Hermione Granger

Hermione Jean Granger was born September 19th, 1979. She’s an English Muggle-born witch born to Mr and Mrs Granger. At the age of eleven, she learned about her magical nature and had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hermione began attending Hogwarts in 1991 and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. 

Given her keen mind, some students – such as Terry Boot – wondered why Hermione was Sorted into Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw. She admitted that the Sorting Hat did consider putting her in Ravenclaw. It is likely that the Sorting Hat ultimately put her in Gryffindor because Hermione chose to be in it, just like Harry chose to not be in Slytherin, in fact on the train she states that, “Gryffindor… sounds by far the best.” At last she proved her rightful place in Gryffindor with her steadfast bravery and loyalty to her friends, Hogwarts, and Dumbledore’s Army. 

Hermione was a couple of weeks away from turning twelve when she boarded the Hogwarts Express in 1991, where she met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley while helping Neville Longbottom find his pet toad, Trevor.

Hermione soon proved to be the best in all her classes, eager to please the professors and to help others learn, albeit in a bossy way that made it difficult for her to make friends. Although she was a know-it-all, Hermione did often help Neville Longbottom, who struggled in most classes other than Herbology.

Hermione strictly followed all school rules and tried to prevent other students from breaking rules and getting into trouble. On one night, she followed Harry and Ron as they were leaving Gryffindor Tower to duel Draco Malfoy. They were chased by Argus Filch, acting on a tipoff by Malfoy, into the third-floor corridor — forbidden to students — where they came face-to-face with Fluffy, a three-headed dog belonging to Hagrid. Later on, she argued that her spying was to their benefit when she pointed out the dog had been standing on a trapdoor, which neither Harry nor Ron had noticed.

The friendship between Harry, Ron and Hermione was solidified when, on Hallowe’en in 1991, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll, which had been secretly let into the school by Professor Quirinus Quirrell, that had headed towards the girls bathroom, where Hermione was crying alone about what she overheard from Ron.

During the first Quidditch match, Hermione set Professor Snape’s robes on fire when she thought he was jinxing Harry’s broom. She thought that it was the “keeping your eyes fixed on the target” to make a spell. Actually Professor Snape was really trying to save Harry’s life with a counter curse, and Quirrell to kill him, in fact in the movie is possible to see him behind Snape, eye fixed on Harry. In the spring of 1992, Hagrid, now a friend of Hermione’s through Harry, managed to procure a dragon egg, the unlicensed possession of which was illegal.

When Hagrid finally managed to achieve the dream of his life and have a dragon, precisely a Norwegian Ridgeback, which he called Norbert (and later it will be found out that Norbert was actually Norberta), Harry, Ron, and Hermione managed to convince him to give it to Charlie, Ron’s elder brother in order to bring him in Romania where he would have been with its specie. They brought it on the Astronomy Tower for Charlie to catch it, on their way down they were caught by Argus Flitch who escorted them to Minerva Mc Gonagall, head of Gryffindor; She decided to punish them with the Dark Forest, along with Neville and Draco, they received detention and had 50 points deducted each from their respective houses.

After their run-in with Fluffy, Harry deduced that whatever Hagrid had retrieved from Gringotts was beneath the trapdoor. Hagrid let it slip that “… What’s under that trapdoor is strictly between Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel”. After much research turned up nothing, Harry was given a Dumbledore Chocolate Frog Card by Neville, which mentions Dumbledore’s work in Alchemy with Flamel. This led Hermione to look at a large book on Alchemy which she had borrowed from the library for “a bit of light reading“. After consulting the book, she realised that Fluffy was guarding the Philosopher’s Stone.

Fearing that Lord Voldemort would return if he stole the stone, and believing that Snape was acting as a double agent and attempting to steal it, Harry decided to steal it first. When he told Hermione that he could go on alone, she rebuffed him. After the trio passed Fluffy, it was Hermione who freed Ron from a patch of Devil’s Snare he had dropped into by conjuring Bluebell Flames. She later got herself and Harry through a challenge involving a Potion Riddle in order to obtain the right potion between many of them. Hermione used her logic to figure out the riddle and let Harry go forward without her, as there was only enough potion for one person.

Later, at the Farewell Feast in the Great Hall, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Neville were all awarded extra House Points for bravery and heroism, allowing Gryffindor to win the House Cup. Hermione earned hers by correctly solving Professor Snape’s potion riddle.

During the summer before their second year Hermione along with Ronald, wrote several letters to Harry all of which were intercepted by Dobby, making Harry think they forgot about him. She finally met with Harry in Diagon Alley where she was buying her school supplies with her Muggles parents. For this reason during her second year she starts to be victim of prejudice and hate from Draco Malfoy because of her blood status, who called her “filthy little mudblood”. To help Hermione feel better about the incident, Hagrid urged her not to think about it, pointing out that she was a talented witch, regardless of what bigoted people said about her Muggle-born status. Hermione had an obvious crush on Gilderoy Lockhart, who became that year’s Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. She scored full marks on the first quiz in his class, which consisted entirely of questions pertaining to Lockhart’s books, including a question regarding his favourite colour (lilac) that most of the class had answered incorrectly. In fact, she went as far as to doodle hearts on her DADA assignments, not knowing until later that he was, in reality, a self-obsessed fraud.

On Hallowe’en, 1992 Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party with Harry and Ron, she introduced them to the ghost of Moaning Myrtle, wishing clearly to not have to talk to her, unfortunately Pevees overheard her, and called Myrtle telling her that Hermione, Harry and Ron where making fun of her. Heading back upstairs, she followed Harry in a detour, after he claimed to be hearing voices. They discovered the caretaker’s cat, Mrs Norris, petrified and the walls vandalised. Hermione began spending all her free time in the Hogwarts Library after she saw the writing on the corridor walls, which had said that the Chamber of Secrets had been re-opened. Despite hoping to read about the legend, she could not, as all the books had been previously checked out.

Hermione shocked everyone when she actually interrupted Professor Binns during a History of Magic class, asking about the Chamber of Secrets. This was the only known time when a student had asked the boring professor a question, and the class was interested in what he had to say. Professor Binns had stated that Salazar Slytherin had hidden a chamber which consisted of a horrible monster. It had been unleashed before once by an “Heir of Slytherin”, petrifying many Muggle-born and had also killed a Ravenclaw girl, named Myrtle Warren. Slytherin, a pure-blood loyalist, was against Muggle-born children being allowed to attend Hogwarts, but he was outnumbered by the other founders and Muggle-borns like Hermione were permitted as students. Slytherin fled the school, but rumours spread that he had built a hidden chamber; it was said that the school had been searched many times, but no such chamber had been found.

When Professor Dumbledore gave his go-ahead on the Duelling Club, Hermione coupled with Millicent Bulstrode a very tall, large girl from Slytherin. They started duelling with their wand but they were later seen on the ground one on another teasing each other’s hairs.

Later when Harry suggested that Draco Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin, it was Hermione who suggested to brew the Polyjuice Potions transforming into Tyger and Goyle to interrogate Malfoy. Since they needed the book from the restriction section the only way was to have a permit signed by a Professor, Hermione used her charm on Professor Lockhart to have it. She also stole supplies from Snape’s personal collection, risking very serious consequences if got caught, and started to brew the potion in the second floor bathroom, place of the ghost of Moaning Myrtle, who was not very happy of the thing.

Hermione was unable to join the ruse with Polyjuice Potion because the hair she obtained from Slytherin Millicent Bulstrode during their scuffle in the Duelling Club was actually the hair of Bulstrode’s cat. Hermione grew fur and a tail, and remained in the Hospital Wing for weeks as she did not transform back when the normal duration of effectiveness – one hour – was up. Months after her recovery from the Polyjuice complication, she came to the conclusion that the creature attacking students must be a Basilisk, and rushed to the library to conduct further research. On her way back from the library, she warned the first person she saw, Penelope Clearwater, and advised her to look around corners with a mirror before going anywhere. It saved both their lives, because they were both petrified when they spotted the basilisk’s eyes through the mirror instead of dying immediately as they would have done if they’d looked straight into its eyes.

Though she was petrified for the rest of the school year, Hermione was still able to assist Harry and Ron, for she had torn out the page on basilisks and scribbled on it “pipes“, referencing the manner in which the creature had moved around the school undetected. Harry and Ron found it clenched in her hand when they were finally allowed to visit her in the Hospital Wing. Hermione was later cured with a Mandrake Restorative Draught created by Professor Sprout. Upon arriving at the Great Hall, she was immediately greeted by Nearly Headless Nick. After hugging Harry she exchanged an awkward greeting with Ron. Hermione was disappointed to learn that, as a special treat for the school, Professor Dumbledore cancelled the students’ end of year exams, but she was intensely proud that her friends had solved the mystery. That summer, Hermione went on holiday to France with her parents.

Just before she began the 1993-1994 school year, while visiting Diagon Alley with Harry and the Weasley family, Hermione met and adopted a ginger part-Kneazle cat named Crookshanks from the Magical Menagerie. However, her new bond with her cat caused friction with Ron and his pet rat Scabbers, as Crookshanks was always trying to catch the rat. Also at the beginning of this school year, Hermione obtained a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall so she could double up on classes, though this was kept secret from everyone, even Harry and Ron.

When Harry received a Firebolt for Christmas with no note, Hermione reported it to Professor McGonagall, thinking it was sent by Sirius Black, whom everyone believed to be a dangerous murderer who was after Harry. His broom was taken away to be inspected, which caused a temporary rift between the two friends. There was further social strain for Hermione when Ron accused Crookshanks of eating Scabbers, who had disappeared. Hermione poured herself into defending Buckbeak, the hippogriff on trial before the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures for attacking Draco Malfoy during a Care of Magical Creatures class. 

That year, Hermione was among the students who found Remus Lupin to be the best Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher they have ever had. She cleverly deduced that Professor Lupin was a werewolf, based on his Boggart taking the form of a full moon, the timing of his unexplained absences from class, and Professor Snape changing a lesson he took over to the subject of werewolves even though it wasn’t due on the syllabus for weeks. However, she didn’t expose Lupin, presumably because she believed he was a good teacher and didn’t agree with the prejudice many hold against werewolves. Divination, on the other hand, turned out to be a subject Hermione had no respect for or interest in, and soon dropped the subject after Professor Sybill Trelawney told her that she didn’t posses the Second Sight and because she believed that Divination was an imprecise term of magic.

On the day of Buckbeak’s execution, the trio ventured down to console Hagrid. While in his cabin, Hermione discovered Scabbers, Ron’s lost rat. Hagrid urged them to leave and they witnessed from a distance what they believed to be Buckbeak’s execution. Before they could return to their dormitory, Scabbers bit Ron and fled. While chasing after the rat, they were attacked by a black dog, which pulled Ron by the leg into a tunnel beneath the Whomping Willow, which then attacked them. Afterward, Hermione and Harry hurried after them eventually arriving in the Shrieking Shack, where Sirius Black, whose Animagus form was the black dog, confronted them. They were soon joined by Professor Lupin who was acting strangely, and Hermione told Harry and Ron of her belief that he was a werewolf, which he then confirmed. It was revealed that Sirius had been framed for the betrayal of James and Lily Potter, and that the true traitor was Peter Pettigrew, who had been hiding from the world as Ron’s pet rat. Hermione also cast Expelliarmus on Snape when he discovered them, knocking him out, at which she was horrified.

After Professor Lupin who didn’t take the Wolfsbane that night turned into a werewolf, and Sirius transformed into his animals to protect the others. When Harry and Hermione heard him moaning down by the lake they immediately went after him, only to found themselves a minute after surrounded by Dementors. Harry cast some Patronus to try to make them leave but there were too many, right when they were about to perform the kiss on them someone on the other side of the lake performed a very powerful Patronus, making them leave. Harry and Hermione awoke in the Hospital Wing after being rescued by Severus Snape, who conjured stretchers for Hermione, Harry and Sirius. After realising that Sirius’ soul was to be destroyed by the Dementor’s Kiss and receiving vague, though instructive and useful, instructions from Dumbledore, Hermione used her Time-Turner to return herself and Harry to a time earlier in the evening.

The two did, however, successfully use the opportunity to rescue Sirius and also Buckbeak, as it was hinted by Dumbledore that more than one innocent life could be spared that night. At the end of the year Hermione returned her Time-Turner, claiming it caused too much trouble and that she would drop a few subjects instead, which was a very big surprise to everyone.

Before her fourth year at Hogwarts, Hermione spent much of the summer holidays at the Burrow with Harry and Ron, sharing a room with Ginny Weasley. With the other Weasleys (excluding Molly Weasley), they attended the 1994 Quidditch World Cup in August. After the game, the communal campsite was set upon by Death Eaters. Hermione, Harry, and Ron fled into the woods and witnessed the casting of Morsmordre. Initially caught up in the chaos surrounding the effort to catch the caster, she took exception to the accusations levelled against Harry, and the many wizards’ treatment of the house-elf Winky who had also been at the scene.

Once at Hogwarts, Hermione began a crusade for the liberation of house-elves by beginning the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, or what she and the group called S.P.E.W, (or, as Ronald Weasley called it, “spew”) having been appalled by Bartemius Crouch’s abusive treatment of his house-elf Winky. This did not earn her any popularity, as most believed that house-elves enjoy their work; indeed, even the house-elves did not like her campaigning. Harry, Ron, and Neville only reluctantly joined S.P.E.W., mostly in order to prevent Hermione from nagging them about it. Hagrid as well as Fred and George Weasley refused to join on the grounds that it would upset the house-elves. Despite this, Fred did tell Hermione how to get into the Hogwarts kitchens. One morning she (along with Harry and Ron) visited the kitchens, where she spoke to Dobby and Winky. Dobby was pleased to see Harry and his friends and proceeded to tell them his struggles as a freed elf.

After the events surrounding Harry’s name coming out of the Goblet of Fire, Hermione was the only student who believed Harry’s innocence. In fact, she “accepted his story without question.” Even Ron was suspicious that Harry had cheated in order to gain more glory, creating a rift between the two for some time. Hermione helped Harry prepare for the first task of the Triwizard Tournament by helping him learn the Summoning Charm, Accio to summon his Firebolt.

Hermione unknowingly attracted the interest of Durmstrang Triwizard Champion and Bulgarian International Seeker, Viktor Krum. He was attracted to her due to her intelligence, unconventional beauty, and the manner in which she declined to hound him for autographs, unlike other girls. Krum began following Hermione to the library and other places around Hogwarts, including the library. This was something that Hermione found very irritating, as she couldn’t work when surrounded by giggling girls, who had taken it upon themselves to follow Krum throughout the castle and the school grounds. Krum even bizarrely asked Harry if it was all right for him to pursue Hermione. He eventually asked her to attend the Yule Ball with him, and she accepted, not telling anyone but Ginny Weasley that she was his date.

Thus, when the pair arrived, many were stunned and jealous. Hermione wore robes of a “floaty, periwinkle-blue material,” and her hair in an “elegant knot at the back of her head.” The attention to her appearance was unusual, and she received many positive remarks on it. Even Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson had nothing negative to say. Hermione commented that she had used Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion, but that it was too much work to use it every day. Upon seeing Hermione with Krum, Ron was overcome with jealousy. Hermione had hoped for Ron to ask her, but his invitation was insensitive and at the last minute due to him not being able to find anyone else. The two rowed about it in the common room after the ball, in which she revealed that he should have asked her properly and not “as a last resort”, but Ron misunderstood the point. After that, the two were seemingly more polite to each other, although more distant for a time and Ron continued to show dislike and distrust towards Krum.

Hermione was chosen as a “kidnap victim” for Krum during the Tournament’s Second Task, something that she subsequently endured teasing over. She was taken to the bottom of the Black Lake to await rescue from Krum, who donned a half-shark Transfiguration.

When Krum confessed his fears to Hermione about her relationship with Harry Potter, Rita Skeeter the journalist for the Daily Prophet was hidden nearby, and wrote a manful article about Hermione. She wrote a scathing article on “the devious Miss Granger”, claiming that she was toying with both Harry and Krum’s affections and that she had developed a taste for famous wizards. Skeeter even went so far to claim that Hermione was possibly brewing love potions. In the words of Ron, Skeeter was making Hermione out to be a “Scarlet Woman“, a phrase which made Hermione laugh. Although Hermione found the lies ridiculous, some people believed them and started sending Hermione hate mail, including one filled with Bubotuber Pus, and even Molly Weasley treated her coldly until Harry corrected her. Hermione vowed to get revenge on Skeeter for her libel, and wondered how she was getting her information, as several things Skeeter knew had only been discussed in private conversations. This led her to come to the realisation that Skeeter was an illegal unregistered Animagus, who took the form of a beetle to secretly witness confidential exchanges.

After Harry was rescued from Barty Crouch Jr, in the Hospital Wing while has telling his story Hermione spotted Rita “beetle” Skeeter on a window, trying to eavesdrops the story, she captured her in jar forbidding her to return her human form and so writing again for the Daily Prophet, this cost her her career, giving Hermione eventually her revenge.

While Harry was busy with the court hearing at the ministry she helped exterminate 12 Grimmauld Place, which served as headquarters for the Order. Before returning to Hogwarts, she and Ron learned that they had been appointed prefects for Gryffindor house, to the secret consternation of Harry, who couldn’t believe Ron had been chosen over him. She took her position very seriously. Once the school year began, Hermione resumed some of her activism on behalf of house-elves, though she was not as intense about S.P.E.W. as she had been the previous year. She learned how to knit socks and hats for the house-elves and hid them in Gryffindor Tower, disguising them with crumpled rubbish in an attempt to trick the house-elves into accidentally freeing themselves. The elves found this attempt insulting, and they stopped cleaning the Tower at all. Dobby was the only one who enjoyed the gifts, took everything Hermione had made, and cleaned the Tower by himself, a fact which Hermione didn’t know. Hermione was challenged in more ways than one that year when she met Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw girl, whose belief in many things without logical grounds baffled Hermione. However, the two became friends after accepting one another’s differences.

When they started the Order of the Phoenix, to actually learn how to defend themselves from the Dark Arts since Umbridge forbade them to use magic, one of the many spells Hermione learned was the Patronus Charm; hers took the corporeal form of an otter. Hermione became one of the few people brave enough to call Voldemort by his actual name. However, Hermione made the mistake of arranging the first meeting to take place in the Hog’s Head, as opposed to the Three Broomsticks, which Sirius, appearing in the Gryffindor Common Room fire, said would have made it a lot more harder for anyone to overhear. Willy Widdershins, who was in the Hog’s Head, went to Umbridge, who instituted Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four to forbid any type of students groups from being formed under her watchful eye.

When Mr. Weasley was hospitalised at St. Mungo’s after Nagini attack, Hermione along with Harry and Ron went to meet him. During their visit they wandered around the hospital ending up in the Janus Thickey Ward, which is for treatment of spell damage. Addresses unliftable jinxes, hexes, curses, incorrectly-applied charms. Here they found a very confused Lockhart he greeted them cheerfully and spent most of the time humming to himself absentmindedly. When addressed as Professor, he expressed surprise at the idea and remarked that he must have been hopeless, without any reluctance at all. Despite forgetting his desire for fame and attention, he continued to enjoy signing autographs and responding to fan letters, a trait that Harry noted had not changed. What by the way really shocked them was to find in the same ward Neville, meeting his parents who after being cursed several time with the Cruciatus Curse from Barty Crouch Jr and Bellatrix Lestrange went completely insane.

Hermione later gave Harry advice on Cho and girls in general. In an effort to combat the lies being told about Harry, and arranged for an interview during a Hogsmeade visit with Rita Skeeter to be printed in The Quibbler telling his side of the story, blackmailing Skeeter into penning it in a sympathetic tone. Despite being banned – or maybe because it was banned – it became the magazine’s best-selling issue of all time. It was Hermione’s brilliant spell-work that ensured the security of Dumbledore’s Army. She created coins enchanted with the Protean Charm, an advanced spell, as a method of communication, and jinxed the club’s attendance sheet to give any tattler a horrendous rash on the face, which would spell out “SNEAK” in painful boils. This is exactly what happened to Marietta Edgecombe, a reluctant member of the D.A., having been brought to the meetings by Cho. Shortly before Easter, Marietta finally caved under the pressure from her ministry mother who worked in the the Floo Network Office and betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge. When Harry learned that they could not find a counter-curse to heal her face, he swelled with pride at Hermione’s jinxing ability.

After Hagrid had been away all the year, he came back to Hogwarts with several bruises on his body, Hermione and others found out that he had brought back from his mission with madame Maxime his half-giant brother in law, Grawp. He had hidden him in the Forbidden Forest and was trying to teach him human ways, without much of a result. When Hagrid brought them to meet him, he picked up Hermione who told him forcefully to put him down, he later started to call her “Hermy”. Just after their class took their O.W.Ls, Harry had a vision of his godfather being tortured by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione was worried that it was a trap and convinced Harry to try to contact Sirius before doing anything rash. To that end, she accompanied Harry in an act of solidarity as he sneaked into Umbridge’s office to use the Floo Network, with the assistance of Ron, Ginny, and Luna Lovegood, but they were ultimately caught. When Umbridge threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry during questioning, Hermione interceded. She came up with a lie that she and her fellow D.A. members had been building a weapon for Dumbledore, thus stopping Umbridge’s sadistic interrogation and attempted torture of Harry. Hermione successfully lured Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest by saying that’s where the weapon was hidden, where Umbridge was carried away by a herd of centaurs. She had predicted that the centaurs would let her and Harry go, since they did not insult the centaurs and were young enough to be considered “foals”. However, the centaurs were already enraged by Umbridge and were further angered when Hermione admitted that she had hoped that they would drive Umbridge off, being insulted that they were thought of to do the bidding of humans. The centaurs were about to carry the two students off as well, but Grawp stumbled onto the scene and a fight broke out between the giant and the herd. This allowed Hermione and Harry to escape and meet up with Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Neville, who had escaped from the Inquisitorial Squad.

After a brief argument between Harry and Neville over whether or not the others were going to travel with Harry to London, an understanding was reached. The six students flew on Thestrals (which the majority, Hermione included, could not even see) to the Ministry of Magic to try to save Sirius from Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Hermione’s fear turned out to be justified, as Harry’s vision was a ruse planted in his brain by Voldemort designed to lure him to the Ministry to obtain a prophecy Voldemort sought. As soon as Harry did this, the six D.A. members were surrounded by Death Eaters, and a battle ensued. Hermione stunned Nott when he grabbed Harry, thus freeing him and causing Nott to be injured by the collapsing shelves of prophecies. She later stunned another Death Eater and Silenced Antonin Dolohov before he could alert the other Death Eaters to the group’s location. She was critically injured by the curse Dolohov subsequently struck her with, but made a full recovery.

Hermione achieved high academic prestige when she obtained ten O.W.L.s, in Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmancy, History of Magic, Herbology, Astronomy, Potions, and Ancient Runes. She received ‘Outstanding’ marks on each of them, except Defence Against the Dark Arts in which she received an ‘Exceeds Expectations,’ which she dwelt upon; Ron found it amusing that she actually seemed disappointed by this. By the time they arrived in Hogwarts, Hermione’s romantic feelings for Ron had become obvious. According to Harry the two seemed on their way to a romantic relationship. Hermione and Ron’s relationship suffered greatly in their sixth year, when Ron became envious of both Hermione and Harry, who were invited to be members of the Slug Club, a group of students favoured by Potions professor Horace Slughorn, while he was ignored. Hermione strongly disapproved of Harry using the textbook of the “Half-Blood Prince” to get ahead in Potions unfairly, though she did not turn him in and indirectly found a clue about the book owner.

She was particularly alarmed by the increasingly Dark nature of the magic in the book, such as the spell Sectumsempra. However, during an argument with his sister, Ginny humiliated Ron about his inexperience with the opposite gender and told him that Hermione had kissed Viktor Krum during their earlier romance. Ron subsequently began treating Hermione coldly, much to her bewilderment. She was upset when he and Lavender started flirting. When she found out about Ron’s relationship with Lavender, she conjured a flock of wild birds to attack Ron for his insensitivity regarding her feelings. He became even angrier with her when she believed that Harry slipped Ron Felix Felicis to assist in his Quidditch-playing abilities; despite having believed it initially himself, he accused her of having no faith in him when it was discovered that he had not been slipped the potion at all. After this, Hermione attended Slughorn’s Christmas party with Cormac McLaggen to get back at Ron, but it did not go well due to the former’s impoliteness. Afterwards, Ron (who was relieved that Hermione and McLaggen’s date did not go well) attempted to speak to Hermione, but she ignored him, still upset and angry over his previous treatment of her. This behaviour presisted for quite sometime.

The two reconciled after Ron was hospitalised due to consuming poisoned mead, an event that left Hermione shaken and frightened. After the incident she remained unusually quiet and subdued. Whilst sitting at Ron’s bedside, Ron subconsciously muttered Hermione’s name. After Ron and Lavander break up since she saw him coming down from the Gryffindor’s boys dormitory with Hermione, her and Ron were more comfortable together, and their relationship improved considerably, although a romantic relationship remained out of their reach. Hermione comforted Ron after he failed his Apparition test because he Splinched half an eyebrow, while he teased her about the instructor’s praise for her flawless performance. That year, Hermione also quickly mastered non-verbal magic, the first in her class to do so. Throughout the year, Hermione and Ron were both sceptical of Harry’s theory that Draco Malfoy had been branded with the Dark Mark and was up to something. Moreover, she was confident that Malfoy couldn’t have brought any Dark objects into Hogwarts without alerting Filch. These claims were heard by Draco himself, who used these details and Hermione’s previous plan of communication to accomplish his own.

When the Death Eaters irrupted in the school, Harry splitter the remained Felix Felicia between him and his friends, between them Hermione who fought in the battle and remained unscathed thanks to this. He told Hermione, Ron, and Ginny to drink it beforehand in case his worries proved true. When Harry told them about his desire to drop out of Hogwarts to hunt Horcruxes, which were the key to defeating Lord Voldemort. Despite his protests, Hermione and Ron promised to forgo their seventh year of school in order to assist Harry. Before leaving the school, Hermione was able to Summon books about Horcruxes so as to learn how to destroy the items. She found them in Dumbledore’s office, where the late headmaster had kept them after the subject had been banned at Hogwarts.

Hermione began planning for her journey with Harry and Ron immediately. Concerned for the safety of her family, she altered her parents’ memories to make them think they were Wendell and Monica Wilkins and sent them to hide in Australia, no longer aware of their original identities, the existence of their daughter, or anything she had told them about Harry. She also withdrew all of her savings at her building society account, in event of a need for Muggle money. Hermione then joined the Order of the Phoenix in the operation to remove Harry from 4 Privet Drive before his 17th birthday, taking Polyjuice Potion to become one of the “seven Potters”. Hermione flew on a Thestral with Kingsley Shacklebolt. The two fought off at least five Death Eaters, possibly killing one, injuring two, and were pursued by Lord Voldemort himself at one point. In time, they arrived safely at the Burrow, where Hermione was immensely relieved to see Harry alive and ran to him and hugged him tight, but she was greatly worried when Ron did not show up on time. When he landed, she ran and nuzzled him in relief. She was saddened by the news of Alastor Moody and Hedwig’s murders and disturbed by Harry’s vision of Garrick Ollivander being tortured.

Later on, the Minister for Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, interrupted Harry’s birthday celebrations to execute Albus Dumbledore’s will and bequeath some of his belongings to the three friends. Hermione received The Tales of Beedle the Bard , a book of children’s stories written in runes. At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour’s wedding on 1 August, 1997, Hermione wore a “floaty, lilac-coloured dress with matching high heels” and made her hair “sleek and shiny.” She shared a friendly exchange with Viktor Krum, to the frustration of Ron. She was happily surprised when Ron quickly asked her to dance, and when Krum asked a disguised Harry whether the two were together, Harry replied “Er… sort of.” The wedding was interrupted by Kingsley Shacklebolt’s Patronus who told the guests of the fall of the Ministry of Magic. Hermione was prepared to make a quick escape, immediately Disapparating herself, Harry, and Ron away from the danger. Hermione also showed great foresight and magical talent when she revealed a small beaded purse on which she had placed an Undetectable Extension Charm. Within it she had packed, amongst other things, clothing, a tent, healing supplies, Harry’s Invisibility Cloak, and several useful books. They arrived on the Muggle street, Tottenham Court Road, where Hermione suggested they enter a café, as a means to get out of the open.However, minutes later Hermione unknowingly triggered the Taboo curse that was placed on Voldemort’s name, and the trio were thus tracked down by Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle. After a brief but violent skirmish, the Death Eaters were subdued, and Hermione modified their memories to throw them off the scent and to maintain Ron’s cover story that he was sick with spattergroit and bedridden at home. At Harry’s suggestion the three then made their way safely to 12 Grimmauld Place, as they could not hide anywhere within the wizarding world.

When they broke into the Ministry of Magic to retrieve the Horcrux which had been taken unknowingly by Umbridge, Hermione was forced to sit through the trials of Alderton and Mary Cattermole, innocent Muggle-borns, right alongside Umbridge and Death Eater Yaxley. Hermione tricked Umbridge into telling her about the locket, which she claimed was a Selwyn family heirloom. When Harry attacked Umbridge in a rage, their cover was blown, but she and Harry managed to free the Muggle-born prisoners and encouraged them to flee the country while Voldemort was in power. Hermione took the locket from Umbridge, replacing it with a copy using the Geminio spell. They met up with Ron again and fled the Ministry, but Yaxley grabbed onto Hermione’s arm while they were Disapparating. This meant that he was unwittingly brought inside the enchantment making Grimmauld Place undetectable, and forced Hermione to use a Revulsion Jinx to free herself from him, and then to take the trio away from Grimmauld Place.

Ron accused Hermione to have chosen Harry over him, clearly transported by the negative energy of the Horcrux which made him think that there was something between Harry and Hermione. Hermione and Harry soon decided to go to Godric’s Hollow, to see the graves of Harry’s parents and to speak to historian Bathilda Bagshot. They believed Bathilda might be holding onto Godric Gryffindor’s Sword for Harry, as they thought Dumbledore might have left it with her as an old family friend, knowing it was the only method the trio knew for destroying a Horcrux. Hermione comforted Harry in the graveyard when they found the Potters’ graves; she nuzzled her head in to the crook between his head and shoulders and conjured roses for the graves. On their way out of the graveyeard they came into contact with what appeared to be Bathilda. The pair then went to Bathilda’s house; whilst in the house they were separated. Harry was attacked by Nagini upstairs, who had been waiting for them in the guise of the old woman, whose corpse had been animated like an Inferius by Voldemort. Hermione rushed to Harry’s aid and proceeded to save his life, and the two of them barely escaped before Lord Voldemort himself arrived at the cabin in an attempt to capture Harry.

Hermione Apparated to the Forest of Dean, while Harry was overcome with pain and visions of Voldemort’s attack on his parents and him in 1981. She used a Severing Charm to remove the locket from Harry and healed the bite Nagini had given him with dittany. Harry’s wand had also been broken in the foray, most likely by the Blasting Curse Hermione cast at Nagini. Hermione was very upset a the thought that it was her curse that broke Harry’s wand. After Ron returned she screamed at him despite Harry trying to tell her that Ron just saved his life, and punched him until Harry cast a shield charm between them with Hermione’s wand. She was furious with Ron for days for his abandonment, but gradually warmed up to him again. When they reached Lovegood’s house to ask Xenophillius about the Deathly Allows symbol Hermione noticed in the living room an Erumpent Horn, explosive if touched and tried to make it clear to Mr Lovegood who kept disguising it as Snorkack horn to Hermione’s annoyance. When the Death Eaters arrived, Mr. Lovegood touched the Erumpent Horn by accident making it explode letting the three of them escape.

In the Spring of 1998 Harry accidentally triggered the Taboo Curse on them, which immediately brought on them the Snatchers and the Death Eater Fernir Greyback, who was eager to bite Hermione due to his cannibalistic attitude he had developed in the wild. They were brought to Malfoy Manor, and when Bellatrix Lestrange thought they had broken into her Vault in Grincotts she decided to interrogate Hermione alone, torturing her. She proceeded to isolate Hermione and then brutally torture her with the Cruciatus Curse repeatedly along with taking a dagger and cutting the word Mudblood into her arm as interrogation methods. When Dobby freed them they rushed upstairs from the cellar to free Hermione, they were forced to drop their wands when Bellatrix held a silver knife to Hermione’s throat. Bellatrix cut through some skin, leaving a thin cut on the front of Hermoine’s neck. When Dobby came back, he managed to free Hermione from Lestrange’s grasp, and was ready to apparate with them at Shell Cottage, which he did taking along with him the Silver Knife Bellatrix had thrown. Once here they learned from Griphook that Bellatrix was so scared about them getting into her vaults, and start to elaborate a plan to break into Grincotts. They managed to get the help of Griphook who accepted his role, only in exchange of the Sword of Gryffindor.

Once more, Hermione used Polyjuice Potion, containing Bellatrix’s hair. She was also forced to use Bellatrix’s wand, as her wand had been confiscated by Snatchers. She very much disliked this, as the wand in question had caused so much suffering, such as contributing to Sirius’ murder. She stated that the wand felt wrong and Harry speculated that it was because Hermione had not won the wand’s intelligence. It was determined that Hermione was “too polite” to really impersonate Bellatrix, a she did not treat those around her like scum. Despite this, the group managed to get into the vault, mainly because of Harry’s use of the Imperius Curse. After many harrowing challenges, and Griphook betraying them out of a belief that they would not have kept to their agreement. Hermione, Ron, and Harry escaped on the back of the half-blind dragon that was guarding the vault, with another Horcrux in their possession.

On May 2^nd 1998 they returned to Hogwarts after Harry’s vision of the Horcrux to be in the castle, and to have something to do with Rowena Ravenclaw. ere reunited with their friends in the reformed Dumbledore’s Army, who declared their wish to fight the encroaching Death Eater army. Whilst Harry and Luna went to Ravenclaw Tower, Hermione and Ron retrieved basilisk fangs from the Chamber of Secrets in order to use them to destroy Horcruxes, and Hermione destroyed Hufflepuff’s Cup. Soon after reuniting with Harry, Ron expressed concern for the house-elves in the Hogwarts kitchens, prompting Hermione to kiss him for the very first time. Ron responded with great enthusiasm, but they quickly broke apart when Harry reminded them of their objective. The trio then entered the Room of Requirement in search for Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem, but were ambushed by Draco Malfoy, Gregory Goyle, and Vincent Crabbe. Hermione dodged a Killing Curse and managed to stun Goyle, and then she and Ron dragged him out of the room on a broomstick as it went up in flames due to Crabbe’s cursed Fiendfyre, which also destroyed the Horcrux. Harry rescued Draco, but Crabbe was killed by his creation.

Harry, Hermione and Ron then witnessed the death of Fred Weasley, which devastated them all. Despite their grief, the trio continued with the effort to track down Nagini, the last Horcrux (that they knew of). On their way, Hermione incapacitated two Death Eaters who were pursuing her, Harry and Ron, and blasted Fenrir Greyback away from an injured Lavender Brown, who still tragically died afterwards from her injuries. During the battle the three managed to reach the Shrieking Shack where they witnessed Snape being killed by Nagini on Voldemort’s order, because he thought the loyalty of the Elder Wand lay with him. During the break from the battle when Voldemort issued an ultimatum to Harry, Hermione comforted Ginny Weasley over Fred’s death. When Voldemort and his army approached with a supposedly dead Harry, Hermione screamed in horror and denial. The Battle of Hogwarts soon resumed, and Hermione fought Bellatrix Lestrange alongside Ginny and Luna, despite being hindered by using Bellatrix’s own wand against her. When Bellatrix nearly killed Ginny, Molly Weasley took over the fight and killed Bellatrix. Hermione witnessed Harry’s final defeat of Lord Voldemort, and she and Ron reached him first, overjoyed. Hermione survived the battle relatively unscathed, only suffering minor injuries and burns she received from entering the Lestranges’ Vault shortly before the battle.

At some point Hermione found her parents in Australia and restored their memories. In 1998, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to attain her N.E.W.T.s. She was the only one of the trio to do this, and by 2017 (nineteen years later) Hermione and Ron Weasley were married with two children: Rose and Hugo Granger-Weasley. Hermione is also the godmother of Harry and Ginny Potter’s eldest child, James Sirius. Hermione attained a high position in the Ministry of Magic, first through the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. There, she continued her work with S.P.E.W., working for the rights of underprivileged non-humans such as house-elves. She then went on to become Deputy Head  of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and assisted the Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt in eradicating the old laws biased in favour of pure-bloods. Hermione also eventually translated The Tales of Beedle the Bard from the original, which had been written in runes and which Albus Dumbledore bequeathed to her in his will in 1997. Her new translation was published in 2008 and included notes on each tale written by Dumbledore before his death; these notes were lent to Hermione by her former professor, Hogwarts headmistress Minerva McGonagall.

On 1 September, 2017, Hermione and Ron brought their children to King’s Cross Station to see Rose off for her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and met Harry, Ginny, and their three children there.