Topic > Harry Potter Fan Criticism - 2118

21). Fans have created conspiracy theories that Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, and Tom Felton were dating, but since that's supposedly not the case in real life, the next best thing is their fictional characters ("The Feltson and Dramione Controversy", 2011). . This particular blog published never-taken photos of the two individuals and a forbidden love story was invented between the two. The pair were spotted together at one event, a press tour for the Harry Potter films, and then wild conspiracy theories circulated that this meant they were dating. During the third film, Watson is depicted wearing a green sweater, belonging to Tom Felton, if that's not proof that they're dating, fans don't know what is. Any interviews prior to 2011, any meetings and any photographs are clearly outlined on this blog. These hard facts and well-supported evidence presented to fans on the Internet convinced them that the two individuals were dating. This confusion between fact and fiction is summed up in the final sentences of the blog when they state: "The Dramione/Feltson shippers will stand together until the end" ("The Feltson and Dramione Controversy", 2011), one ship cannot exist without the other. Both Watson and Felton essentially became their own on-screen characters and fans projected the real people onto the fictional ones for their own.