She may be a few years off hanging up her broomstick, but life outside Hogwarts is already shaping up nicely for Emma Watson. The Harry Potter star, who was catapulted to fame when she took the role of Hermione at just 9, is starring in a new BBC production, Ballet Shoes.

In the feature-length film, set in 1930s London, Emma plays the part of orphaned Pauline Fossil, who is adopted by an eccentric explorer, played by Richard Griffiths. While the young actress says she couldn’t pass up the “amazing project,” she has revealed she occasionally craves a normal teenage life away from the spotlight. She told the Daily Telegraph: “I’m not the girl they get the number 19 bus into town with to grab a coffee.”

I just get mobbed. It’s an uncomfortable experience for everyone. Sometimes I miss the fact that I have never really been a teenager because I have been Hermione for such a long time.” Emma has already amassed a 20 million dollar fortune, but she is applying to Cambridge University as a backstop “in case acting doesn’t work out.” Still, the 17-year-old is grateful for her early success: “I just tell myself I won the lottery.”

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