The evidence of her success is compelling. At nine years old, she was among thousands of girls vying to play the coveted role of Hermione and her eagerness to thrive at the character slowed down shooting during Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "I wanted everything to be so perfect. I would work so hard to memorize my lines and the scene; we would have to stop shooting because I was mouthing Rupert [Grint]'s and Dan [Radcliffe]'s lines at the same time. That's something I had to get over."

Seven years later, the young actor has graduated to blockbuster star status. She's learned to position herself in her best light, she's stopped looking straight into the camera, she knows the different between the key grip and a dolly, and she's just wrapped one of her most challenging scenes in the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, slated for release in July 2009. "I had to cry for the first time when Hermione watches Ron kiss Lavender. It was difficult to bring up all that emotion and hurt in front of a full crew, and not just once, but over and over again from different angles."

Apparently, both Emma Watson and Rupert Grint share similar worries about their upcoming romantic scene for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". After Grint revealed his "worries" of the scene earlier, 18-year-old Watson confessed that she is nervous about the impending kissing scene between Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

"Well I've never had to do it before so I can't say I have any techniques," the winner of Best Leading Young Actress at the 2002 Young Artist Awards told The Telegraph at the 2009 BAFTA Awards ceremony held on Sunday, February 8. "I've never had to kiss anyone on screen so it is all new to me. Of course I am nervous about it."

While admitting her worries for the particular scene, the actress who fills in the voice of Princess Pea in "The Tale of Despereaux" spilled that she has got reassuring advice from "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe. "Apparently it gets quite boring after a couple of takes, that's what Daniel said to me anyway," so she claimed.

Back in mid-January, Rupert Grint was also quoted by The Telegraph on his thought over the romantic scene which reportedly is expected to be filmed sometime in February. "As I've known Emma for so long, I reckon it will be 10 times worse," he said. "I really love the seventh book, but there is no way it will be tame with the Hermione stuff."