“They had a chance to refute the story,” Shah said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday. “I don’t really see what gripe they could possibly have...What was I supposed to do? Drive up there and talk to them individually?”

One Brown student—who met Watson during orientation and has subsequently been on friendly terms with the actress—said that she was unaware of any controversy regarding Watson’s appearance at the football game until she had been contacted for this article.

The individual said Watson strives to keep a low-profile around campus, and the celebrity can often be seen surrounded by friends—not by the paparazzi.

“I think she went to the Harvard game because she wanted to be a normal Brown student,” said the individual, who requested not to be named to protect Watson’s privacy. “Understandably, it’s really not cool to be stalked...But I think there’s more speculation about what’s going on from the outside than there is from the inside.”

Mark Nickel, director of university communications at Brown, said he had no official comment regarding Watson’s visit to Cambridge and whether she had been stalked during the game.

—Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu.

CORRECTION

An earlier version of the Oct. 2 article "Harvard Voice Denies Hermione-Stalking Allegations" incorrectly stated that the Harvard Voice's blog posts about Emma Watson were written by Voice staffers not present at the Brown-Harvard football game on Sept. 25. In fact, the staffers writing the posts were present at the game, according to Voice editor-in-chief Alisha D. Ramos. The posts were put online with timestamps that indicated they were being posted three hours before gametime, but Ramos later clarified that the stamps were simply incorrect.