Emma Watson admits she was initially worried fellow students wouldn't get past her movie star status when she started classes at New York's Brown University last September.

Emma Watson was terrified her fellow students wouldn't treat her as "normal" when she started university.

The 19-year-old actress - who shot to fame at the tender of age of nine playing Hermione Granger in the 'Harry Potter' movies - enrolled at the prestigious Brown University in New York last September but was worried people wouldn't be able to get past her movie star status.

She said: "I was scared before I came to Brown - that I wasn't going to be able to both a career and normal life. People would think that I didn't deserve to have both: 'You're famous. You're given free handbags. Why should you deserve to be normal?' "

Emma also admits she would be willing to give up her career and have a different job, but thinks people would then regard her as a failure.

She said: "I think I could imagine having a more 'normal' career, but I almost wonder whether people would think that I failed if I did that."

However, Emma does believe fame has a huge buzz which is hard to match.

She revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine: "You get these massive highs. It's like you sort of have a stage of hundreds of hundreds of people at a movie premiere, and it's lights going off everywhere, and you don't have a second to think, and you have a million people doing everything for you because you're so busy trying to do whatever. And you go from this hyper-intenseness, and then you'll finish your movie, and it'll just stop. Or you'll go to your hotel room and there will just be silence. And I can't explain it, but it freaks you out."