--- title: Harry Potter's Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School description: The Daily Pennsylvanian published a fake article about Emma Watson going to grad school at Penn for English canonical: https://time.com/3758278/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-fake/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-25T16:58:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:31.007Z og:title: No, Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School og:description: The Daily Pennsylvanian published a fake article about Emma Watson going to grad school at Penn for English og:url: https://time.com/3758278/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-fake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta583183af4247dcf/6987852e3c16398f174526c3/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-daily-pennsylvanian.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-daily-pennsylvanian og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No, Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School twitter:description: The Daily Pennsylvanian published a fake article about Emma Watson going to grad school at Penn for English twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta583183af4247dcf/6987852e3c16398f174526c3/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-daily-pennsylvanian.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No, Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School ## Video: Emma Watson Shoots Down Prince Harry Rumors [Watch (HLS stream): Emma Watson Shoots Down Prince Harry Rumors](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/O6vhh8Ia.m3u8) (1:02)  _Published 2015-02-23. The 24-year-old "Harry Potter" star was rumored to be secretly dating the Prince, but took to Twitter to shoot down the story._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 25, 2015 4:58 PM UTC  Michael Tran—Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 25, 2015 4:58 PM UTC _The Daily Pennsylvanian_, the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper, has fooled Harry Potter fans with a joke [article announcing](http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/03/emma-watson-chooses-penn) that actress Emma Watson (who plays Hermione in the hit film series) will study English at Penn’s graduate school. The newspaper publishes an annual joke issue in the weeks leading up to April Fools’ Day. Jane Austen fans and students in the English department knew the story was too good to be true when the article quoted an English professor named “Catherine Bennet,” while true Brits and Anglophiles raised their eyebrows at the name “Kingsley Pennyton.” ### Celebrities Who Look Uncannily Alike  Jessica Chastain & Bryce Dallas Howard Getty Images (2)  Orlando Bloom & Luke Evans Getty Images (2)  Javier Bardem & Jeffrey Dean Morgan Getty Images (2)  Minka Kelly & Leighton Meester Getty Images (2)  Daniel Radcliffe & Elijah Wood Getty Images (2)  Will Ferrell & Chad Smith Getty Images (2)  Henry Cavill & Matt Bomer Getty Images (2)  Tom Hardy & Logan Marshall-Green Getty Images (2)  Natalie Portman & Keira Knightley Getty Images (2)  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Josh Holloway Getty Images (2)  Mark Ruffalo & Chris Messina Getty Images (2)  Jeremy Irons & Daniel Day-Lewis Getty Images (2)  Johnny Depp & John Mayer Getty Images (2)  Mila Kunis & Sarah Hyland Getty Images (2)  Zachary Quinto & Eli Roth Getty Images (2)  Will Arnett & Patrick Wilson Getty Images (2)  Ryan Gosling & Ryan Reynolds Getty Images (2) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3758278/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-fake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3758278/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-fake/"},"headline":"No, Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School","datePublished":"2015-03-25T16:58:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:31.007Z","description":"Seems like a prank Fred and George Weasley would have pulled","url":"https://time.com/3758278/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-fake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta583183af4247dcf/6987852e3c16398f174526c3/emma-watson-penn-graduate-school-daily-pennsylvanian.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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