Hermione
Jane Granger born September 19, 1979 born to two non-magical parents whom are
dentists.
Hermione
has brown eyes, long brown hair and some would say fairly large front teeth. Her
name, hard to pronounce as it has been seen, is pronounced her-my-oh-nee as
Rowling had her teach Viktor Krum in the fourth book. She is extremely
intelligent and excels in her classes easily. She is also quite the worrier as
she is always nervous about tests that are coming up even though it is obvious
she is already well prepared for them. In the first book Hermione is a bit of an
outsider at first before meeting Harry and Ron who we all know become quite good
friends. Later in the book she was instrumental in the eventual defeat of
Professor Quirrel due to her knowledge of spells and the plat that attacked them
when they entered a secret room within Hogwarts.
In the
Second book she doesn't play as much of an important role but she did help
create the polyjuice potion that allowed Harry, Ron, and herself to gather
information they couldn't normally have acquired. A large reason for her lack of
activity in the second book is that she is turned to stone by the basilisk when
she has identified it, obviously a person who was turned to stone cant do too
much ha-ha.
But all of
that aside, in the third book she is quite busy even though she disappears quite
often. Hermione takes too many classes upon herself and she ends up using a
magical item known as a time turner that as the name implies allows her to
manipulate time. The biggest reason she needs it is because for some strange
reason she takes classes that occur at the same time so she must go back in time
to attend the class she did not attend the first time. Also within the third
year she assists Hagrid in the trial involving Buckbeak the griffon. The problem
with taking on the trial is that since she had already given herself too much
work she ends up breaking down to Ron who (even though they had been at odds
earlier in the book) took on the challenge of the trial. Lastly Hermione uses
the Time Turner to its most important use in the book, and that is to go back in
time to save Sirius Black (Harry's Uncle) and Buckbeak.
In the fourth
book you see a more sensitive and less tomboyish side of Hermione. During the
fourth book an event occurs known as the triwizard tournament, a gathering of
different schools of magic that compete for the grand prize which is the goblet
of fire. Throughout the book Hermione does her best to assist Harry, who is a
competitor in the tournament. During the tournament is something known as the
Yule ball where everyone goes to dance. Hermione is invited to the ball by
Viktor Krum, a member of the school known as durmstrang. Ron gets jealous of
this occurrence and says that she is �fraternizing with the enemy�. Hermione got
upset as one would expect since the only reason Ron asked her to go to the dance
was as a last resort which obviously hurt. Hermione unfortunately gets caught up
in the crazed writings of Rita Skeeter, a news reporter, who fabricates a story
about Hermione, Harry and Viktor. Over time though Hermione determines that she
is an illegal Animagus who can turn into a beetle and uses this information to
blackmail Rita to stop her slanderous writings. Also Hermione starts a group
against the mistreatment of house elves, which unfortunately she is made fun of
for.
The fifth
book has Hermione in the Black�s house, which is now the headquarters of the
Order of the Phoenix. Hermione as well as Ron have become prefects for the
Gryffindor house, which of course makes Hermione delighted due to her normal
rule following ways. She still continues her house elf movement and attempts to
free the house elves but apparently they don�t want to be freed and start to
avoid the Gryffindor tower because she leaves clothing around for the elves to
receive. In the fifth book it introduces Luna Lovegood, who is the polar
opposite of Hermione�s logical ways of thinking. But despite their differences
they end up becoming friends due to her standing by Harry in the creation of the
DA and by aiding them in the biggest point in the book.
Hermione
at last says the name Voldemort much to everyone's surprise as well, and is
involved in the battle at the Department of Mysteries but gets wounded quite
badly. She recovers after taking ten types of potions a day though
And now
for the sixth book, Hermione receives her O.W.L. scores over the summer and
learns she has received ten outstanding and 1 exceeds expectations. Of course
despite her scores she is still disappointed that she didn�t receive 11 out
standings. Due to her sheer intelligence she becomes a part of Professor
Slughorn�s �Slug Club� and even though she knows much more about potions than
Harry, due to his finding of the half-blooded prince�s book he quickly excels at
it. Much to her annoyance she grows increasingly bitter at the importance Harry
is given when she knows the truth of his cheating. Hermione and Ron once more
have a falling out when Ron hears that Hermione �snogged� Krum. Hermione ends up
going to the Christmas ball with Cormac Mclaggen, the only problem is his over
the top personality and she ends up not being able to handle him and goes into
hiding from him for the rest of the night. Once Ron gets poisoned however she
goes back to being friends with Ron and after he gets better Lavender (Ron's
girlfriend) breaks up with him much to their delight. Towards the end Harry
tells Hermione as well as the other members of the DA to watch Malfoy�s as well
as Snape�s movements and though things go badly, it ends up paying off as they
are able to alert the order of the phoenix�s members once Malfoy makes his move.
Hermione and the others survived, but barely, thanks to the effects of a potion
called Felix Felicis which Harry had given the DA. In the end Hermione and Ron
tell Harry that they will go wherever he does even if he means to leave
Hogwarts.
Written by Anthony
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