Emma Watson Tom Felton Interview

Stars Emma Watson and Tom Felton are finally addressing their long-rumored off-screen romantic tension head on in the new HBO Max reunion special,

The special marks the first time the majority of the cast of the iconic franchise's eight films has reunited since the release of

, the cast talks about the heightened teenage hormones going around the set at the time of filming and within the paralleled storyline.

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There was crushes and people went out with each other and broke up, just like you used to do at school. It was exactly the same environment, but it was just in a Defense Against the Dark Arts class, shared Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in the films.

Even Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, talked about how he and Watson, who played his character's bestie, Hermione Granger, used to use one another for dating advice.

The amount of prep and coaching Emma and I would give each other on texting to the opposite sex, like, if she was texting a boy or if I was texting a girl, I'd be like, 'She sent me this many kisses back. What do I do? This is a nightmare, ' he recalled.

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But when the topic of the sparks between Watson and Felton, who played the villainous Draco Malfoy, came up, the two co-stars admitted that there was something more between them.

I walked into the room where we were having tutoring. The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God looked like, and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard, she recalled. And I just don't know how to say it, I just fell in love with him.

I used to come in every day and look for his number on the call sheet, it was number seven, and if his number was on the call sheet, it was an extra exciting day, she admitted. He was three years above me and so for him, he was like, 'You're like my little sister.'

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Felton added, I became very protective over her, yeah, I've always had a soft spot for her and that continues to the day... There's always been something that's like, I don't know, a kinship.

But for those who think that all this admiration and adoration led to something more, Watson insisted that it simply never happened.

Nothing has ever, ever, ever happened romantically with us. We just love each other. That's all I can say about that, she said.shared some special moments between the cast in advance. While discussing their time on set together, Emma Watson shared her memory of “falling in love” with her co-star Tom Felton. At the time that they were cast as Hermione and Draco, Watson was 11-years-old and Felton was 14, so she was doomed to be seen as the “little sister.”

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“I walked into the room where we were having tutoring, ” Watson said. “The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God looked like, and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard.”

She continued, “And I just don't know how to say it – I just fell in love with him. I used to come in every day and look for his number on the call sheet, it was number seven, and if his name was on the call sheet, it was an extra exciting day. He was three years above me and so for him he was like, ‘You're like my little sister.’”

Most of the cast was subjected to dating rumors over the many years it took to film all eight Harry Potter movies, but Watson insists her crush was never reciprocated—though Felton says he knew all about it.

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“I think I was in the hair and make-up chair and someone said something along the lines of, ‘Yeah, she had a crush on you, ’” he said during the reunion interview. “I became very protective over her. Yeah, I've always had a soft spot for her and that continues to this day. There's always been something that's like, I don't know, a kinship.”

“For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows, ” she told

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Like Tom, I always struggle to explain to people the nature of our connection and relationship, she wrote. For more than twenty years now we've loved each other in a special way, and I've lost count of the times that people have said to me, 'You must have drunkenly made out, just once!' 'You must have kissed!' 'There must be something!'

The answer? But what we have is far deeper than that, Watson continued. It's one of the purest loves I can think of. We're soulmates, and we've always had each other's backs. I know we always will.

Sometimes it feels hard to live in a world where people are so quick to judge, to doubt, to question intentions. Tom doesn't do that, Watson continued. I know that, even if I've made a mistake, he'll understand that my intention was good. I know that he'll always

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Me. Even when he doesn't have the whole picture, he'll never doubt that I'm coming from a good place and will have done my very best. That's

That said, the two didn't have a magical rapport right away. In fact, Watson admitted in the book that their relationship didn't start well. However, they were able to grow a friendship, which Felton reflects on later in the book.

I've always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear, he wrote. That isn't to say there's never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times. 

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Love with Emma, Felton explained, but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else.

Daniel is currently in a relationship with actress Erin Darke, and the two welcomed a baby boy together in April. Daniel and Erin crossed paths while filming their 2013 movie,

We met on the set...and just got on immediately. It was one of those instant things where you're like, 'Oh, I really like this person.' You just have a connection with somebody, and then suddenly it's incredibly easy to talk to them, Daniel said about their relationship in a 2014 interview with

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Though Emma is very private about her love life, she was linked to rugby player Matthew Janney up until late 2014 and tech entrepreneur William Mack Knight for a stretch after that, a source telling

Linked to Glee's Chord Overstreet for several months in 2018,  then tech CEO Brendan Wallace later that same year, she professed her love to someone new in a 2019 interview with British Vogue.

 I never believed the whole 'I'm happy single' spiel, she told the magazine. I was like, 'This is totally spiel.' It took me a long time, but I'm very happy. I call it being self-partnered.

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Cast member that keeps his personal life on the down low, but he's been dating actress Georgia Groome on and off for years. The Daily Mail posted pictures of the duo at dinner in Los Angeles back in March 2017 and one lucky fan took a picture with Rupert at the premiere of Georgia's movie

Hey Instagram....only 10 years late, but here I am. Grint on the Gram! the 32-year-old captioned a sweet photo. Here to introduce you all to Wednesday G. Grint. Stay safe, Rupert.

Event at Universal Orlando in July 2016, Matthew (a.k.a Neville Longbottom) and Angela Jones got engaged in December of that year. They're both over the moon, his rep told E! News at the time. They got together in July and hit it off straight away.

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Co-star Emma Watson briefly sparked romance rumors in 2018 and 2019, but nothing came to fruition between the former costars, much to fans' chagrin. 

At the time, We got on really well. That's why we're still together. London's such a melting pot that you can always find lovely people. It's nice being