50 Fun Facts About Hermione Granger

Who plays Hermione in all eight Harry Potter films?

Casting agents found her at nine through her Oxford theatre teacher; she had never acted on film before.

Who was cast as Hermione in 2025 for HBO's Harry Potter television series?

Her casting was announced in May 2025. Rowling herself is credited with saying Hermione resembles her as a young girl, whoever plays her.

What do Harry and Ron save Hermione from, sealing their friendship in book one?

She lies to protect the boys from punishment afterwards, and Rowling refused her editor's request to cut the scene.

Rowling said Hermione is an exaggerated version of whom?

Rowling was seen as a know-it-all in her youth and says both she and Hermione hid insecurity behind the bossiness.

How is Hermione's hair described in the novels?

The books also give her brown eyes and large front teeth, which Watson reproduced with fakes for one scene only.

Rowling has called Hermione a "borderline" what?

Watson argued that a girl who is not afraid to be clever made Hermione an exceptional role model.

Scholar Mary P. Freier says Hermione uses the skills of which profession?

Freier traces her from a child who loves the library but cannot always use it to someone who becomes a researcher herself.

Which classmate did Rowling describe as the "anti-Hermione"?

Their friendship gets off to a rocky start in book five when Hermione criticises The Quibbler.

Hermione's first name comes from a character in which Shakespeare play?

Rowling said the two Hermiones have little in common beyond the name.

What was Hermione's middle name before Rowling changed it to Jean?

The switch stopped her sharing a middle name with Dolores Jane Umbridge.

Rowling considered giving Hermione which surname instead?

She dropped it because the name did not suit the character.

What do Hermione's Muggle parents do for a living?

Rowling says they are bemused by their odd daughter but proud of her, the type to choose an unusual name to prove their cleverness.

What form does Hermione's Patronus take?

It happens to be Rowling's favourite animal.

On the Hogwarts Express, Hermione proves her knowledge by claiming to have memorised what?

She announces it after mocking Ron for failing to perform a spell, which does not win her friends at first.

Which dangerous plant does Hermione defeat on the way to the Philosopher's Stone?

She also solves a logic puzzle on the same journey, a knack that becomes her trademark.

Which new professor does Hermione develop a liking for in Chamber of Secrets?

The celebrity author turns out to be a fraud whose heroic books were all fabrications.

What goes wrong with Hermione's own dose of Polyjuice Potion?

Harry and Ron go to the Slytherin dormitory without her while she sprouts fur and a tail.

After being revived in book two, Hermione is distraught to learn what?

She had been Petrified by the basilisk's reflection after identifying the monster through library research.

What is the name of the cat Hermione buys in Prisoner of Azkaban?

The cat takes to chasing Ron's rat, which sours the friendship for much of the year.

Who secretly gives Hermione a Time-Turner before the start of third year?

It lets her handle an impossible class schedule and later rescue Sirius Black and Buckbeak.

Harry is furious with Hermione in book three for getting which gift confiscated?

The racing broom was confiscated and checked for dark magic, since it arrived anonymously.

What does SPEW, which Hermione founds in Goblet of Fire, stand for?

Scholar Brycchan Carey reads SPEW as a model of political engagement for young readers.

Who takes Hermione to the Yule Ball?

Ron accuses her of fraternising with the enemy; Krum later invites her to Bulgaria for the summer and she politely declines.

Rita Skeeter, whom Hermione takes action against, is secretly an unregistered what?

The tabloid journalist had published defamatory material about Hermione, Harry and Hagrid.

What position does Hermione gain at the start of Order of the Phoenix?

She spends the year defending Harry against the Daily Prophet's claim that he invented Voldemort's return.

What do students call the secret defence group Hermione proposes Harry should teach?

It forms after the Ministry decrees that students will not be taught practical defensive magic.

Which Death Eater seriously injures Hermione at the Department of Mysteries?

She makes a full recovery and is back for sixth year.

Which professor invites Hermione into the exclusive "Slug Club"?

She invites Ron to his Christmas party, only for Ron to take up with Lavender Brown instead.

Whom does Hermione sabotage at Quidditch tryouts so Ron keeps his place as keeper?

Her growing feelings for Ron are then tested when he starts seeing Lavender Brown.

What false names does Hermione give her parents before the Horcrux hunt?

The false memory charm is her way of keeping them safe while she leaves home.

Which book does Hermione inherit from Dumbledore?

It lets her uncover the secrets of the Deathly Hallows.

In Godric's Hollow, Hermione's rescue spell has what unfortunate side effect?

The spell saves them both from Voldemort and his snake, but leaves Harry wandless for weeks.

What spell does Hermione use to hide Harry's identity from the Snatchers?

She also tries to pass herself off as a half-blood, but the trio are recognised and taken to Malfoy Manor.

Which bank does Hermione break into while disguised as Bellatrix?

Polyjuice Potion gets her inside to steal a Horcrux, which she later destroys with a basilisk fang.

What are the names of Hermione and Ron's two children?

The epilogue never states the pair are married, though later news articles called Hermione Ron's wife.

How many years after Voldemort's death is the Deathly Hallows epilogue set?

The Cursed Child play picks up at the same point, with Hermione now Minister for Magic.

How did casting agents first find the nine-year-old Watson?

She had only done school plays, and Rowling backed her casting after the first screen test.

How many times did Watson audition before landing the role?

Hatty Jones had been considered for the part before Watson was cast.

Which young actress did the filmmakers consider for Hermione before Watson?

Jones had already led the 1998 film Madeline when the first Potter film was casting.

Why did Watson stop wearing Hermione's fake front teeth after one scene in the first film?

Watson said she was relieved to play a girl who does not care what she looks like.

Which screenwriter named Hermione his favourite Harry Potter character?

He wrote seven of the eight films and praised her fierce intellect paired with no idea how she affects people.

What job does Hermione hold in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

The 2016 play was written by Jack Thorne from a story by Thorne, Rowling and John Tiffany.

Who wrote the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

Rowling dismissed the social-media backlash over a black actress playing Hermione as racism.

Which actress first played Hermione on stage in Cursed Child?

She called the casting backlash "unimaginative" and said many actors were glad to see a version of themselves on stage.

The original stage Hermione was born in which African country?

She won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part.

Which book contains Eliza T. Dresang's feminist analysis of Hermione?

Dresang argues Harry and Ron depend on Hermione more than she depends on them, but finds her crying out of character.

Watson's Hermione topped a 2016 poll by which publication for best female film character?

For the first film she won the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress and was an Entertainment Weekly breakout performer.

Philip Nel links Hermione's elf activism to Rowling's work for which organisation?

Nel, of Kansas State University, sees Rowling's social activism evoked through Hermione's passion for oppressed elves.

Which newspaper's critic called the finished Hermione a "swottish" caricature?

Rowland Manthorpe felt she never developed into a fully fledged character by the end of the seventh book.

A fan-made web series puts Hermione through what kind of crisis?

Hermione Granger and the Quarter Life Crisis is one of the better-known fan productions built around the character.