A nine-year-old girl named Emmie Allan looks so much like Harry Potter’s Hermione Granger that her parents say she gets stopped on a weekly basis by strangers who can’t believe the likeness.
The little girl resembles young Emma Watson so much that her pals have nicknamed her Hermione.
Emmie’s mother Sherelle Allan, 28, has said the striking similarities between her daughter and the young actress are ‘creepy’ and that she doesn’t need to be in costume for people to stop and comment.
She said: “I do get excited for her looking like Emma. It’s very funny. It’s definitely a flattering lookalike.’’
“It would be nice to get her some recognition for it looking like Emma.
“It was around three years ago that we realised she looked like Hermione. Since then all of our friends and family know, and friends call her Hermione as a nickname.”
“She was flattered by it at first.point 153 | She went all shy and would have a big smile on her face and tuck her head down to say thank you.point 228 |
But now it’s just like ‘yes, I know’.point 48 |
“She gets stopped at least once a week.point 86 | She just rolls her eyes at them now.point 115 | It gets quite annoying for her.point 141 |
“I’ve seen the majority of Emma’s films, but Emmie loves Beauty and the Beast.point 224 |
She went to see that.point 17 |
“I was thinking about trying to get her a Beauty dress, but she’s never dressed up like that.point 105 |
“I love Harry Potter more than Emmie does herself and it’ll only be because I like it that she’ll sit and watch it herself.point 223 |
“She does like Harry Potter though.point 36 | We were going to go to Harry Potter World, but they’re fully booked until next year, so we’ll have to wait for then.point 142 | ”point 149 | 1
“She’ll probably get some people looking at her twice there too.point 334 |
“Emmie dressed up as Hermione for fancy dress last year.point 53 | It was playing on the fact that people say she looks like her.point 103 |
“I asked her what she wanted to go as – scary like a zombie, or whatever, or I could get her the Harry Potter costume.point 209 |
“She said let’s get the costume.point 39 | She put it on, and it was quite creepy how much she does look like her in the costume.point 107 |
“I’ve had a few comments that said she only looked like her because she’s in the costume which I can understand, but even when she’s not dressed like that she looks like her.point 273 |
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“But she’s only worn that costume last year the once and then when she’s been playing with friends.
“Whenever we go out and gets stopped and told she looks like Emma Watson, she is always in her own clothes.”
The little girl hopes that one day she will become an actress or model, like her doppelganger Emma.
Her mother added: “There are a few people who have said if Emma Watson wanted to do a film where there was a flashback to her childhood, Emmie would be the perfect face for it.point 230 |
“She did say she wanted to do modelling but I’ve got two younger children and doing modelling takes a lot of commitment and last minute travelling.point 134 |
“I don’t think it would do well to take her, but it’s probably people commenting on her looks that has inspired it.point 246 |
“I did put a picture of Emmie up online and tagged Emma Watson in it and told her that a lot of people are telling me that my daughter looks like her.point 125 | But I have no idea if she’s even seen it.point 163 | I wouldn’t know.point 183 | ’’point 189 | 1
“I don’t worry about it overtaking her own identity because Emma Watson is triple her age, so it’s not like she’s a lookalike of what she looks like now.point 338 |
“I mean, she might grow up to look like Emma Watson, but right now it’s the actress as she was 10 or 15 years ago.point 102 |
“I don’t know whether she would get a career being a lookalike when she’s older if she does still look like her.point 211 |
“It’s not very often that this sort of thing happens and it would be something that, in years to come when she has her own children, she can tell them ‘when I was younger I looked like this actress’.point 185 |
“She can show them pictures.point 215 |
I think it would be nice for her as a little keepsake of her life.point 52 |
“My other two daughters don’t look like anything – they just look like their dad.point 137 | Maybe when they’re older.point 165 |
“They’re still young and just baby faces at the minute.point 223 |
I don’t get mistaken for anyone either.point 39 | ”point 46 | 1