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Emma Watson, though way too cute to play the on-the-page bucktoothed Hermione, actually makes the strongest impression of the bunch - the girl knows how to sell her lines as this bossy teacher's pet.
A beautiful young girl named Emma Watson nails precocious Hermoine Granger. She makes scholarly ambition and determination admirable virtues, even if these don't always go down well with fellow students.
Emma Watson delights as the brainy, supercilious but always game Hermione.
. . . nor as disarmingly charming as Hermione Granger, whom the 10-year-old Emma Watson parlays into the movie's most lovable character.
[Emma] Watson, with her pointy raised chin and pursed lips, is the perfect little snoot who can turn the remark, "What. An. Idiot," into three clipped sentences. She's an exceptionally beautiful child with palpable charisma.
And Emma Watson, as Hermione Granger, is an adorable know-it-all, the kid in the class with her hand up first.
The prepubescent Watson is absurdly alluring to those of us who always went for bossy girls; when she fixed her sharp brown eyes on Radcliffe and said, "Harreh, do be keh-ful," my heart did about five somersaults.
Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, manages to be fussy and fretful while still being likable – no easy feat for an actor at any age.
Emma Watson steals scenes as the story's adorably brash bookworm.
Watson is so totally endearing as their beautiful, bossy, busybody of a girl pal that she comes perilously close to stealing the movie.
Emma Watson is clever but never cloying as Hermione Granger, the boys' take-charge accomplice.
But the real comic timing here comes from 10-year-old Emma Watson, who brings a delightfully self-satisfied bounce to the bossy Hermione. She flounces about making pronouncements, tossing back her hair and wrinkling her little nose — I see a Meg Ryan-like future for this kid.
Watson is easily the standout, developing Hermione into a girl who may get good grades in school, but is insecure of herself on the inside.
Watson, as the precocious Hermione, is
smart and energetic, taking a bigger bite out of this movie than any other actor.
Had I not read the book, I would have wondered why this film wasn't called "Hermione Granger and the Sorcerer's Stone." Newcomer Emma Watson is such a young charmer with her luxuriant Pre-Raphaelite hair and bold, proud smile, and is so expressively alive as Harry's sometimes-annoying but loyal pal Hermione, that she's the movie's true child star.
Watson is perfectly the picture of bookish arrogance, and she plays the part to the hilt.
Finally, Watson makes an entrancing debut as Hermione, the bookworm, the know-it-all who plays by the rules and tsk-tsks the boys when they don't. Physically, she's prettier than we expected Hermione to be, with a mane of wild hair and stormy dark eyes. At 10, Watson has the gift of a precocious child, that of being simultaneously snooty and charming. Meeting Ron and Harry for the first time, Hermione considers the two of them, informs Ron that he has dirt on his nose, then turns on her heel with a sharp "Pleasure" and flounces off, leaving us utterly hooked.
Emma Watson was just adorable as Hermione.
. . . . the pretty, snippy but well-educated Hermione (Emma Watson, who quite steals the show from its hero) . . .
Emma Watson (Hermione) in particular brings a pantomime quality to her performance, which the others are guilty of to varying degrees.
Emma Watson as their third, a bossy, by-the-book youngster who is Rowling's answer to Charles Schulz' Lucy, has presence to spare; you can't decide whether to love or loathe her until film's end, when she has become, truly and admirably, one of the guys.
Emma Watson is the magnificent Hermione: imperious, impetuous but heart-breakingly loyal in the tradition of the subordinate Enid Blyton girl.
The three central child characters - Harry, Ron and Hermione - are all played with great enthusiasm by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson respectively. However, Miss Watson just wins by a nose in the acting stakes with her hilariously precocious performance.
Standing out are know-it-all schoolmate Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) . . .
. . . newcomer Watson endows Hermione with a cool intelligence and appealing vulnerability. She’s a real charmer!
Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger seems especially apt for the part!
. . . and Emma Watson is a treat as Hermione, their know-it-all classmate.
. . . and Emma Watson's saucy, bossy performance as Harry's persnickety pal, Hermione.
Grint and Granger [they meant "Watson"] are naturals, embodying their supporting characters perfectly.
The delight is Emma Watson as the know it all Hermione.
By contrast, Watson carries off her officious Hermione with aplomb and personality . . .
Emma Watson rounds out the young cast as Hermione, and she’s perfect
as the know-it-all bookworm. Why aren’t all young actors this good?
Emma Watson is Hermione, a pert lass of sass and brilliance.
Emma is a lovely, effervescent child with just the right degree of spunk.
"Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone" is nothing more than a good time supplied
by a solid cast of terrific young actors (especially young Emma Watson), some neat
sequences, and a lot of hearty laughs.
. . . with Watson hitting the right note of frustrating arrogance as Hermione.
Emma Watson is just as good as Hermione, the bookish girl
who has the right answer to (almost) everything
I absolutely loved Watson's bossy Hermione. It's hard to believe that this
little charmer is making her debut.
Thankfully, all three are quite good, although Emma Watson
gets the best lines of the three and delivers them with excellent timing.
Little Miss Watson is suitably bossy and we all of us enjoyed her co-star Grint's
wicked asides about clever Hermione. 'You're a little scary sometimes. Do you know that?'
says Ron.
Emma Watson is truly the most brilliantly shining star in the movie. From the moment I
first saw her on the Dateline NBC Harry Potter special, a week before the movie came out, I
knew that she was absolutely perfect for the part. All British children seem to have a scary
sort of Children of the Corn thing going on, where they speak and act years older than they
are. But Emma Watson truly is eleven going on thirty. Her manner and bearing are supremely
confident, and this carries over well into Hermione’s personality. Emma is actually somewhat
prettier than Hermione is supposed to be at this stage in the game, but it doesn’t adversely
affect anything. In point of fact, Emma positively smolders on the screen. I never knew that
an eleven year old could be sultry, but dammit, she is! Her delivery is clever and clipped,
and her eyes say more in an instant than a thousand words could.