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PB- Kate Bosworth

Hermione is a plain girl, not attractive or even unattractive for that matter, just normal. She is of normal height and of normal build, she has never been one of the girls to worry about her weight. As a teenager her hair was extremely bushy and uncontrollable. She tried numerous ways to fix it and often wore it up and out of her face. Now however it has tamed but is still very wavy and often the day after she washes it still a bit uncontrollable.  

She rather likes her eyes probably because Ron often comments on them. They are a light brown, though she is not ridiculous enough to describe them as chocolate coloured.   

Normally she dresses in robes usually of dark blue, purple or black. Underneath she wears appropriate under clothes usually buttoned shirts and pants or a nice skirt and stockings. Her manner of speaking is usually quite formal as she likes to keep herself composed and tries to use polite and intelligent manner of speaking. However when she grows emotional she finds her voice often grows too high like when she was a teenager. Another thing that annoys her. 

Hermione started life as an ordinary middle class girl, with two loving and ordinary muggle dentists as parents. They loved her dearly and perhaps spoiled her a little as an only child can sometimes be. They taught her that she can do anything she wants to do and encouraged her academic pursuits. 

At primary school she excelled. She tried to help others who needed it but she ended up coming off as bossy and a know it all. Her looks did not help much; she was always the girl with the bushy hair and the big beaver teeth. She made one or two friends but, when it was time to move to high school she ended up going to a Private School and she doubted they would keep in contact. 

She was right, but for very different reasons. One day an odd stranger came to visit them she was tall with graying hair and slightly stern look on her face. She was Professor McGonagal and she told Hermione and her stunned parents that she was a witch. The Granger’s were shocked and disbelieving; after all they were a logical bunch and didn’t see how magic could exist. But McGonagall showed them magic and explained the situation, and it was accepted, after all often odd things did happen around Hermione. 

Before Hogwarts she was ridiculously nervous and it was annoying to poor Hermione that was so ignorant. She swore to fix that and she quickly sort to learn as much as possible, about the world and her classes. Going on the train she tried showing that she knew these things, but it did not work out. Like in the muggle world people thought she was a bossy know it all and she found no friends. 

One day she heard a group of her housemates, including the famous Harry Potter, discussing her and she heard how they called her a know it and annoying. That was the final straw. She ran and stayed in a bathroom absolutely distraught. But then as she was sitting there, a troll appeared and she was so scared, but then Harry Potter and Ron Weasley came. They saved her, and at that moment, they taught her how to behave and that she did not know everything. She took the blame, even though it made the teachers angry, something she never wanted to do. But more importantly she gained two friends for life. 

After that life just seemed to get better. Hogwarts just seemed so much more enjoyable. But there was an issue with having Harry Potter as a friend; everything seemed to happen to him. Her years were extremely eventful leading her on a voyage down the trap door, getting petrified,  having a fight with her best friend and to using a time turner to save a wanted man. 

At the end of her forth year Harry saw Voldemort come back and it changed everyone’s lives forever. Her life and most people around her were now threatened. Being so close to Harry it was not just his fight, but often, her and Ron’s too. At the end of fifth year, she along with five others, went with Harry to the ministry. Here many of them were injured and she learnt of the true power of the Death Eater’s, and her sixth year was no different. But in her seventh year it all got worse. Dumbledore died and the Death Eater’s truly took over.  

Harry told them about the horcruxes, how he had to destroy them to defeat Voldemort. She and Ron would of course not let him do it alone, they were always in it together as friends do. But the problem was it meant her parents were in danger, she obliterated their memory for their own sake. It was the hardest thing she had ever done. 

As she had always done, she planned everything, as much as she could, packed everything and got as much money as she could gather. When the burrow was attacked they were off on their quest. It was not how any of them thought it would be. While they successfully got the first, a locket, early on, the rest dragged. They spent months in a tent and Ron even left. He did eventually come back but not long after they were captured and taken to Malfoy Manor. There she was tortured but she refused to say anything, even though the pain was so severe 

They did get away and they even broke into Gringotts to get Hufflepuff’s cup. But then they were forced to go to Hogwarts where Voldemort had taken over. Here the true battle occurred, so many died, it was heartbreaking and in many ways it still sticks with her. Especially when Harry’s body was brought out. She could not believe it, how could he be dead, but he was. Voldemort was successfully defeated and in the end the world did eventually return to normal. But still there was no Harry. All the time, her and Ron miss him, now there is only the two of them truly left and in many ways their lives are empty without him. 

After she had two choices, she could enter the ministry, or she could return to school. In many ways there was no choice, even if it meant leaving Ron behind. She finished her schooling, in the only uneventful year she has ever had, she joked quite a few times that it just seemed too quite. As many expected her results on her NEWTS were superb and she was offered a job at the ministry. In the Department of The Regulation And Control Of Magical Creatures, her time at school she had seen first hand the injustices suffered by many. She knew she wanted to do something about it and thus her job seemed perfect. 

Hermione and Ron were always close, but always in another way than she and Harry. In her fourth year she felt jealous when he mentioned other girls and he became equally jealous when she dated Victor Krum. However in her sixth year she truly understood her true feelings for him, when he dated Lavender Brown. In many ways there relationship did develop that especially when they were looking for Horcruxes. At the battle of Hogwarts she finally kissed him, it signaled the start of their true relationship. Ever since then they have been very close comforting each other through everything.