--- title: Emma Watson Gave a Fan School Advice on FaceTime description: Watson shared a piece of wisdom that Hermione Granger would approve of in a fan interaction over FaceTime. canonical: https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-03T17:23:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:18.353Z og:title: Ideal Student Emma Watson Told a Fan to 'Study Hard' og:description: Watson would make Hermione proud with her advice to a fan via FaceTime og:url: https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ideal Student Emma Watson Told a Fan to 'Study Hard' twitter:description: Watson would make Hermione proud with her advice to a fan via FaceTime twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Perfect Student Emma Watson Told a Fan to 'Study Hard' on FaceTime > Sponsored content. 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That said, she gave one fan the photo op of a lifetime last week — and stayed true to her roots as notorious bookworm and type-A student [Hermione Granger](http://time.com/4707191/emma-watson-on-belle/) while doing so. According to a Facebook post shared by user Therese Kiara, her mom happened upon Watson while in a shop. In a moment of inspiration, she decided to ask the [_Beauty and the Beast_](http://time.com/4706209/beauty-and-the-beast-box-office/) actor to say hello to her daughter on her phone. “I was just studying for my Bio exam when my Mom called to show Emma Watson standing behind her, then she approached and politely asked Emma if she can say hi to me on the cam. She was so kind and sweet,” Therese Kiara wrote of the FaceTime encounter. Watson’s advice? A chipper “Study hard!” of course. Looks like she’s still making studious Hermione proud, even all these years later. It makes sense: Watson herself is an Ivy League graduate and book lover with [her own global book club](http://time.com/4172664/join-emma-watsons-feminist-book-club/), to boot. Therese Kiara also added a slightly more excited, “OH GOOD LORD, I CAN NOT BREATHE \[sic\]” — and noted that Watson’s advice was “perfect motivation to study.” Hopefully that bio exam was a breeze. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/"},"headline":"Perfect Student Emma Watson Told a Fan to 'Study Hard' on FaceTime","datePublished":"2017-05-03T17:23:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:18.353Z","description":"Watson shared a piece of wisdom that Hermione Granger would approve of in a fan interaction over FaceTime.","url":"https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764796/emma-watson-fan-facetime/","name":"Perfect Student Emma Watson Told a Fan to 'Study Hard' on FaceTime"}}]}] ```