', then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book."

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Watson admits that with a following as large as 'Harry Potter's,' hiding isn't really an option. "That's inevitable, I suppose, some of them must have seen the films over the years," she says. "But I do hope that it will be only a short time before I am known as 'Emma Watson, the student from the U.K.' rather than 'Emma Watson who starred in those 'Harry Potter' films.'"

Busy as she'll be with Ivy League studies, don't count Watson out for film projects during the next four years. "There are end of term breaks where I could do something if someone asks me, and I liked the idea. Acting and studying are in no way mutually exclusive, are they?" she says.

"Going there will mean a bit of 'normality' for a while. It certainly doesn't mean that I will never act again, that's not true. There's been a lot of confusion in the media about that, and most of it is ill informed - I seem to have managed pretty well up to this point!"

Watson adds, "Don't forget that I'm also very interested in fashion, and in modeling, which I enjoy. I enjoy photo shoots, because there it seems that the cameramen (or camerawomen) look at me very differently."

Watson is very clear on one thing: she is nothing but grateful for the 'Harry Potter' experience, though it made for an unusual childhood.

"I've probably had to grow up far quicker than most other children... we certainly had to act a lot more responsibly, and I've been working essentially since I was ten years old," she says. "But it has all been amazing, unique and incredible. And I'm still nineteen, so I want to do what a nineteen-year-old does. I want to be a teenager for the few months left!"

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