100 Fun Facts About Hermione Granger

Which charm does Hermione correct Ron's pronunciation of in their first-year Charms class?

Wingardium Leviosa: 'make the gar nice and long', she tells Ron, then becomes the first in the class to levitate her feather, much to his annoyance.

Who was cast as Hermione in 2025 for HBO's Harry Potter television series?

Arabella Stanton, who had played Matilda in the West End, was picked after an open casting call that drew more than 30,000 children.

What do Harry and Ron save Hermione from, sealing their friendship in book one?

A troll: Rowling's editor wanted the scene cut, but she argued hard to keep it, feeling something huge was needed to bring the three together.

Rowling said Hermione is an exaggerated version of whom?

Her younger self: Rowling called Hermione a caricature of herself at eleven, and said the know-it-all manner covers a lot of insecurity.

How is Hermione's hair described in the novels?

Bushy and brown: she tames it for the Yule Ball with liberal amounts of Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, then says it is too much bother to do every day.

Rowling has called Hermione a "borderline" what?

Genius: yet the Sorting Hat spent nearly four minutes weighing Ravenclaw, the house that prizes cleverness, before placing her in Gryffindor.

Scholar Mary P. Freier says Hermione uses the skills of which profession?

A librarian: Freier argues that Hermione's research solves the mystery in every book, and that she alone can use books without putting anyone in danger.

Which classmate did Rowling describe as the "anti-Hermione"?

Luna Lovegood: Rowling said Hermione is logical and inflexible, while Luna is likely to believe ten impossible things before breakfast.

Hermione's first name comes from a character in which Shakespeare play?

The Winter's Tale: Rowling wanted an unusual name so that no swotty real girl would be teased for sharing it, and says the two Hermiones have little in common.

Whose middle name is Jane, the one Rowling dropped for Hermione?

Dolores Umbridge: she is Dolores Jane Umbridge, and Rowling, who gave Hermione's middle name as Jane in a 2004 web chat, printed Jean in the last book, possibly to spare her the match.

Whom does Hermione hit in Prisoner of Azkaban for mocking Hagrid's tears?

Draco Malfoy: he had sneered at Hagrid for crying over Buckbeak's death sentence, and the slap she gives him in the book became a punch in the film.

What do Hermione's Muggle parents do for a living?

Dentists: they insisted on braces for her large front teeth, so in her fourth year she quietly let the school nurse shrink them by magic instead.

What form does Hermione's Patronus take?

An otter: Rowling gave Hermione her own favourite animal, which happens to belong to the weasel family.

On the Hogwarts Express, Hermione proves her knowledge by claiming to have memorised what?

All their textbooks: she says she has learned every one by heart, right after watching Ron's spell on his rat do nothing at all.

Which dangerous plant does Hermione defeat on the way to the Philosopher's Stone?

Devil's Snare: she drives it back with her bluebell flames, but only after Ron yells 'Are you a witch or not?' when she frets that there is no wood.

Which new professor does Hermione develop a liking for in Chamber of Secrets?

Gilderoy Lockhart: the celebrity author she admires is exposed as a fraud, and ends up losing his own memory when his spell backfires.

What goes wrong with Hermione's own dose of Polyjuice Potion?

She used a cat hair: Millicent Bulstrode left it on her in their Duelling Club scuffle, and it gives her fur and a tail, so the boys carry out her plan without her.

After being revived in book two, Hermione is distraught to learn what?

Exams are cancelled: Dumbledore scraps them as a treat for the whole school, to Hermione's dismay.

What is the name of the cat Hermione buys in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Crookshanks: the ginger cat keeps going for Ron's rat, and is proved right when the rat turns out to be a wizard in hiding.

Who secretly gives Hermione a Time-Turner at the start of her third year?

McGonagall: she had to assure the Ministry that her model student would use it only for lessons, yet it ends up saving Sirius Black and Buckbeak.

Harry is furious with Hermione in book three for getting which gift confiscated?

A Firebolt: Hermione reported the unsigned Christmas broom in case Sirius Black had jinxed it, and was half right, since he had sent it, but as a gift.

What does SPEW, which Hermione founds in Goblet of Fire, stand for?

Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare: Hermione's first-choice name was a whole slogan that would not fit on a badge, and everyone else just calls the group 'spew'.

Who takes Hermione to the Yule Ball?

Viktor Krum: Ron accuses her of fraternising with the enemy, and the Bulgarian star later invites her to visit for the summer, a trip she never makes.

Rita Skeeter, whom Hermione takes action against, is secretly an unregistered what?

Animagus: Skeeter spied in the form of a beetle, so Hermione trapped her in a jar and made her agree to write nothing for a year.

What position does Hermione gain at the start of Order of the Phoenix?

Gryffindor prefect: the other badge goes to Ron rather than Harry, and Ron is rewarded with a new broom for making the grade.

What do students call the secret defence group Hermione proposes Harry should teach?

Dumbledore's Army: Hermione gave each member a fake Galleon that showed the next meeting time, and jinxed the sign-up list so that any sneak would break out in spots.

Which Death Eater seriously injures Hermione at the Department of Mysteries?

Antonin Dolohov: she had just silenced him, so he cast his curse without the incantation, which left it less effective than it would have been.

Which professor invites Hermione into an exclusive club of favourite students in Half-Blood Prince?

Horace Slughorn: Hermione plans to take Ron to the Potions master's Christmas party, but Ron takes up with Lavender Brown first.

Whom does Hermione sabotage at Quidditch tryouts so Ron keeps his place as keeper?

Cormac McLaggen: a secret Confundus Charm from Hermione spoils his trial, and he does not take losing the place to Ron gracefully.

After wiping herself from her parents' memories, to which country does Hermione send them for safety?

Australia: she made them believe they were Wendell and Monica Wilkins, with no memory of a daughter, and after the war she found them and reversed the charm.

Which book does Hermione inherit from Dumbledore?

The Tales of Beedle the Bard: his copy of the children's stories is written in runes, and one tale in it puts her on the trail of the Deathly Hallows.

In Godric's Hollow, Hermione's rescue spell has what unfortunate side effect?

It breaks Harry's wand: the Blasting Curse she fires at the snake Nagini gets them both out alive, and she is distraught to realise what else it probably hit.

What spell does Hermione use to hide Harry's identity from the Snatchers?

A Stinging Jinx: it swells Harry's face out of shape in seconds, but the three are recognised and taken prisoner all the same.

Where does Hermione break in while disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange?

Gringotts: Polyjuice Potion gets her into the Lestrange vault to steal a Horcrux, which she later destroys with a basilisk fang.

What are the names of Hermione and Ron's two children?

Rose and Hugo: Rose, the elder, sets off for her first year at Hogwarts in the epilogue, with Ron remarking that she has inherited her mother's brains.

How many years after Voldemort's death is the Deathly Hallows epilogue set?

19: the stage play Cursed Child opens at that same moment, with the next generation boarding the Hogwarts Express.

How did casting agents for the first Harry Potter film find nine-year-old Emma Watson?

Her Oxford theatre teacher put Watson's name forward to the casting agents, and Rowling, closely involved in the film, wanted her in the part.

Hermione's Boggart takes the form of a professor telling her what?

She has failed everything: Hermione flees the Boggart in a panic, and Rowling later pointed to the scene as proof of her great fear of failure.

Which class does Hermione storm out of for good in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Divination: Hermione calls the subject woolly, and walks out when its professor tells her she lacks the gift.

Why did Emma Watson stop wearing Hermione's fake front teeth after one scene in the first film?

They made speaking hard: Watson says she used to get upset when the films made her look geeky, and now loves that Hermione does not care how she looks.

Which screenwriter named Hermione his favourite Harry Potter character?

Steve Kloves, who scripted seven of the eight films, said her fierce intellect, paired with no idea how she affects people, made her irresistible to write.

What job does Hermione hold in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

Minister for Magic: in one of the play's altered timelines she never marries Ron and ends up a frustrated Hogwarts professor instead.

Who wrote the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

Jack Thorne wrote it from a story he devised with Rowling and the director John Tiffany, and the script was then published as the eighth Harry Potter book.

Which actress first played Hermione on stage in Cursed Child?

Noma Dumezweni: Rowling dismissed the online objectors to a black Hermione as a bunch of racists, and Dumezweni went on to win an Olivier Award for the part.

Where does Hermione secretly brew Polyjuice Potion in Chamber of Secrets?

Moaning Myrtle's bathroom: nobody goes into the out-of-order girls' toilet because of its ghost, so the cauldron can bubble away in secret on top of a toilet.

What does Hermione enchant to carry the trio's supplies on the Horcrux hunt?

A small beaded bag: an Undetectable Extension Charm lets it hold a tent, clothes and a stack of books, packed in advance so the three can flee at a moment's notice.

In which O.W.L. subject did Hermione fall short of an Outstanding, with an Exceeds Expectations?

Defence Against the Dark Arts: every other result was an Outstanding, so her one lower mark came in the subject Harry had been secretly teaching her.

Scholar Philip Nel ties Hermione's house-elf campaign to Rowling's own time working for which organisation?

Amnesty International: Rowling worked in its African research department in London in her early twenties, and has said the job informed much of what she wrote in the books.

What is the core of Hermione's vine-wood wand?

Dragon heartstring: when Snatchers take her wand she has to fight on with Bellatrix Lestrange's, which has the same kind of core.

What does Hermione set on fire to save Harry during his first Quidditch match?

Snape's robes: she is sure he is jinxing Harry's broom, but he was trying to save Harry, and it is her knocking over Quirrell on the way that breaks the real curse.

Hermione is only Petrified by the basilisk in Chamber of Secrets because she glimpses it using what?

A mirror showed her only the monster's reflection, and an indirect look Petrifies instead of killing. Other victims were spared the same way by a puddle, a camera lens and a ghost.

Which house did Hermione Granger nearly join at her Sorting before being placed elsewhere?

Ravenclaw was the first idea at her Sorting, Hermione reveals in her fifth year, before the choice fell on Gryffindor instead.

In the Shrieking Shack, Hermione reveals she has kept which secret about Professor Lupin?

He is a werewolf, and the Hogwarts staff knew it all along. A homework essay on werewolves had been set in the hope that a student would spot the signs, and Hermione did.

Which house-elf rescues Hermione and the other captives held by Bellatrix Lestrange?

Dobby helps the prisoners escape but is killed in the process. He had once been the servant of the family that owns the manor where they are held.

Which condemned creature do Hermione and Harry Potter save from execution in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Buckbeak the hippogriff had been sentenced after injuring a student who provoked him. Once freed, he flies off carrying the fugitive Sirius Black.

Which student does Hermione put in a full Body-Bind for trying to stop the trio sneaking out?

Neville Longbottom was trying to stop Gryffindor losing more house points. Rowling has called his stand against his own friends a very important moment in the first book.

Hermione accuses Harry Potter of spiking Ron Weasley's juice with which potion before a match?

Felix Felicis, the luck potion, never went into the juice at all. Ron only believed it had, and that belief was enough to make him play brilliantly.

Which creatures carry off a headmistress after Hermione lures her into the Forbidden Forest?

Centaurs seize her after she insults them as half-breeds. Hermione had counted on the herd resenting intruders, but it very nearly carries her and Harry off too.

Which Disney heroine did Emma Watson play in a live-action remake after her years as Hermione?

Belle, in Beauty and the Beast, came after Watson had turned down the lead in Disney's Cinderella, a character she said she did not connect with.

What does Hermione conjure and set on Ron Weasley after seeing him kiss another girl?

A flock of canaries dives at Ron as Hermione storms out. The same bird-conjuring spell appears earlier in the series, when a wandmaker tests a Triwizard champion's wand.

Which insult thrown at Hermione in Chamber of Secrets drives Ron Weasley to jinx a Slytherin rival?

Mudblood is the most insulting term for a witch or wizard with Muggle parents. Ron's broken wand backfires when he retaliates, and he ends up belching slugs himself.

Which spell does Bellatrix Lestrange use on Hermione while asking how the trio got a sword?

The Cruciatus Curse is the torture spell, one of the three Unforgivable Curses. Bellatrix wanted to know how the trio came by the Sword of Gryffindor, which she believed was safely hidden away.

During which fight does Hermione first kiss Ron Weasley, after he worries about the house-elves?

The Battle of Hogwarts is also where Hermione destroys one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. The kiss comes when Ron proposes evacuating the school's elves.

Whose romance with Ron Weasley leaves Hermione barely speaking to him in Half-Blood Prince?

Lavender Brown and Ron become a couple, and Hermione feuds with him until a near-fatal poisoning frightens her into making peace.

Which wizarding children's story does Hermione read aloud to explain the Deathly Hallows?

The Tale of the Three Brothers tells how three siblings cheated Death and won a wand, a stone and a cloak. Asked about a real-world source, Rowling said it was perhaps Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale.

Which Horcrux does Hermione destroy with a basilisk fang down in the Chamber of Secrets?

Hufflepuff's cup is the one Ron insisted she destroy herself. He had opened the Chamber by imitating the Parseltongue words he once heard Harry speak.

Which spell does first-year Hermione cast on a locked door, only to come face to face with Fluffy?

Alohomora opens most ordinary doors and windows, though charms can be placed on a lock to block it. That night it leads the trio straight to a three-headed dog.

Which spell does Hermione coach Harry Potter in late into the night before the first Triwizard task?

The Summoning Charm lets Harry call his broomstick and outfly a Hungarian Horntail. The pair practised through lunch and after dinner before it finally worked at two in the morning.

On which creatures does Hermione fly to the Ministry of Magic, despite being unable to see them?

Thestrals are visible only to those who have seen death, so Hermione needs a classmate's help just to find hers and climb on.

Which bequest from Dumbledore guides Ron Weasley back to Hermione after he hears her say his name?

The Deluminator, first seen darkening Privet Drive, can also pick up talk about its holder. Ron heard his name spoken through it and used it to travel to his friends.

Which periodical does Hermione criticise, souring her first meeting with the publisher's daughter?

The Quibbler later proves its worth to her. Hermione arranges for it to print Harry's own account of Voldemort's return, and the article shifts public opinion in his favour.

Which country does a smitten Triwizard champion invite Hermione to visit over the summer?

Bulgaria is the champion's home country. He asks her after the second task of the tournament, and the invitation soon turns up in a gossip column.

What does Hermione enchant so Harry Potter can secretly tell his defence group when to meet next?

Fake Galleons show the date and time of the next meeting in the numerals around their edge. A classmate is impressed, because the Protean Charm she used is NEWT-level magic.

Hermione's jinx on a sign-up parchment writes which word in pimples across an informer's face?

Sneak appears in giant purple pimples on the girl who betrays the group. Fear of more blisters keeps her silent when she is ordered to tell what she knows.

In which seedy inn does Hermione arrange the first meeting of Harry Potter's secret defence group?

The Hog's Head had only four customers that day, and two of them were listening in. Its barman turns out to be Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth.

Which giant, a half-brother of Hagrid, learns to call Hermione by the pet name Hermy?

Grawp stands sixteen feet tall, small enough for other giants to bully him. Hagrid brought him home from the mountains and asked the trio to help teach him English.

In which safe house does Hermione recover after her ordeal at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange?

Shell Cottage, the home of Bill and Fleur Weasley, had already sheltered Ron during the weeks he spent apart from his friends.

Which English woodland, where she once camped with her parents, does Hermione pick as a hideout?

The Forest of Dean is where a silver doe leads Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor, and where Ron rejoins the pair that same night.

In whose Godric's Hollow home are Hermione and Harry Potter ambushed by the snake Nagini?

Bathilda Bagshot, author of A History of Magic, was already dead. Nagini had been placed inside her corpse to spring a surprise attack on Harry.

Which birthday present does Hermione send Harry Potter by owl while on holiday in France?

A Broomstick Servicing Kit arrives the same night as Ron's cheap Sneakoscope and Hagrid's gift, a book that bites.

Hermione first meets Harry Potter on the train while helping a classmate search for what lost pet?

A toad named Trevor belongs to a shy boy in her year. Hermione's scorn for a botched spell on that same visit makes Harry and Ron take a dislike to her on the spot.

During the second Triwizard task, Hermione is held as a hostage in whose underwater village?

Merpeople guard four hostages tied to a large statue in the deepest part of the lake. Hermione comes up unharmed and is checked over by the school matron on the shore.

What does Hermione knit and leave lying around Gryffindor Tower, hoping to free the house-elves?

Hats count as clothes, and Hermione believes any elf who picks one up will be freed. The scheme backfires, because the insulted elves refuse to work in the tower at all.

Hermione is upset in Chamber of Secrets because every library copy of which book is out on loan?

Hogwarts: A History was the book she wanted for its account of the Chamber legend. With no copy to be had, she persuaded the ghost who took her next class to tell the story instead.

Who shrinks Hermione's front teeth smaller than before after a stray spell makes them grow?

Madam Pomfrey did by magic what Hermione's parents had insisted be done the usual way, with braces.

What does Hermione use to treat Ron Weasley's shoulder after he is Splinched fleeing the Ministry?

Essence of dittany is the remedy she later uses on Harry's snakebite too. Ron was hurt because a Death Eater had grabbed hold of Hermione, forcing her to Disapparate a second time.

What does Hermione conjure for Harry Potter to lay on his parents' grave in Godric's Hollow?

A wreath of roses appears unasked, just as Harry is feeling bad that he forgot to bring anything for his parents.

Rowling said in 2014 that she wrote Hermione's romance with Ron Weasley as a form of what?

Wish fulfilment was her own phrase. She called the two characters fundamentally incompatible in some ways, though she thought a bit of counselling might see them through.

In one altered Cursed Child timeline, Hermione stays single and Ron Weasley falls for whom instead?

Padma Patil wins Ron in that timeline, where he never has cause to grow jealous over Hermione. Hermione ends up a frustrated professor at the school.

In which European capital was Emma Watson, the Hermione of the films, born to English parents?

Paris is her birthplace. She lived in France until she was five, then moved to Oxfordshire with her mother after her parents divorced.

Which prize did Emma Watson win for her debut as Hermione, out of five nominations?

The Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress was her one win for the first film. Entertainment Weekly also picked her as a Breakout Performer of 2001.

Rowling originally planned to give Hermione which relative, who never made it into the novels?

A younger sister existed during the writing process, but Rowling decided to leave her out. That makes Hermione an only child, just like Harry.

Which Ministry witch does Hermione stun and impersonate with Polyjuice Potion in Deathly Hallows?

Mafalda Hopkirk is hidden away unconscious while Hermione, wearing her face, is taken for a clerk sent to record the day's hearings.

Hate mail sent to Hermione in Goblet of Fire contains raw pus from which magical plant?

Bubotuber pus leaves her hands covered in boils and sends her to the hospital wing. The letters came from readers angry at a gossip story about her love life.

Who sends Hermione a tiny Easter egg, and the boys huge ones, after reading gossip about her?

Molly Weasley had swallowed a magazine story that painted Hermione as toying with famous boys' hearts. Ron confirms that his mother reads Witch Weekly.

To which London street does Hermione Apparate the trio when Death Eaters crash the Weasley wedding?

Tottenham Court Road was a spur-of-the-moment choice, yet Death Eaters tracked the trio there almost at once. Saying Voldemort's name aloud had given them away.

Which surname did Rowling consider for Hermione before deciding it did not suit her?

Puckle lost out to Granger, an old occupational surname for a farm bailiff.

Under Hermione's memory charm, her parents believe they are Wendell and Monica of which surname?

Wilkins is the name of the new identities she gives them before the Horcrux hunt. Rowling later said that Hermione found her parents after the war and reversed the charm.

Hermione Granger shares her name with a Spartan princess of Greek myth, whose mother was whom?

Helen of Troy was her mother and Menelaus, king of Sparta, her father. In one ancient account the mythical Hermione was nine years old when Helen left home.

Caught by Snatchers, Hermione falsely claims to be which older Hogwarts girl, calling herself a half-blood?

Penelope Clearwater is the name she offers while the Snatchers check a wanted list. Ron tries the name Stan Shunpike, which they see through at once.