What Makes Hermione Granger

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Hermione Granger, from the Harry Potter series, is a know-it-all muggle who can make enemies easier than she can make friends. However, she is a dynamic character who learns how to make friends; she learns how to have fun; and she learns how to break the rules..
Hermione Granger is from a muggle family (Rowling 105). She is a very proud, smart goody good who learned the course work by heart before getting to Hogwarts (Rowling 105). She does not know how to interact with those around her. For example, when she comes into the train car to search for Neville’s toad, she does not introduce herself to Harry or Ron (Rowling 105). Instead, she comes in speaking in a “bossy sort of voice” about Neville’s missing toad (Rowling 105). She has lots of bushy brown hair and large front teeth, characterizing her as a nerdy outcast (Rowling 105).. She is the stereotypical nerd most of the students dislike.
Hermione believes she is superior to Ron when she first meets him because as she is talking to him, she ignores him and asks him to perform
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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 downright lie to a teacher?” (Rowling 177). Hermione ends up saving Harry and Ron with this lie and now their friend ship flourishes. From that moment on, a fruitful friendship beings to bloom between Harry, Ron, and Hermione (Rowling

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