Emma Watson and a fellow Harry Potter co-star had been handed driving bans on the identical day on the identical court docket – discover out extra under.
Yesterday (July 16), Watson – who performed Hermione Granger within the Harry Potter movies – and Zoe Wanamaker – who performed Quidditch referee and flying broom teacher Madame Hooch – had been each banned from driving on the Excessive Wycombe Magistrates’ Court docket in England, per the BBC.
They had been each banned and fined over separate speeding-related offences. For Watson’s offence, she was caught driving at 38 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone in Oxford in July final yr. She was fined £1,044. She had already gathered 9 demerit factors on her license previous to the offence, and has thus been banned for driving for six months – she must apply for a brand new license earlier than having the ability to drive once more.
Per the BBC, Watson was not current in court docket for the listening to, and thru representatives has agreed to pay the wonderful.
Equally, Wanamaker was caught rushing at 46 miles per hour by way of a 40 miles per hour zone final August. She obtained an equivalent wonderful, and like Watson, has been banned for driving for six months. Wanamaker had equally gathered 9 demerit factors previous to her workplace.
In different Harry Potter-related information, HBO has revealed the first seems at Dominic McLaughlin and Nick Frost in costume for the upcoming TV sequence. McLaughlin will likely be enjoying Harry Potter, whereas Frost performs Hagrid.
The primary season of the brand new TV adaptation started filming earlier this week at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire, the identical place the flicks had been shot. It’s set to premiere early subsequent yr and the present may span a decade in an effort to discover some plot strains in additional element than the movies.
Becoming a member of Frost and McLaughlin within the forged are Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape and Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall.
Final month, Frost informed ScreenRant that he was going to be “very protecting” over the youngsters forged alongside him within the sequence. “Look, I’m a dad myself, so I’m going to be very protecting to the youngsters, and I feel that’s Hagrid’s — one of many sort of baselines of his relationship with these youngsters. He’s very protecting of them, and I actually can’t wait.”
He added on the time: “I’ve had the chance to go and see some units, they usually’re rising a Hagrid beard, and I’m seeing the Sorting Hat, and listed here are some wands. It’s completely superb. Getting the prospect to begin to study Francesca [Gardiner, showrunner]’s script and hanging out with [director] Mark Mylod — that’s the explanation I wished to do it within the first place — to get to retell and to be Hagrid. I get an opportunity to be Hagrid. It’s superb.”
