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I'm using the stupid one from wikipedia until I've got time to write up my own.
Hermione is Muggle-born, that is, the child of two non-magical parents. Her parents, both dentists, are (according to Rowling) "a bit bemused by their odd daughter, but quite proud of her all the same". When asked in 2004 if Hermione was an only child, she replied, "I always planned that Hermione would have a younger sister but she's never made an appearance and somehow it feels like it might be too late now."[1] Therefore, it is considered canon that Hermione is an only child.When Hermione first appears in the series, she already seems to know a great deal about magic, Hogwarts, and the wizarding world. How she first realised her magical abilities and first encountered other wizards has not been revealed beyond an off-hand remark Hermione makes about being "ever so surprised" when she was invited to enroll at Hogwarts. For years it was widely assumed that she was born in September 1980, the same year as Ron and Harry. However, Rowling pointed out that to attend Hogwarts, one must be eleven years old, and Hermione was born on 19 September 1979. Therefore Hermione is nearly 12 when she begins school in September 1991.Rowling revealed on her website that Hermione's wand is made of vine wood with a dragon heartstring core. Each of the trio's wands have one of Mr Ollivander's three preferred cores, with Harry having phoenix feather and Ron having unicorn hair. Her wand's wood, vine, is the wood ascribed to her birth month in the Celtic calendar.Hermione's name is pronounced "her-MY-oh-nee" (IPA: /h?(?).ma?.?.ni?/), as readers find out in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was the most frequently asked question J.K. Rowling received, so in this book she cunningly had Hermione teach Viktor Krum how to pronounce her name properly (without much success). Rowling said she obtained it from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale,[2] claiming that she wanted it to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it.[3] The name "Hermione", appropriately, is derived from "Hermes", the Greek god of invention, inspiration, eloquence and quick thinking. It is also the name of the legendary Helen of Troy's daughter in Greek mythology. Hermione's surname "Granger" may be derived from that of Joseph Louis Lagrange, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th century. Another possible explanation is that the name Granger has been taken out of the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Her surname was originally going to be "Puckle" (this can be seen on her classlist) but it was quickly changed by Rowling because it didn't suit her. "Puckle" is a term for a goblin or elf.
Hermione first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and is 12 years old. She initially was portrayed as a "know-it-all", heartily disliked by her future best friends.In Charms class, she hears Ron Weasley mispronouncing a spell, Wingardium Leviosa, and correctly pronounces it for him, though with just a slight change in the final vowel sound. Ron doesn't believe she can do it herself, but she accurately uses the charm to levitate a feather, abashing Ron and causing him to feel resentment towards her.Shortly after the charms class, when Ron makes a hurtful remark about Hermione to Harry, she overhears him and tearfully retreats to a girls' bathroom. Later that evening, while everyone is at the Halloween Feast, Professor Quirrell lets a mountain troll into the school, which finds its way into the same bathroom. Hermione is rescued by Harry and Ron. When they are discovered by Professors Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Professor Quirrel, Hermione quickly lies about why she was in the bathroom, claiming she had gone looking for the troll, thinking she could defeat it herself. She thereby rescues Harry and Ron from punishment and endears herself to them.Though Hermione's attitude about rules and schoolwork remain largely intact, she softens up a little bit after becoming friends with Harry and Ron. With them, she helps solve the mystery surrounding the Philosopher's Stone. She also shows her willingness to break the rules (and a streak of ruthlessness) when she casts a Body-Bind Curse (an advanced spell for her level) on Neville Longbottom, who bravely attempted to stop the trio from leaving the common room after hours although she did apologise before and after cursing him.Her intelligence again proves useful against the Devil's Snare (despite her temporary loss of nerve), and her deep belief in the power of logic is emphasised when she and Harry find themselves in a room where they must correctly identify two potions from a range of bottles that will enable them to pass out of the room. Hermione tells Harry that he is a great wizard as he has the qualities of friendship and bravery which are more important than "books and cleverness".
In her second year,[HP2] Hermione has a crush on the handsome new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart.Hermione brews Polyjuice Potion, a very advanced potion, so that she, Harry and Ron can discover if Draco Malfoy is the Heir of Slytherin. While the correctly-brewed potion produces the desired effects on both Harry and Ron, Hermione finds that she has accidentally added a cat hair to the potion instead of one of Millicent Bullstrode's, her intended target. She turns into a cat in the bathroom. It takes her over a month to rectify her error.Hermione later correctly identifies the creature hidden inside the Chamber of Secrets to be a basilisk, although she herself is petrified before being able to alert the school. However, both she and the other victims are eventually revived after Harry defeats the basilisk.
In the summer before her third year at Hogwarts,[HP3] Hermione gets a pet cat-kneazle mix named Crookshanks, which makes a habit out of chasing Ron's pet rat Scabbers.Hermione takes so many classes this year she has to use a Time-Turner, a device which enables her to go back in time, to fit in all her subjects, but which quickly becomes consuming even for her.Hermione is briefly estranged from her friends several times, first over the extra school work she has taken on; later over a Firebolt broom Harry received for Christmas, which she got Professor McGonagall to confiscate on suspicion of it being sent by Sirius Black (proven correct, albeit with no jinxes as initially feared), and most painfully when Ron accuses Crookshanks of killing and eating Scabbers. She also is spearheading the defence of Hagrid's pet Hippogriff, Buckbeak following Draco Malfoy's accident in Hagrid's class. After Hermione confides in Hagrid over her frustrations, Hagrid sternly reproves Harry and Ron for their behaviour, and after the first defence fails they reconcile and the boys promise to assist with the still unsuccessful appeal.Hermione's Time-Turner is useful at the end of the book when she and Harry travel back in time to rescue Sirius Black and Buckbeak the Hippogriff. During end-of-the-year exams, Hermione's Boggart manifests itself as McGonagall, informing her that she has failed all her classes; this frightens her, amuses readers, and shows Hermione's great fear of failure. At the end of the book, she drops Muggle Studies (despite the fact that she got 320% in it), enabling her to have a less intensive schedule again. She had previously dropped Divination believing the professor, Sybill Trelawney, is a fraud, though Trelawney later redeems herself. In this instance, Hermione's logical side dominates her thinking. Ron comments during the book that he believes her dislike of Trelawney stems from Trelawney claiming she was bad at a subject for the first time since entering Hogwarts: "You just don't like being bad at something for a change!"; the narrative claims that he indeed touched a nerve. This falls in line with her insecurity and her fear of failure as seen elsewhere in the book.
In the summer following her third Year at Hogwarts, Hermoine attends the Quidditch World Cup with Harry and the Weasley family. It is here for the first time that she becomes familiar with Viktor Krum, the famous Bulgarian International Seeker, himself still a student. Hermione initially considers him a gloomy, off-putting fellow, unaware that she will encounter him again at Hogwarts, where he takes to visiting the Hogwarts library frequently just to watch her before approaching her. After getting to know him better, Hermione sees later on that Krum is in fact a genuinely kind-hearted person.In her Fourth Year,[HP4] Hermione's attention is drawn to what she views as the poor quality of life for house-elves. She therefore starts the organisation she calls the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, but which becomes known by its unfortunate acronym, SPEW (also nicknamed "The House-Elf Liberation Front" by Ron Weasley). Although Hermione zealously works for her cause, few others display any interest. Harry and Ron officially join her organisation in the hope she will stop nagging them; she does, however, trick them both into following her to the kitchens to persuade the elves to accept wages after she discovers that Dobby the house-elf has been hired by Professor Dumbledore. This is one of the most obvious examples of her sense of moral superiority at play.Hermione helps Harry to practice the Summoning Charm which allows him to successfully complete the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament; despite Harry and Ron's row over the tactics Harry supposedly used to get into the tournament. Hermione attends the Yule Ball with Viktor Krum, making Ron extremely jealous. She has had school nurse Madame Pomfrey shrink her teeth to a "normal size" by magic after being hit by an errant hex earlier in the year, and when she applies Sleekeazy's Hair Potion and does her hair up in a chignon, she turns heads at the Ball and gains new appreciation from her best male friends. Hermione gets into a nasty fight with Ron over her date with Krum, so heated it draws stares from people. Hermione is the "hostage" that Krum has to save in the Tournament's Second Task. After the task, Krum asks Hermione to visit him in the summer. Ron's jealousy of Viktor Krum appears countered by Hermione's dislike of Fleur Delacour, for whom Ron has a soft spot; Hermione becomes visibly angry when Fleur does so much as smile at Ron.Rita Skeeter, a tabloid reporter, fabricates a love triangle between Harry, Hermione, and Krum. Hermione's relationship with Mrs Weasley is temporarily harmed by this incident. Krum too questions Harry over his relationship with Hermione, and Harry denies any romance.After much work, Hermione determines Rita is an illegal Animagus who can change into a beetle and manages to catch her in this form by trapping her in a jar. She blackmails Rita with this information to make Rita stop writing for The Daily Prophet.As is implied in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,[HP6] Harry believes that at some point during the year Hermione kissed Viktor Krum.
In the beginning of the fifth book,[HP5] Hermione is staying at Grimmauld Place, the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, with the Weasleys. When she and Ron are reunited with Harry, moody and temperamental after being confined to the Dursleys nearly all summer, he loses his temper, pushing Hermione to tears. Hermione tries to tutor Harry on how to interact with girls when Harry tries his hand at a relationship with his longtime crush Cho Chang - which ultimately falls apart due to Harry's inability to handle Cho's grief over Cedric Diggory's death and Cho's misplaced jealousy towards Hermione.Hermione and Ron become prefects for Gryffindor. Hermione also continues S.P.E.W.[9] She attempts to befriend Kreacher, the surly and malicious old house-elf who lives in Grimmauld Place, despite the elf's obvious hatred of Hermione, whom he calls a "Mudblood". She devotes her time and energy to making clothes for the house-elves and putting them in strategic locations, in the hopes of freeing the elves. The house-elves refuse to clean Gryffindor Tower because of this, and the task is left to Dobby.Also, in Order of the Phoenix, Luna Lovegood is introduced. She is Hermione's complete opposite; according to Rowling, she's "the anti-Hermione"; "Hermione’s so logical and inflexible in so many ways and Luna is likely to believe ten impossible things before breakfast". Still, though the two girls do not share the same belief system, they become friends and comrades-in-arms when Luna is one of the few to support Harry by joining Dumbledore's Army (the DA) and aiding them during the climax of the book.Hermione's capture and subsequent blackmail of Rita Skeeter proves useful when she persuades Harry to give an interview confirming the return of Lord Voldemort. While Hermione is trying to convince Harry to start the DA, she finally identifies Harry's enemy by his feared name, "Voldemort", making her one of the few students besides Harry to use the name. During the DA, Hermione conjures a corporeal Patronus in the shape of an otter (Rowling's favourite animal). She also protects the DA from total betrayal (by Marietta Edgecombe, a member) by hexing its sign-up sheet; as a result of this, Marietta is (apparently) permanently disfigured by a cluster of pustules on her face spelling 'Sneak': since this is still the case at the beginning of the sixth year, it is clear that Hermione has not as yet repealed her hex, and that presumably nobody else can.Hagrid introduces Hermione and Harry to his giant half-brother, Grawp, and since Hagrid is being targeted by Umbridge because of his loyalty to Dumbledore, he asks them to take care of Grawp in case Umbridge somehow were to succeed in getting rid of Hagrid himself. Hermione is initially very upset and angry with Hagrid over his request, feeling that Grawp is too much for the three of them to handle, but Grawp proves unexpectedly useful later on when Hermione and Harry lead Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, unknowingly on the same path leading to the Acromantulas, giant talking spiders. After Umbridge is carried away by the Centaurs, the Centaurs turn their attention to Hermione and Harry, and prepare to kill them, until Grawp unexpectedly blunders his way in and distracts the centaurs long enough for the two to escape.She is involved in the battle in the Department of Mysteries, in which she is seriously injured by an unknown curse from the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov, but after taking ten types of potions a day, she makes a full recovery.