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EMMA WATSON: DESPEREAUX'S PRINCESS

While you'll have to wait till July to see Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, you can hear her this month in The Tale of Despereaux. She voices the character Princess Pea in the animated movie based on the bestselling children's book about how a fearless mouse helps change lives in the kingdom of Dor.

Emma jumped at the chance to play the lonely princess, her first cartoon voice, and recorded her part over a three-year period, a few days at a time. Until she got the hang of it, "I was a bit nervous," she admits. "But it was really fun, and I'm massively proud of it."

She especially loves the movie's message about forgiveness. "I think anyone can go see it and get something from it," says Emma, who related to at least one aspect of Pea. "Everyone knows how it feels to feel lonely and isolated at times. It's part of being human."

Emma calls the princess "more gentle" than the feisty Hermione, who's on the outs with her two pals in the sixth Potter flick. "She is pretty angry with Harry for a lot of it because he becomes addicted to this potions book, which she thinks is dangerous, and of course, she's right. And she and Ron have a big argument over this silly girl he's dating."

The final Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, will be split into two movies due out in 2010 and 2011. Filming starts in February on the first one.