Character development

Hermione is a Muggle-born Gryffindor student, and the best friend of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The daughter of two dentists, she is an overachiever who excels academically, and she is described bởi Rowling as a "very logical, upright and good" character.Her parents are a bit bemused bởi their odd daughter, but quite proud of her all the same."Though Rowling has described the character of Luna Lovegood as the "anti-Hermione" because they hold the exact opposite characters, Hermione's foil at Hogwarts is Pansy Parkinson, a female bully based on real-life girls who teased the tác giả during her school days.

Rowling claims the character of Hermione carries several autobiographical influences. "I did not set out to make Hermione like me but she is...she is an exaggeration of how I was when I was younger."She recalled being called a "little know-it-all" in her youth.Moreover, she states that not unlike herself, "there is a lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure" beneath Hermione's swottiness.Finally, according to Rowling, tiếp theo to Albus Dumbledore, Hermione is the perfect expository character; because of her encyclopaedic knowledge, she can always be used as a plot dump to explain the Harry Potter universe.Rowling also claims that her feminist conscience is saved bởi Hermione, "who's the brightest character" and is a "very strong female character.''Hermione's name is derived from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale;Rowling claimed that she wanted it to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it.Her original last name was "Puckle," but Rowling felt the name "did not suit her at all," and so the less frivolous Granger made it into the books.Rowling confirmed in a 2004 interview that Hermione is an only child.

Appearances

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Hermione first appears in Philosopher's Stone when she meets future companions Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express. She constantly annoys her peers with her knowledge. Harry and Ron initially consider her arrogant, especially after she criticises Ron's incantation of the Levitation Charm. They heartily dislike her until they rescue her from a troll, for which she is so thankful that she lies to protect them from punishment, and their friendship begins.Hermione's knack for logic later enables the trio to solve a puzzle essential to retrieving the Philosopher's Stone, and she defeats the constrictive Devil's Snare plant bởi summoning a "jet of bluebell flame" - the same spell she had used earlier in the story on Snape. In the movie, she defeated the plant bởi conjuring light (Lumos Solae).

Rowling đã đưa ý kiến on her website that she resisted her editor's requests to remove the troll scene. "Hermione is so very annoying in the early part of Philosopher's Stone that I really felt it needed something (literally) huge to bring her together with Harry and Ron.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

''Hermione develops a crush on handsome new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.During a morning confrontation between the Gryffindor and Slytherin Quidditch teams, a brawl nearly ensues after Draco Malfoy calls her a "Mudblood," an insulting epithet for Muggle-born wizards. She assembles the Polyjuice Potion needed for the trio to disguise themselves as Malfoy's housemates to collect information about the Heir of Slytherin who has reopened the Chamber of Secrets. However, she is unable to tham gia Harry and Ron in the investigation after the hair plucked from the robes of Slytherin student Millicent Bulstrode (with whom Hermione was previously matched up during Lockhart's ill-fated Duelling Club) was that of her cat, whose appearance she takes on in her human form; it takes several weeks for the effects to completely wear off. Hermione is petrified bởi the basilisk after successfully identifying the creature through thư viện research. Though she lies incapacitated in the hospital wing, her information is crucial to Harry and Ron in their successful mission to solve the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione is revived after Harry kills the basilisk, but she is devastated to learn that all end-of-year exams have been cancelled as a school treat.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione gets a cat named Crookshanks, who takes to chasing Ron's pet rat, Scabbers.Before the start of term, Professor McGonagall secretly gives her a Time-Turner, a device which enables her to go back in time and handle her heavy class schedule. Much tension comes into play between Hermione and her two best friends; Harry is furious with her because she told McGonagall that he had received a Firebolt, which was confiscated to be inspected for traces of dark magic. Ron is irritated because he feels Crookshanks is responsible for Scabbers' disappearance.

While filling in for Remus Lupin in one Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Severus Snape labels Hermione "an insufferable know-it-all" and penalises Gryffindor after she speaks out of turn in her attempt to describe a werewolf when no one else does. She correctly deduces Lupin's secret after completing Snape's homework assignment from the class, while Crookshanks proves vital in exposing Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew, a friend of James and Lily Potter who revealed their whereabouts to Lord Voldemort the night of their murders, and was able to wrongly implicate Sirius Black (revealed to be Harry's godfather) in the Potters' deaths.The Time-Turner enables Hermione and Harry to rescue Sirius and the hippogriff Buckbeak.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Hermione is horrified bởi the cruelty she witnesses to house-elves and founds S.P.E.W., the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, as an effort to gain basic rights for the elves. She is Bulgarian Quidditch prodigy Viktor Krum's ngày at the Yule Ball in Goblet of Fire. The proper pronunciation of her name (Her-my-oh-nee) is interjected into the plot when she teaches it to Krum; the best he can do is "Herm-own-ninny," but she has no problem with it.She later gets into a heated argument with Ron after he accuses her of "fraternising with the enemy" in reference to her friendship with Krum. She supports Harry through the Triwizard Tournament, helping him prepare for each task. Near the end of the term, she stops fraudulent tabloid reporter and unregistered Animagus Rita Skeeter, who had published defamatory material about Hermione, Harry, and Hagrid during the Triwizard Tournament, bởi holding her Animagus form (a beetle) captive in a jar.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione becomes a Gryffindor prefect along with Ron, and befriends Luna Lovegood, but their friendship gets off to a rocky start after Hermione chastises the publication of Luna's father: "The Quibbler's rubbish, everyone knows that." She also lambasts housemate Lavender Brown for believing the Daily Prophet's allegations of Harry fabricating stories of Voldemort's return. Later, with Luna's assistance, Hermione blackmails Rita Skeeter into interviewing Harry for an upcoming issue of The Quibbler. Attempts to ban the magazine from Hogwarts are futile as the story spreads quickly through the school. One turning point in the series is when she conceives the idea of Harry secretly teaching defensive magic to a small band of students in defiance of the Ministry of Magic's dictum to teach only the subject's basic principles. Hermione gets an unexpectedly huge response, and the group becomes the nascent Dumbledore's Army. She is involved in the battle in the Department of Mysteries and seriously injured bởi Death Eater Antonin Dolohov, but makes a full recovery.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

New Advanced Potions professor Horace Slughorn invites Hermione to tham gia his "Slug Club," and she helps Ron retain his spot on the Gryffindor Quidditch team when she secretly jinxes Cormac McLaggen, causing him to miss his last save attempt during Keeper tryouts. Hermione's feelings for Ron continue to grow and she decides to make a di chuyển bởi inviting him to Slughorn's giáng sinh Party, but he romances Lavender instead in retaliation for Hermione having kissed Krum. She attempts to retaliate bởi dating McLaggen at the giáng sinh party, but her plan goes bust and she abandons him midway through the party.Ron and Hermione continually feud with each other until he suffers a bout of near-fatal poisoning from tainted mead, which frightens her enough to reconcile with him. Following Dumbledore's death, Ron and Hermione both vow to stay bởi Harry's side regardless of what happens.A minor subplot in the book is that Hermione and Harry form a rivalry in Potions, as Hermione is used to coming first in her subjects and is angered that Harry outperforms her undeservingly bởi following tips and different instructions written in the margins of Harry's potions book bởi the trước đó owner.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In the seventh and final book, Hermione is very valuable in Harry's quest to destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Before leaving on the quest, she helps ensure the safety of her parents bởi placing a memory charm on them, making them think they are Wendell and Monica Wilkins, whose lifetime ambition is to di chuyển to Australia. She inherits Dumbledore's personal copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which allows her to decipher some of the secrets of the Deathly Hallows. Hermione's spell saves her and Harry from Lord Voldemort and his snake Nagini in Godric's Hollow, although the ricochet snaps Harry's wand. When she, Ron, and Harry are captured bởi Snatchers, who are on the hunt for Muggle-borns under the Ministry's orders, Hermione disguises Harry bởi temporarily disfiguring his face with a Stinging Hex. She also attempts to pass herself off as former Hogwarts student Penelope Clearwater and a half-blood to avoid persecution, but is later recognised and taken to Malfoy Manor. Because of Hermione's Muggle-born status, Bellatrix Lestrange tortures her with the Cruciatus Curse in an attempt to extract information on how Hermione, Harry, and Ron came to possess Godric Gryffindor's sword (which was supposed to be an toàn, két an toàn in the Lestranges' vault, kho tiền in Gringotts). Even under the torture of the Cruciatus Curse, Hermione is able to use her quick thinking to lie to Bellatrix that the sword is a fake. When the others are able to escape their cell, Bellatrix threatens to slit Hermione's throat. Hermione, Harry, Ron and the other prisoners being held in Malfoy Manor are eventually rescued bởi Dobby.

Hermione later uses Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Bellatrix when the trio attempt to steal Hufflepuff's cup from Gringotts. She, Harry, and Ron tham gia Dumbledore's Army in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Hermione destroys Hufflepuff's cup in the Chamber of Secrets with a basilisk fang, eliminating another Horcrux. Hermione and Ron also share their first Kiss in the midst of the battle.In the final battle in the Great Hall, Hermione fights Bellatrix with the help of Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood. However, the three of them are unable to defeat Bellatrix, and stop fighting her once Molly Weasley orders them to back off.

Epilogue

Nineteen years after Voldemort's downfall, Hermione and Ron are married. They have two children: a daughter, Rose, and a son, Hugo.She is the only one of the trio to complete her seventh year, after which she begins her post-Hogwarts career bởi working in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she is instrumental in greatly improving the lives of house-elves; she later moves higher up in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement while ensuring the eradication of oppressive pro-pureblood laws.Rowling stated in a webchat that Hermione found her parents in Australia and relieved them of the memory charm she had placed on them.

Film portrayal

Emma Watson has portrayed Hermione in all the Harry Potter films to date. Watson's oxford theatre teacher passed her name on to the casting agents of Philosopher's Stone, impressed with her school play performances.Though Watson took her audition seriously, she "never really thought she had any chance" of getting the part.The producers were impressed bởi Watson's self-confidence and she outperformed the thousands of other girls who had applied.

Rowling herself was supportive of Watson after her first screen test.Before the production of Half-Blood Prince, Watson considered not returning,but eventually decided that "the pluses outweighed the minuses" and that she could not chịu, gấu to see anyone else play Hermione.

Watson has đã đưa ý kiến that Hermione is a character that makes "brain not beauty cool," and that though Hermione is "slightly socially inept," she is "not ashamed of herself."In 2007, before the release of Order of the Phoenix, Watson said, "There are too many stupid girls in the media. Hermione's not scared to be clever. I think sometimes really smart girls dumb themselves down a bit, and that's bad. When I was nine hoặc ten, I would get really upset when they tried to make me look geeky, but now I absolutely tình yêu it. I find it's so much pressure to be beautiful. Hermione doesn't care what she looks like. She's a complete tomboy.

''Screenwriter Steve Kloves revealed in a 2003 interview that Hermione was his favourite character. "There's something about her fierce intellect coupled with a complete lack of understanding of how she affects people sometimes that I just find charming and irresistible to write.

Characterisation

Outward appearance

In the books, Hermione is described as having bushy brown hair, brown eyes, and large front teeth until Goblet of Fire, when she is hit bởi a spell cast bởi Draco Malfoy, that causes her teeth to grow uncontrollably until she has Madam Pomfrey magically shrink them to a size smaller than they were originally.

Personality

Hermione's most prominent features include her prodigious intellect and cleverness. She is levelheaded, book-smart and is very good with logic, but at first, she has a tendency to panic in intense hoặc scary situations (as with the Devil's Snare at the climax of Philosopher's Stone) and is not good at thinking on her feet. However, bởi Deathly Hallows, she has learned to be thêm instinctive, saving everyone's lives thêm than once with her quick thinking. She is often bossy yet very loyal and conscientious. Rowling stated that Hermione is a person that "never strays off the path; she always keeps her attention focused on the job that must be done."[36] Despite Hermione's intelligence and bossy attitude, Rowling says that Hermione has "quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality,"as well as a "sense of insecurity underneath," feels "utterly inadequate...and to compensate, she tries to be the best at everything at school, projecting a false confidence that can irritate people."During her Defence against the Dark Arts exam at the end of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione reveals that her biggest fear is failure, after a Boggart takes the form of Professor McGonagall and tells her that she has failed all her exams.

Hermione has an extremely compassionate side to her personality and is quick to help others, especially those who are defenceless, such as Neville Longbottom, first-years, House-Elves, fellow Muggle-borns, half-giants like Hagrid, and ma sói like Lupin. It was revealed bởi Rowling after the publication of the final book that Hermione's career in the Ministry was to fight for the rights of the oppressed (such as House-elves hoặc Muggle-borns). Hermione is also very protective of her Những người bạn and values them so much that Rowling has suggested that, if Hermione had looked in the Mirror of Erised, she would have seen Harry, Ron, and herself "alive and unscathed, and Voldemort finished.

Magical abilities

''Hermione is portrayed during the whole series as an exceptionally talented young witch. Rowling has stated that Hermione is a "borderline genius."She is the best student in Harry's year, as she is repeatedly the first student to master any spell hoặc charm introduced in classes and even from thêm advanced years, as evidenced when she is able to conjure a Protean Charm on the D.A.'s fake Galleon coins, which is actually a N.E.W.T. level charm.She is also the first one to be able to cast non-verbal spells.Hermione is an exceptional duellist, capable of outmatching even Death Eaters, as shown in the battle at the Department of Mysteries, at the Lovegoods' house, and in the Battle of Hogwarts. However, Rowling has stated that while during the first three sách Hermione would have beaten Harry in a magical duel, bởi the fourth book Harry is so good at Defence Against the Dark Arts that he would have defeated Hermione.Hermione did not tend to do as well in subjects that were not learned through sách hoặc formal training, as cây chổi, chổi flying did not come as naturally to her in her first năm as it did to Harry,and she showed no affinity for Divination, which she dropped from her third năm studies.She was also not good at Wizard's Chess, as it was the only thing at which she ever lost.

Hermione's Patronus is an otter, Rowling's favourite animal.Her wand is made of vine wood and dragon heartstring core; vine is the wood ascribed to Hermione's fictional birth tháng (September) on the Celtic calendar.