Magic-Enhancing Schemes

To maintain the lore of being New Blood, Hermione has performed several acts to improve her magical prowess.

1. Registering as a magical household and linking to the Floo
> Chapter 8: Preparing
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"First, she'd gone to register her house on the Floo Network. This involved filling out a form with her address, having her mother sign it, and showing the clerk a piece of mail addressed to her mother at their address. Hermione had brought just such a thing, to her mother's consternation, but the bored Ministry employee had acknowledged that yes, Jean Granger really lived there, which was all that was needed. A fee of 3 sickles later, the Granger household was linked up to the Floo Network, and Hermione was nearly bouncing with glee. Next, Hermione dragged her mother to the Office of Underage Magic. After quickly explaining what needed to happen here, Hermione watched as her mother straightened her back and adopted a haughty, insulted expression, took Hermione's wand, and marched into the office, demanding that her house be listed as a Magical Household. The Ministry worker looked shocked, but Hermione's mother insisted that she'd just moved, that her new address somehow hadn't been registered, and that she refused to get warning letters for casting magic in her own household. She held the wand threateningly at the worker (even though she couldn't use it), and the worker, upon seeing the house was already linked up on the Floo Network, and therefore clearly a magical household, filed the correct paperwork to register it as a magical household, removing it from the Trace. Now, she could practice her spells. She'd be able to actually do magic, not just practice thinking the incantations and tracing her wand through the air. And the Ministry would be none the wiser."
2. Stretching her magical pool
> Chapter 10: Routine
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"In the evenings, Hermione had taken to trying to completely drain her magic before going to sleep, in the hopes that doing so would prompt her 'magic reserves', as she imagined it, to grow accordingly. She'd begun with Transfiguration, but that hadn't really worked – either she got it or she didn't, and when she didn't, all the power from the failed transfiguration simply flowed back. Hermione had finally found a winner with a simple charm: levitation. She'd started by levitating a pencil until she could do so no longer, then a book, then a lamp. She timed and tracked her progress, and Hermione was pleased to discover that it seemed that every couple nights, she was able to levitate the item for just a little longer, or something just a little heavier instead. To think she might soon be trying to levitate her entire nightstand for a period of time, just to train…! Hermione was excited at her progress."
3. Ovulation Ritual
> Chapter 52: The New Moon
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"The ritual she had found in the book Professor Quirrell had directed her to had not been to start someone's period; it had been to cause ovulation, to help with pregnancy. It was one of the lighter rituals in the book, in that it only jump-started a natural process in a woman's body."
4. Hermione's elemental rituals
> Chapter 36: New Year's Eve The Air Elemental Ritual
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> Chapter 152: Censures and Stopgaps The Earth Elemental Ritual
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> Chapter 294: Winter Solstice The Fire Elemental Ritual
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5. Founding a coven
> Chapter 107: Blaise's Gift
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> Chapter 189: The Coven Ritual
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6. Ley Magics
> Chapter 242: Arc de Triomphe | Learning about Ley Lines with Fleur.
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7. Broadening family magics
> Chapter 126: The Ritual in the Snow | Parseltongue Ritual
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> Chapter 150: Asking the Spiders | Arachnolinguistics Ritual
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