"Books! And cleverness! There are más important things — friendship and bravery."
—Hermione Granger to Harry Potter in 1992
Hermione Jean Weasley (née Granger), born September 19, 1979, was the daughter of Muggles Mr. and Mrs. Granger. She learned, at the age of eleven, that she was a witch and had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She began attending the school on September 1st 1991, when she was eleven, almost twelve, and was sorted into Gryffindor House.
An academically brilliant student, Hermione became best friends with fellow students Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in her first año of school. When they first met on the Hogwarts Express, Ron and Harry thought of her as obnoxious and self-centered, a belief that she only furthered as the school año went on, besting them in every class. However, when Ron and Harry saved her from a troll, she took the blame for them and became their friend. In her segundo year, Hermione was one of the victims of the Basilisk that was unleashed upon Hogwarts with the opening of the Chamber of Secrets, but recovered from being petrified. The siguiente year, Hermione was dado permission to use a Time-Turner to facilitate her attending más classes than other students, and which she and Harry later used to save Sirius Black from receiving the Dementor's Kiss, and Buckbeak the Hippogriff from certain death. Hermione became an advocate for the better treatment of house-elves, forming the association S.P.E.W., in her fourth year. In 1995, she was the driving force behind the creation of Dumbledore's Army, and fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996, and in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and the Battle over Little Whinging in 1997. Hermione, as well as Ron, decided to forgo their last año of school in order to accompany Harry on his quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, and later fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, and survived the war.
Following the segundo Wizarding War, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to complete her education, and later attained employment at the Ministry of Magic, furthering her cause for the better treatment of house-elves before gaining promotion to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She eventually married Ron, and they would have two children: A daughter called Rose as well as a son named Hugo. Hermione is also the godmother to James Sirius Potter, who is the eldest child and son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley.
1 Biography 1.1 Early life1.2 Education at Hogwarts 1.2.1 First year1.2.2 segundo year1.2.3 Third year1.2.4 Fourth year1.2.5 Fifth year1.2.6 Sixth year1.3 Searching for Horcruxes 1.3.1 Battle over Little Whinging1.3.2 Escape from the Burrow1.3.3 Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic1.3.4 Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow1.3.5 Ron's return and the Ambush at the Lovegood House1.3.6 Skirmish at Malfoy Manor1.3.7 Gringotts Break-In1.3.8 Battle of Hogwarts1.4 Later life
2 Physical appearance
3 Personality and traits
4 Magical abilities and skills
5 Possessions
6 Relationships 6.1 Parents6.2 Harry Potter6.3 Ron Weasley6.4 Ginny Weasley6.5 Weasley family6.6 Neville Longbottom6.7 Luna Lovegood6.8 Minerva McGonagall6.9 Viktor Krum6.10 Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil6.11 Draco Malfoy6.12 Rubeus Hagrid6.13 Remus Lupin6.14 Sirius Black6.15 Nymphadora Tonks6.16 Fleur Delacour6.17 Severus Snape6.18 Albus Dumbledore6.19 Crookshanks6.20 Cormac McLaggen6.21 Pansy Parkinson6.22 Rita Skeeter6.23 Dolores Umbridge6.24 Lord Voldemort6.25 Bellatrix Lestrange6.26 Dumbledore's Army6.27 Order of the Phoenix6.28 Children6.29 Nieces and nephews
7 Etymology
8 Author's comentarios
9 Behind the scenes
10 Appearances
11 External enlaces
12 Notes and references
Biography
[Early life
"Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, it's the best school of witchcraft there is I've heard"
—Hermione on her muggle family
Not much is known about Hermione's life before she entered the wizarding world. She is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who are both Muggle dentists. They are "quite ordinary" and "a bit bemused por their odd daughter but quite proud of her all the same."
Hermione was quite surprised when she learned that she was a witch in the summer of 1991 and was invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on the beginning September of 1991. She eagerly accepted and took to studying magic before she began her first year, even performing a few spells successfully.
Education at HogwartsTerry Boot: "How come you're not in Ravenclaw? With brains like yours?"
Hermione: "Well, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting, but it decided on Gryffindor in the end."
— Hermione on her Sorting
Hermione enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts, and took assignments, classes, and school rules very seriously. Her favourite subject was initially Charms, and later Arithmancy, and the only areas of study that gave her trouble were Flying and Divination. Some students, such as Terry Boot, wondered why Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor house rather than Ravenclaw, dado her keen mind. Hermione admitted that the Sorting Hat did consider putting her in Ravenclaw. Being sorted into Gryffindor, Hermione would share a dormitory with Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil and two other girls.
But she proved her rightful place in Gryffindor with her steadfast bravery and loyalty to her friends, Hogwarts, and Dumbledore's Army. It is likely that the Sorting Hat put her in Gryffindor in the first place, because she chose to be in it, just like Harry chose to not be in Slytherin; on the train, she mentions that, "Gryffindor...sounds por far the best."
Hermione's enthusiasm in class.
First año
"Are tu sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good is it? I've tried a few simple spells myself and they've all worked for me."
—Hermione upon first meeting Harry Potter and Ron Weasley
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 demonstrated a knowledge and talent with magic beyond most of those her age, despite having only recently discovered that she was a Muggle-born witch. She wished to be a Gryffindor o a Ravenclaw, and her wish was granted considering she did get sorted into Gryffindor. She 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.
Hermione attached herself to Harry and Ron, following them around and trying to prevent them from breaking school rules and getting into trouble. On one night, she followed them as they were leaving Gryffindor Tower to duel Draco Malfoy. They were chased por Argus Filch 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 trap door, which Harry and Ron had not noticed.
The friendship between the three was solidified when, on halloween in 1991, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll. Unaware that a troll was on the loose in the school, Hermione had spent that día crying in the girls' bathroom after overhearing Ron making unkind comentarios about her. The troll made its way into the bathroom she was in, and Harry and Ron came to her rescue, saving her. When Professors Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, and Quirinus Quirrell arrived at the scene, Hermione covered for the boys, claiming she was fighting the troll because she had thought that she could fight one, having read a great deal about them, and that Ron and Harry had merely come to help her escape. From that point on, the three students were best friends.
Hermione standing in a united front with Ron and Harry."I'm going to cama before either of tu come up with another idea to get us killed, o worse; expelled."
—Hermione to Harry and Ron
The incident with the Troll was por no means her only adventure in that first year. During the first Quidditch match, Hermione set Professor Snape's robes on fuego when she thought he was jinxing Harry. In the spring of 1992, Hagrid, a friend of Hermione's through Harry, managed to procure a dragon egg. Hermione along with Ron and Harry helped Hagrid care for the beast which Hagrid named Norbert. When the dragon was discovered, Hermione and Harry helped smuggle it out of the school to some friends of Ron's elder brother, Charlie Weasley. During the night, they were found and dado detentions.
Fearing that Lord Voldemort would return if the Philosopher's Stone, which Harry, Ron, and Hermione had divined was hidden in the school, was stolen, Harry decided to steal the Stone 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 por conjuring fire. She later got herself and Harry through a challenge involving a Potion Riddle. Hermione used her logic to figure out the riddle and let Harry go adelante, hacia adelante 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, which won Gryffindor the House Cup.
segundo año
"And they haven't invented a spell that our Hermione can't do."
—Rubeus Hagrid
Prior to starting her segundo year, Hermione wrote several letters to Harry, all of which were intercepted por Dobby, as the house-elf wanted Harry to believe that his friends had forgotten him in order to prevent his return to Hogwarts. She and her parents also accompanied Harry and the Weasley family to Diagon Alley to comprar for school supplies.
Hermione telling Harry and Ron of her theory about Tom Riddle and the diary.It was during her segundo school año that Hermione first encountered the prejudice and hatred surrounding her blood purity, when Draco Malfoy called her a "filthy little Mudblood" after she told him off for insulting the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Hermione had never heard the highly offensive term before, but others present had and lashed out at Draco. fred and George Weasley lunged at him, and Ron even tried to hex him, but it backfired, as his wand had been damaged. 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 dicho about her Muggle-born status.
Hermione surprised Harry and Ron with her obvious crush on Gilderoy Lockhart, who became that year's Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. She scored full marks on the first examen in his class, which contained only preguntas pertaining to Lockhart's books. In fact, she went as far as to doodle hearts on her D.A.D.A. assignments, not knowing until later that he was, in reality, a self-obsessed fraud.
On Halloween, 1992 Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party with Harry and Ron. While heading back upstairs, she followed Harry who claimed to be hearing voices. They discovered the caretaker's cat petrified and the walls grafittied. Hermione began spending all her free time in the Hogwarts biblioteca after she saw the vandalism on the corridor walls indicated that the Chamber of Secrets had been re-opened hoping to read about the legend, but she could not as all the libros were checked out. Hermione shocked everyone when she actually interrupted Professor Cuthbert Binns during a History of Magic lecture and asked him for information about it; this was the only known time when a student asked the boring professor a question, and the class was interested in what he had to say.
When Harry proposed the theory that Draco Malfoy was the "Heir of Slytherin," Hermione went even further por daring to check Moste Potente Potions out of the biblioteca using a note from Professor Lockhart, in the desire to research Polyjuice Potion. She hoped that they would be able to obtain a confession from Malfoy. She brewed the potion in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, as no one used it. Hermione also risked serious consequences when she estola potion ingredients from Professor Snape's cupboards that were needed for the difficult potion.
Hermione brewing Polyjuice Potion.Hermione: "Well, if tu two are going to chicken out, fine. I don't want to break rules, tu know. I think threatening Muggle-borns is far worse than brewing up a difficult potion. But if tu don't want to find out..."
Ron: "I never thought I'd see the día when you'd be persuading us to break rules."
— Hermione convincing Harry and Ron of her plan to use Polyjuice Potion
Unfortunately, Hermione was unable to registrarse Harry and Ron in the ruse with Polyjuice Potion because the Extract of The-Transfigured-Being-To-Be she obtained from Millicent Bulstrode during their scuffle in the Duelling Club was actually the hair of Bulstrode's cat. Hermione grew pelaje, piel and a tail, and remained in the hospital wing for weeks. Harry and Ron, however, were able to use the potion she brewed to transform into Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe, respectively. They entered the Slytherin common room, and through conversation with Draco Malfoy, realised that he was not the Heir of Slytherin, and was not involved in the opening of the Chamber after all.
Months after her recovery from the Polyjuice complication, Hermione suffered another accident. After coming to the conclusion that the creature attacking students must be a Basilisk, she rushed to the biblioteca to conduct further research. On her way, 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. 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. Using this note and other information they had gathered, Harry and Ron were able to successfully put an end to Lord Voldemort's plans to resurrect his body through his memory stored in an old school diary. Hermione was later cured with a Mandrake Restorative Draught created por Professor Sprout. She was disappointed to learn that, as a special treat for the school, Professor Dumbledore canceled the students' end of año exams, though intensely proud that her friends had solved the mystery.
That summer, Hermione went on holiday to France with her parents. She was jealous of Ron when his family went to Egypt, as she felt it would be fascinating to study Ancient Egyptian wizardry.
Third año
Hermione and Professor Trelawney.
"P-P-Professor McGonagall! Sh-she dicho I'd failed everything!"
—Hermione faces her Boggart
Just prior to beginning the 1993 school año while visiting Diagon Alley with Harry and the Weasley family, Hermione met and adopted a part-Kneazle cat named Crookshanks from the Magical Menagerie. However, her new bond with her cat caused friction with Ron and his pet rata 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.
When Harry received a Firebolt for navidad with no note, Hermione reported it to Professor McGonagall, thinking it was sent por Sirius Black, whom everyone believed to be a dangerous murderer who was after Harry. His escoba 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 gone missing. Hermione poured herself into defending Buckbeak, the hippogriff on trial for attacking Draco Malfoy during a Care of Magical Creatures class. She worked furiously to save Buckbeak who was on trial before the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, eventually with Harry and Ron's assistance once the trio reconciled after Hagrid told Harry and Ron how disappointed he was when they selfishly put the Firebolt over their friendship and Hermione apologised, but their attempt failed, as Lucius Malfoy frightened the Committee into deciding that the creature would be executed. Hermione was extremely upset por this news and grew furious to the point of slapping Draco when he mocked Hagrid for being upset about Buckbeak's fate.
Hermione draws her wand against Draco Malfoy.That year, Hermione was also among the students who found Remus Lupin to be an excellent Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Hermione 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. However, Hermione did not expose Lupin, presumably because she believed he was a good teacher and did not agree with the prejudice many hold against werewolves. Divination, on the other hand, turned out to be a subject Hermione had no respect for o interest in, and soon dropped.
Hermione:
"Please, sir, the werewolf differs from the true lobo in several small ways. The snout of the werewolf —"
Professor Snape: "That is the segundo time tu have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Five más points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
Ron: "You asked us a pregunta and she knows the answer! Why ask if tu don't want to be told?"
— Hermione and Ron in a DADA class
Hermione and Harry using her Time-Turner.On the día of Buckbeak's execution, the trio ventured down to console Hagrid. While in his cabin, Hermione discovered Scabbers, Ron's lost rat. After being urged out the back, Hermione, Harry, and Ron all witnessed what they thought to be Buckbeak's execution, but before they could return to their dormitory, Scabbers bit Ron and fled. While chasing after the rat, they were attacked por a black dog, which pulled Ron into a cavity beneath the Whomping Willow. Hermione and Harry hurried after them but were held up in a battle against the tree, but eventually they found a tunnel that led to the Shrieking Shack, where Sirius Black, whose Animagus form was the black dog, confronted them. They were soon joined por Professor Lupin who was actuación strangely, and Hermione told Harry and Ron of her belief that he was a werewolf, which he 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, Scabbers.
Once it had been decided that Pettigrew would be turned over to the authorities, the motley group left the Shrieking Shack. When the full moon appeared, chaos ensued, Pettigrew attacked Ron and escaped, and Sirius had to transform in order to protect Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Hermione and Harry rushed to his aid, when they heard him moaning, but Hermione could not help as they were set upon por the Dementors, come to recapture Sirius, and their rescue attempt ended when Harry fainted in their presence. They awoke in the hospital wing after being rescued por a mysterious, unseen person. After realising that Sirius's soul was to be destroyed por the Dementor's kiss and receiving vague instructions from Dumbledore, Hermione used her Time-Turner to return herself and Harry to a time earlier in the evening. They used this opportunity to rescue Sirius and Buckbeak. While waiting she discussed their savior with Harry, and when Harry realised that it was he, she claimed that none but a powerful wizard could have conjured a Patronus to drive away the many Dementors. As evidenced por her assertion that time-traveling is extremely treacherous and very dangerous, Hermione took great personal risk to save Sirius and Buckbeak. At the end of the año Hermione returned her Time-Turner, claiming it caused too much trouble and that she would drop a few subjects instead.
Fourth año
Hermione helping Harry during the Triwizard Tournament.
"You know, house-elves get a very raw deal! It’s slavery, that’s what it is! That Mr. Crouch made her go up to the parte superior, arriba of the stadium, and she was terrified, and he's got her hechizada so she can't even run when they start trampling tents! Why doesn't anyone do something about it?"
—Hermione begins her campaign for the better treatment of house-elves
Before her fourth año 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, they attended the 1994 Quidditch World Cup in August. After the game, the communal campsite was set upon por 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 leveled 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 por beginning the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, having been appalled por Bartemius Crouch's abusive treatment of his house-elf Winky. This did not earn her any popularity, as most believe that house-elves enjoy their work; indeed, even the house-elves did not like her campaigning. Harry, Ron, and Neville Longbottom only reluctantly joined, mostly in order to prevent Hermione from nagging them about it. Hagrid as well as fred and George Weasley refused to registrarse on the grounds that it would upset the house-elves, though fred did tell Hermione how to get into the Hogwarts kitchens, where she spoke to Dobby and Winky. Hermione considered the former to be a good example of a free elf, and tried to comfort the latter about being sacked por Crouch, but Winky soon became upset por Hermione's claims that house-elves deserved to have holidays and wages, along with the other elves.
Hermione in her rosado, rosa Yule Ball dress.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 más glory, creating a rift between the two for some time. Hermione helped Harry for the Triwizard Tournament por teaching him useful spells, such as Stupefy, Impedimenta, and Accio, and tried to get Harry and Ron to talk to one another multiple times.
At this time, Hermione unknowingly attracted the interest of Durmstrang Triwizard Champion and Bulgarian International Seeker Viktor Krum for 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 biblioteca and other places around Hogwarts, and even 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. Thus, when the pair arrived, many were stunned and jealous. Hermione wore robes of "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. Hermione comentó 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 intended for Ron to ask her, but his invite was insensitive and at the last minute. The two rowed about it in the common room, in which Hermione revealed that he should have asked her instead of Krum, but Ron misunderstands the point. After that, the two were seemingly más polite, although Ron continued to mostrar dislike of Krum.
Hermione as Viktor Krum's kidnap victim during the segundo Task.Hermione was chosen as a "kidnap victim" for Krum during the Tournament's segundo 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. Krum managed to rescue her and carried her to the surface, where he revealed to her later that he "never felt this way about any other girl" and asked her to visit him in Bulgaria over the summer.
Ron: "She’ll be after tu next, Hermione."
Hermione: "Let her try! I’ll mostrar her! Silly little girl, am I? Oh, I’ll get her back for this."
— Hermione and Ron discussing Rita Skeeter
Rita Skeeter, a journalist for the Daily Prophet and unregistered Animagus, was hiding in beetle form in Hermione's hair during this conversation. Hermione had previously told Skeeter off for printing horrible lies about Harry and Rubeus Hagrid, angering the journalist, who wrote a scathing articulo on the "the devious Miss Granger," claiming that she was toying with both Harry and Krum's affections and possibly brewing amor Potions. In the words of Ron, Skeeter was making Hermione out to be a "Scarlet Woman." She had previously reported Hermione as Harry's "stunningly pretty...girlfriend" por likely twisting and sensationalising the words of Colin Creevey and thus used this as the basis for the article. Although Hermione found the lies ridiculous, some people believed them and started sending Hermione hate mail, and even Molly Weasley treated her coldly until Harry corrected her. Hermione found this irritating and vowed to get revenge on Skeeter for her libel.
On the ride inicial on the Hogwarts Express, Hermione happily revealed she uncovered Skeeter's status as an unregistered Animagus and trapped her in a jar. She kept Skeeter from escritura for a año por threatening to expose her to the authorities. She single-handed drove Skeeter into poverty, gaining revenge for the pain caused to Harry and her other friends. However, with the return of Lord Voldemort and the murder of Cedric Diggory at the end of the school year,[8] there were much más serious challenges ahead for Hermione and her friends.
Fifth año
Hermione practising with the D.A..Ron:
"Seamus reckons that Harry's lying about You-Know-Who."
Hermione: "Yes, Lavender thinks so too... I told her to keep her big fat mouth shut about you, actually. And it would be quite nice if tu stopped jumping down Ron and my throats, Harry, because if tu haven't noticed, we're on your side."
— Hermione on her belief in Harry about Voldemort's return.
Following the death of Cedric Diggory, the Ministry of Magic refused to accept Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned, and the Daily Prophet labeled them either liars o nutters. However, Hermione and Ron believed Harry and defended him against the criticism of doubtful classmates. Though occasionally Harry vented his frustration at them, Hermione and Ron stuck por him. They also wanted to become members of the reconvened Order of the Phoenix but were not allowed to because they were underage. Hermione helped exterminate 12 Grimmauld Place, which served as headquarters for the Order, and was immensely relieved when Harry was acquitted of the charge of having used underage magic. Also before returning to Hogwarts, she and Ron learned that they had been appointed prefects for Gryffindor house and received badges. She took her position very seriously.
Once the school año 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 anterior year. She learned how to knit socks and hats for the house-elves, and hid them in Gryffindor Tower. The elves found this attempt at freeing them insulting, and they stopped cleaning the Tower at all. Dobby, already a free elf, was the only one who enjoyed the gifts, took everything Hermione had made, and cleaned the Tower por himself, which Hermione did not know.
Hermione: "She's an awful woman. Awful. tu know, I was just saying to Ron when tu came in ... we've got to do something about her."
Ron: "I suggested poison."
— Hermione and Ron on Professor Umbridge
Meanwhile, it was not long before Hermione realised that the Ministry of Magic had decided to interfere at Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a foul Ministry worker, was appointed as the new professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts. She refused to teach students practical defence, focusing only on theory. With this being the case, Hermione decided that Hogwarts needed a competent teacher and, together with Harry and Ron, founded Dumbledore's Army, a secret organisation in which students would gather after classes and be taught practical defensive spells. She suggested that Harry be the teacher; though he originally thought the idea ridiculous, he consented to teach the class. One of the many spells Hermione learned was the Patronus Charm; hers took the form of an otter. Hermione also became one of the few people Valiente enough to call Voldemort por his actual name.
The D.A. brought Harry into greater contact with Cho Chang. Hermione gave Harry consejos on Cho and girls in general. In an effort to combat the lies being told about Harry, Hermione also arranged for an interview during a Hogsmeade visit with Rita Skeeter to be printed in The Quibbler telling his side of the story. Despite being banned, it became the magazine's best-selling issue of all time.
Hermione and Neville are held against their will por the Inquisitorial Squad .Hermione:
"It's sort of exciting, isn't it? Breaking the rules!"
Ron: "Who are tu and what have tu done with Hermione Granger?"
— Hermione and Ron
It was Hermione's brilliant spell-work that ensured the security of Dumbledore's Army. She created coins encantada 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 later in the año when she betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge. When Harry learned that they could not find a counter curse, he swelled with pride at Hermione's jinxing ability. Hermione was not exposed at that time, but later she was brought to Umbridge's office por the Inquisitorial Squad.
Late in the fall of that year, Hagrid, who had been missing for the entirety of the school year, returned to Hogwarts. Hermione, Harry, and Ron ventured down to see him immediately even though it was after curfew. Hermione was aghast at the injuries Hagrid had sustained and greatly curious as to his story. She was almost caught when Umbridge called on Hagrid that night. Months later, Hermione and Harry learned why Hagrid was perpetually bruised and cut. He had brought his half brother Grawp back from the giants.
Just after their class took their O.W.L.s, Harry had a vision of his godfather being tortured por Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione 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 snuck into Umbridge's office to use the Floo Network, with the assistance of Ron, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood, but they were ultimately caught. When Umbridge threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry during questioning, Hermione interceded, coming up with a lie about what she and her fellow D.A. members had been building a weapon for Dumbledore. She successfully lured Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, where the toad-like villain was carried off por a herd of centaurs. Hermione 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 por Umbridge and were further angered when Hermione admitted that she had hoped that they would drive Umbridge off. They 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. The six students flew on Thestrals to the Ministry of Magic to try to save Sirius.
D.A. members fighting Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries.Hermione's fear turned out to be justified, as Harry's vision was a ruse 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 por Death Eaters, and a battle ensued. Hermione stunned Nott when he grabbed Harry, thus freeing him and causing Nott to be injured por 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 por the curse Dolohov subsequently struck her with, but made a full recovery.
Hermione: "Well, it's certainly dado them lots to write about. And that interview with Harry isn't exclusive, it's the one that was in The Quibbler months ago..."
Luna: "Daddy sold it to them. He got a very good price for it, too, so we're going to go on an expedition to Sweden this summer to see if we can catch a Crumple-Horned Snorkack."
Hermione: "That sounds lovely."
— Hermione and Luna
Hermione was challenged in más ways than one that año when she met Luna Lovegood, whose belief in many things without logical grounds baffled Hermione. However, the two became friends after accepting one another's differences.
Sixth año
Hermione in Potions class in her sixth year, with an impressed Professor Slughorn.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 por this.
por the time they arrived in Hogwarts, Hermione's romantic feelings for Ron had become apparent, and she was upset when he and Lavender started flirting. 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 por Potions professor Horace Slughorn, while he was ignored. He was mollified when Hermione revealed that she was going to ask if he wanted to attend Slughorn's navidad party with her, and the two seemed on their way to a romantic relationship.
Hermione with Harry and Ginny at the Gryffindor table.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. 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, accusing her of having no faith in him when it was discovered that he had not been slipped the potion at all. All of this culminated in Ron beginning a very public relationship with fellow Gryffindor student Lavender Brown. Hermione was so furious and heartbroken that when she discovered this she conjured a flock of canaries to attack Ron (after which she broke down and cried on Harry's shoulder), and the two ceased being on speaking terms. Hermione fought back por attending the aforementioned navidad party with Cormac McLaggen, an older Gryffindor that Ron despised. It backfired when Hermione found McLaggen extremely irritating and not at all a gentleman remarking that he had más tentacles than a Snarfalug plant. However, she still declined to go to the Burrow for the navidad holidays. Afterward, Ron — who was relieved that Hermione and McLaggen's fecha did not go well and who was growing discontent in his relationship with Lavender — attempted to speak to Hermione, but she ignored him.
Hermione: "Oh, I've just escaped — I mean, I've just left Cormac. Under the mistletoe... I'd thought he'd annoy Ron most. I debated for a while about Zacharias Smith, but I thought, on the whole —"
Harry: "You considered Smith?"
Hermione: "Yes, I did, and I'm starting to wish I'd chosen him, McLaggen makes Grawp look a gentleman."
— Hermione at Slughorn's navidad party
A tearful Hermione.The two reconciled after Ron was hospitalised due to consuming poisoned mead, an event that left Hermione shaken and frightened. por this time, Ron was visibly disillusioned with his relationship with Lavender, who had become possessive of him and called him por the annoying nickname "Won-Won." He also muttered Hermione's name in his sleep while in the hospital wing. He began avoiding Lavender, who soon became suspicious of his relationship with Hermione, ultimately leading to an argument and her breaking up with him. Afterward, Hermione and Ron were más 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 mastered nonverbal magic.
Hermione sits por Ron's bedside after he was poisoned.Throughout the year, she and Ron were both sceptical of Harry's claims that Draco Malfoy had been branded with the Dark Mark and was up to something. Hermione also 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. She was particularly alarmed por the increasingly Dark nature of the magic in the book, such as the spell Sectumsempra. Near the end of the school year, Harry's suspicions would be proven right. Malfoy let Death Eaters into the school, resulting in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Hermione fought in the battle and remained unscathed thanks to some Felix Felicis, which Harry forced her, Ron, and Ginny to drink beforehand. Also throughout the school year, Hermione as well as Ron had been informed of the content of Harry's private lessons with Dumbledore. Through these lessons Harry and in turn Hermione and Ron learned about Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
During the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, Hermione was comforted por Ron and cried on his shoulder. Afterward, 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 año of school in order to assist Harry.
Searching for HorcruxesHarry:
"Listen!"
Hermione: "No, Harry, tu listen. We’re coming with you. That was decided months hace — years, really."
— Hermione to Harry regarding her and Ron’s plans to accompany him on the hunt for the Horcruxes
Hermione walks away from her house after modifying her parents' memory.Hermione began planning for her journey with Harry and Ron immediately. She summoned libros about Horcruxes from Dumbledore's office so as to learn how to destroy the items. 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, o anything she had told them about Harry.
Battle over Little Whinging
Hermione as one of the "seven Potters".Hermione then joined with the Order of the Phoenix in the operation to remove Harry from 4 alheña, 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, and were pursued por Lord Voldemort himself at one point. In time, they arrived safely at the Burrow, where Hermione was immensely relieved Harry alive, but she was greatly worried when Ron did not mostrar up on time. When he landed, she grabbed him in relief. She was saddened por the news of Alastor Moody and Hedwig's murders and disturbed por Harry's vision of Ollivander being tortured.
Later on, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour interrupted Harry's birthday celebrations to give certain personal items of Albus Dumbledore to the three friends. Hermione received The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of children's stories written in runes. Even before Hermione understood the priceless quality of the gift, she was moved to tears por Dumbledore's great act of friendship. During the lectura of Dumbledore's will, she also displayed her incredible store of general knowledge when she mentioned that "Snitches have flesh memories," surprising of Ron and Harry, who had both believed her to know little-to-nothing of Quidditch.
Hermione: "They wanted to examine whatever he's left us. tu had no right to do that!... The law was created to stop wizards passing on Dark artifacts, and the Ministry is supposed to have powerful evidence that the deceased's possessions are illegal before seizing them! Are tu telling me that tu thought Dumbledore was trying to pass us something cursed?"
Rufus Scrimgeour: "Are tu planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?"
Hermione: "No, I'm not. I'm hoping to do some good in the world!"
— Hermione arguing with the Minister over his belated lectura of Dumbledore's will
At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding on August 1, 1997, Hermione wore a "floaty, lilac-coloured dress with matching high heels" and made her hair "sleek and shiny." She was amused por fred and George's stories about their late uncle Bilius, and shared a friendly exchange with Viktor Krum, to the frustration of Ron, who quickly asked her to dance. When Krum asked a disguised Harry whether the two were together, Harry replied "Er...sort of."
Escape from the Burrow
Hermione, Ron and Harry escaping to Tottenham Court Road from the Burrow.The wedding was interrupted por a warning from Kingsley Shacklebolt por Patronus of the fall of the Ministry of Magic to the Death Eaters. 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 bolso, monedero 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.
Hermione: "Undetectable Extension Charm. Tricky, but I think I’ve done it okay; anyway, I managed to fit everything we need in here... I told tu at the Burrow, I’ve had the essentials packed for days, tu know, in case we needed to make a quick getaway. I packed your rucksack this morning, Harry, after tu changed, and put it in here...I just had a feeling. . . ."
Ron: "You're amazing, tu are."
— the trio after leaving the Burrow
However, the trio unknowingly triggered the Taboo curse that was placed on Voldemort's name and were thus tracked down por Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle to Tottenham Court Road. 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. The three then made their way safely to 12 Grimmauld Place.
Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic
Hermione dressed in Mafalda Hopkirk's clothes setting up the defence charms around the tent after infiltrating the Ministry of Magic.After learning from Mundungus Fletcher that Dolores Umbridge had Salazar Slytherin's Locket, one of the seven Horcruxes, in her possession, the trio formed a plan to infiltrate the Ministry and reclaim the locket. Hermione imbibed Polyjuice Potion and transformed to look like Mafalda Hopkirk, a prominent Ministry official. She 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 forced Hermione to use a Revulsion Jinx to free herself from him, and then to take the trio away from Grimmauld Place.
Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow
Ron: "What are tu doing? Are tu staying, o what?"
Hermione: "I... Yes — yes, I'm staying. Ron, we dicho we'd go with Harry, we dicho we'd help —"
Ron: "I get it. tu choose him."
Hermione: "Ron, no — please — come back, come back!"
— Hermione shortly before Ron's departure
The locket caused great pain among the three friends due to the negative energy within. They began arguing over petty issues such as cooking, and growing moodier. The negative energy from the locket caused Ron to accuse Harry of his poor leadership. They fought physically, although Hermione stopped them before they started casting spells. Ron also accused Hermione of choosing Harry over him, causing him to be jealous and feel left out por his two friends' growing friendship. por the time she got rid of the shield charm, all she could do was scream for him to come back, without success. Hermione then cried over Ron for más than a week after his departure, although she tried to hide it from Harry. Both were deeply saddened and hurt por their friend's departure, although Hermione más than Harry, as she cried over Ron's departure for weeks.
Hermione and Harry at Godric's Hollow.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, whom they believed might be holding onto Godric Gryffindor's Sword for Harry. Hermione comforted Harry in the graveyard, and conjured rosas for the Potters' graves. The pair then went to Bathilda's house, where they were attacked por Nagini, who had been waiting for them in the guise of the old woman, whose corpse had been animated like an Inferius por Voldemort. Hermione rushed to Harry's aid, and the two of them barely escaped before Voldemort himself arrived.
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 dado him with dittany. Harry's wand had also been broken in the foray, most likely por the Blasting Curse Hermione cast at Nagini. He was heartbroken, but not angry with her, knowing that it was an accident and that Hermione had saved his life.
Ron's return and the Ambush at the Lovegood House
Xenophilius speaks to the trioHermione: "Hand over Harry?"
Ron: "No deal, get out of the way, we're leaving."
— Hermione and Ron to Xeno Lovegood at the Lovegood House
Harry and Hermione were reunited with Ron in the Forest of Dean, after Ron heard them talking through the Deluminator Dumbledore had left to him. Ron destroyed the locket Horcrux with Godric Gryffindor's Sword, saving Harry's life and thus receiving forgiveness from him for leaving. Before he destroyed it, however, the locket revealed some of Ron's deepest fears, including that Hermione preferred Harry to him. Hermione, however, was unaware of this, as she had been in the tent while this occurred. Upon seeing Ron returned, she screamed at Ron 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.
The trio then travelled together to Xenophilius Lovegood's inicial to ask him about the strange symbol in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. They had thought it to be the sign of the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald, but Xenophilius informed them it was the symbol of the Deathly Hallows.
Shortly after making this discovery, the three friends realised that Luna Lovegood wasn't at home, despite it being the navidad holidays, and had been away for a long time. Xenophilius revealed to them that Luna had been taken prisoner por Death Eaters and that he planned to betray them in order to get her back. However, in attempting to capture them, Xenophilius made the erumpent horn in his living room (which he had insisted was a Snorknack horn, much to Hermione's annoyance) explode, giving the trio the chance to hide just as Death Eaters Selwyn and Travers arrived. They threatened to kill Luna if they found that Xenophilius had lied about Harry Potter's presence in his home. In a remarkable mostrar of mental and magical dexterity, Hermione concocted the trio's escape while safeguarding Ron's feigned illness and allowing the Death Eaters to glimpse Harry, so that they would not carry out their threat to kill Luna.
Bellatrix Lestrange threatening an unconscious Hermione. Skirmish at Malfoy Manor
Bellatrix: "You're lying, filthy Mudblood, and I know it! tu have been inside my bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts!... What else did tu take? Tell me the truth or, I swear, I shall run tu through with this knife! What else did tu take, what else? ANSWER ME! CRUCIO! How did tu get into my vault? Did that dirty little goblin in the cellar help you?"
Hermione: "We only met him tonight! We’ve never been inside your vault. . . . It isn’t the real sword! It’s a copy, just a copy!"
— overheard parts of Hermione's interrogation
In the spring of 1998, Hermione, Harry, and Ron were tracked down and captured when Harry accidentally triggered the Taboo curse por a group of Snatchers, which included the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, who was eager to bite Hermione. They were brought to Malfoy Manor and turned over to Bellatrix Lestrange, who panicked at the sight of Godric Gryffindor's Sword. She gave away that the sword and another Horcrux were hidden in her bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts in her panic, and proceeded to isolate Hermione and torture her with the Cruciatus Curse repeatedly as an interrogation method. Ron, who had tried to take her place unsuccessfully, was reduced to sobs por hearing Hermione scream in pain. Hermione, however, would not be crushed, and came up with a story that the sword was merely a copy of the real thing, a lie that Harry persuaded the imprisoned goblin Griphook to go along with.
While Hermione was tortured into unconsciousness, Dobby came to the rescue of the prisoners in the dungeon. Harry and Ron fought off Peter Pettigrew before racing upstairs to save Hermione and Griphook. They were forced to drop their wands when Bellatrix held a cuchillo to Hermione's throat, but Dobby returned and sent the chandelier crashing to the floor, enabling Harry and Ron to grab wands and Disapparate with Hermione, Griphook, and Dobby to Shell Cottage, where Bill and Fleur took up residence after their marriage. Unfortunately, Dobby was killed during this escape.
Ron comforting Hermione at Shell Cottage after the torture
Gringotts Break-In
Hermione, in polyjuice potion form as Bellatrix, before the break inGriphook: "As the Dark Lord becomes ever más powerful, your race is set still más firmly above mine! Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?"
Hermione Granger: "We do! We protest! And I’m hunted quite as much as any goblin o elf, Griphook! I’m a Mudblood!... Did tu know that it was Harry who set Dobby free? Did tu know that we’ve wanted elves to be freed for years? tu can’t want You-Know-Who defeated más than we do, Griphook!"
— Conversation in Shell Cottage before the break-in.
Hermione, Harry, and Ron stayed at Shell Cottage for some time, where Fleur helped Hermione recover from her trauma. The trio formed a plan to break into the Lestrange bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts to retrieve the Horcrux Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, with the reluctant assistance of Griphook. The goblin only agreed to help them in exchange for Gryffindor's Sword; although loath to lose it, Hermione was strongly against deceiving o double-crossing Griphook, who was startled por the care she and Harry had shown for house-elves, since most wizards do not think highly of non-human beings. The trio reluctantly agreed to Griphook's terms.
Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the Lestrange Vault.Once more, Hermione used Polyjuice Potion, combined with Bellatrix's hair. She was also forced to use Bellatrix's wand, as her wand had been confiscated por Snatchers, which she very much disliked. It was determined that Hermione was "too polite" to really impersonate Bellatrix, but the group managed to get into the vault. 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 dragon that was guarding the vault, with another Horcrux in their possession.
Battle of Hogwarts
Harry: "Oi! There's a war going on here!"
Ron: "I know, mate, so it's now o never, isn't it?"
— Harry Potter to Hermione and Ron when they kiss during battle
Hermione, Harry and Ron back at Hogwarts.The trio finally returned to Hogwarts on May 2, 1998, with the assistance of Aberforth Dumbledore. They were reunited with their friends in the re-formed Dumbledore's Army, who declared their wish to fight the encroaching Death Eater army. While Harry and Luna Lovegood 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. 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 buscar for Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, but were ambushed por 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 broomstick as it went up in flames due to Crabbe's cursed fire, which also destroyed the Horcrux. Harry, Hermione and Ron then witnessed the death of fred Weasley, which devastated them all.
Hermione: "Listen to me — LISTEN RON!"
Ron: "I wanna help — I wanna kill Death Eaters—"
Hermione: "Ron, we're the only ones who can end it! Please — Ron — we need the snake, we've got to kill the snake! We will fight! We'll have to, to reach the snake! But let's not lose sight now of what we're supposed to be d-doing! We're the only ones who can end it!"
— Hermione and Ron after Fred's death.
Despite their grief, the trio continued with the effort to track down Nagini, another Horcrux. 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, likely saving the other girl's life. The trio was swarmed por Dementors and all had difficulty summoning their Patronuses because of the horror of their reciente experiences, but Luna Lovegood, Ernie Macmillan and Seamus Finnigan came to their assistance. Under Harry's Invisibility Cloak, the three made their way to the Shrieking Shack, where they witnessed Voldemort have Nagini kill Severus Snape.
During the brief pause in fighting, when Voldemort issued an ultimatum to Harry, Hermione comforted Ginny Weasley over her brother's death. When Lord 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 por 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 Lestrange's bóveda, bóveda de shortly before the battle.
Later life In 1998, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to attain her N.E.W.Ts. She was the only one of the trio to do this. por 2017, Hermione and Ron were married with two children: Rose and Hugo Weasley.
Hermione in 2017.
Hermione is also the godmother of Harry and Ginny's oldest child, James. On September 1, 2017, Hermione and Ron brought their children to King's cruzar, cruz Station to see Rose off for her first año at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and met Harry, Ginny, and their three children there.
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 attain a high position in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, eradicating the old laws biased in favour of pure-bloods. Along with Harry and Ron, she helped to revolutionise the Ministry and reform the wizarding world. At some point, Hermione, Harry and Ron were all featured on chocolate Frog Cards for their accomplishments.
Hermione also eventually translated The Tales of Beedle the Bard from the original, which was written in runes and which Albus Dumbledore bequeathed to her in his will in 1997. Her new translation was published at some point and included notes on each tale written por Dumbledore before his death; these notes were lent to Hermione por her former professor, Hogwarts headmistress Minerva McGonagall.
Physical appearance
Hermione Granger at age sixteen.
"She looks beautiful!"
—Parvati Patil upon seeing Hermione at the Yule Ball
Hermione has bushy brown hair, a bossy sort of voice, and brown eyes. As a youngster, she had rather large front teeth, prompting insults from students such as Pansy Parkinson, who once compared her to a chipmunk. Hermione had Nurse amapola Pomfrey magically shrink them in 1994 after she was accidentally struck with a Densaugeo spell, making it unnecessary for her to receive the braces her parents had originally intended for her. Ron noticed her teeth were much straighter and took más notice of her. When angered, "her hair seemed to crackle with electricity" and her voice would become slightly shrill.
Hermione never gave much attention to her appearance, except when she used great care in fixing her hair for the Yule Ball using Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, which she later remarked was too much work to use every day. Many of her fellow students were stunned por how pretty Hermione looked that evening. She keeps her hair long, as it was once described it as a "long mane of brown hair," and sometimes ties it back in a plait.
She is implied to be relatively plain in her younger years, but becomes quite attractive in her late teens. Hermione received positive attention for her appearance from Ron Weasley, Viktor Krum, and Cormac McLaggen during her time at Hogwarts and afterward, from a group of drunk Muggle men at Tottenham Court Road, and, disturbingly, from Fenrir Greyback.
Ron Weasley and Harry Potter both agreed that Hermione had nice skin, while Harry was trying to cover up that he saw in Ginny, and Ron showed an attraction to Hermione.
Personality and traits
Professor Slughorn: "Oho! ‘One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she’s the best in our year!’ I’m assuming this is the very friend of whom tu spoke, Harry?"
Harry: "Yes, sir."
Professor Slughorn: "Well, well, take 20 well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger."
— after Hermione impresses Professor Slughorn in Potions
Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the Gryffindor Common Room.Hermione is noted for being extremely intelligent and hard-working, coming out on parte superior, arriba in most of her classes and continuously helping Ron, Harry, and Neville Longbottom with their schoolwork. She was dado a Time-Turner in her third año to facilitate her taking many más courses than most students. She was so adept at school work at that she often had time to do hobby work on the side, such as preparing a defence for Buckbeak to save him from execution, and creating S.P.E.W., an organisation promoting the freedom of house-elves. Such acts demonstrate Hermione’s social conscience, tenacity, and compassion.
"That's what Hermione does. When in doubt, go to the library."
—Ron's opinion of Hermione's personality
Unlike most wizards who depend solely on their magical ability, Hermione readily relies on logic. Although this often helps her cleverly deduce information that many others miss, such as Remus Lupin's lycanthropy, Hermione's emphasis on logic also makes her sceptical about accepting anything without proof. For example, she was not open-minded about the existence of the Deathly Hallows, refusing to believe in them until there was solid evidence. Hermione often acts as the voice of reason among her más impulsive friends, to varying levels of success, and is reluctant to break rules unless it is necessary in pursuit of something más important, such as when she suggested brewing Polyjuice Potion in order to investigate the Chamber of Secrets, which was breaking "about fifty school rules" por her own admission. Hermione is not afraid to stand up to her friends when she thinks it is in their best interests o when she feels they are wrong; she risked angering Harry por getting his Firebolt confiscated because she feared it might be jinxed, and argued with both him and Ginny over his use of the Dark Sectumsempra spell. Hermione is very determined and focused, in that she "always keeps her attention focused on the job that must be done."[16] Hermione's strong will was also demonstrated por her refusal to break under torture, when Bellatrix Lestrange inflicted the Cruciatus Curse on her repeatedly in 1998.
Because of her intelligence and her opinionated nature, Hermione has the reputation for being a bossy know-it-all. However, her sometimes abrasive confidence masks her insecurities and great fear of failure, as personified por her Boggart. Hermione feels the need to prove herself, perhaps partly because of how many people in wizarding society look down on Muggle-borns. She does not let anyone bully her about this, however, and stands up to bigots like Draco Malfoy who taunt her with the derogatory epithet "Mudblood." She also became one of the few people to call Voldemort por name in her fifth year.
Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny, Neville, and Luna in the Department of Mysteries in 1996.
Hermione: "I’m hunted quite as much as any goblin o elf, Griphook! I’m a Mudblood!"
Ron: "Don’t call yourself—"
Hermione: "Why shouldn’t I? Mudblood, and proud of it!"
— Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley speaking to Griphook
Hermione demonstrates her bravery many times during her adventures with Harry and Ron, though she initially showed a tendency toward mild panic in the face of sudden danger, which she eventually overcame. She is extremely loyal to her friends, fiercely defending them if they are insulted and willing to risk her life to help them. She also gave them consejos rather often, such as in trying to make Harry understand Cho Chang’s behaviour on their date, and in helping Ginny deal with her crush on Harry; this once prompted Ron to advise her to write a book to translate all the "mad things" girls do so that boys could understand them. Hermione is quite blunt with her opinions, sometimes to the point of not being very tactful; for example, her attempt to comfort Lavender Brown about the death of her rabbit did not go over well, and her honesty when dealing with Centaurs in 1996 nearly landed her and Harry in serious trouble. Despite this, Hermione is generally sensitive to others' emotions and will lie when she has to, though she is not a skilled liar, as
—Hermione Granger to Harry Potter in 1992
Hermione Jean Weasley (née Granger), born September 19, 1979, was the daughter of Muggles Mr. and Mrs. Granger. She learned, at the age of eleven, that she was a witch and had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She began attending the school on September 1st 1991, when she was eleven, almost twelve, and was sorted into Gryffindor House.
An academically brilliant student, Hermione became best friends with fellow students Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in her first año of school. When they first met on the Hogwarts Express, Ron and Harry thought of her as obnoxious and self-centered, a belief that she only furthered as the school año went on, besting them in every class. However, when Ron and Harry saved her from a troll, she took the blame for them and became their friend. In her segundo year, Hermione was one of the victims of the Basilisk that was unleashed upon Hogwarts with the opening of the Chamber of Secrets, but recovered from being petrified. The siguiente year, Hermione was dado permission to use a Time-Turner to facilitate her attending más classes than other students, and which she and Harry later used to save Sirius Black from receiving the Dementor's Kiss, and Buckbeak the Hippogriff from certain death. Hermione became an advocate for the better treatment of house-elves, forming the association S.P.E.W., in her fourth year. In 1995, she was the driving force behind the creation of Dumbledore's Army, and fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996, and in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and the Battle over Little Whinging in 1997. Hermione, as well as Ron, decided to forgo their last año of school in order to accompany Harry on his quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, and later fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, and survived the war.
Following the segundo Wizarding War, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to complete her education, and later attained employment at the Ministry of Magic, furthering her cause for the better treatment of house-elves before gaining promotion to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She eventually married Ron, and they would have two children: A daughter called Rose as well as a son named Hugo. Hermione is also the godmother to James Sirius Potter, who is the eldest child and son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley.
1 Biography 1.1 Early life1.2 Education at Hogwarts 1.2.1 First year1.2.2 segundo year1.2.3 Third year1.2.4 Fourth year1.2.5 Fifth year1.2.6 Sixth year1.3 Searching for Horcruxes 1.3.1 Battle over Little Whinging1.3.2 Escape from the Burrow1.3.3 Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic1.3.4 Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow1.3.5 Ron's return and the Ambush at the Lovegood House1.3.6 Skirmish at Malfoy Manor1.3.7 Gringotts Break-In1.3.8 Battle of Hogwarts1.4 Later life
2 Physical appearance
3 Personality and traits
4 Magical abilities and skills
5 Possessions
6 Relationships 6.1 Parents6.2 Harry Potter6.3 Ron Weasley6.4 Ginny Weasley6.5 Weasley family6.6 Neville Longbottom6.7 Luna Lovegood6.8 Minerva McGonagall6.9 Viktor Krum6.10 Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil6.11 Draco Malfoy6.12 Rubeus Hagrid6.13 Remus Lupin6.14 Sirius Black6.15 Nymphadora Tonks6.16 Fleur Delacour6.17 Severus Snape6.18 Albus Dumbledore6.19 Crookshanks6.20 Cormac McLaggen6.21 Pansy Parkinson6.22 Rita Skeeter6.23 Dolores Umbridge6.24 Lord Voldemort6.25 Bellatrix Lestrange6.26 Dumbledore's Army6.27 Order of the Phoenix6.28 Children6.29 Nieces and nephews
7 Etymology
8 Author's comentarios
9 Behind the scenes
10 Appearances
11 External enlaces
12 Notes and references
Biography
[Early life
"Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, it's the best school of witchcraft there is I've heard"
—Hermione on her muggle family
Not much is known about Hermione's life before she entered the wizarding world. She is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who are both Muggle dentists. They are "quite ordinary" and "a bit bemused por their odd daughter but quite proud of her all the same."
Hermione was quite surprised when she learned that she was a witch in the summer of 1991 and was invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on the beginning September of 1991. She eagerly accepted and took to studying magic before she began her first year, even performing a few spells successfully.
Education at HogwartsTerry Boot: "How come you're not in Ravenclaw? With brains like yours?"
Hermione: "Well, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting, but it decided on Gryffindor in the end."
— Hermione on her Sorting
Hermione enjoyed her years as a pupil at Hogwarts, and took assignments, classes, and school rules very seriously. Her favourite subject was initially Charms, and later Arithmancy, and the only areas of study that gave her trouble were Flying and Divination. Some students, such as Terry Boot, wondered why Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor house rather than Ravenclaw, dado her keen mind. Hermione admitted that the Sorting Hat did consider putting her in Ravenclaw. Being sorted into Gryffindor, Hermione would share a dormitory with Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil and two other girls.
But she proved her rightful place in Gryffindor with her steadfast bravery and loyalty to her friends, Hogwarts, and Dumbledore's Army. It is likely that the Sorting Hat put her in Gryffindor in the first place, because she chose to be in it, just like Harry chose to not be in Slytherin; on the train, she mentions that, "Gryffindor...sounds por far the best."
Hermione's enthusiasm in class.
First año
"Are tu sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good is it? I've tried a few simple spells myself and they've all worked for me."
—Hermione upon first meeting Harry Potter and Ron Weasley
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 demonstrated a knowledge and talent with magic beyond most of those her age, despite having only recently discovered that she was a Muggle-born witch. She wished to be a Gryffindor o a Ravenclaw, and her wish was granted considering she did get sorted into Gryffindor. She 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.
Hermione attached herself to Harry and Ron, following them around and trying to prevent them from breaking school rules and getting into trouble. On one night, she followed them as they were leaving Gryffindor Tower to duel Draco Malfoy. They were chased por Argus Filch 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 trap door, which Harry and Ron had not noticed.
The friendship between the three was solidified when, on halloween in 1991, the three were forced to confront a mountain troll. Unaware that a troll was on the loose in the school, Hermione had spent that día crying in the girls' bathroom after overhearing Ron making unkind comentarios about her. The troll made its way into the bathroom she was in, and Harry and Ron came to her rescue, saving her. When Professors Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, and Quirinus Quirrell arrived at the scene, Hermione covered for the boys, claiming she was fighting the troll because she had thought that she could fight one, having read a great deal about them, and that Ron and Harry had merely come to help her escape. From that point on, the three students were best friends.
Hermione standing in a united front with Ron and Harry."I'm going to cama before either of tu come up with another idea to get us killed, o worse; expelled."
—Hermione to Harry and Ron
The incident with the Troll was por no means her only adventure in that first year. During the first Quidditch match, Hermione set Professor Snape's robes on fuego when she thought he was jinxing Harry. In the spring of 1992, Hagrid, a friend of Hermione's through Harry, managed to procure a dragon egg. Hermione along with Ron and Harry helped Hagrid care for the beast which Hagrid named Norbert. When the dragon was discovered, Hermione and Harry helped smuggle it out of the school to some friends of Ron's elder brother, Charlie Weasley. During the night, they were found and dado detentions.
Fearing that Lord Voldemort would return if the Philosopher's Stone, which Harry, Ron, and Hermione had divined was hidden in the school, was stolen, Harry decided to steal the Stone 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 por conjuring fire. She later got herself and Harry through a challenge involving a Potion Riddle. Hermione used her logic to figure out the riddle and let Harry go adelante, hacia adelante 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, which won Gryffindor the House Cup.
segundo año
"And they haven't invented a spell that our Hermione can't do."
—Rubeus Hagrid
Prior to starting her segundo year, Hermione wrote several letters to Harry, all of which were intercepted por Dobby, as the house-elf wanted Harry to believe that his friends had forgotten him in order to prevent his return to Hogwarts. She and her parents also accompanied Harry and the Weasley family to Diagon Alley to comprar for school supplies.
Hermione telling Harry and Ron of her theory about Tom Riddle and the diary.It was during her segundo school año that Hermione first encountered the prejudice and hatred surrounding her blood purity, when Draco Malfoy called her a "filthy little Mudblood" after she told him off for insulting the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Hermione had never heard the highly offensive term before, but others present had and lashed out at Draco. fred and George Weasley lunged at him, and Ron even tried to hex him, but it backfired, as his wand had been damaged. 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 dicho about her Muggle-born status.
Hermione surprised Harry and Ron with her obvious crush on Gilderoy Lockhart, who became that year's Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. She scored full marks on the first examen in his class, which contained only preguntas pertaining to Lockhart's books. In fact, she went as far as to doodle hearts on her D.A.D.A. assignments, not knowing until later that he was, in reality, a self-obsessed fraud.
On Halloween, 1992 Hermione attended Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party with Harry and Ron. While heading back upstairs, she followed Harry who claimed to be hearing voices. They discovered the caretaker's cat petrified and the walls grafittied. Hermione began spending all her free time in the Hogwarts biblioteca after she saw the vandalism on the corridor walls indicated that the Chamber of Secrets had been re-opened hoping to read about the legend, but she could not as all the libros were checked out. Hermione shocked everyone when she actually interrupted Professor Cuthbert Binns during a History of Magic lecture and asked him for information about it; this was the only known time when a student asked the boring professor a question, and the class was interested in what he had to say.
When Harry proposed the theory that Draco Malfoy was the "Heir of Slytherin," Hermione went even further por daring to check Moste Potente Potions out of the biblioteca using a note from Professor Lockhart, in the desire to research Polyjuice Potion. She hoped that they would be able to obtain a confession from Malfoy. She brewed the potion in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, as no one used it. Hermione also risked serious consequences when she estola potion ingredients from Professor Snape's cupboards that were needed for the difficult potion.
Hermione brewing Polyjuice Potion.Hermione: "Well, if tu two are going to chicken out, fine. I don't want to break rules, tu know. I think threatening Muggle-borns is far worse than brewing up a difficult potion. But if tu don't want to find out..."
Ron: "I never thought I'd see the día when you'd be persuading us to break rules."
— Hermione convincing Harry and Ron of her plan to use Polyjuice Potion
Unfortunately, Hermione was unable to registrarse Harry and Ron in the ruse with Polyjuice Potion because the Extract of The-Transfigured-Being-To-Be she obtained from Millicent Bulstrode during their scuffle in the Duelling Club was actually the hair of Bulstrode's cat. Hermione grew pelaje, piel and a tail, and remained in the hospital wing for weeks. Harry and Ron, however, were able to use the potion she brewed to transform into Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe, respectively. They entered the Slytherin common room, and through conversation with Draco Malfoy, realised that he was not the Heir of Slytherin, and was not involved in the opening of the Chamber after all.
Months after her recovery from the Polyjuice complication, Hermione suffered another accident. After coming to the conclusion that the creature attacking students must be a Basilisk, she rushed to the biblioteca to conduct further research. On her way, 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. 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. Using this note and other information they had gathered, Harry and Ron were able to successfully put an end to Lord Voldemort's plans to resurrect his body through his memory stored in an old school diary. Hermione was later cured with a Mandrake Restorative Draught created por Professor Sprout. She was disappointed to learn that, as a special treat for the school, Professor Dumbledore canceled the students' end of año exams, though intensely proud that her friends had solved the mystery.
That summer, Hermione went on holiday to France with her parents. She was jealous of Ron when his family went to Egypt, as she felt it would be fascinating to study Ancient Egyptian wizardry.
Third año
Hermione and Professor Trelawney.
"P-P-Professor McGonagall! Sh-she dicho I'd failed everything!"
—Hermione faces her Boggart
Just prior to beginning the 1993 school año while visiting Diagon Alley with Harry and the Weasley family, Hermione met and adopted a part-Kneazle cat named Crookshanks from the Magical Menagerie. However, her new bond with her cat caused friction with Ron and his pet rata 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.
When Harry received a Firebolt for navidad with no note, Hermione reported it to Professor McGonagall, thinking it was sent por Sirius Black, whom everyone believed to be a dangerous murderer who was after Harry. His escoba 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 gone missing. Hermione poured herself into defending Buckbeak, the hippogriff on trial for attacking Draco Malfoy during a Care of Magical Creatures class. She worked furiously to save Buckbeak who was on trial before the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, eventually with Harry and Ron's assistance once the trio reconciled after Hagrid told Harry and Ron how disappointed he was when they selfishly put the Firebolt over their friendship and Hermione apologised, but their attempt failed, as Lucius Malfoy frightened the Committee into deciding that the creature would be executed. Hermione was extremely upset por this news and grew furious to the point of slapping Draco when he mocked Hagrid for being upset about Buckbeak's fate.
Hermione draws her wand against Draco Malfoy.That year, Hermione was also among the students who found Remus Lupin to be an excellent Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Hermione 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. However, Hermione did not expose Lupin, presumably because she believed he was a good teacher and did not agree with the prejudice many hold against werewolves. Divination, on the other hand, turned out to be a subject Hermione had no respect for o interest in, and soon dropped.
Hermione:
"Please, sir, the werewolf differs from the true lobo in several small ways. The snout of the werewolf —"
Professor Snape: "That is the segundo time tu have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Five más points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
Ron: "You asked us a pregunta and she knows the answer! Why ask if tu don't want to be told?"
— Hermione and Ron in a DADA class
Hermione and Harry using her Time-Turner.On the día of Buckbeak's execution, the trio ventured down to console Hagrid. While in his cabin, Hermione discovered Scabbers, Ron's lost rat. After being urged out the back, Hermione, Harry, and Ron all witnessed what they thought to be Buckbeak's execution, but before they could return to their dormitory, Scabbers bit Ron and fled. While chasing after the rat, they were attacked por a black dog, which pulled Ron into a cavity beneath the Whomping Willow. Hermione and Harry hurried after them but were held up in a battle against the tree, but eventually they found a tunnel that led to the Shrieking Shack, where Sirius Black, whose Animagus form was the black dog, confronted them. They were soon joined por Professor Lupin who was actuación strangely, and Hermione told Harry and Ron of her belief that he was a werewolf, which he 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, Scabbers.
Once it had been decided that Pettigrew would be turned over to the authorities, the motley group left the Shrieking Shack. When the full moon appeared, chaos ensued, Pettigrew attacked Ron and escaped, and Sirius had to transform in order to protect Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Hermione and Harry rushed to his aid, when they heard him moaning, but Hermione could not help as they were set upon por the Dementors, come to recapture Sirius, and their rescue attempt ended when Harry fainted in their presence. They awoke in the hospital wing after being rescued por a mysterious, unseen person. After realising that Sirius's soul was to be destroyed por the Dementor's kiss and receiving vague instructions from Dumbledore, Hermione used her Time-Turner to return herself and Harry to a time earlier in the evening. They used this opportunity to rescue Sirius and Buckbeak. While waiting she discussed their savior with Harry, and when Harry realised that it was he, she claimed that none but a powerful wizard could have conjured a Patronus to drive away the many Dementors. As evidenced por her assertion that time-traveling is extremely treacherous and very dangerous, Hermione took great personal risk to save Sirius and Buckbeak. At the end of the año Hermione returned her Time-Turner, claiming it caused too much trouble and that she would drop a few subjects instead.
Fourth año
Hermione helping Harry during the Triwizard Tournament.
"You know, house-elves get a very raw deal! It’s slavery, that’s what it is! That Mr. Crouch made her go up to the parte superior, arriba of the stadium, and she was terrified, and he's got her hechizada so she can't even run when they start trampling tents! Why doesn't anyone do something about it?"
—Hermione begins her campaign for the better treatment of house-elves
Before her fourth año 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, they attended the 1994 Quidditch World Cup in August. After the game, the communal campsite was set upon por 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 leveled 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 por beginning the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, having been appalled por Bartemius Crouch's abusive treatment of his house-elf Winky. This did not earn her any popularity, as most believe that house-elves enjoy their work; indeed, even the house-elves did not like her campaigning. Harry, Ron, and Neville Longbottom only reluctantly joined, mostly in order to prevent Hermione from nagging them about it. Hagrid as well as fred and George Weasley refused to registrarse on the grounds that it would upset the house-elves, though fred did tell Hermione how to get into the Hogwarts kitchens, where she spoke to Dobby and Winky. Hermione considered the former to be a good example of a free elf, and tried to comfort the latter about being sacked por Crouch, but Winky soon became upset por Hermione's claims that house-elves deserved to have holidays and wages, along with the other elves.
Hermione in her rosado, rosa Yule Ball dress.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 más glory, creating a rift between the two for some time. Hermione helped Harry for the Triwizard Tournament por teaching him useful spells, such as Stupefy, Impedimenta, and Accio, and tried to get Harry and Ron to talk to one another multiple times.
At this time, Hermione unknowingly attracted the interest of Durmstrang Triwizard Champion and Bulgarian International Seeker Viktor Krum for 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 biblioteca and other places around Hogwarts, and even 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. Thus, when the pair arrived, many were stunned and jealous. Hermione wore robes of "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. Hermione comentó 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 intended for Ron to ask her, but his invite was insensitive and at the last minute. The two rowed about it in the common room, in which Hermione revealed that he should have asked her instead of Krum, but Ron misunderstands the point. After that, the two were seemingly más polite, although Ron continued to mostrar dislike of Krum.
Hermione as Viktor Krum's kidnap victim during the segundo Task.Hermione was chosen as a "kidnap victim" for Krum during the Tournament's segundo 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. Krum managed to rescue her and carried her to the surface, where he revealed to her later that he "never felt this way about any other girl" and asked her to visit him in Bulgaria over the summer.
Ron: "She’ll be after tu next, Hermione."
Hermione: "Let her try! I’ll mostrar her! Silly little girl, am I? Oh, I’ll get her back for this."
— Hermione and Ron discussing Rita Skeeter
Rita Skeeter, a journalist for the Daily Prophet and unregistered Animagus, was hiding in beetle form in Hermione's hair during this conversation. Hermione had previously told Skeeter off for printing horrible lies about Harry and Rubeus Hagrid, angering the journalist, who wrote a scathing articulo on the "the devious Miss Granger," claiming that she was toying with both Harry and Krum's affections and possibly brewing amor Potions. In the words of Ron, Skeeter was making Hermione out to be a "Scarlet Woman." She had previously reported Hermione as Harry's "stunningly pretty...girlfriend" por likely twisting and sensationalising the words of Colin Creevey and thus used this as the basis for the article. Although Hermione found the lies ridiculous, some people believed them and started sending Hermione hate mail, and even Molly Weasley treated her coldly until Harry corrected her. Hermione found this irritating and vowed to get revenge on Skeeter for her libel.
On the ride inicial on the Hogwarts Express, Hermione happily revealed she uncovered Skeeter's status as an unregistered Animagus and trapped her in a jar. She kept Skeeter from escritura for a año por threatening to expose her to the authorities. She single-handed drove Skeeter into poverty, gaining revenge for the pain caused to Harry and her other friends. However, with the return of Lord Voldemort and the murder of Cedric Diggory at the end of the school year,[8] there were much más serious challenges ahead for Hermione and her friends.
Fifth año
Hermione practising with the D.A..Ron:
"Seamus reckons that Harry's lying about You-Know-Who."
Hermione: "Yes, Lavender thinks so too... I told her to keep her big fat mouth shut about you, actually. And it would be quite nice if tu stopped jumping down Ron and my throats, Harry, because if tu haven't noticed, we're on your side."
— Hermione on her belief in Harry about Voldemort's return.
Following the death of Cedric Diggory, the Ministry of Magic refused to accept Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned, and the Daily Prophet labeled them either liars o nutters. However, Hermione and Ron believed Harry and defended him against the criticism of doubtful classmates. Though occasionally Harry vented his frustration at them, Hermione and Ron stuck por him. They also wanted to become members of the reconvened Order of the Phoenix but were not allowed to because they were underage. Hermione helped exterminate 12 Grimmauld Place, which served as headquarters for the Order, and was immensely relieved when Harry was acquitted of the charge of having used underage magic. Also before returning to Hogwarts, she and Ron learned that they had been appointed prefects for Gryffindor house and received badges. She took her position very seriously.
Once the school año 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 anterior year. She learned how to knit socks and hats for the house-elves, and hid them in Gryffindor Tower. The elves found this attempt at freeing them insulting, and they stopped cleaning the Tower at all. Dobby, already a free elf, was the only one who enjoyed the gifts, took everything Hermione had made, and cleaned the Tower por himself, which Hermione did not know.
Hermione: "She's an awful woman. Awful. tu know, I was just saying to Ron when tu came in ... we've got to do something about her."
Ron: "I suggested poison."
— Hermione and Ron on Professor Umbridge
Meanwhile, it was not long before Hermione realised that the Ministry of Magic had decided to interfere at Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge, a foul Ministry worker, was appointed as the new professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts. She refused to teach students practical defence, focusing only on theory. With this being the case, Hermione decided that Hogwarts needed a competent teacher and, together with Harry and Ron, founded Dumbledore's Army, a secret organisation in which students would gather after classes and be taught practical defensive spells. She suggested that Harry be the teacher; though he originally thought the idea ridiculous, he consented to teach the class. One of the many spells Hermione learned was the Patronus Charm; hers took the form of an otter. Hermione also became one of the few people Valiente enough to call Voldemort por his actual name.
The D.A. brought Harry into greater contact with Cho Chang. Hermione gave Harry consejos on Cho and girls in general. In an effort to combat the lies being told about Harry, Hermione also arranged for an interview during a Hogsmeade visit with Rita Skeeter to be printed in The Quibbler telling his side of the story. Despite being banned, it became the magazine's best-selling issue of all time.
Hermione and Neville are held against their will por the Inquisitorial Squad .Hermione:
"It's sort of exciting, isn't it? Breaking the rules!"
Ron: "Who are tu and what have tu done with Hermione Granger?"
— Hermione and Ron
It was Hermione's brilliant spell-work that ensured the security of Dumbledore's Army. She created coins encantada 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 later in the año when she betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge. When Harry learned that they could not find a counter curse, he swelled with pride at Hermione's jinxing ability. Hermione was not exposed at that time, but later she was brought to Umbridge's office por the Inquisitorial Squad.
Late in the fall of that year, Hagrid, who had been missing for the entirety of the school year, returned to Hogwarts. Hermione, Harry, and Ron ventured down to see him immediately even though it was after curfew. Hermione was aghast at the injuries Hagrid had sustained and greatly curious as to his story. She was almost caught when Umbridge called on Hagrid that night. Months later, Hermione and Harry learned why Hagrid was perpetually bruised and cut. He had brought his half brother Grawp back from the giants.
Just after their class took their O.W.L.s, Harry had a vision of his godfather being tortured por Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione 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 snuck into Umbridge's office to use the Floo Network, with the assistance of Ron, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood, but they were ultimately caught. When Umbridge threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry during questioning, Hermione interceded, coming up with a lie about what she and her fellow D.A. members had been building a weapon for Dumbledore. She successfully lured Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, where the toad-like villain was carried off por a herd of centaurs. Hermione 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 por Umbridge and were further angered when Hermione admitted that she had hoped that they would drive Umbridge off. They 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. The six students flew on Thestrals to the Ministry of Magic to try to save Sirius.
D.A. members fighting Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries.Hermione's fear turned out to be justified, as Harry's vision was a ruse 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 por Death Eaters, and a battle ensued. Hermione stunned Nott when he grabbed Harry, thus freeing him and causing Nott to be injured por 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 por the curse Dolohov subsequently struck her with, but made a full recovery.
Hermione: "Well, it's certainly dado them lots to write about. And that interview with Harry isn't exclusive, it's the one that was in The Quibbler months ago..."
Luna: "Daddy sold it to them. He got a very good price for it, too, so we're going to go on an expedition to Sweden this summer to see if we can catch a Crumple-Horned Snorkack."
Hermione: "That sounds lovely."
— Hermione and Luna
Hermione was challenged in más ways than one that año when she met Luna Lovegood, whose belief in many things without logical grounds baffled Hermione. However, the two became friends after accepting one another's differences.
Sixth año
Hermione in Potions class in her sixth year, with an impressed Professor Slughorn.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 por this.
por the time they arrived in Hogwarts, Hermione's romantic feelings for Ron had become apparent, and she was upset when he and Lavender started flirting. 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 por Potions professor Horace Slughorn, while he was ignored. He was mollified when Hermione revealed that she was going to ask if he wanted to attend Slughorn's navidad party with her, and the two seemed on their way to a romantic relationship.
Hermione with Harry and Ginny at the Gryffindor table.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. 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, accusing her of having no faith in him when it was discovered that he had not been slipped the potion at all. All of this culminated in Ron beginning a very public relationship with fellow Gryffindor student Lavender Brown. Hermione was so furious and heartbroken that when she discovered this she conjured a flock of canaries to attack Ron (after which she broke down and cried on Harry's shoulder), and the two ceased being on speaking terms. Hermione fought back por attending the aforementioned navidad party with Cormac McLaggen, an older Gryffindor that Ron despised. It backfired when Hermione found McLaggen extremely irritating and not at all a gentleman remarking that he had más tentacles than a Snarfalug plant. However, she still declined to go to the Burrow for the navidad holidays. Afterward, Ron — who was relieved that Hermione and McLaggen's fecha did not go well and who was growing discontent in his relationship with Lavender — attempted to speak to Hermione, but she ignored him.
Hermione: "Oh, I've just escaped — I mean, I've just left Cormac. Under the mistletoe... I'd thought he'd annoy Ron most. I debated for a while about Zacharias Smith, but I thought, on the whole —"
Harry: "You considered Smith?"
Hermione: "Yes, I did, and I'm starting to wish I'd chosen him, McLaggen makes Grawp look a gentleman."
— Hermione at Slughorn's navidad party
A tearful Hermione.The two reconciled after Ron was hospitalised due to consuming poisoned mead, an event that left Hermione shaken and frightened. por this time, Ron was visibly disillusioned with his relationship with Lavender, who had become possessive of him and called him por the annoying nickname "Won-Won." He also muttered Hermione's name in his sleep while in the hospital wing. He began avoiding Lavender, who soon became suspicious of his relationship with Hermione, ultimately leading to an argument and her breaking up with him. Afterward, Hermione and Ron were más 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 mastered nonverbal magic.
Hermione sits por Ron's bedside after he was poisoned.Throughout the year, she and Ron were both sceptical of Harry's claims that Draco Malfoy had been branded with the Dark Mark and was up to something. Hermione also 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. She was particularly alarmed por the increasingly Dark nature of the magic in the book, such as the spell Sectumsempra. Near the end of the school year, Harry's suspicions would be proven right. Malfoy let Death Eaters into the school, resulting in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Hermione fought in the battle and remained unscathed thanks to some Felix Felicis, which Harry forced her, Ron, and Ginny to drink beforehand. Also throughout the school year, Hermione as well as Ron had been informed of the content of Harry's private lessons with Dumbledore. Through these lessons Harry and in turn Hermione and Ron learned about Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
During the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, Hermione was comforted por Ron and cried on his shoulder. Afterward, 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 año of school in order to assist Harry.
Searching for HorcruxesHarry:
"Listen!"
Hermione: "No, Harry, tu listen. We’re coming with you. That was decided months hace — years, really."
— Hermione to Harry regarding her and Ron’s plans to accompany him on the hunt for the Horcruxes
Hermione walks away from her house after modifying her parents' memory.Hermione began planning for her journey with Harry and Ron immediately. She summoned libros about Horcruxes from Dumbledore's office so as to learn how to destroy the items. 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, o anything she had told them about Harry.
Battle over Little Whinging
Hermione as one of the "seven Potters".Hermione then joined with the Order of the Phoenix in the operation to remove Harry from 4 alheña, 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, and were pursued por Lord Voldemort himself at one point. In time, they arrived safely at the Burrow, where Hermione was immensely relieved Harry alive, but she was greatly worried when Ron did not mostrar up on time. When he landed, she grabbed him in relief. She was saddened por the news of Alastor Moody and Hedwig's murders and disturbed por Harry's vision of Ollivander being tortured.
Later on, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour interrupted Harry's birthday celebrations to give certain personal items of Albus Dumbledore to the three friends. Hermione received The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of children's stories written in runes. Even before Hermione understood the priceless quality of the gift, she was moved to tears por Dumbledore's great act of friendship. During the lectura of Dumbledore's will, she also displayed her incredible store of general knowledge when she mentioned that "Snitches have flesh memories," surprising of Ron and Harry, who had both believed her to know little-to-nothing of Quidditch.
Hermione: "They wanted to examine whatever he's left us. tu had no right to do that!... The law was created to stop wizards passing on Dark artifacts, and the Ministry is supposed to have powerful evidence that the deceased's possessions are illegal before seizing them! Are tu telling me that tu thought Dumbledore was trying to pass us something cursed?"
Rufus Scrimgeour: "Are tu planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?"
Hermione: "No, I'm not. I'm hoping to do some good in the world!"
— Hermione arguing with the Minister over his belated lectura of Dumbledore's will
At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding on August 1, 1997, Hermione wore a "floaty, lilac-coloured dress with matching high heels" and made her hair "sleek and shiny." She was amused por fred and George's stories about their late uncle Bilius, and shared a friendly exchange with Viktor Krum, to the frustration of Ron, who quickly asked her to dance. When Krum asked a disguised Harry whether the two were together, Harry replied "Er...sort of."
Escape from the Burrow
Hermione, Ron and Harry escaping to Tottenham Court Road from the Burrow.The wedding was interrupted por a warning from Kingsley Shacklebolt por Patronus of the fall of the Ministry of Magic to the Death Eaters. 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 bolso, monedero 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.
Hermione: "Undetectable Extension Charm. Tricky, but I think I’ve done it okay; anyway, I managed to fit everything we need in here... I told tu at the Burrow, I’ve had the essentials packed for days, tu know, in case we needed to make a quick getaway. I packed your rucksack this morning, Harry, after tu changed, and put it in here...I just had a feeling. . . ."
Ron: "You're amazing, tu are."
— the trio after leaving the Burrow
However, the trio unknowingly triggered the Taboo curse that was placed on Voldemort's name and were thus tracked down por Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle to Tottenham Court Road. 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. The three then made their way safely to 12 Grimmauld Place.
Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic
Hermione dressed in Mafalda Hopkirk's clothes setting up the defence charms around the tent after infiltrating the Ministry of Magic.After learning from Mundungus Fletcher that Dolores Umbridge had Salazar Slytherin's Locket, one of the seven Horcruxes, in her possession, the trio formed a plan to infiltrate the Ministry and reclaim the locket. Hermione imbibed Polyjuice Potion and transformed to look like Mafalda Hopkirk, a prominent Ministry official. She 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 forced Hermione to use a Revulsion Jinx to free herself from him, and then to take the trio away from Grimmauld Place.
Ron's departure and Godric's Hollow
Ron: "What are tu doing? Are tu staying, o what?"
Hermione: "I... Yes — yes, I'm staying. Ron, we dicho we'd go with Harry, we dicho we'd help —"
Ron: "I get it. tu choose him."
Hermione: "Ron, no — please — come back, come back!"
— Hermione shortly before Ron's departure
The locket caused great pain among the three friends due to the negative energy within. They began arguing over petty issues such as cooking, and growing moodier. The negative energy from the locket caused Ron to accuse Harry of his poor leadership. They fought physically, although Hermione stopped them before they started casting spells. Ron also accused Hermione of choosing Harry over him, causing him to be jealous and feel left out por his two friends' growing friendship. por the time she got rid of the shield charm, all she could do was scream for him to come back, without success. Hermione then cried over Ron for más than a week after his departure, although she tried to hide it from Harry. Both were deeply saddened and hurt por their friend's departure, although Hermione más than Harry, as she cried over Ron's departure for weeks.
Hermione and Harry at Godric's Hollow.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, whom they believed might be holding onto Godric Gryffindor's Sword for Harry. Hermione comforted Harry in the graveyard, and conjured rosas for the Potters' graves. The pair then went to Bathilda's house, where they were attacked por Nagini, who had been waiting for them in the guise of the old woman, whose corpse had been animated like an Inferius por Voldemort. Hermione rushed to Harry's aid, and the two of them barely escaped before Voldemort himself arrived.
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 dado him with dittany. Harry's wand had also been broken in the foray, most likely por the Blasting Curse Hermione cast at Nagini. He was heartbroken, but not angry with her, knowing that it was an accident and that Hermione had saved his life.
Ron's return and the Ambush at the Lovegood House
Xenophilius speaks to the trioHermione: "Hand over Harry?"
Ron: "No deal, get out of the way, we're leaving."
— Hermione and Ron to Xeno Lovegood at the Lovegood House
Harry and Hermione were reunited with Ron in the Forest of Dean, after Ron heard them talking through the Deluminator Dumbledore had left to him. Ron destroyed the locket Horcrux with Godric Gryffindor's Sword, saving Harry's life and thus receiving forgiveness from him for leaving. Before he destroyed it, however, the locket revealed some of Ron's deepest fears, including that Hermione preferred Harry to him. Hermione, however, was unaware of this, as she had been in the tent while this occurred. Upon seeing Ron returned, she screamed at Ron 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.
The trio then travelled together to Xenophilius Lovegood's inicial to ask him about the strange symbol in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. They had thought it to be the sign of the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald, but Xenophilius informed them it was the symbol of the Deathly Hallows.
Shortly after making this discovery, the three friends realised that Luna Lovegood wasn't at home, despite it being the navidad holidays, and had been away for a long time. Xenophilius revealed to them that Luna had been taken prisoner por Death Eaters and that he planned to betray them in order to get her back. However, in attempting to capture them, Xenophilius made the erumpent horn in his living room (which he had insisted was a Snorknack horn, much to Hermione's annoyance) explode, giving the trio the chance to hide just as Death Eaters Selwyn and Travers arrived. They threatened to kill Luna if they found that Xenophilius had lied about Harry Potter's presence in his home. In a remarkable mostrar of mental and magical dexterity, Hermione concocted the trio's escape while safeguarding Ron's feigned illness and allowing the Death Eaters to glimpse Harry, so that they would not carry out their threat to kill Luna.
Bellatrix Lestrange threatening an unconscious Hermione. Skirmish at Malfoy Manor
Bellatrix: "You're lying, filthy Mudblood, and I know it! tu have been inside my bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts!... What else did tu take? Tell me the truth or, I swear, I shall run tu through with this knife! What else did tu take, what else? ANSWER ME! CRUCIO! How did tu get into my vault? Did that dirty little goblin in the cellar help you?"
Hermione: "We only met him tonight! We’ve never been inside your vault. . . . It isn’t the real sword! It’s a copy, just a copy!"
— overheard parts of Hermione's interrogation
In the spring of 1998, Hermione, Harry, and Ron were tracked down and captured when Harry accidentally triggered the Taboo curse por a group of Snatchers, which included the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, who was eager to bite Hermione. They were brought to Malfoy Manor and turned over to Bellatrix Lestrange, who panicked at the sight of Godric Gryffindor's Sword. She gave away that the sword and another Horcrux were hidden in her bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts in her panic, and proceeded to isolate Hermione and torture her with the Cruciatus Curse repeatedly as an interrogation method. Ron, who had tried to take her place unsuccessfully, was reduced to sobs por hearing Hermione scream in pain. Hermione, however, would not be crushed, and came up with a story that the sword was merely a copy of the real thing, a lie that Harry persuaded the imprisoned goblin Griphook to go along with.
While Hermione was tortured into unconsciousness, Dobby came to the rescue of the prisoners in the dungeon. Harry and Ron fought off Peter Pettigrew before racing upstairs to save Hermione and Griphook. They were forced to drop their wands when Bellatrix held a cuchillo to Hermione's throat, but Dobby returned and sent the chandelier crashing to the floor, enabling Harry and Ron to grab wands and Disapparate with Hermione, Griphook, and Dobby to Shell Cottage, where Bill and Fleur took up residence after their marriage. Unfortunately, Dobby was killed during this escape.
Ron comforting Hermione at Shell Cottage after the torture
Gringotts Break-In
Hermione, in polyjuice potion form as Bellatrix, before the break inGriphook: "As the Dark Lord becomes ever más powerful, your race is set still más firmly above mine! Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?"
Hermione Granger: "We do! We protest! And I’m hunted quite as much as any goblin o elf, Griphook! I’m a Mudblood!... Did tu know that it was Harry who set Dobby free? Did tu know that we’ve wanted elves to be freed for years? tu can’t want You-Know-Who defeated más than we do, Griphook!"
— Conversation in Shell Cottage before the break-in.
Hermione, Harry, and Ron stayed at Shell Cottage for some time, where Fleur helped Hermione recover from her trauma. The trio formed a plan to break into the Lestrange bóveda, bóveda de at Gringotts to retrieve the Horcrux Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, with the reluctant assistance of Griphook. The goblin only agreed to help them in exchange for Gryffindor's Sword; although loath to lose it, Hermione was strongly against deceiving o double-crossing Griphook, who was startled por the care she and Harry had shown for house-elves, since most wizards do not think highly of non-human beings. The trio reluctantly agreed to Griphook's terms.
Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the Lestrange Vault.Once more, Hermione used Polyjuice Potion, combined with Bellatrix's hair. She was also forced to use Bellatrix's wand, as her wand had been confiscated por Snatchers, which she very much disliked. It was determined that Hermione was "too polite" to really impersonate Bellatrix, but the group managed to get into the vault. 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 dragon that was guarding the vault, with another Horcrux in their possession.
Battle of Hogwarts
Harry: "Oi! There's a war going on here!"
Ron: "I know, mate, so it's now o never, isn't it?"
— Harry Potter to Hermione and Ron when they kiss during battle
Hermione, Harry and Ron back at Hogwarts.The trio finally returned to Hogwarts on May 2, 1998, with the assistance of Aberforth Dumbledore. They were reunited with their friends in the re-formed Dumbledore's Army, who declared their wish to fight the encroaching Death Eater army. While Harry and Luna Lovegood 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. 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 buscar for Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, but were ambushed por 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 broomstick as it went up in flames due to Crabbe's cursed fire, which also destroyed the Horcrux. Harry, Hermione and Ron then witnessed the death of fred Weasley, which devastated them all.
Hermione: "Listen to me — LISTEN RON!"
Ron: "I wanna help — I wanna kill Death Eaters—"
Hermione: "Ron, we're the only ones who can end it! Please — Ron — we need the snake, we've got to kill the snake! We will fight! We'll have to, to reach the snake! But let's not lose sight now of what we're supposed to be d-doing! We're the only ones who can end it!"
— Hermione and Ron after Fred's death.
Despite their grief, the trio continued with the effort to track down Nagini, another Horcrux. 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, likely saving the other girl's life. The trio was swarmed por Dementors and all had difficulty summoning their Patronuses because of the horror of their reciente experiences, but Luna Lovegood, Ernie Macmillan and Seamus Finnigan came to their assistance. Under Harry's Invisibility Cloak, the three made their way to the Shrieking Shack, where they witnessed Voldemort have Nagini kill Severus Snape.
During the brief pause in fighting, when Voldemort issued an ultimatum to Harry, Hermione comforted Ginny Weasley over her brother's death. When Lord 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 por 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 Lestrange's bóveda, bóveda de shortly before the battle.
Later life In 1998, Hermione went back to Hogwarts to attain her N.E.W.Ts. She was the only one of the trio to do this. por 2017, Hermione and Ron were married with two children: Rose and Hugo Weasley.
Hermione in 2017.
Hermione is also the godmother of Harry and Ginny's oldest child, James. On September 1, 2017, Hermione and Ron brought their children to King's cruzar, cruz Station to see Rose off for her first año at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and met Harry, Ginny, and their three children there.
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 attain a high position in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, eradicating the old laws biased in favour of pure-bloods. Along with Harry and Ron, she helped to revolutionise the Ministry and reform the wizarding world. At some point, Hermione, Harry and Ron were all featured on chocolate Frog Cards for their accomplishments.
Hermione also eventually translated The Tales of Beedle the Bard from the original, which was written in runes and which Albus Dumbledore bequeathed to her in his will in 1997. Her new translation was published at some point and included notes on each tale written por Dumbledore before his death; these notes were lent to Hermione por her former professor, Hogwarts headmistress Minerva McGonagall.
Physical appearance
Hermione Granger at age sixteen.
"She looks beautiful!"
—Parvati Patil upon seeing Hermione at the Yule Ball
Hermione has bushy brown hair, a bossy sort of voice, and brown eyes. As a youngster, she had rather large front teeth, prompting insults from students such as Pansy Parkinson, who once compared her to a chipmunk. Hermione had Nurse amapola Pomfrey magically shrink them in 1994 after she was accidentally struck with a Densaugeo spell, making it unnecessary for her to receive the braces her parents had originally intended for her. Ron noticed her teeth were much straighter and took más notice of her. When angered, "her hair seemed to crackle with electricity" and her voice would become slightly shrill.
Hermione never gave much attention to her appearance, except when she used great care in fixing her hair for the Yule Ball using Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, which she later remarked was too much work to use every day. Many of her fellow students were stunned por how pretty Hermione looked that evening. She keeps her hair long, as it was once described it as a "long mane of brown hair," and sometimes ties it back in a plait.
She is implied to be relatively plain in her younger years, but becomes quite attractive in her late teens. Hermione received positive attention for her appearance from Ron Weasley, Viktor Krum, and Cormac McLaggen during her time at Hogwarts and afterward, from a group of drunk Muggle men at Tottenham Court Road, and, disturbingly, from Fenrir Greyback.
Ron Weasley and Harry Potter both agreed that Hermione had nice skin, while Harry was trying to cover up that he saw in Ginny, and Ron showed an attraction to Hermione.
Personality and traits
Professor Slughorn: "Oho! ‘One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she’s the best in our year!’ I’m assuming this is the very friend of whom tu spoke, Harry?"
Harry: "Yes, sir."
Professor Slughorn: "Well, well, take 20 well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger."
— after Hermione impresses Professor Slughorn in Potions
Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the Gryffindor Common Room.Hermione is noted for being extremely intelligent and hard-working, coming out on parte superior, arriba in most of her classes and continuously helping Ron, Harry, and Neville Longbottom with their schoolwork. She was dado a Time-Turner in her third año to facilitate her taking many más courses than most students. She was so adept at school work at that she often had time to do hobby work on the side, such as preparing a defence for Buckbeak to save him from execution, and creating S.P.E.W., an organisation promoting the freedom of house-elves. Such acts demonstrate Hermione’s social conscience, tenacity, and compassion.
"That's what Hermione does. When in doubt, go to the library."
—Ron's opinion of Hermione's personality
Unlike most wizards who depend solely on their magical ability, Hermione readily relies on logic. Although this often helps her cleverly deduce information that many others miss, such as Remus Lupin's lycanthropy, Hermione's emphasis on logic also makes her sceptical about accepting anything without proof. For example, she was not open-minded about the existence of the Deathly Hallows, refusing to believe in them until there was solid evidence. Hermione often acts as the voice of reason among her más impulsive friends, to varying levels of success, and is reluctant to break rules unless it is necessary in pursuit of something más important, such as when she suggested brewing Polyjuice Potion in order to investigate the Chamber of Secrets, which was breaking "about fifty school rules" por her own admission. Hermione is not afraid to stand up to her friends when she thinks it is in their best interests o when she feels they are wrong; she risked angering Harry por getting his Firebolt confiscated because she feared it might be jinxed, and argued with both him and Ginny over his use of the Dark Sectumsempra spell. Hermione is very determined and focused, in that she "always keeps her attention focused on the job that must be done."[16] Hermione's strong will was also demonstrated por her refusal to break under torture, when Bellatrix Lestrange inflicted the Cruciatus Curse on her repeatedly in 1998.
Because of her intelligence and her opinionated nature, Hermione has the reputation for being a bossy know-it-all. However, her sometimes abrasive confidence masks her insecurities and great fear of failure, as personified por her Boggart. Hermione feels the need to prove herself, perhaps partly because of how many people in wizarding society look down on Muggle-borns. She does not let anyone bully her about this, however, and stands up to bigots like Draco Malfoy who taunt her with the derogatory epithet "Mudblood." She also became one of the few people to call Voldemort por name in her fifth year.
Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny, Neville, and Luna in the Department of Mysteries in 1996.
Hermione: "I’m hunted quite as much as any goblin o elf, Griphook! I’m a Mudblood!"
Ron: "Don’t call yourself—"
Hermione: "Why shouldn’t I? Mudblood, and proud of it!"
— Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley speaking to Griphook
Hermione demonstrates her bravery many times during her adventures with Harry and Ron, though she initially showed a tendency toward mild panic in the face of sudden danger, which she eventually overcame. She is extremely loyal to her friends, fiercely defending them if they are insulted and willing to risk her life to help them. She also gave them consejos rather often, such as in trying to make Harry understand Cho Chang’s behaviour on their date, and in helping Ginny deal with her crush on Harry; this once prompted Ron to advise her to write a book to translate all the "mad things" girls do so that boys could understand them. Hermione is quite blunt with her opinions, sometimes to the point of not being very tactful; for example, her attempt to comfort Lavender Brown about the death of her rabbit did not go over well, and her honesty when dealing with Centaurs in 1996 nearly landed her and Harry in serious trouble. Despite this, Hermione is generally sensitive to others' emotions and will lie when she has to, though she is not a skilled liar, as
