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Education Quote by Rupert Grint

"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally"

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Celebrity, at least the kind that hits you before you hit puberty, doesn’t just interrupt childhood; it rewrites the terms of it. Rupert Grint’s line lands with the plainness of a kid trying not to make a big deal out of something that is, by definition, a big deal. “Strange” and “three or four days” are tellingly modest measurements for what’s really being described: the whiplash of toggling between two worlds, one where you’re a working actor in a global franchise and one where you’re expected to remember your timetable and not be weird about it.

The intent is careful normalcy. Grint isn’t selling a fantasy of effortless balance; he’s admitting the adjustment period, then quickly pivoting to the reassuring part. That’s a classic young-star survival move: acknowledge disruption without inviting pity, drama, or a headline that frames you as “struggling.” The subtext is more charged. “They’ve been treating me normally” isn’t just gratitude; it’s a quiet request for protection. Normal treatment becomes a form of social camouflage, a way to keep fame from colonizing every interaction.

Context matters: early-2000s Potter-era stardom was loud, invasive, and pre-social-media in the worst way - tabloids, paparazzi, schoolyard mythmaking. In that climate, “my friends have been great” reads like a small, hard-won victory: the possibility that the people who knew you before the posters and premieres can still anchor you after. The quote works because it’s understated on purpose; it frames “normal” not as boring, but as relief.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Grint, Rupert. (2026, January 15). I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-just-started-school-again-and-it-was-a-bit-154753/

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Grint, Rupert. "I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-just-started-school-again-and-it-was-a-bit-154753/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-just-started-school-again-and-it-was-a-bit-154753/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Rupert Grint

Rupert Grint (born August 24, 1988) is a Actor from United Kingdom.

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