Emma Watson Writes She & Tom Felton Are ‘Soulmates’ In His Memoir – Hollywood Life

“As you’ll learn on this ebook, our relationship didn’t begin properly,” Emma Watson wrote about her friendship with Tom Felton within the introduction to his ebook, Past the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Rising Up a Wizard (out Oct. 18 from Grand Central Publishing.) Within the opening, Emma, 32, stated that regardless of this rocky starting, she and Tom, 35, would develop to be “soulmates” and expensive pals over the course of their time on the Harry Potter movies. “After we first met, I used to be a moony and doubtless quite annoying nine-year-old woman who adopted him spherical like a pet, determined for his consideration,” writes Emma, per Seventeen.

“However, as he has written so eloquently, fantastically, and generously on this ebook, our friendship didn’t finish there. Thank goodness it blossomed and endured,” added Watson. “Like Tom, I at all times battle to elucidate to individuals the character of our connection and relationship. For greater than twenty years now, we’ve cherished one another in a particular approach,” she continued. “It’s one of many purest loves I can consider. We’re soulmates, and we’ve at all times had one another’s backs. I do know we at all times will. It makes me emotional to consider it.”

Regardless of this connection, Tom and Emma by no means took that relationship past that “pure” stage. “I’ve at all times had a secret love for Emma, although not maybe in the best way that individuals may need to hear,” Tom writes in his memoir. “That isn’t to say that there’s by no means been a spark between us. There most positively has, solely at completely different occasions.” The actor behind Draco Malfoy stated that “rumors” of a romance began across the time he was 15 and she or he was 12 and that he “denied that I favored her in that approach, however the fact was completely different.”

“My girlfriend on the time knew immediately that there was one thing unstated between us. I bear in mind utilizing the acquainted outdated line, ‘I really like her like a sister.’ However there was extra to it than that,” writes Tom. After reflecting on the connection, he notes that he doesn’t suppose he was ever romantically “in love” with Emma however that he did love her and “admired her as an individual in a approach that I may by no means clarify to anyone else.”

In January 2022, Emma spoke in regards to the bond with Tom to British Vogue, saying that she and Tom “converse most weeks.” She additionally stated that it was “candy” that Potter followers obsess over her and Tom’s friendship.