Hermione Granger

Animals have a significant part in human’s daily lives. Everyday people overlook the importance the animals have in the lives around the people they care about. This happens in reality and in stories, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is no different. Many characters have interactions with the animals around them; these relationships are not always positive or negative. They can range from friendship, companionship, enemies to antagonistic relationships. The reason I decide to read this…

“A Very Potter Musical” was written and performed in 2009 by StarKid Productions in the University of Michigan campus. At first glance the musical seems like it would be rather interesting purely because it is every Harry Potter dorks dream come true. However, upon further look into the musical people begin to realize that the music isn’t really that great. For a person who does not have a musical background the play is rather enjoyable but when one turns a musical ear to it they want to run the…

goes off to Hogwarts the school of wizardry and witchcraft, he quickly befriends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley on the train ride. Once they arrive at Hogwarts the new wizards are sorted by the witch hat into which “house” they will be a part of for the rest of their time being enrolled at the school. The sorting hat is both a symbol and ritual that creates a collective consciousness within Hogwarts. Harry, Hermione, and Ron are all sorted into Gryffindor, which is the house known for bravery.…

Emma Watson, best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter Series, spoke in front of the United Nations about feminism and gender equality. She used her fame and popularity to gain attention and address a topic worth advocating others about. After initial upload, the video went viral and collectively received millions of views. The speech was advocating for both men and women to make a change regarding gender equality. In the speech, she acknowledged personal experiences…

Contrary to popular belief, racism did not die with slavery and sexism did not just dissipate when women gained the right to vote in America. It may not be as blatant, but these concepts continue to exist and thrive in our society. Rather than a physical and visible effect on the oppressed, they have more of a subtle, internalized nature. The media is one of the most popular ways in which these ideas fester and instill themselves into the minds of many. They portray a caricature-like depiction…

While writing is painful, agonizing, and time-consuming work it is all worth it once the words pull together to create a story. I had only realized the joys of writing in my senior year of high school. It was only after hundreds of intellectually stimulating conversations with books. Conversations that took me into lands of imagination; eventually sending me off to write stories and essays of my own that led me to appreciate literature as a whole. The love of literature is a slow nourishing bond…

of the world of Hogwarts. Well other than the fact that it’s science-fiction, it also has real life places involved in the series as well. Just like the use of London, it’s used as the home of Harry Potter and one of his really good friends, Hermione Granger, the two of them are indeed from London, which is an actual place in England which is also the general idea of where the series takes place in. I really like the series because it has a lot of different aspects that are involved in the…

Where most children’s first utterance is “mama,” mine was “book.” In preschool, as other kids scampered around Toys "R" Us, I devoured the shelves of Barnes & Noble. Some go weak in the knees at the scent of chocolate lava cake, but the new book smell has always been my aroma of choice. By the time kindergarten rolled around, my teachers had granted me the magical title of "classroom reader." As I read to my classmates at lunchtime, books, like pixie dust, enabled me to soar. Reading has…

The British Wizarding legal system had evolved quite swiftly, surpassing the speed of most muggle civilizations that enforced laws to protect the rights of its citizens. Knowing this fact, it was hard to believe that two of the most horrendous laws existing throughout history were being brought back: the Arranged Marriage Law and Slavery. These laws were revolting. Both had been banned centuries before, the Slave Law leaving as house elves became more common throughout the pureblood homes and…

The room was dark and it was raining as soft music played in the background. However, it wasn’t just raining outside because tears were also raining down my face in what a weatherman would have affectionately called a heavy down poor. Beth March, from Little Women, had just passed beyond the earthly realm into the pearly gates of heaven. And, as a fifth grader for reasons I could not tell you at the time I was crying my own personal rainstorm in my bedroom while it rained outside my window.…