‘Hermione just took up my life, all of my time’

Emma Watson, 19—who first played Hermione in “Harry Potter” when she was 9 years old—on how she feels now that the film series is about to end with the coming release of “Deathly Hallows Part 2”: “There are days when I feel relieved and I have days when I feel very sad … Because this just took up my life, all of my time. My life revolved around Harry Potter. That was the focal point of my existence. And it’s exciting now that I have this time, I can accept other things. I know the grass is always greener, but there were moments when I was like, ‘God, I wish I could go and do that’ … I swing kind of like a pendulum back and forth between all these different emotions.”