Roots before branches
Just your average 24 year young English girl experiencing the ups and downs of finding her place in the world.
Harry: She’s like my sister. I love her like a sister, and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It’s always been like that.
Snape: “That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.”
J.K.Rowling: Hermione is a caricature of what I was when I was eleven — a real exaggeration, I wasn’t that clever — Hermione is a borderline genius at points — and I hope I wasn’t that annoying…sometimes she is an incredible know-it-all.
… from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
J.K.Rowling {Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone}
Rufus Scrimgeour: “Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” Hermione: “No, I’m not. I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”
“Listen!” said Harry again.
“No, Harry, you listen,” said Hermione. “We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.”
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
