Emma Watson Admits Her Connection To Tom Felton Is One Of The ‘Purest Loves’ In Foreword To His Memoir

“As you’ll work successful this book, our relationship didn’t commencement well,” Emma Watson wrote astir her relationship with Tom Felton in the instauration to his book, Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (out Oct. 18 from Grand Central Publishing.) In the opening, Emma, 32, said that contempt this rocky beginning, she and Tom, 35, would turn to beryllium “soulmates” and beloved friends implicit the people of their clip connected the Harry Potter films. “When we archetypal met, I was a moony and astir apt alternatively annoying nine-year-old miss who followed him circular similar a puppy, hopeless for his attention,” writes Emma, per Seventeen.

“But, arsenic helium has written truthful eloquently, beautifully, and generously successful this book, our relationship didn’t extremity there. Thank goodness it blossomed and endured,” added Watson. “Like Tom, I ever conflict to explicate to radical the quality of our transportation and relationship. For much than 20 years now, we’ve loved each different successful a peculiar way,” she continued. “It’s 1 of the purest loves I tin deliberation of. We’re soulmates, and we’ve ever had each other’s backs. I cognize we ever will. It makes maine affectional to deliberation astir it.”

Emma and Tom (Scott Myers/Shutterstock)

Despite this connection, Tom and Emma ne'er took that relationship beyond that “pure” level. “I’ve ever had a concealed emotion for Emma, though not possibly successful the mode that radical mightiness privation to hear,” Tom writes successful his memoir. “That isn’t to accidental that there’s ne'er been a spark betwixt us. There astir decidedly has, lone astatine antithetic times.” The histrion down Draco Malfoy said that “rumors” of a romance started astir the clip helium was 15 and she was 12 and that helium “denied that I liked her successful that way, but the information was different.”

“My woman astatine the clip knew consecutive distant that determination was thing unspoken betwixt us. I retrieve utilizing the acquainted aged line, ‘I emotion her similar a sister.’ But determination was much to it than that,” writes Tom. After reflecting connected the relationship, helium notes that helium doesn’t deliberation helium was ever romantically “in love” with Emma but that helium did emotion her and “admired her arsenic a idiosyncratic successful a mode that I could ne'er explicate to anybody else.”

Emma and Tom (A Berliner/BEI/Shutterstock)

In January 2022, Emma spoke astir the enslaved with Tom to British Vogue, saying that she and Tom “speak astir weeks.” She besides said that it was “sweet” that Potter fans obsess implicit her and Tom’s friendship.