No, Emma Watson Is Not Going to Penn for Graduate School 

Seems like a prank Fred and George Weasley would have pulled

, the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper, has fooled Harry Potter fans with a joke

article announcing that actress Emma Watson (who plays Hermione in the hit film series) will study English at Penn’s graduate school.

The newspaper publishes an annual joke issue in the weeks leading up to April Fools’ Day.

Jane Austen fans and students in the English department knew the story was too good to be true when the article quoted an English professor named “Catherine Bennet,” while true Brits and Anglophiles raised their eyebrows at the name “Kingsley Pennyton.”

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