Is there life after Hermione for Emma Watson, the young heroine of the Harry Potter films? Now 17, she tells Lucy Cavendish about her first non-wizard role, and how she feels as if she's 'won the lottery'

Emma Watson has been in the public eye for what seems like forever. We all became aware of her eight years ago when she was cast as Hermione Granger in the first Harry Potter film, and it has gone on since then. So maybe it's not that surprising that her publicity machine is fretting somewhat. 'It's her first interview away from Potter,' the PR whispers to me on our way to meet the 17-year-old Watson. 'She may be rather shy.' We turn a corner to find Watson skulking around a kitchen, nervously sipping some juice and looking very pretty and gamine in the current teenage uniform of three-quarter-length leggings, faux leopardskin pumps and brown soft-leather bomber jacket. She has long blonde hair, a neat face and very dark plucked eyebrows, and she still seems terribly young, despite everything she's experienced so far in her short life.

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