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Former “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months after being caught dashing.
The 35-year-old British actress and activist was clocked driving her blue Audi at 38 miles per hour in a 30-mph zone in Oxford, England, on the night of July 31 final yr.
She didn’t seem for the temporary listening to at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, the place she was fined £1,044 ($1,400) and disqualified from driving, in keeping with PA Media.
Shortly after Watson’s case was heard, the courtroom thought of a separate dashing offense involving her former “Harry Potter” co-star, Zoë Wanamaker.
The celebrated stage actress, who performed Quidditch referee Madam Hooch within the franchise’s first movie, acquired the identical sentence as Watson after she was caught driving at 46 mph in a 40 mph zone in Berkshire, southeast England in August final yr, PA reported.
According to the information company, each actresses had 9 penalty factors on their licenses earlier than the dashing incidents occurred.
On Wednesday, District Judge Arvind Sharma endorsed three additional factors on their licenses for the newest offences, which triggered automated six-month bans underneath UK regulation.
NCS has reached out to Watson’s representatives for remark. A consultant for Wanamaker declined to remark.
The parallel rulings mark a curious convergence for two actors whose careers as soon as intersected within the halls of Hogwarts, and who now discover themselves off the street on the identical time.
Watson, who rose to world fame taking part in Hermione Granger throughout all eight “Harry Potter” movies, has since pursued a parallel path in academia, filmmaking and girls’s rights advocacy.
Her post-”Potter” display screen work contains main roles in “Beauty and the Beast” and Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.”