After working together for more than twenty years, Emma Watson finally opened up about her feelings for Tom Felton in his memoir.
There is a long history between Tom Felton and Emma Watson.
The pair, of course, met while filming Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone way back in 2001 and fans have been wishing for the Harry Potter co-stars to get together for years.
Watson has said she first developed a crush on Felton when she was just 9 years old!
She told Seventeen more details way back in 2011…
“For the first 2 movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush,” Watson admitted.
But in HBO’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special, fans got even more details on the pair’s past…
As per ET Canada, Watson said: “I walked into the room where we were having tutoring. The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God looked like, and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard.”
“And I just don’t know how to say it — I just fell in love with him.”
“I used to come in every day and look for his number on the call sheet, it was number seven, and if his name was on the call sheet, it was an extra exciting day,” she added.
However, things weren’t quite the same for Felton…
Watson explained: “He was 3 years above me and so for him he was like, ‘You’re like my little sister.’”
Felton said: “I think I was in the hair and make-up chair and someone said something along the lines of, ‘Yeah, she had a crush on you.'”
However, he maintains that he has always had a “soft spot” for Watson.
“There’s always been something that’s like, I don’t know, a kinship,” he admitted.
But it’s not just these 2 who saw it either…
Fellow Harry Potter star Rupert Grint even agreed that there was chemistry between his costars, saying: “There was a little bit of a spark.”
Speaking to ET Online in 2019, he said “there was always something” between Watson and Felton.
But now, fans have been treated to an inside scoop of their relationship…
Felton has written a memoir, for which Watson has written the foreword.
In his memoir, Felton admitted he had a “secret love for Watson.” But “not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear.”
“That isn’t to say that there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times.
“Rumours started to abound that there was more to our relationship than we were letting on. I denied that I liked her in that way, but the truth was different,” he wrote.
He added: “My girlfriend at the time knew straight away that there was something unspoken between us.
“I remember using the familiar old line, ‘I love her like a sister.’ But there was more to it than that.”
“I don’t think I was ever in love with Emma, but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else.
“We were kindred spirits. I know for certain I’ll always have Emma’s back, and she’ll always have mine too,” Felton wrote.
His explanation for his relationship with Watson came after the heartfelt message Watson wrote in the foreword.
“You know that person in your life who makes you feel seen? That person who is somehow a witness to all that unfolds? That person who knows — really knows — what is happening to you and what you’re going through without anything having to be said?” Watson began.
She continued: “For me, that person is Tom Felton.”
Watson wrote that their relationship “didn’t start well” as she was a “rather annoying 9-year-old girl who followed him round like a puppy.”
She wrote that was “desperate for his attention” at that age.
“Like Tom, I always struggle to explain to people the nature of our connection and relationship,” she said.
Her foreword continued: “For more than twenty years now, we’ve loved each other in a special way, and I’ve lost count of the times people have said to me, ‘You must have drunkenly made out, just once!’”
“But what we have is far deeper than that.”
She said her and Felton’s relationship is “one of the purest loves I can think of.”
“We’re soulmates, and we’ve always had each other’s backs. I know we always will.”
The star wrote that it makes her “emotional to think about it.”
“Even when he doesn’t have the whole picture, he’ll never doubt that I’m coming from a good place and will have done my very best.”
“That’s true friendship and to be seen and loved like that is one of the greatest gifts of my life,” she said.
The foreword ends with an incredibly touching message where she calls Felton a “little piece of my soul.”
“The world is lucky to have you, but I’m even luckier to have you as my friend.”
What do you think of Watson’s heartfelt message?