While I think Emma Watson is a very good actress, her Hermione was always too pretty and not awkward enough to match my mental picture of her. I think this is a brilliant move and will help disassociate the play/book universe from the movies.

“Hermione’s white face”

She may BE Hermione for your generation of fans (that’s fair, those films were a big part of growing up for many, many people) but for many of us older fans, we had a lot of time between the first book’s publication in 1997 and the first movie’s showing in 2001. There are a lot of us for whom Emma Watson, or more…