Hermione Granger

Characters like Anastasia Steele and Bella Swan, however, are problematic because they are female characters who are defined by, and submissive to the male characters of their respective books. While Hermione Granger is not the sole center of the Harry Potter series, she is central to them. Hermione is never portrayed as a static entity as many Disney princesses are, but rather, a complex character who emulates a positive, feminist role model that many teenage girls can look up to. Young girls…

predict Y (X does not Granger cause Y). The alternative hypothesis is that the past p values of X are useful to predict Y (X Granger causes Y). p is the lag length of the Granger causality test and the results of the test depend on the chosen lag lengths (p). Therefore, different lag lengths (6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 lag lengths) are used in this study. These lag lengths represent a three-year horizon. The following bivariate autoregressive model is used to test whether the ABI Granger causes…

Problems with my Childhood Hero: Hermione Granger As children, we all felt drawn to someone, whether they be fictional or real, who made us believe that we could be better than we actually are, some people call it a role model or personal hero. These people are those who you, as a child, aspired to be like. When I was a child, my hero, besides my mother that is, was Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. Despite the fact that I loved and looked up to Hermione as a child, today I…

its sequels, Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2009), swept a generation of adolescent girls off their feet. Raised on the Hermione Granger’s (almost a protagonist of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling in 1997-2007) example, millions of girls were longing to have a true hero of their own. As children, the gen-X girls once admired clever and helpful Hermione; as adolescents, they are ready to lead on their own. By 2008, a strong female leader protagonist was overdue. Although…

They end up locking Hermione in the bathroom with the enormous troll. She is frozen in terror while she is in the bathroom After the troll incident, she really changes: she tells her first lie and makes friends (Rowling 176-177). She tells Professor McGonagall that she went off searching for the troll because she thought she could “deal” with it on her own because she has read all about them (Rowling 177). This came as a shock to everyone: “Ron dropped his wand. Hermione Granger, telling a…

intra-organizational structure that our group decided to analyze is the network structure of characters in the Harry Potter series of books written by J.K Rowling. We narrowed down our boundary into Dumbledore’s Army (D.A), the organization that was founded by Hermione Granger and led by her together with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter as a teacher on their fifth year in Hogwarts. We are going to find out if the three founders were actually central in the organization and in what extent they were…

his train to Hogwarts: Ron Weasley. Then, later in the story, Ron and Harry save Hermione Granger from a gigantic troll strolling Hogwarts, and they all become best friends. They stay friends and help each other out through all the other hard times they have at…

Hemione Granger and the Complex Feminist Icon They exist in almost every type of storytelling in the last century or so, the crucial three-person groups. Comics has DC’s holy trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman; In children cartoons the Ash, Brock, and Misty dynamic was used so well that even though brock and misty haven’t been regular characters in the cartoon for a nearly a decade, they are still iconic; but, over the past 30 years, perhaps no fiction trio is as well-known and…

wealthier are either in middle class or the lower class. Now this was very unfair considering some wizards that were in the “lower class” were actually really good like Hermione Granger. Yet they always had someone that thought they shouldn't even be allowed in the wizard world like Draco Malfoy who couldn't stand that Hermione was in the same school as him. Pure bloods are the wizards where both parents are born a witch and wizard, these wizards are like Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley ! As…

Witchcraft and Wizardry. Moreover, during his first year at school, he met other young wizards, who turned out to be his best friends. One of them is Ron Weasley, a fiery red hair, curious, freckled complexion young man. On the other hand, there is Hermione Granger described as a Muggle-born witch that is very smart and studious. These young friends must defeat evil forces and redefine what it takes to be young heroes. The main hero character of this story is named…