Granger Things

Moving swiftly from the Dark Lord straight to Supergirl herself, Hermione. At first, she was my absolute favourite character. I loved how she was shown as a goody-goody in conflict with herself, as she realised that the rules aren’t always black and white. It was really quite interesting watching her work out that the world wasn’t so straight forward, it’s not always fair, and you have to find a balance. Using her brain, she found ways around certain rules without breaking her moral code. She justified it to herself which I think is great, and she stuck by those two boys going against her initial value’s countless times. I mean, this is the girl that said being expelled was worse than being killed, come on!

There wasn’t one time she didn’t save their skin by knowing virtually everything there was to know, and the list of useful facts she has in that noggin of hers could be longer than Grawp’s right arm. The first time she created the Polyjuice Potion so they could sneak in to the Slytherin’s lair was hugely noble to me. Mainly because it was so early on in their relationships. She was wise beyond her years and every caution showed that. Knowing Sirius was taking his role a bit far, she was the only one that could see Black had got a bit too caught up in the past and kept forgetting that Harry wasn’t James. (Molly probably recognised this too, but she wasn’t in early adolescence, so it’s not as notable from her…sorry).

Very much like Luna, she never let her peers calling her a mudblood put her off and she sure showed them! She saved the entire planet, and I mean ENTIRE planet. The V man was genuinely killing the general public with his shenanigans. Her face off with Lestrange showed her growth from the first book and I mean, yeah maybe she was always a bit bossy and quite stubborn but these people are a whole different playing field. This is a former Azkaban inmate! She also punched Draco Malfoy so, yeah, that’s something. I’ll give Rowling her due, she sure knows how to write kick-ass women!