Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is released next week, and it’s a hugely important film in the series.
No, not because of the drama. And not because of Hermione and Ron‘s developing romance. It’s because, finally, Emma Watson is legitimately old enough for grotty old perverts to drool over her every time she accidentally flashes a portion of her knickers for a millisecond in public. Which she did this week at the Harry Potter premiere, in fact.
But still, it was a one-off mistake and every has moved on from… what? Emma Watson is still talking about it? Yeesh.
There’s a lot riding on Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, you know. It’s the first Harry Potter film to be released since JK Rowling published the last book in the series. Will people still be interested now that they can just walk into a bookshop, look at the last page of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows and see that Harry doesn’t die in the end?
Early reports suggest that they will, but that hasn’t stopped the main Harry Potter castmembers from going on an all-out media assault just to be sure. And by ‘all-out media assault’ we mean that Emma Watson slapped her grundies out for the photographers this week, which is more or less the same thing.
Now, admittedly, Emma Watson only flashed her knickers by accident – and they were probably on show for less than a second in total – but to look at the newspapers this week you’d think that she’d spent an hour and a half strutting up and down the Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince red carpet thrusting her be-knicked pelvis into the faces of crying children to the sound of the music from that Morecambe & Wise sketch.
But that’s to be expected – Emma Watson is a pretty young girl over the age of consent, and if it isn’t the paparazzi’s job to mortify girls like her by seizing upon their every mistake then we don’t know what is. Plus, it doesn’t matter what Emma Watson does – even if she stripped naked and punched a pensioner unconscious, most of us would just be relieved that she isn’t going out with Johnny Borrell from Razorlight any more.
Still, at least it’s all in the past now. At least she doesn’t keep bringing it up every time she goes on television. Oh wait, yes she does. Fox reports:
When television host David Letterman pointed out the faux-pas on “The Late Show,” a blushing Emma replied: “This was a small wardrobe malfunction, that happens. At least I’m wearing underwear,” the 19-year-old star added, before hanging her head in her hands to say she’s “still learning” this stuff.
Look, nice try Emma. But accidental or not, this whole Harry Potter nudity trend needs to be stopped immediately. First it was Harry Potter’s penis, then it was JK Rowlings’ bra, and now it’s your knick-knacks. Enough’s enough. Because, seriously, the next logical step here is Rupert Grint in a mankini, and there can’t be a single person on the face of the Earth who’d honestly want to see that.
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OMG says
OMG WTF, this article is worthless misleading sh**. Emma is probably mortified and just wants to get over it. IT was Letterman who brought up the question not her. Whoever wrote this article needs to get a life and stop lying.
There's a Lot of Them out There says
OMG! WTF! QPR! SAS! ELP! ELO! M&S! C&A!
Shooty* says
“They” are called Americans. Mostly.
Leah says
Firstly, she was NEVER going out with Johnny Borell. They just happened to be at the same party together and were going to the same location so decided to take a cab together. She said on her official website she was star-struck to have met him but that “I have to be more careful who I stand beside… perhaps I can be photographed standing near Orlando Bloom and we can be said to be dating!”
Secondly, it’s the interviewers who keep bringing up the knickers incident, not Emma herself. Get a life and learn to do your job properly.
Anonymous Coward says
Not to be a naysayer, but Emma’s particulars have already been photographed and widely distributed. Within a few weeks of her 18th, getting out of a car. Absolutely no disputing that one, so I’m not sure why this article seems to believe that it hasn’t happened at all yet.