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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Hermionemma.

Its a weird clashing of the fictional and real worlds when an iconic geeky witch becomes the face of an iconic fashion label. I say 'real' with a large handful of salt because the celebrity world is as far from real as fizzing whizbees. But still, celebrity or not, childhood witch and high fashion just don't really fit. Burberry + the one my dad used to call "Hermy-own" when reading the books with me (oh yes we did), just jars a little bit. But then Emma Watson was never really hermione, the 11 year old continues to grow up like the character in the books never could, and her screen self was only ever an attempt to portray the figure in J.K.Rowling's imagination...
 Its the end of an era when the stories you grow up with come to an end in some way. Of course the literature will always remain, the characters immortalized, but Emma on the other hand is not stuck....She said it was weird but good that small children sometimes think she is actually Hermione, but in many ways she is to many many people. Its strange when you partly wish the face that has come to represent the character to remain stuck in the literary world and not the real. I'm sure she wouldn't mind a life of chocolate frogs and innate genius...? But she will grow up --as the news seems to have suddenly become obsessed with--, she will be pretty and she will be slightly bad at acting and she will be a major star. Hollywood just couldn't help themselves all those years ago, when given the task of finding a frizzy-haired child. They couldn't help but go to Oxford and find a little budding beauty that would way outgrow her alter-frizz..

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