`Harry Potter` star Tom Felton, who portrayed the role of `Draco Malfoy` in the franchise, revealed that he `secretly had romantic feelings` for his co-star Emma Watson. According to Fox News, the 35-year-old actor admitted that there was "a spark" between him and the 32-year-old actress in his new memoir, "Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard" by The Evening Standard.

"I loved and admired her as a person in a way I could never explain to anybody else," he stated in a report by Fox News. As per the reports of Fox News, he recalled meeting Watson for the first time at an audition when he was 11 and she was 9. Felton wrote that Watson pointed at a boom microphone and asked him, "What`s that?" to which he responded, "It means they are recording us, obviously."