Emma Watson is the cover girl for the August issue of Seventeen. In the cover shot, some brilliant makeup/hair person worked magic on Emma’s too-intense eyebrows, and now I feel like I’m actually looking at her little elf face without being attacked by BROWS. I guess Emma is on the cover because of Harry Potter, right? Sure. The interview is nice enough – she’s not going on and on about how hard it is being so famous and so beautiful, and she mostly sounds like a young woman who is still figuring junk out. Here are some highlights:

Emma on relationships and whether she’s a good “game player”: “No! I’m a terrible game player. I’m so impatient – it’s one of my worst traits! If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don’t, then I don’t. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I’ll pretty much say to a guy, “I like you – let’s go hang out.” But my friends are like, “You can’t do that! You have to string this guy along.” And I’m just like, “No! I won’t! I just want to go on the date! It’s a nightmare – I definitely haven’t figured it out yet.”

On which Harry Potter costar she had a crush on: “For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it – we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that’s cool.”

Celebrity crushes: “I’ve never understood having crushes on people who you don’t know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I don’t intend to fantasize about people I don’t know!”

Avoiding the color black, style-wise: “I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it’s the easy option. But I’m young, so it’s nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I’m older.”

Exercise: “I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don’t always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.”

Friends for life: “I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.”

Studying abroad…? “Most of my friends are doing their third year abroad so I might do my third year abroad as well, and then come back for my last year. I hope I could do that.”

[From Seventeen]

Tom Felton? He’s “Draco” right? He’s kind of white-blonde and sweet, but bland? Out of all of the dudes she’s worked with, she got the hots for him?!? Weird. Meanwhile, I’m nursing two completely inappropriate crushes on both Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson, both of whom seem way more interesting and sexy to me. But Emma is young – soon enough, she’ll discover that the occasional bad boy is good for the soul. I pray that she’s not around Gerard Butler when that happens. Ew… I just grossed myself out with the thought of Emma being Butler’d. Nasty.

By the way, are you Potter-heads excited about the last movie? I’m not into the series, and I think CB stopped after a few books/movies, so our coverage of it has been less than breathless. My apologies. Here’s a trailer for it. It made me goosebumpy and I don’t even know what’s happening. (Mostly it’s just because Ralph Fiennes makes me goosebumpy.)

Photos courtesy of Seventeen.