Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger is a muggleborn student that was sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991.

## **1991:**

On the train ride to Hogwarts she ends up meeting Neville Longbottom. As Neville had lost his toad, she decides to help him look for it throughout the train, thus ending up barging into the compartment in which Harry Potter and Charlus Potter were trying to have a private conversation, with Ronald Weasley acting as a shadow of sorts for Charlus. When she meets them she starts rambling about magic and her status as a muggleborn. At some point, after the introductions are made, she continues her rambling, but now in regards to Charlus' status as the Boy-Who-Lived and the lack of mentions about Harry in the modern wizarding history books. Her behaviour annoys Harry enough that he decides to excuse himself leaving for the loo and not returning.

During the Sorting Ceremony, after quite a long sorting, some three and a half minutes, she is finally sorted into Gryffindor, much to her pleasure. The next morning she is the first Gryffindor to arrive to the Potions class, long before her other house mates. When Professor Snape decides to test the overall Potions knowledge of the two Potter Twins she is overly excited, raises her hand and tries to answer the posed question — most likely not being aware of the slight that is trying to answer the question posed to another, as that was a particular quark of the Wizarding Britain, nonetheless, it is highly unlikely that the magically-raised children appreciated her behaviour. Later on, during her fist Transfiguration class she proves herself quite talented, even though she does not raise to the prodigious level shown by Harry Potter, to Professor McGonagall by managing to transform her matchstick into a needle.

During the Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch match she tries to help stop the cursing of Charlus Potter broom. She does that by setting aflame the robes of Severus Snape who was in actuality murmuring a counter-curse. By sheer dumb luck she also knocks over the Imperiused Aurora Sinistra that was cursing Charlus' broom.

After the match she goes to see Hagrid and tries to convince him that Professor Snape was the one that was cursing Charlus' broom. At some point Charlus and Ron Weasley stumble upon them. Once they are all inside for tea, Hermione once more insists that it was Professor Snape doing the cursing, while Hagrid assures her again of the contrary. During this conversation he lets slip that Nicholas Flamel is part of the conspiracy with the stone. Hermione joins Charlus's friend group as a result.

On December 9th, Charlus, Hermione, and Ron discuss their holiday plans while searching for references to Nicholas Flamel in the library. Ron is certain Harry is going to go dark, while Charlus has a desire to reconcile with his brother, which Hermione pushes him to do. Charlus then explains to Hermione, in a very biased way, the political situation of Magical Britain when she asks about what Ron means when he says 'The Conservatives' when referring to the Greengrasses.

## **1992:**

On April 5th she is able to figure out what the Philosopher's Stone does and immediately informs her friends. Some days later, on April 15th, she stumbles upon Hagrid while he was leaving he dragon breeding subsection of the library. She becomes suspicious and investigates thus finding out that Hagrid is trying to hatch a dragon in his wooden hut. On April 24th she is present with her friends in Hagrid's hut to witness the hatching of the dragon. Unfortunately for the group Draco Malfoy spots them.

On the evening of June 4th, right after their end-of-year exams were over, Charlus and his friends go to the third floor corridor to stop Lady Voldemort from getting the Philosopher's Stone.

The morning of September 19th finds her and Ron Weasley on the Quidditch pitch to watch Charlus' training. When the Slytherin team shows up she decides to butt in on the verbal spar between them and the Gryffindor team. She then proceeds to accuse Draco Malfoy of buying his spot on the team. As a result Draco lashes out on her by calling her a mudblood. Ron tries to hex him but ends up hexing himself by casting a spell with his spellotaped wand. She is then forced to take Ron away from the pitch as he was vomiting slugs. Eventually the Golden Trio exit Hagrid's hut and make their way towards Hogwarts with Ron ranting about the House of Snakes. On the way Hermione ends up contradicting him by pointing out that not all Slytherins are like Draco Malfoy and that there are also some Gryffindors that go bad.

On the evening of October 31st, she alongside her friends go to the Deathday party of Nearly Headless Nick. On they way back from the party they stumble upon Harry Potter in front of the second-floor girls bathroom where Mrs. Norris is hanged and petrified before a wall covered in writing that acclaims the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. Without any form of investigation, she decides that Harry is guilty and while the boy is distracted he disarms and body-binds him. She and the rest of the Golden Trio are asked to join the professors in Gilderoy Lockhart's office while they try to ascertain what happened. At the end of the meeting she is forced to return Harry's wand.

The night of November 13th finds her and her friends in the out of order girl's bathroom on the second floor. There they discuss the possibility of Harry Potter being the Heir of Slytherin. Their meeting concludes with them planning to brew the Polyjuice potion in order to get close to Harry and find out.

On December 25th, she alongside Charlus and Ron try to enact their plan of proving that Harry Potter is the Heir of Slytherin, and consequently get him expelled. She tries to use the Polyjuice potion, but unfortunately for her, she ends up using cat hair instead of human one, so she ends up fur-covered instead. When her friends are caught she is also taken to the Headmaster for punishment. Somehow, instead of getting expelled for their illegal potion she receives just a detention for the rest of the academic year and the interdiction of checking out books from the library.

## 1993:

The evening of March 12th finds her present in Hagrid's Hut hiding under the Potter Invisibility Cloak alongside Charlus Potter. Thus, she is present when Albus Dumbledore is informed that he is no longer the Headmaster of Hogwarts, as he has been voted out by the Board of Governors. She is also present before Hagrid's subsequent removal from the grounds, and his parting advice that if one were interested in finding out the truth then they would simply need to follow the spiders. After the departure of everybody else from the Hut, Charlus and Hermione stop hiding under the Invisibility Cloak and discuss the revelations of the night. Eventually, they decide not to follow the spiders right away and to keep the Cloak on them at all times so that they might be able to spy on Harry — as they suspect him even more of either being the Heir of Slytherin or working for them.

Her and Charlus finally decide to act on Hagrid's advice on the night of April 9th. Under the protection of the Potter Invisibility Cloak, they leave the castle and head into the Forbidden Forest, following the spiders. Some hours later, they manage to get out of it alive, after being rescued by the Ford Anglia.

On June 4th, when a full lockdown is announced, she is in the Gryffindor Common Room with Charlus Potter. At his urging, they go to investigate under the protection of the Potter Invisibility Cloak. They manage to sneak into the Staff Room where the two find out that Harry Potter and Ares Black are the latest victims of the Heir of Slytherin and that, according to the message left by the Heir, their skeletons shall lie in the chamber forever.

After the revelations, Hermione drags Charlus to an abandoned classroom to collect himself. There they are greeted shortly afterwards by the arrival of Fawkes. After reading the message that the pheonix bears, she is able to determine that the Chamber of Secrets is located in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. They bring Lockhart onto this revelation and the three proceeds to the haunted bathroom. There, after Charlus opens the path to the Chamber, she is stunned by her friend so that she may not participate in the fight to come.

## Academic Results:

At the end of her first year at Hogwarts she manages to finish the year with the second overall highest grade. She ends up having the highest grade of her class in Astronomy, the second one in Charms, the third one in Herbology, the first one in History of Magic, the third one in Potions and the fifth highest in Transfiguration. Due to the debacle caused by the reopening of the Chamber of Secrets, there are no end of year exams in his second year, just Pass or Fail grades. Suffice it to say, she manages to advance onto his third year.