“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
I’ve just come to the realisation that Hermione Granger probably memory charmed her parents and packed them off to Australia long before she told Harry and Ron she’d done it at the beginning of Deathly Hallows.
She literally never goes home from Goblet of Fire onwards, spending her summers with the boys instead. In GoF she’s remarkably blase about her teeth, something her dentist parents would have noticed and felt hurt about.
If I were to guess, I’d say she probably did it after the wizarding world cup when she’d seen exactly how the wizarding world treats muggles and decided not to let that happen to her folks. Hermione knows which way the wind is blowing and gets in early. She’d be more than capable of doing it.
…Oh my God.
hermione is fucking ruthless and i will fight anyone who tells me otherwise
that was her “negative” gryffindor trait
was she incredibly brave and courageous and loyal? yes
but she was also vicious and violent and trapped a woman as a beetle in a jar for over a year because she pissed her off
hermione granger looked at the world, and looked at her magic, and looked at everyone else’s magic, and seemed to come to the conclusion that reality had better shut the fuck up and behave itself or she’d make it.
of all the kids, i think she’s dumbledore’s successor, not harry.
See this is why I don’t like it when people try and pass her off as this flawless pure sweet angel. Like no, she’s emotional, loud, angry, brash, and vindictive, and she’s absolutely awesome just like that. Don’t woobify her.
YES
Like she went from “oooh, we can’t do that, we could get expelled” (which was already pretty metal, tbh, because she said that was worse than death) to straight up LIGHTING A TEACHER ON FIRE
She went from crying when Ron said something mean about her to punching Draco right in the face
She went from stressing about the Rules to brewing illegal potions in an abandoned, haunted wash room!!!
Harry and Ron only ever taught Hermione Granger one lesson and that was to forget about rules.
a good reason to accomplish things is so that people can refer to you with your accomplishment ahead of your ENTIRE full name, humorously, for example nothing is funnier than referring to my friend & teacher mr. tom hart ONLY as “New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novelist Tom Hart” every single time i talk about him in conversation
This is a GREAT plan. Even for like, ‘smaller’ accomplishments like That One Hobby You’re Really Good At, or That Skill Only You Can Do or even That One Dumbshit Thing You Should Not Have Lived Through.
“Amuteur Cheesemaker Christine Dutch”
“Professional Pinball Machine Reapairman Brian Howlett”
“1996 Highway 92 Chicken And Molasses Transport Truck Pileup Survivor Darlene Wyatt”
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