Emma Watson gets banned from driving for six months

Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding.

The 35-year-old star, best known for playing Hermione Granger, the friend of boy wizard Potter in the hugely popular movie franchise Harry Potter, was banned for driving at 38 miles (61 km) an hour in a 30-mile zone in southeastern Banbury last July.

Another Harry Potter star has also been slapped with a driving ban for speeding. Zoe Wanamaker, 76, who played Quidditch teacher Madame Hooch in Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, was also banned for six months.

She had been caught driving at 46 miles an hour in a 40-mile zone of the M4 motorway in southeastern Berkshire last August.

The cases were dealt with separately by a lower magistrates court in the town of High Wycombe.

Neither of the stars attended the hearings, at which they were each fined £1,044 (P79,744).

Watson, who was stopped while driving her blue Audi, has been studying at Oxford University. Her lawyer told the court that although she was a student "she is in a position to pay the fine."