49 Facts About Hermione Granger

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Hermione Jean Granger is a fictional character in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Hermione Granger first appears in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, on the Hogwarts express as a first year student on her way to Hogwarts.

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Hermione Granger is a Muggle-born Gryffindor, who becomes best friends with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.

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Hermione Granger is an overachiever who excels academically and is described by Rowling as a "very logical, upright and good" character.

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Hermione Granger is an exaggeration of how I was when I was younger.

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Finally, according to Rowling, next to Albus Dumbledore, Hermione Granger is the perfect expository character; because of her encyclopedic knowledge, she can always be used as a plot dump to explain the Harry Potter universe.

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Hermione Granger first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when she meets Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express, where she mocks Ron for his inability to perform a spell to turn his rat yellow.

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Hermione Granger proves just how much she knows by declaring that she memorized all the textbooks by heart.

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Hermione Granger is the brains behind the plan to enter the place where the Stone is hidden.

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Hermione Granger responds to Harry's wariness of Professor Severus Snape and is suspicious of him.

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Hermione Granger reveals to Harry and Ron that she does a lot of research in the library, which helped her defeat the Devil's Snare and work out the logic of the potions.

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Hermione Granger develops a liking for Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart as he had written all the books required for the DADA in Chamber of Secrets.

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Hermione Granger concocts the Polyjuice Potion needed for the trio to disguise themselves as Draco's housemates to collect information about the Heir of Slytherin who has reopened the Chamber of Secrets.

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Hermione Granger is Petrified by the basilisk after successfully identifying the creature through library research.

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Hermione Granger is revived after Harry kills the basilisk, but she is distraught to learn that all end-of-year exams have been cancelled as a school treat.

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Hermione Granger buys a cat named Crookshanks, who takes to chasing Ron's pet rat, Scabbers.

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Ron is angry because he feels Crookshanks caused Scabbers' disappearance, while Hermione Granger fiercely maintains that Crookshanks is innocent.

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Hermione Granger correctly deduces Lupin's secret after completing Snape's homework assignment from the class.

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Hermione Granger is Bulgarian Quidditch prodigy Viktor Krum's date at the Yule Ball of the Triwizard Tournament.

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Hermione Granger later gets into a heated argument with Ron after he accuses her of "fraternising with the enemy" about her friendship with Krum.

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Ron and Hermione Granger spend much of their time bickering, likely due to their growing romantic feelings toward one another, but they show continued loyalty to Harry.

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One turning point in the series is when Hermione Granger conceives the idea of Harry secretly teaching defensive magic to a small band of students in defiance of the Ministry of Magic's dictum to teach only the subject's basic principles from a textbook, with no hands-on practice.

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Hermione Granger gets an unexpectedly huge response, and the group becomes the nascent Dumbledore's Army.

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Hermione Granger is involved in the battle in the Department of Mysteries and seriously injured by a spell from Death Eater Antonin Dolohov, but makes a full recovery.

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New Potions professor Horace Slughorn invites Hermione Granger to join his "Slug Club", and she helps Ron retain his spot on the Gryffindor Quidditch team when she casts a confund spell on Cormac McLaggen, causing him to miss his last save attempt during Keeper tryouts.

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Hermione Granger is the only one of the trio to successfully pass her Apparition test.

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Hermione Granger prepared for their departure and journey by placing an Undetectable Extension Charm on a small beaded purse so she can fill the infinite depths of the bag with things they will need.

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Hermione Granger's spell saves her and Harry from Lord Voldemort and his snake Nagini in Godric's Hollow, though the ricochet snaps Harry's wand.

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Hermione Granger tries to pass herself off as former Hogwarts student Penelope Clearwater and a half-blood to avoid persecution, but they are recognised and taken to Malfoy Manor.

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Hermione Granger later uses Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Bellatrix when the trio steal Hufflepuff's cup from Gringotts.

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She, Harry, and Ron join Dumbledore's Army in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Hermione Granger destroys Hufflepuff's cup in the Chamber of Secrets with a basilisk fang.

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In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it is shown that Hermione Granger has become Minister for Magic, succeeding Kingsley Shacklebolt.

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The books describe Hermione Granger as having "bushy brown hair" and brown eyes.

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Hermione Granger stopped wearing them for the rest of the films because they caused difficulties in speech.

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Hermione Granger is extremely compassionate; and very quick to help others, especially the defenceless, such as Neville Longbottom, first-years, House-Elves, fellow Muggle-borns, half-giants like Hagrid, and werewolves like Lupin.

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Hermione Granger is very protective of her friends and values them so much that Rowling has suggested that, if Hermione Granger looked in the Mirror of Erised, she would see Harry, Ron, and herself alive and Voldemort defeated.

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Hermione Granger learns to ignore what bullies such as Draco Malfoy say to her, often preventing Harry and Ron from retaliating and thinking of some way to outsmart him.

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Hermione Granger accepts her status as a Muggle-born, and says in Deathly Hallows that she is "a Mudblood and proud of it".

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Hermione Granger is portrayed during the whole series as an exceptionally talented young witch.

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Hermione Granger is the first one of her age to be able to cast non-verbal spells.

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Hermione Granger did not tend to do as well in subjects that were not learned through books or formal training, as broom flying did not come as naturally to her in her first year as it did to Harry, and she showed no affinity for Divination, which she dropped from her third-year studies.

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Hermione Granger was not good at Wizard's Chess, as it was the only thing at which she ever lost to Ron.

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Hermione Granger's wand is made of vine wood and dragon heartstring core; vine is the wood ascribed to Hermione's fictional birth month on the Celtic calendar.

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In 2016 The Hollywood Reporter did a poll of Hollywood professionals, including actors, writers and directors, into their favourite female characters of all time; Hermione Granger topped the poll.

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Screenwriter Steve Kloves revealed in a 2003 interview that Hermione Granger was his favourite character.

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In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hermione Granger is played by Eswatini-born actress Noma Dumezweni, known for her work in Linda, A Raisin in the Sun and A Human Being Died That Night.

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Hermione Granger has been parodied in many sketches and animated series.

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In Harry Cover, a French comic book parody of Harry Potter by Pierre Veys, Hermione Granger appears as Harry Cover's friend Hormone.

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Hermione Granger appears in Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega; and in the A Very Potter Musical, A Very Potter Sequel, and A Very Potter Senior Year musicals by StarKid Productions played by Bonnie Gruesen in the first two and Meredith Stepien in the third.