Students at Emma Watson's school 'told to leave Harry Potter star alone'
'No one was allowed to go up and ask for an autograph or anything'
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Your support makes all the difference.Students at the secondary school attended by Emma Watson were instructed to leave her alone at school, graduates have claimed.
The Harry Potter actress attended Headington School in Oxford as a teenager, and now classmates are claiming teachers took special measures to ensure her time there was uninterrupted by Harry Potter fandom, according to a report by The Tab.
One graduate told the paper: “Of course, if you were friends with her you could speak to her, but no one was allowed to go up and ask for an autograph or anything.”
Another classmate claimed a penalty points system was introduced to deter students who were not friends with Watson from asking her for an autograph. Representatives for Headington denied any “special disciplinary measures” were taken.
A representative for Watson declined to comment.
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