After being found to be above the speed limit by more than 25%, Emma Watson was given a driving prohibition.
After being caught driving 38 mph in a 30 mph zone in Oxford, England, on the evening of July 31 of last year, the Harry Potter actress, who portrayed Hermione Granger in the series, would have wished for a spell to undo the fine she was given.
Today, July 16, Watson did not show up for her five-minute hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court, which is about a 45-minute drive southeast of the city where the British student has been studying.
The 35-year-old actor is presently pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Oxford, where he has been since 2023. He hasn’t acted in a film since the 2019 Little Women adaptation.
Watson had already accrued nine points on her driving licence before being caught driving 26 percent over the speed limit last year, but District Judge Arvind Sharma showed no mercy and slapped the Hollywood A-lister with a hefty $1,400 fine.
Due to Sharma’s endorsement of three more points on the Beauty and the Beast star’s licence, the court decided to ban the actress from driving for six months.
It just so happens that Watson was not the only Harry Potter character to receive a speeding fine in the same court on the same day.
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Zoë Wanamaker, whose character Madam Hooch taught Hermione Granger how to fly a broomstick in 2001, was also caught going 15 percent over the speed limit.
The 76-year-old was caught driving 46 mph in a 40 mph zone, even though she may not have been as aggressively breaking the law as Watson.
Wanamaker was driving down the M4 near Newbury, which is 40 minutes south of Oxford, when she committed her offence on August 7 of last year.
She also received a $1,400 fine and a six-month driving restriction after accruing nine points on her driving licence before her own speeding incident. Sharma also gave the celebrity three additional points for her punishment.
Born in New York, the American only appeared in the first adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s renowned Harry Potter books. She worked in television for the majority of her career in the UK.
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