In an unintentional continuation of the Harry Potter movie series, the young actress of Hermione Granger passed on her wisdom to a room full of ambassadors in the United Nations New York headquarters on Sept. 20. At a young age, Emma Watson declared herself a feminist and has been working as a U.N. Woman Goodwill Ambassador for the past six months. Her speech on sexism and feminism at the 69^th general assembly of the United Nations launches a new HeForShe campaign specifically addressing men and boys to take action in the fight for gender equality. It proves that young feminists, like Watson, can get their message across above all discrimination.

According to Watson, feminism means that men and women should both receive their basic rights and equal opportunities. Watson claims in her 13-minute speech, “There is not one country in the whole world that has obtained gender equality qualifying as basic human rights.” She continues on to explain that feminism is not ‘man-hating’, but rather a call out to the men and boys who have been excluded from involvement in feminism because they already benefit socially, economically and politically from gender equality.

Critics on Watson’s speech ask how a white, rich woman like her would know what discrimination and women’s rights are. However, Watson isn’t addressing herself, she is referring to those that lack the voice to speak out, truly suffer with gender equality and have not been given global attention.

“I want men to take up this mantle so their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves,” said Watson, according U.N. Women.

Watson has become a spokesperson for women’s rights on a worldwide scale. She can inspire others to fight for feminism by introducing gender equality to boys and men, using the HeForShe campaign. It’s different than most feminism or U.N. campaigns because it brings gender equality to men’s attention rather than women’s.

Watson will begin her first event as U.N Women Global Goodwill ambassador to Uraguay for the campaign. For the next 12 months, HeForShe will set a goal to reach out to 1 billion men and boys as candidates to end gender equality by 2030. The United Nations will activate an electronic map with geo locators to record men’s engagement around the world.

“It’s not the word ‘feminism’ that is important, it’s the idea and ambition behind it,” said Watson in her speech.

There is a lot of questioning, however, about how effective Watson’s speech will be in changing violence and discrimination. The UN’s expectation to completely rid the world of gender in equality in 15 years seems like a very unobtainable goal. There is also concern with the kind of discrimination and sexist examples Watson refers to in her speech, such as herself, “being called bossy,” and having friends discontinue to play athletics because they don’t want to be, “too muscly”. These examples widely differ from the hardships of colored women in impoverish countries.

She is giving a cry out to the men in the world who have the key to changing the situation. There are still millions of women who are unable to receive education, are paid less than men, subject to violence or sexual assault and still unable to make life decisions. The level of respect for Watson has made her a perfect candidate to present a speech such as this one through the United Nations. Even now, Hermione Granger is still using her magic to help change the world.