IC; Student Application
Character's Full Name: Hermione Jean Granger
Age and House: 18 years old; Gryffindor House
PB: Emma Watson or Jean Louise Kelley (when she was younger)
Character Username: athenaspupil
Sexuality: Straight; herterosexual
"You're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met, Hermione."
Personality:
In her third year, Professor Remus Lupin said that Hermione Granger was the cleverest witch of her age that he had ever met. An accurate description yes, but it hardly encompassed Hermione's full character. When most people think about or look at Hermione, they typically see a girl who is too smart for her own good; she always knows the answer and doesn’t hesitate to raise her hand to share it with the class. But upon closer inspection, she’s much more than someone who is well versed in an array of subjects. While she usually does have all the answers, Hermione is fiercely loyal, especially to those she cares deeply about. She is extremely self-motivated, a trait that is obvious by how well she has done in school. She doesn’t quit a job or a project until it is completed, and if said project happens to fail (which it usually doesn’t), she keeps at it until the desired result is obtained.
With her friends and family, Hermione is much more than a book-worm (as she is stereotypically labeled). She is caring and kind, and probably has the biggest heart of the bunch. Speaking of her heart, it is always worn on her sleeve and only on rare occasions is she capable of hiding her true feelings. As a Gryffindor, Hermione is brave and can also be very resourceful if the need arises, but isn’t as impulsive or as rash to leap into action when the need arises like many in her house are. She obeys the rules that are set for her to follow, has actually memorised them word-for-word, but if a situation calls for it and she feels it’s necessary, she has no qualms with twisting those rules to meet her own agenda.
Hermione also has a bit of a quick temper, especially with one Ronald Weasley (though it's not entirely limited to just him). It's hardly a secret that she habours feelings for him, has since second year when she learned that he faced an Acromantula when he and Harry were trying to discern what was petrifying the students at Hogwarts. However, Ron is also the only person who seems to know just which buttons to push to get her riled up. Generally, she can be cool, calm, and collected, but when pushed enough, she can be a force to reckon with. Harry and Ron say that Hermione likes to nag. She; however, believes that if they would listen to her and listen to reason, it wouldn’t be necessary for her to repeat things over and over, thus no nagging!
Through classes and extensive studying, Hermione is well-read and quite familiar with a wide variety of spells and charms, and produces portable waterproof fires with practiced ease. She’s a quick-thinker, light on her feet, and great at charms and transfigurations. She prefers to think first and act second, and often rambles off nearly incoherent sentences about what she's thinking to those poor individuals around her - such instances have been known to render those unfortunate to witness one of her tirades confused. However, the fact that she does think first and act second leads to her one downfall: She hesitates when it comes to taking action; she's no her like Harry, she concludes, who can jump up and race into battle. When it comes to actually being quick on her toes in a dangerous situation or one that calls for her to act quickly and recall things to the forefront of her mind, Hermione has the tendency to freeze up and buckle under the pressure. Instead, she has to think about it, analyze the pros and cons, and then ascertain which is the more reasonable course of action.
She is extremely smart and sharp, and can generally find a solution to nearly every problem if given ample time to think about it and research it thoroughly. Hermione is a great leader (though not in the same respects as Harry). The fact that she is goal-oriented and always striving to reach that final step is considered a strength as it shows that she never gives up. Hermione is a muggle-born witch and this, in itself, is a strength for her as she’s able to glide between the muggle world and the wizarding world with simplistic ease.
Unfortunately, Hermione worries too much, and about nearly everything and everyone she cares about, too. She lets things get to her and bother her, especially matters of the heart. She also doesn’t believe herself worthy of the friendships she has. These doubts stem from how lonely and quiet she was before she met Harry and Ron; her books and the characters within were her companions as a child as most children seemed to ostracise her because of her intelligence and bossiness.
"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things -- friendship and bravery."
Brief History:
Hermione was born on the 19th of November in 1979 to the parents of John and Jane Granger. They were your average family. Both her parents were dentists and had a joint practice that was doing quite well. The Grangers doted on their daughter Hermione, but not the point where they spoiled her. The treated her like an adult by the age of two, already teaching her the alphabet and the first cluster of numbers. Her mother would read her books before bed, but not always the fairy tales that most children heard. No, instead, her mother read her the newspaper or a book about the world and its many cultures and people. Hermione was what many considered a gifted child by the time she attended Primary School.
She wished she could say that in Primary School she made lots of friends and was respected by her peers, but that certainly wasn’t the case. She was ostracized by her peers for being above them in every subject. They would tease her constantly for it, as well as for her hair, which was unfortunately even more of a mess than when she was older. There was a boy in her class who would tease her about her funny name and her hair. He had said that it looked like a family of birds had built a nest in there. This caused the entire class to roar with laughter at her and for her to spend the remainder of the day in the lavatory crying. That comment alone had made Hermione cry in her mother’s arms for at least a week before she was able to face him. When she did, something “odd” happened that, at the time, Hermione couldn’t understand. She had sent a flock of birds after the boy and was astonished when they nipped at him. It wasn’t until she received her Hogwarts letter that she understood this case of accidental magic.
At the age eleven, Hermione received her Hogwarts letter. At first, her parents didn’t believe it, but when a witch showed up at her house and explained the procedures, Hermione and her parents were relieved to finally understand all the oddities that surrounded Hermione’s childhood that they couldn’t understand. John and Jane were reluctant to let their daughter go, arguing that she wouldn’t receive a well-rounded education, but Hermione persisted and promised to study the works of the great authors and philosophers, as well as somehow manage to teach herself muggle mathematics such as algebra and geometry. It was a reluctant yes from the Grangers, but it was one nonetheless and Hermione was off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The first four years of Hermione’s schooling at Hogwarts was interesting to say the least. She had barely escaped being beaten by a Full Grown Mountain Troll, gotten past scores of challenges to help Harry recover the Sorcerer’s Stone, been Petrified by a Basilisk, met a Werewolf and lived to tell the tale, helped an escaped convict get past the dementors. And that’s only the serious happenings. She also met her two best friends, Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley. The former friend being, what everyone deemed to be the savior of all Wizard kind, but to her he was simply Harry. The latter of her friends was a boy who she had fallen in love of at the tender age of thirteen, but had never let it be known to him. He was special; he always had to wear hand-me-downs and always believed himself to be inferior to everyone else, but she always knew better and always helped encourage him. Also, just as would be predicted from Primary School, Hermione excelled in all areas of her academics at Hogwarts. She was the top of her class by first year and by third, was called “The Smartest Witch of her Age” by Sirius Black. She also became a school prefect and Head Girl her seventh year.
In Fourth year, Hermione had the opportunity to meet the famous Quidditch star, Viktor Krum. At the time of their first meeting, she thought he was a pompous git who thought too highly of himself, but when he introduced himself in the library a “courtship” blossomed and he asked her to the Yule Ball that Year. The two, though no longer having romantic feelings about one another, have continued letters to one another and are good friends and Hermione will always consider him a close friend and the one who gave her her first kiss.
In Fifth Year, Hermione had the scare of her life when she, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Ginny Weasley, and Neville Longbottom faced off with a group of Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries. Most everyone that day sustained some serious injuries and that was the day that Harry lost is godfather to the veil. It was a dark day for all, but she grew from that experience and vowed that she would become a stronger witch as a result and help protect those she loved.
Sixth was equally as difficult, but she was able to be there and support Harry and Ron throughout it all. While the year seemed to start without too many problems, it quickly spiraled out of control. At the end of the year, Hermione, though she didn’t witness it first-hand like Harry, Hermione experienced the death of her beloved Headmaster. Such a blow struck her to the core and she held onto Ron during Professor Dumbledore’s funeral. Afterwards, she and Ron promised Harry they would go wherever he would; they were with him entirely even though he had given them many chances to get out.
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(While reading the mod posts in game, I was unable to discern if any of the events that happened in Deathly Hallows occurred in game. If they haven't, please disregard the following, and if I need to rewrite it to incorporate game canon instead, I certainly will)
The summer after her sixth year, Hermione did the hardest thing she could do: she altered her parent’s memory and sent them to Australia. It broke her heart watching from afar as they went, but she knew it was necessary and for their safety.
The summer started off with Bill and Fleur’s marriage; an affair that was supposed to be happy and well protected, but Death Eaters attacked the gathering and Harry, Ron, and Hermione left quickly before the battle itself broke out. Ages were spent at Grimmauld Place with very little news from the outside world. Tension rose, but still they pressed on, exploring all possibilities and contemplating what the remaining horcruxes were and where they were. They infiltrate the Ministry, visit the orphanage Tom Riddle went to, and camped out for weeks at a time. While camping, tensions rose as a result of wearing one of the horcruxes and Ron left. Hermione cried for days, crying at night and trying to keep quiet so Harry in the bunk above her wouldn’t hear her. When it was time for she and Harry to pack up and move on, she took her time, but in the end, they left without Ron. It broke her heart and she buried herself in her research and nothing else.
Next, Hermione and Harry arrived at Godric’s Hollow and encountered Nagini in the shape of Bathilda Bagshot. Shortly after, Ron returned and, though Hermione was relieved to see him, she gave him a good thrashing for leaving like he did and ignored him for several days. Within the course of Horcrux hunting, the trio learn about Dumbledore and Grindewald and Harry seemed intent on following that course, but Hermione believed it didn’t help them in finding the Horcruxes. She was wrong in the end. The night the trio were capture and taken to Malfoy Manor, Hermione was tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange with the Cruciatus Curse. Never had she felt such intense pain in her life and, though she wanted the pain to end and would go to any means necessary to do so, she wouldn’t give up the information she was holding. Even if it meant she died. But they escape, luckily, but Dobby is unfortunately killed and is buried at Bill and Fleur’s house by the sea.
The trio venture to Gringotts, Hermione polyjuiced as Bellatrix Lestrange and manage to retrieve Hufflepuff’s cup. It’s a dangerous mission and one that nearly had them trapped until they flew out of there on a dragon and headed north towards Hogsmeade. Next, they made it Hogsmeade and traveled through a passage in the Hogs Head to the Room of Requirement. Things pummeled ahead quickly once they reached there. They found the diadem, destroyed it, Neville killed Nagini, Hermione kissed Ron, everyone thought Harry was dead when he wasn’t, and Harry then defeated Voldemort. The wizarding world celebrated, the trio hugged and cried together now that it was over, and things slowly returned to normal.
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
OOC
Name: Krissy
Age: 21 Years old
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Email: kbpkrissy@yahoo.com
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