Well, if normally you could say that games don’t get better, Harry Potter for sure doesn’t stand by this rule.
This games is different from the ithers because finally Hermione and Ron come along, in fact in some parts of the game you’ll be Hermione, in others Ron, and in others again Harry.
As always it could not have the usual challgenge times, which this time are Carpe Retractum, Glacious and Lapifors/Draconifors, during which you’ll have to collect Shields instead of stars, and if you manage to collect them all, you’ll gain access to the Bean Bonus Room.
In this game other than Beans you’ll have the chance to collect Pumpkin Pasties, and Cauldron Cakes which are far more valuable than beans. All of this you will need in Fred and George’s shop, where you can buy Wizardcards,Potrait Passwords, and much more.
Pumpkin Pasties and Cauldron Cakes.
The passwords you’ll get from Fred and George shop you’ll need them to explore the Hogwarts portraits. This is actually the first game where along with the story you have a lot of side-quests which will allow you to look around.
Hippogryff challenge at Hagrid’s.
Each side quest will give you some sort of reward, which could be more Pumpink Pasties or Cauldron Cakes or: Wizard Cards.
Pixie challenges in the gardens.
This time the Wizard cards will be divided into sets, based on type of Wizards or Creatures they represent. You’ll win the game only if you manage to complete all the sets.
The Wizard cards can be hidden everywhere around the castle, look literally everywhere, up, down, behind portraits, in classes, in the gardens, talk to students, and win every challenge.
When you’ll reach all the sets completed and the blue sets with 14/15 cards collected, go to Fred and George’s shop buy the last card, and win the game!
Really good made, graphic improved again, honestly one the funniest I’ve ever played!!
The game starts with the story as always, with you in Diagon Alley together with Ron and Hermione, it has been (at least by me) immensly appreciated that the story course has followed the book’s.
Graphic considerably improved, but mostly preserved, you’re dressed the same and look the same. The characters are complete, and you meet everyone you shoul meet in your second year at Hogwarts, class 1991-1992.
In class you’ll no longer have to trace the spell figure with mouse, but you’ll use arrow keys instead. I’m not very sure how I feel about this change, it’s simpler of course and even the youngest can have fun easily, but for sure the figure to be traced resembled the most the swinging wand.
After every class you’ll have to face the corresponding challenge, here you’ll still have the Challenge Stars to collect, and more you’ll have to do it in the least time as possible, the more time you spare the more House Points you’ll collect.
House points you’ll actually need this time!! Once a week Dumbledore will host the House Point Ceremony, in which you’ll see how your Hogwarts House is going and how many House Points you collected. You’ll actually will be competing with Slytherin this time, so the first position is not something decided by the AR. If you’ll find yourself in the first position you’ll get the chance to access the Beans Room, where you’ll have 1 minute to collect the more Beans you can.
Beans you’ll need to collect all the Wizard Cards, since here the game is subdivided this way:
Golden Cards
Silver Cards
Bronze Cards
Some you’ll find during classes, games exc, the others you’ll have to trade them with the other students around Hogwarts.
PLEASE NOTE: be sure to trade all the cards possible before completing the final task (which is going into the Chamber of Secrets), otherwise you’ll find Hogwarts empthy and it will be no longer possible for you trade.
Another way you have to collect Beans is to duel in the Duellant Club, where you’ll bet a number of Beans, and if you win you’ll win yours back and the opponent’s.
Collecting all the Cards (especially the Silver ones), will guarantee you the access to another Special Challenge which will allow you to collect all the Gold Cards.
You’ll collect them through a special Time Challenge, but don’t worry if you don’t manage to catch them all at the first time you can re-try as many times as you want, and you won’t even loose the ones you already collected.
As always at the end of the Game if you visit the special Gallery with the Gold Cards, you’ll rewarded with a special one.
For sure the First One remain a classic, but this game is very well done, the upgrades are amazing, and for those (like me), who love the old-school game it’s perfect! Enjoable, and faithful to books!
The purpouse of the game just like in the film is to prevent Quirrel to steal the Philosopher Stone. You’ll attend classes and learn spells including: Flipendo, Incendio, Wingardium Leviosa, Wiggenweld Potion, Lumos.
To learn the spell you’ll have to trace the figure with the mouse, which is really difficult the first time you’re gonna try, so don’t get fussy if you don’t get it straight away. The more figure you manage to trace, out of four, the more House Points you’ll collect.
After each lesson you’ll attend a challenge centred only on the spell you just learned, during which you’ll become familiar with the spell and collect Challenge Stars (it’s not compulsory, but recommended you’ll get more House Points).
The more Challenge Stars you’ll collect, the more House Points you’ll be rewarded.
When you’ll first arrive to Hogwarts you’ll have Fred and George Weasley who’ll guide you through the tutorial to learn the control keys.
Don’t worry if it seems that Slytherin is always ahead of you, that’s completely normal! Just like in the film… 😉
During the game you can collect Famous Witches and Wizard Cards, you can either find them during the Class Challenges, around the Castle but most importantly from Fred and George.
Every now and then Fred and George will appear to you and ask you 25 beans, make sure to have them because they’ll give you in exchange a Famous Wizard Card.
If you collect them all at the end of the game you’ll be rewarded with a Special and Extra Card.
At the end of the game you’ll have to face all the challenges protecting the Stone, including a few which weren’t in the film. Until you reach the final room with Voldemort himself.
There are more tips and hint I could give you, but personally I did like to play and play again until I found everything I needed to find by myself. But let me know down in the comments if you want to know something, if you want some advices.
One last thing, in this first game once you advance to the next part, you cannot go back, so be sure to find everything before moving on, don’t rush and take your time. Parchment pages will appear before every “level” telling you everything that’s hidden, and what you need to do!
The confirmation arrived in the afternoon, but the new was already flying between fans yesterday morning: HBO Max the streaming platform announced that a TV series is being built. Is not being recorded already, yet the producers are thinking about it.
It’s still not clear what the plot will be about, be the aim is supposed to be a back up story to “Fantastic Beasts”, so it might be something that gives strength to the FB plot; there are several rumours flying around including: Marauders’s story, Dumbledore’s story, or Newt’s Scamander story at Hogwarts.
Personally I think it could be about Dumbledore’s story, since the shock of Aurelius Dumbledore has left the fans a little agape, but also the Marauders’s story is something we’ve been asking for quite too long.
One case or another we for sure can’t wait to hear more news, and at this day it’s not clear if J. K. Rowling will or is involved in the project. For now we can only dream about what this TV Serie will be about, and while we wait for some news we decided to create a cast of actors for both the “probable” plots, or better how we would imagine the casts.
Marauders If the story was about the Marauders: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Severus Snape it would be awesome to use the old cast, the one that played the roles in Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix:
but obviously they would be too “old” now to play these roles, so a few more ideas crossed my mind.
The first idea was that they could use the old cast that played the roles in Harry Potter and the Deathly Allows, since now the would be just the perfect ages:
IF both cases should go wrong this is a cast I could imagine as Marauders:
Annalise Basso as Lily Evans, Cody Christian as James Potter, Timothée Chalamet as Sirius Black, Eric Osborne as Remus Lupin, Devin Druid as Peter Pettigrew, Adam Driver as Severus Snape
Dumbledore This could possibly be one of the most probable plots since the “Aurelius Dumbledore” story really shocked fans.
Obviously Jude Law would be AMAZING as Dumbledore, but he would be way too old to play it, so this could be a cast I could imagine:
Millie Bobbie Brown as Ariana Dumbledore
Henry Cavill as Albus Dumbledore
Sam Claflin as Aberforth Dumbledore
Is it just me or they would be perfect?!?!
Newt Scamander Another big important point of the plot of Fantastic Beasts that could be developed, the story of Newt Scamander at Hogwarts, why was he expelled and his “love story” with Leta Lestrange, obviously this could be the perfect excuse to use the original cast:
Joshua Shea as Newt Scamander, Thea Lamb as Leta Lestrange, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, Fiona Glascott as Minerva McGonagall
Whatever the plot will be about one thing is sure, it has been 24 years since the first book has been released and 20 years since for the first time the film was available on the big screens.
I sincerely think it’s UNBELIEVABLE that Harry Potter still plays such an important role in people’s life. People still talk about it.
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home
We’ve just passed two hard weeks, full of petitions, and reclaims on Web in favour of Johnny Depp, contrasting with fierce him loosing his place as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3. But what happened? How did we get here? Let’s take together two-three steps back together to understand what happened between him and his ex-wife Amber Heard.
It’s 2012 when Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard start their relationship, they got to know each other on the set of The Rum Diary. On February 3rd 2015 they got married and after only 15 month of marriage, in 2016 Amber Heard asks the divorce, sustaining to have been beaten by Johnny Depp. On the other hand the event was not that simple, since Johnny Depp later accused Amber Heard of adultery and defamation. Here’s where we all are, the trial that has been sustained in London which finished on November 2nd 2020, was the process that started because Johny Depp denounced Amber Heard, and lost.
So here’s the first important information, Amber Heard DID NOT denounce Johnny Depp for beaten her up, but it was him who started the whole thing sustaining that she was lying. So first of all, Amber Heard was not right, but the justice decided that neither was Johnny.
Let’s admit for a moment she was right, and that he truly beat her, do you know that in psychology there is what is called the “Language of Abused”, which means that if you’re being abused, and you’re around you’re abuser even if you try to hide it, your body speaks for yourself. Some of these signs include:
The person may have unexplained bruises on their arms, face or anywhere on their body.
Abuse victims tend to makes themselves social outcasts by creating distance between them and their family or friends. This is because they are afraid that their abuser will get angry catching them socializing with someone else and they will get physically assaulted even more. That is why abuse victims tend to walk on eggshells to avoid a dispute with their partner.
You can tell a lot by looking at someone’s facial expressions. Domestic abusers tend to look angry, frustrated or annoyed and the abuse victims tend to have facial expressions of fear, sadness and paranoia. Victims of abuse will often have great fear of their partner.
Look at people’s body language in order to tell if someone has abusive tendencies. The abuser typically clenches their hand into a fist or clenches their teeth when they are about to physically assault someone.
Sometimes just seeing a police car outside the abuser’s house can be a clue of domestic violence. Neighbors also often hear screaming and yelling coming from next door. Both of these could be seen as clear signs of domestic abuse.
Domestic abusers tend to be controlling and they belittle their victim to make them feel lowly and helpless. Abusers also tell their victim that they can’t do anything right and that they deserve to be treated this way. Many times abusers threaten that they will commit suicide or come after you and hurt you or your children if you ever try to leave them.
Abusers tend to have short tempers and unpredictable angry fits of rage and they destroy and break things.
Signs of emotional abuse can be seen with yelling, name-calling, shame, and blame. Abusers use intimidation, isolation and controlling tactics in emotional abuse and it ends up causing psychological abuse in the victim. This goes to show that emotional abuse can be just as bad, if not worse than physical abuse.
Now let’s take a minute to observe these pictures, does Amber seem like an abused woman? Look how she clings to Johnny, and how she smiles, how she looks at him. Doens’t seem to me like she’s afraid to stay near him, an abused woman maybe would grabbed his hand, but for sure would not cling that much around him.
On the contrary we read that abusers use intimidation, isolation and controlling tactics in emotional abuse and it ends up causing psychological abuse in the victim. Given this, we know now that abuse is not only being beaten, but also psychological abuse. If you search on the internet you can find several transcripts of several audios between Heard and Depp.
In these transcriptions you can read that Amber admit several times that she’s the abuser not Johnny, she beaten him, not the other way around. If this isn’t enough for you there are the full versions of the audio on the internet, I link one to you here:
Even here in the audio you can see that she’s the one who beat him, she’s the abuser calling him in a thousand ways not cute.
Last but not least, the only photo proving the guilt of Depp, is Amber showing some bruises: Amber Heard stated that those bruises, where caused by Depp who launched her his phone and later beat her. Everything would be tremendous, mostly considering the entity of those, if it weren’t for some little details:
This bruises could be consistent with the hitting of a phone straight in the middle of the face, but for sure are not consistent with a punch, or a slap. Mostly if we consider the tonnage of Depp and of Heard.
The bruises placed one side the other, are in completely different positions.
There’s one witness, a neighbour. Who clearly stated that “she was ready to swear this in front of a Judge, Amber Heard didn’t have anything on her face when I saw her, until at least a week later.” Really weird.
This kind of bruises would have been noticed by someone, her bodyguard, her make-up artist, her manager, someone!! Nobody said anything? Nobody knows anything?
And more, why does she have these bruises one day, and the day after they are gone?
You can cover up with make up the bruise, but you can’t fake a swelling, why is her eye and nose perfectly normal?
In the end.. another photo is making the world:
This photo taken by Depp’s Bodyguard, which let us see a bruise on Depp’s cheek which differently from Heard’s, is purple and “blueish”, and swollen. Why hers are not?
And more, in the audio you can hear her admitting more than once that she beat him so we are sure that his is true, why aren’t we sure of hers?
So in the end what I think is that Heard was always the abuser in this situation, she’s not a person capable of handling a relationship, maybe even Depp is not able but for sure he never tried to hurt her. I think she faked the whole think, the bruises she’s showing are perfectly consistent with even keeping some ice on bare skin, and not even swollen. It’s hard for me to believe she actually was beaten, but it seems on the contrary pretty clear that she was abusive with him, if not physically (even if in my opinion it was also that) at least physiologically.
As a result of this, Johnny Depp tried to get a revenge on her, he tried to have justice, and to clear his name, and he was asked to resign from Fantastic Beasts, and from Pirates of Caribbean. I mean, what’s Pirates of Caribbean without Johnny Depp?? It’s only f*****g Caribbean!! Not only Women are victims, he’s a victim too, but lucky him, the day he signed up for Grindelwald he became part of the biggest fandom ever, and we do not leave our Witches and Wizards behind.
Tom Marvolo Riddle was an English half-blood Wizard, son to Merope Gaunt, and Tom Riddle a Muggle. The Gaunts were an ancient, and formerly wealthy, wizarding family, noted for producing individuals with violent and unstable personalities due to generations of inbreeding, direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin himself. Tom Marvolo Riddle was born on 31 December, 1926 at Wool’s Orphanage in London. His mother Merope staggered to the door of the orphanage, gave birth to Tom there, and died shortly after. Riddle grew up in the dingy orphanage, completely unaware of his wizarding heritage. Since the Muggle orphanage staff did not know anything about his mother, they did not know about his magical background. Instead, they believed that Merope was a circus worker, as Mrs Cole told Dumbledore shortly before his first meeting with Riddle. It is unknown whether or not the staff relayed this to Riddle before his first encounter with Dumbledore.
Despite his ignorance of his mother’s true background, Riddle did have some grasp on his abilities beyond that of normal magical children of his same age, and an unusually high degree of control over them. He could move objects with his mind and cause them to float wherever he wished, manipulate animals and creatures as he wished, speak Parseltongue, and use his power to inflict harm on other orphans.
After getting into a fight with fellow orphan Billy Stubbs, he used his powers to hang the boy’s rabbit from the rafters. On one occasion, he took two other orphans, Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson, into a cave, where he performed an act so horrifying that the two orphans were traumatised into silence. Afterwards, he may have told them, in some means, not to tell anyone what happened in the cave. Riddle also stole from other orphans and hid their things in his cupboard like trophies.
At the age of 11 Tom was visited by Albus Dumbledore who at the time was teaching Transfiguration at the orphanage, at first he thought he was some kind of doctor or psychiatric, he only believed in what he was saying when Dumbledore used the Fire-Freezing charm on Tom’s cabinet. He told him off because of the stolen objects, and reminded him that thieves are not tolerated at Hogwarts.
Tom pointed out to Dumbledore of his skills in talking to snakes, by the way even if that was a skill often connected to Dark Wizard at the time Dumbledore didn’t suspected anything. Aside the other children, Tom immediately develops a charm for everything that’s uncommon, in fact it’s known that he disliked his name because ‘too popular’ among the muggles, when Dumbledore told him he was a Wizard he was surprised no at all, he was ravished by the idea of having something the other children didn’t have, he also started to develop such a fear towards death, a very uncommon thing if you think about his very young age, at a point he will be heard to claim his mother a ‘loser’ and ‘for sure not a which’ otherwise she would have avoid such a terrible destiny. Dumbledore provided Riddle with enough information to find Diagon Alley and Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. He also provided Riddle with a stipend from school funds so that he could purchase his books and equipment. Travelling on his own to Diagon Alley, Riddle bought some second-hand robes and spell books for himself, along with his wand — thirteen-and-a-half inches, yew, phoenix feather core — at Ollivander’s
Riddle was educated at Hogwarts from 1938 to 1945, and was sorted into Slytherin House, a nod to his ancestor Salazar Slytherin. During summer breaks, he was forced to return to the Muggle orphanage, which he despised and dreaded more than any other place on earth. Over time, Riddle gathered to himself a gang of Slytherin thugs, a motley composition of “the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty,” most of which would become the first Death Eaters. Due to his exceptional acting abilities, he was able to convince virtually all of the Hogwarts staff and instructors that this facade was his true personality. The sole exception to this was Dumbledore, who, though not necessarily suspicious of Riddle, never forgot about his misdeeds at the orphanage, nor his unsettling behaviour during their first meeting. In turn, Riddle realised that he had been careless in showing Dumbledore his true character upon their first meeting, and never attempted to win him over as he had with his other instructors. In time, he came to fear and despise Dumbledore. The Professor who he got closer the most was Professor Slughorn, who was the one Tom asked his questions about the Horcruxes.
He started to conduct some resource about his father about who he still have no news, he looked through all the Hogwarts records, but finding no ‘Riddle’ he was forced to accept that his father was a Muggle, and was his mother the witch of the family: this was the time when he started to make himself called Lord Voldemort. He acquired the middle name Marvel from his grand-father, and discovered that the blood line of his mother conducted directly to Salazar Slytherin, after this short after he found out about the Chamber of Secrets. Being the Heir of Slytherin he was able to open the Chamber, and started to purge the school of those who were unworthy to his eyes, so muggle-born. He manage to kill a girl who these-days infests the girl bathroom on the 2nd floor: Myrtle Warren.
After this accident he asked the headmaster Armando Dippet to stay at school for the summer break, by the way the headmaster informed him that given the recent events the school would have been closed if the one to blame haven’t been caught. Fearing that he would have to return to the orphanage, Tom framed a Gryffindor student, Rubeus Hagrid and his ‘pet’ an Acromantula. Hagrid was expelled, and his wand revoked, this awarded Tom who was a Prefect at the time, a trophy for Special Services to the School. Distrusting Riddle, Dumbledore kept an “annoyingly close” watch on him after that. Due to this, Riddle realised that he would not be able to risk opening the Chamber while still a student. As such, he preserved a part of his soul within his own school diary, the very first of his seven Horcruxes, hoping it would one day lead someone to finish Salazar Slytherin’s “noble work”.
Around August 1943 Riddle went back to his family house in Little Hangleton, the Gaunt’s. Here he found out the story about his Muggle father told by his uncle Morfin, and right after with his wand brandished he went to the Riddle Manson, where he murdered his father, grandmother, and grandfather with the killing curse. Riddle covered up his crimes by altering Morfin’s memory, causing him to believe that he was the killer. When the Ministry of Magic investigated the crime, Morfin, who had previously served three years in Azkaban for using magic in front of and against Muggles, freely admitted to the deed and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban, Tom took from his uncle as trophy the family ring.
During the sixth year Tom started to get closer to the ritual for the creation of the Horcrux, he consulted several books even in the restricted section, though he couldn’t understand properly how to do it, so he asked Professor Slughorn to clear it out for him. The information he was more curious about was the highest possible number into which splitting a soul, his target was 7 an no book, or historical record had such number in it. Slughorn at the time answered all his questions believing it was just for academic purpose. Tom supposedly travelled there, where he killed an unlucky passant creating the Third Horcrux. During Riddle’s seventh year at Hogwarts, he was made Head Boy, earned outstanding marks in every examination he took, and received a Medal for Magical Merit. Riddle was regarded as one of the most brilliant students ever to attend Hogwarts, a fact admitted by Dumbledore himself.
After graduating, Riddle immediately approached Dippet and asked him for a chance to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and to remain at Hogwarts, for reasons that he did not confide with the then-headmaster — Hogwarts being his true home at heart, using the influential position as a teacher to recruit students into his future army, and to continue to learn the castle’s magical secrets. Dippet rejected this offer, deeming the boy too young, but invited Riddle to reapply in a few years, if he was still interested in the post, something that Dumbledore heavily advised against. Before leaving definitely he managed to ask Helena Ravenclaw the position of the Diadem of her mother’s, persuading her that he was intentioned to destroy it. She told him it was located in a hollow tree, in a forest in Albania; He was offered several position at the Ministry of Magic, but he ended up working at Borgin and Burkes, during this time Riddle set to persuading witches and wizards to part with their valuable magical heirlooms — a job at which he was very good.
While working at Borgin and Burkes, he befriended with Hepizbah Smith, a far yet direct descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, she showed him her most valuable treasure, her ancestor’s locket, and Helga’s personal legendary cup. Tom’s eyes flashed red at the sight of those treasures, by using a “Little known poison”, to steal these coveted objects and vanished without a trace. He again covered his tracks well by implanting another false memory into an innocent bystander — Hokey, Hepzibah’s house-elf. Hokey admitted to accidentally putting poison into Hepzibah’s cocoa, which was believed, as Hokey was elderly herself. Meanwhile, Riddle immediately resigned his post at Borgin and Burkes and fled with the cup and locket, subsequently turning them into two more Horcruxes using the murders of Hepzibah and an unidentified Muggle tramp.
Riddle disappeared for ten long years. He slipped deeper into the Dark Arts, travelled extensively, consorted with disreputable people, began to become distorted in appearance and lose his handsomeness due to splitting his soul so many times, and began to use the alias “Lord Voldemort” openly. He also severed contact with Slughorn, who became upset for not living up to the Potions Master’s employment offers. Ten years after Hepzibah Smith’s murder, Riddle appealed once more to the Headmaster of Hogwarts, now Albus Dumbledore, for the position of Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts. After a short, superficially amiable chat, Dumbledore directly confronted Riddle regarding why he had requested the position, as he knew full well that Riddle had no desire whatsoever to teach. Riddle, unable to make an open request of Dumbledore due to the malicious nature of his true intentions, simply left after a final, gentle rebuke from his former teacher. From that day on, Hogwarts was never able to keep a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for more than a year, which was attributed by Dumbledore to a curse by Riddle. The visit to Hogwarts was not fruitless, however, for Riddle used the opportunity to hide the diadem in the Room of Requirement, where he believed it would never be found.
Voldemort, as Riddle was now exclusively called, spent the next few years before the First Wizarding War gathering followers in witches and wizards who called themselves, collectively, Death Eaters. At some point around this time, Voldemort greatly enhanced his skills in Legilimency, to the point that he quickly earned a reputation as the greatest Legilimens alive. Voldemort could read, control and unhinge the minds of others, and could almost always tell when he was being lied to. According to Severus Snape, Voldemort often enjoyed telepathically invading the minds of others, creating visions designed to torture them into madness. Only after extracting the last exquisite ounce of agony, only when he had them literally begging for death, would he finally kill them.
In 1970 Voldemort started the first Wizarding War, recruiting giants, dementors, dark creatures as Acromantulas, werewolves, and goblins; these tried to claim their right in using a wand, but they were never allowed, later Voldemort tired of their indecision killed a Goblin family near Nottingham. Voldemort caused tantrum those years, as the Ministry was forced to face many trials and had to find out who was under the Imperius spell, and who was seriously helping the Dark Lord, unfortunately many innocent people were sent to Azkaban. Under the staunch protection of Dumbledore, the only person Voldemort truly feared, Hogwarts remained a safe place of learning throughout the entire war. The Order of the Phoenix was created by Dumbledore at this time to fight against Voldemort. The war itself lasted for eleven long years.
In 1979 Voldemort decided to test the security of his Horcruxes, so he asked Regulus Black a faithful 18 years old Death Eater to lend him his House-elf Kreacher, he went to the cave where he had hidden the Locket of Salazar Slytherin and forced the elf to drink the potion which was to guard the locket. Sure that the elf would have died he left him there and fled, but Kreacher managed to save him self with the house-elf magic, and warned his Master Regulus about the Dark Lord. Regulus understood that Voldemort was trying to reach the immortality and stole the true locket replacing it with a fake; Voldemort gave the Diary to be concealed in his Manor to Lucious Malfoy, and hid the Helga Hufflepuff’s cup into Bellatrix Lestrange‘s vault. He returned to Gaunt’s shack, placed the ring inside a golden box and hid it beneath the shack’s rotting floorboard, setting up many protective enchantments to deter outsiders from entering the shack and finding the ring. He also placed a powerful curse on the ring as well, one that would quickly lead to the death of the ring’s wearer if not stemmed.
Severus Snape overheard at the Hog’s Head the prophecy that Sybil Trelawney spoke during a job interview with Dumbledore, even if he managed to hear only part of it, before being thrown out by the Hog’s Head landlord: Aberforth Dumbledore. Snape immediately reported the prophecy to Voldemort, who after have it heard, decided that the baby in question was Harry Potter, son to Lily and James Potter, born at the end of the 7th month July. Dumbledore, will think that this decision was guided by the similar nature of the two, both were half-bloods. As Voldemort will state later that night he will loose his powers, due to Lily’s protection over Harry, an ancient type of white magic he had not take into consideration.
When he lost his powers he became something less than a ghost, yet still alive (thanks to the Horcrux) and went to hide in a forest in Albania, presumably the same where years back he went to collect Ravenclaw’s diadem. Here he stayed concealed, eating small creatures possessing snakes, until Quirinius Quirrel in 1991 walked by, and he managed to possess him and to return nearby Hogwarts, where he killed several Unicorns to drink their bloods to stay alive, in the attempt to collect the Philosopher Stone created by Nicholas Flames to create the Immortality Elisir.
He used this time to try to kill Harry Potter in in a Quidditch Match, and to collect information about the Philosopher Stone he knew was concealed by Albus Dumbledore. He managed to fool Hagrid after some drinks at the Hog’s Head, giving him a Dragon Head and using it as excuse to talk about Fluffly. On 4 June 1992, Voldemort ordered Quirrell to send a fake letter to Albus Dumbledore, asking him to go to the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort moved forward with his goal, moving through the security barriers to the Mirror of Erised. Quirrell saw himself presenting the stone to his master, but could not figure out how to get it. Harry Potter though along with his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, managed to discover his plans (even if they first thought Snape was behind it all), and stop him.
When he failed in this first attempt he returned to Albania, and tried to act through the Diary, he made sure that it arrived at Hogwarts through Ginny Weasley, who was given by Lucious Malfoy the original keeper of the Diary. She started to write in it, thinking it was a normal diary, confessing herself and placing in it her deepest and purest fear, for this reason she became easily manipulated. Voldemort forced her to open again the Chamber of Secret, freeing the Basilisk in the hope to continue his ‘plan’ of purging the school from all the Muggle borns.
Unfortunately for him, this time all the victims were lucky and only got pietrificated; the first was Mrs Purr, then Colin Canon, Justin Fletch-Flenchey, and last Hermione Granger. When the Diary ended in Harry’s hands he showed him what happed 50 years earlier, in the attempt to make his trust towards Hagrid fail. He used Ginny as bait to attract Harry in the Chamber, and here again he freed the Basilisk trying to kill him, but Fanny with the Sorting Hat that summoned the Gryffindor’s Sword came in Harry’s help who managed to kill the Basilisk and in the end stabbed the Diary killing, without knowing, the first Horcrux.
Wormatail found Voldemort in Albania and was one of the few Death Eaters who really tried to find him after his fall, along with Barty Crouch Jr. Wormail had previously encountered here Bertha Jorkins a Witch from the Ministry of Magic, who recognised him, he stunned her and brought her to Voldemort. He tortured her to obtain information, and even if someone had placed a powerful memory charm on her, he eventually managed to break it, even if this caused irreparable brain damage to her, so he eventually killed her. Wormail brought Voldemort back to the old Riddle’s Manor where he fed him to keep him in strength with Nagini’s milk, here along with B. C. Jr they decided a plan to kidnap Harry Potter to perform a ritual that would have brought back Voldemort in his full powers. Wormail for a moment suggested to it without Harry Potter, but Voldemort told him it was necessary it was Harry because this way he would have had in his blood Lily’s protection too, undoing it.
He wanted B. C. Jr to infiltrate Hogwarts School as the Auror Alastor Moody, and to bewitch the Goblet of Fire to think there were four school competing, the 4th school would only have one student: Harry Potter. This way it was sure that Harry would have been one of the three champion. B. C. Jr also had to bewitch the cup and make of it a key port to the Riddle’s Manor. On 24th June 1995 Cedric Diggory and Harry Potter arrived at the Riddle’s graveyard, here Wormtsail performed the ritual, resurrecting the Dark Lord with his full powers. He summoned all the Death Eaters, and then tried again to kill Harry. Dumbledore tried to warn the Ministry of Magic of Voldemort’s return, but he was not believed, and so Voldemort managed to travel to Azkaban and organise a mass escape of his faithful Death Eaters still there. Later on he started to search for something he didn’t have the last time, a weapon, a prophecy. Voldemort’s first attempt at securing the prophecy was to have Malfoy put Order member Sturgis Podmore under the Imperius Curse and send him to take the prophecy. However, Sturgis was unable to get into the Department of Mysteries.
His next attempt was to use the Imperius Curse on an Unspeakable named Broderick Bode. He was ordered to retrieve the prophecy, but was seriously injured in the process and was put into a permanent ward at St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. From this, Voldemort learned that the only people who could retrieve a prophecy are the people who are included in the prophecy. Voldemort could not risk going into the Ministry himself, so he used a telepathic link through Harry’s scar to cause him to go there instead. After his Death Eaters tried to catch the prophecy for him he arrived facing Dumbledore in an epic battle, and then possessed Harry who successfully won him. The Dementors left Azkaban to side with the Dark Lord, who could offer them more scope for their powers. As a result, there were many attacks by Voldemort’s army. Mass Muggle killings were rampant; what was claimed to be a hurricane to the Muggle world was in fact a rampage by the giants, whom Voldemort had drawn into allegiance. Voldemort himself duelled and killed Amelia Bones, the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, who was described as having put up a good fight against him and as one of the greatest witches of the age. Dementor attacks were daily, the effect on the Muggles manifested in severe depression and grim weather. Voldemort attempted to blackmail Cornelius Fudge, and when he stood his ground, the Dark Lord initiated the destruction of the Brockdale Bridge, sending at least twelve cars into the water.
In July 1996 Voldemort assigned Draco the duty to be his spy inside Hogwarts, for revenge versus Lucious who had himself caught after the Ministry battle. Voldemort took over Malfoy Manor as his headquarters. During the summer of 1997, he captured the Hogwarts Professor of Muggle Studies, Charity Burbage, and killed her during a meeting with his Death Eaters before feeding her to Nagini. Voldemort also imprisoned and interrogated the kidnapped wandmaker, Garrick Ollivander, about why his wand could not duel against Harry’s. Ollivander revealed that their wands shared the same core, and would not work properly against each other. This came as a great relief to Voldemort, who worried that Harry had escaped from him in the graveyard by superior skill. Ollivander told Voldemort that he merely needed another’s wand, and so he took Lucius Malfoy’s. This served as a way to punish and demean the Malfoy family. At this point, he was nearly ready to conquer the Ministry, while insisting that Rufus Scrimgeour must be surrounded entirely before he made his next move.
On 27 July 1997, when Harry left 4 Privet Drive for the final time, Voldemort flew to the scene with his Death Eaters to fight the Order of the Phoenix. In the ensuing battle, Voldemort murdered Alastor Moody. When he attempted to attack Harry, Harry’s wand acted of its own accord, releasing golden fire at him and destroying Malfoy’s wand. Before Voldemort could react, Harry reached the protection of the home of Ted and Andromeda Tonks, and Voldemort was forced to retreat. Voldemort returned to his headquarters at Malfoy Manor and, accompanied by Peter Pettigrew, accused Ollivander of deliberately misleading him and tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse. Ollivander told him truthfully that never in wandlore has he ever heard of such a thing happening between two wands. Voldemort ordered Ollivander to tell him everything he knew about the legendary wand known as the Elder Wand.
Voldemort established a totalitarian police state, with Pius Thicknesse, under the Imperius Curse, serving as a puppet Minister for Magic and Death Eater Corban Yaxley as the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Voldemort placed a Taboo Curse on his name which enabled his Death Eaters to instantly locate anyone who spoke it out loud in the open. Voldemort chose not to publicly declare himself Minister of Magic in order to maintain an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. While searching for the Elder Wand Voldemort, interrogated several people, Gregorovitch in 1945 and Grindelwald in 1948 Nurmengard (Austria) prison. During this time Bellatrix summoned him at the Malfoy’s manor since she had caught Harry Potter, but before he could arrive he had already fled thanks to Dobby. Here Voldemort realised that Dumbledore who had defeated Grindelwald was the owner of the Elder Wand, so he traveled back to Hogwarts where he met with Snape, and irrupted into Dumbledore’s grave.
On May 1st 1998 Voldemort learnt from some Gringotts‘s Goblins that Harry Potter and his friends managed to break into Lestrange’s vault, disguised as Bellatrix herself and a far Romanian cousin; Voldemort killed in a rage attack all who informed him, furious about the Gringotts security system that had failed, and panicking about the idea that Harry Potter finally found out his secrets about Horcrux. He also wondered how he did it since he never told anyone, not even Bellatrix. Following these revelations, Voldemort went to check out the Gaunt Shack and the Cave, only to discover to his fury that the Horcruxes stored there were missing and thus were likely destroyed.
When the battle of Hogwarts began Voldemort was not present during the first part of the battle, since he reckoned there was no need for him, he stayed instead in the Shrieking Shack protecting Nagini (last Horcrux) inside a bubble charmed, and wondering why the Elder Wand was not responding to him completely. He came to the conclusion that the Elder Wand was responding to Snape as he had killed Dumbledore in the Astronomy tower, without realise that it was Draco in the first place to disarm Dumbledore. For this reason he summoned Snape and trapped his head inside the bubble with Nagini, and ordered her to kill him. Believing now he had the full power of the wand, Voldemort then called a one-hour armistice, requesting Harry in exchange for peace and no further deaths. Harry presented in the Dark Forest, but what Voldemort didn’t know is that Dumbledore had planned everything to make Harry a Master of Death, for he was the one who disarmed Draco after that he disarmed Dumbledore, so he was the real owner of the Elder Wand, more Dumbledore left him the Resurrection Stone, and he already possessed the Invisibilty Cloak. When Voldemort casted the Avada Kedavra on Harry he killed the last Horcrux without knowing.
He ordered Narcissa Malfoy to check on the body to find out if he was still alive, and even if he was Narcissa lied to the Dark Lord, for she wanted to head back to the castle and find her son. Voldemort degraded Harry’s body by performing the Cruciatus Curse on him, and then ordered Hagrid to held him and marched back with the Death Eaters to the castle. Voldemort claimed Harry had been killed while trying to escape. Neville, instead of surrendering, charged at Voldemort. After Neville refused to join him, Voldemort placed a Full Body-Bind Curse and the Sorting Hat on him and set the hat on fire to make an example of him, claiming that Slytherin would be the only Hogwarts House from then on. Neville was able to throw off the curse and pulled Gryffindor’s Sword from the Hat, and used it to decapitate Nagini, destroying the last remaining Horcrux. Voldemort tried to kill Neville for this, but Harry alive, cast a Shield Charm between them. During the second round of the Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort tried to strike down everyone within his reach and his weakened army forced its way into the castle. In the Great Hall, his army was gradually cut down as Voldemort fought Slughorn, Shacklebolt, and Minerva McGonagall all at once and later blasted them away.
Here, Harry mentioned that by willingly sacrificing himself to Voldemort, he had protected everyone he cared about in Hogwarts with the same magic his mother created when she died for him. Harry tried to explain to Voldemort that he had magic Voldemort did not have, and a weapon more powerful than his, in addition to warning Voldemort of the fate that lay in store for him if he was unwilling to feel remorse for his actions. Goading him by using his birth name, Harry told him that Snape’s loyalty was with Dumbledore all along, that Dumbledore’s death was planned, and that Snape had not been the master of the Elder Wand; Draco had been. Voldemort fired a Killing Curse at Harry, while Harry countered with his “trademark” spell of Expelliarmus. The Elder Wand refused to kill its true master, and Voldemort’s spell rebounded off Harry’s, killing the Dark Lord once and for all.
Despite the Covid situation that shot down the entire world, including the Wizardring World, Eddie Redmayne confirms that Fantastic Beasts 3 is now shooting, and he’ll rejoin his co-star: Johnny Deep, Jude Law, Erza Miller, Katherine Waterston.
While the first film was an authentic massive hit, the sequel faced critical and commercial disappointment. This likely prompted the initial production delays of the third film, aside with the critical pandemic situation.
We were meant to start – we’d done a pre-shoot day just before we went into lockdown here. We’d shot on a Friday night, and then on the Sunday night, we’d meant to start shooting proper on Monday, and we got a call on that Sunday night saying we’re not doing it. Then we had this six-month period and, absolutely, the creatives – certainly David Yates and [myself] – were talking about using that time. Whether it was in the visual effects or working on things. I think it’s really important. You’re always trying to make the best work possible, so I feel like it has been helpful in some ways.
-Eddie Redmayne
In some ways according to Eddie Redmayne, the lockdown was helpful to think even more about the script, the scenes, the details, with a film that has a weight like this, you accept all the extra time given. Mostly after the several critics received by fans after the sequel, regarding some so said “holes in the plot”, which we discussed them abundantly here.
The title is still unknown even if several theories are out including the ones from the actors theirselves, Fantastic Beasts 3 is scheduled to hit theaters on November 12, 2021, it’s still unclear where the production will shoot the film due to the pandemic situation, at the moment it’s taking place in the UK, but there are rumours which suggest that some scene may be taking place in Berlin, or Rio de Janeiro.
I personally can’t wait to see the movie, can you?
Flourish and Blotts is a shop in Diagon Alley where most students buy their schoolbooks, it’s located in the North Side of Diagon Alley and was established in 1654.
It held several book signings as “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” by Newt Scamander, who was sided by Leta Lestrange, his brother Theseus and his assistant Bunty.
Flourish and Blotts was briefly closed during the summer of 1991, as they were dealing with an outbreak of bookworms, sometime in early 1992, Flourish and Blotts was closed as it attempted to locate its order of Disappearing Ink. In August of 1992, famous wizard author Gilderoy Lockhart held a book signing at the shop and used it as an opportunity to announce his taking of the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that year.
During that year Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and his family including: Molly, Arthur, Ginny, Fred, George and Percy Weaslet attended that signing at Flourish and Blotts. Gilderoy Lockhart provided his entire book collection to Harry, free of charged and signed.
In late summer of 1993, the front window of Flourish and Blotts held an iron cage filled with hundreds of copies of The Monster Book of Monsters. To deal with the vicious books set for the third year Care of Magical Creatures class taught by Rubeus Hagrid, the harassed manager had to gear up with thick gloves and jab at them with a knobbly walking stick, as the books tend to viciously rip and tear each other apart. When Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley went to the shop to buy their schoolbooks, the manager almost cried when Ron and Hermione said they wanted two copies of The Monster Book of Monsters, but was very relieved when Harry noted that he already had a copy.
Books Sold:
The Book of Charms & Spells
A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration (1 Galleon)
Magical Drafts and Potions (2 Galleons)
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection (1 Galleon)
A History of Magic (2 Galleons)
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi(2 Galleons)
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade One (1 Galleon)
Magical Theory (2 Galleons)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2 Galleons)
Break with a Banshee(5 Galleons)
Gadding with Ghouls(5 Galleons)
Travels with Trolls(5 Galleons)
Voyages with Vampires(5 Galleons)
Holidays with Hags (5 Galleons)
Wanderings with Werewolves(5 Galleons)
Year with the Yeti(5 Galleons)
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 (1 Galleon)
The Monster Book of Monsters(4 Galleons)
Unfogging the Future(2 Galleons)
Intermediate Transfiguration(2 Galleons)
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 3 (1 Galleon)
Easy Spells to Fool Muggles
The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
Curses and Counter-Curses
Quidditch Through the Ages(14 Sickles 3 Knuts)
The Official Guide to the Quidditch World Cup(39 Galleons)
Dumbledore’s Army: The Dark Side of the Demob (10 Galleons)
Sir Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington went to Hogwarts when was his time, he was a wizard at the royal court of Henry VII, fell in love with Lady Grieve. After trying to magically fix her crooked teeth, the spell backfired, Lady Grieve grew tusks, and Nick was sentenced to death for his actions.
His sentence to death executed on 31st October 1492 by the way didn’t go as planned and that’s the reason why he’s completely beheaded.
Nick wrote a ballad about his own demise, entitled The Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick, each year he insists to take part at the Headless Hunt, headed by Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore. Which by the way he could never take part to because his head isn’t completely beheaded.
Helena Ravenclaw also known as the Gram Lady is the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, who was one of the four founder of Hogwarts.
Helena attended Hogwarts At some point after starting her education, Helena stole her mother’s diadem crashed by the weight of its power, and ran away to Albania, trying to get rid of it. She hid it in a hollowed tree in a forest in Albania, same forest which years later was frequented by Lord Voldemort, in fact it became an Horcrux, after he had found were it was hidden.
Her mother became fatally ill and hoping to see her daughter one last time, sent the Bloody Baron, a man who harboured an unrequited love for Helena, to find her. In a fit of rage, the Baron murdered her when she refused to return with him, before he committed suicide out of regret for what he had done. Helena has a single dark wound upon her chest, right were he stabbed her. The Bloody Baron and Helena returned to Hogwarts after as ghosts.
A jolly fellow who resembled a monk, who was sorted into Hufflepuff back in his day, and thought by Helga Hufflepuff herself.
At some point in his life, he joined the clergy as part of a mendicant religious order, meaning that he spent his life begging in the name of charity. A noble life for a noble man. Apparently, given his physically large appearance, he indulged in the pleasures of food and drink.
His magical ways roused suspicion, and he was eventually executed after the senior churchmen grew suspicious of his ability to cure the pox, and his penchant for pulling rabbits out of the Communion cup. The Fat Friar always resented the fact that he never became a cardinal.
The Bloody Baron it’s the only ghost at Hogwarts that can give Peeves orders.
A hot-tempered sort of fellow, who was responsible for the death of the Grey Lady, aka Helena Ravenclaw. In his living days, he was simply known as The Baron. It was only at the point of his death that the ‘bloody’ part of his name was added in. And for good reason.
Head over heels in love with Helena Ravenclaw, The Baron murdered her out of anger when Helena refused to return home with him. After stabbing her fatally, he was so remorseful, he used the same weapon to take his own life.
The Bloody Baron’s chains were an ‘act of penitence’ for what he did to Helena.
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.
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 2nd 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.
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