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Hermione Jane Granger is a fictional character of the Harry Potter book series. She is a young female student at Hogwarts and, with Ron, one of Harry Potter's two best friends there. She is slightly bossy, and bookish. Her thirst for knowledge comes in useful in many of their adventures. One of her favourite subjects at school is Arithmancy. Her birthday is September 19th. She shares her dormitory at Hogwarts with Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown.
Hermione's name, which originates from a Greek name, is pronounced "Her-my-oh-nee", as readers find out in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was the most frequently asked question JK Rowling received, so in this book she cunningly had Hermione teach Viktor Krum how to pronounce her name properly (without much success).
J. K. Rowling created the character of Hermione as a caricature of herself at the age of eleven.
The character Hermione is played by Emma Watson in the Harry Potter movies.
Harry and Ron do not like Hermione initially; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, while still on the Hogwarts Express, Ron hopes that he doesn't end up in the same house as her. They later warm to her: she lies to Professor McGonagall to keep them out of trouble, after they save her from a troll attack — she had been in the bathroom, crying over a comment Ron had earlier made about her not having friends. As the books progress, there are strong hints that her relationship with Ron may develop into a romantic one, and Rowling herself has strongly suggested this plot-line in interviews.
Hermione helps Harry to get past the Devil's Snare and the Potions puzzle when he seeks to stop the theft of the philosopher's stone.
Her parents are both Muggles, working as Dentists. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets she is Petrified by the basilisk while researching a hunch; this information later helps Harry and Ron to save Ron's sister, Ginny.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione is again estranged from her friends, first when she is suspicious about Harry's Christmas gift, a Firebolt broom, and reports it to Professor McGonagall, who confiscates it; and again when Ron accuses her cat, Crookshanks (which, incidentally, is part kneazle, as depicted in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), of killing his rat Scabbers. While estranged from her friends, she helps Hagrid to prepare for the court case against his hippogriff, Buckbeak, though these efforts are unsuccessful. She and Harry later help the hippogriff to escape.
Hermione starts to relax in that book, and after taking a dislike to Professor Trelawney and her subject, Divination, she leaves the class after having made an attempt to study all subjects available to third year students. To do this, she required the use of a Time-Turner (a device which enables her to go back in time to fit in all her subjects), which she and Harry used in their rescue of Buckbeak.
In her fourth year, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, her attention is drawn to the poor quality of life of house-elves. She makes the decision to start an organisation, Society for the Protection of Elvish Welfare, which becomes known by its unfortunate acronym. She attends the Yule Ball with Krum, the Triwizard champion from Durmstrang and teaches him how to pronounced her name properly. By attending the ball with Krum she elicited some jealousy from Ron Weasley. She vows vengeance against Rita Skeeter, a reporter who has been spreading lies about both Harry and herself. She later determines that Rita is an illegal animagus, and traps her. It is hinted that she has become friends with Ginny Weasley behind the scenes.
Hermione continues S.P.E.W. in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, knitting items of clothing for the elves, in the hope of freeing them (though the house elves refuse to clean Gryffindor Tower because of this, and the task is left to Dobby). Her capture, and subsequent blackmail of Rita Skeeter proves useful when they need an article stating the return of Lord Voldemort. Hermione also came up with the idea for Dumbledore's Army, and was involved in the battle in the Department of Mysteries.
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