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Even she cannot continue insisting Harry and Dumbledore have been lying since the Daily Prophet has reported Fudge retracting earlier statements and confirming the re-emergence of Voldemort. She backed Fudge wholeheartedly during the OotP; however, that was hardly a selfless move. She immensely enjoyed the power trip that support bought her. Voldemort never planned for Harry to escape that graveyard. Fudge and his crew bought Voldemort almost a year of preparation because of their denial.

She is a do-er. Jo gave a lot of thought to the whole person of each of her characters. Just look at how much information she says she has on secondary characters like Dean. The twins gained the ability of apparation during the summer, and so they got to use it a bit before starting school.

Search for:. Our Commitment. Become a Patron! That year, Hermione was among the students who found Remus Lupin to be the best Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher they have ever had. She cleverly deduced that Professor Lupin was a werewolf , based on his Boggart taking the form of a full moon, the timing of his unexplained absences from class, and Professor Snape changing a lesson he took over to the subject of werewolves even though it wasn't due on the syllabus for weeks.

However, she didn't expose Lupin, presumably because she believed he was a good teacher and didn't agree with the prejudice many hold against werewolves. Divination , on the other hand, turned out to be a subject Hermione had no respect for or interest in, and soon dropped the subject after Professor Sybill Trelawney told her that she did not posses the Second Sight and because she believed that Divination was an imprecise branch of magic.

Professor Lupin and Sirius Black with the trio, before forcing Pettigrew into human form. On the day of Buckbeak's execution, the trio ventured down to console Hagrid. While in his cabin, Hermione discovered Scabbers , Ron's lost rat. Hagrid urged them to leave and they witnessed from a distance what they believed to be Buckbeak's execution. Before they could return to their dormitory, Scabbers bit Ron and fled.

While chasing after the rat, they were attacked by a black dog , which pulled Ron by the leg into a tunnel beneath the Whomping Willow , which then attacked them. Afterward, Hermione and Harry hurried after them eventually arriving in the Shrieking Shack , where Sirius Black, whose Animagus form was the black dog, confronted them. They were soon joined by Professor Lupin who was acting strangely, and Hermione told Harry and Ron of her belief that he was a werewolf, which he then confirmed.

It was revealed that Sirius had been framed for the betrayal of James and Lily Potter , and that the true traitor was Peter Pettigrew, who had been hiding from the world as Ron's pet rat. Hermione also cast Expelliarmus on Snape when he discovered them, knocking him out, at which she was horrified. Once it had been decided that Pettigrew would be turned over to the authorities rather than murdered, the motley group left the Shrieking Shack.

When the full moon appeared, chaos ensued as Lupin transformed into a werewolf as, due to the chaotic turn of events, he hadn't taken the Wolfsbane potion that Professor Snape produced for him monthly in order for him to retain his humanity.

In the chaos, Pettigrew attacked Ron and escaped, and Sirius had to transform into his dog form in order to protect Harry, Ron, and Hermione from the werewolf. After Lupin was eventually distracted by a howl from the Forbidden Forest , Hermione and Harry rushed to Sirius' aid when they heard him moaning, but hundreds of Dementors descended on them, come to recapture Sirius who quickly fainted, and Harry told Hermione to think of something happy and attempt to cast a patronus as he was trying to himself, but she was unable to cast one.

As Harry conjured an incorporeal Patronus, Hermione passed out, leaving Harry to fight the Dementors alone. Harry held them off for a while but was eventually overwhelmed. The Dementors were about to perform the Kiss on Harry, Hermione, and Sirius when a mysterious figure in the distance cast a very powerful Patronus Charm to repel the Dementors.

Unable to see properly in the resulting blinding light, Harry thought he glimpsed his father just before he, too, lost consciousness. After realising that Sirius' soul was to be destroyed by the Dementor's Kiss and receiving vague, though instructive and useful, instructions from Dumbledore , Hermione used her Time-Turner to return herself and Harry to a time earlier in the evening.

It was a very difficult task and Harry had to be constantly reminded by Hermione to stay concealed as being seen could cause irreparable damage to their timelines. Hermione agreed with Harry that it was difficult to watch their problems again, but she strictly said that they could do nothing about it, as bad things happened to wizards who tried to meddle with their past and future lives. The two did, however, successfully use the opportunity to rescue Sirius and also Buckbeak, as it was hinted by Dumbledore that more than one innocent life could be spared that night.

As evidenced by her assertion that time-travelling was extremely dangerous, Hermione took great personal risk to save Sirius and Buckbeak. At the end of the year Hermione returned her Time-Turner, claiming it caused too much trouble and that she would drop a few subjects instead, which was a very big surprise to everyone.

Before her fourth year at Hogwarts, Hermione spent much of the summer holidays at the Burrow with Harry and Ron , sharing a room with Ginny Weasley. After the game, the communal campsite was set upon by Death Eaters. Hermione, Harry, and Ron fled into the woods and witnessed the casting of Morsmordre. Initially caught up in the chaos surrounding the effort to catch the caster, she took exception to the accusations levelled against Harry, and the many wizards' treatment of the house-elf Winky who had also been at the scene.

Once at Hogwarts, it was revealed to the students that former Auror Alastor Moody who was, in fact, a polyjuiced Barty Crouch Jnr was to be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Lupin having left at the end of the previous year due to Snape outing his werewolf status. Moody was a hands-on professor who believed in a practical approach when it came to defence. One of his earliest lessons was on the Unforgivable Curses.

Hermione and her fellow classmates witnessed the curse's effects on a spider. Hermione began a crusade for the liberation of house-elves by beginning the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare , or what she and the group called S. W, or, as Ronald Weasley called it, "spew" having been appalled by Bartemius Crouch 's abusive treatment of his house-elf Winky.

This did not earn her any popularity, as most believed that house-elves enjoy their work; indeed, even the house-elves did not like her campaigning. Harry, Ron, and Neville only reluctantly joined S. Hagrid as well as Fred and George Weasley refused to join on the grounds that it would upset the house-elves. Despite this, Fred did tell Hermione how to get into the Hogwarts kitchens. One morning she along with Harry and Ron visited the kitchens, where she spoke to Dobby and Winky.

Dobby was pleased to see Harry and his friends and proceeded to tell them his struggles as a freed elf. While the trio were within the kitchen it was revealed that Winky was so saddened by the lose of her previous job that she had taken to drinking Butterbeer , as a means to get drunk and numb her pain. Hermione considered Dobby to be a good example of a free elf and tried to comfort Winky about being sacked by Crouch.

This did little good, however, as Winky soon became upset by Hermione's claims that house-elves deserved to have holidays and wages. Winky was not the only elf bothered by this, as the other elves stated that proper house-elves would never need such things and to want them is considered very shameful.

Hermione believed Harry without question when he said he did not enter his name in the Triwizard Tournament. After the events surrounding Harry's name coming out of the Goblet of Fire , Hermione was the only student who believed Harry's innocence.

In fact, she " accepted his story without question. Hermione helped Harry prepare for the first task of the Triwizard Tournament by helping him learn useful spells. She also tried to get Harry and Ron to talk to one another multiple times. He was attracted to her due to her intelligence, unconventional beauty, and the manner in which she declined to hound him for autographs, unlike other girls. Krum began following Hermione to the library and other places around Hogwarts, including the library.

This was something that Hermione found very irritating, as she couldn't work when surrounded by giggling girls, who had taken it upon themselves to follow Krum throughout the castle and the school grounds. Krum even bizarrely asked Harry if it was all right for him to pursue Hermione. He eventually asked her to attend the Yule Ball with him, and she accepted, not telling anyone but Ginny Weasley that she was his date.

Thus, when the pair arrived, many were stunned and jealous. Hermione wore robes of a " floaty, periwinkle-blue material, " and her hair in an " elegant knot at the back of her head. Even Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson had nothing negative to say. Hermione commented that she had used Sleekeazy's Hair Potion , but that it was too much work to use it every day.

Upon seeing Hermione with Krum, Ron was overcome with jealousy. Hermione had hoped for Ron to ask her, but his invitation was insensitive and at the last minute due to him not being able to find anyone else. The two rowed about it in the common room after the ball, in which she revealed that he should have asked her properly and not "as a last resort" , but Ron misunderstood the point.

After that, the two were seemingly more polite to each other, although more distant for a time and Ron continued to show dislike and distrust towards Krum. Hermione was chosen as a "kidnap victim" for Krum during the Tournament's Second Task, something that she subsequently endured teasing over. She was taken to the bottom of the Black Lake to await rescue from Krum, who donned a half-shark Transfiguration. Krum managed to rescue her and carried her to the surface, where he revealed to her later that he " never felt this way about any other girl " and asked her to visit him in Bulgaria over the summer.

The jealousy was founded based on the lies in the Daily Prophet and Harry was quick to inform Krum of these lies. Hermione receives hate mail from the readers of Witch Weekly in response to Skeeter's article. Rita Skeeter , a journalist for the Daily Prophet and unregistered Animagus , was hiding in beetle form in Hermione's hair during this conversation. Hermione had previously reprimanded Skeeter for printing horrible lies about Harry and Rubeus Hagrid.

This angered the journalist, who wrote a scathing article on "the devious Miss Granger", claiming that she was toying with both Harry and Krum's affections and that she had developed a taste for famous wizards.

Skeeter even went so far to claim that Hermione was possibly brewing love potions. She called Hermione " plain " in the article, in spite of previously reporting Hermione as Harry's " stunningly pretty Although Hermione found the lies ridiculous, some people believed them and started sending Hermione hate mail, including one filled with Bubotuber Pus , and even Molly Weasley treated her coldly until Harry corrected her. Hermione vowed to get revenge on Skeeter for her libel, and wondered how she was getting her information, as several things Skeeter knew had only been discussed in private conversations.

This led her to come to the realisation that Skeeter was an illegal unregistered Animagus , who took the form of a beetle to secretly witness confidential exchanges.

Hermione was present when the Minister for Magic visited Harry in the hospital wing. The students were shocked when Harry returned at the end of the third and final task with Cedric Diggory's dead body.

Hermione was relieved to see Harry when he was brought to the infirmary by Professor Dumbledore. She was upset with Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge when he refused to believe Harry and Dumbledore about the truth of Voldemort's return. During her time with Harry in the Hospital Wing, she noticed Skeeter on a windowsill, attempting to eavesdrop, and captured her in the process. Hermione did not go against Harry's story when she finally heard it, sticking by her best friend.

On the ride home on the Hogwarts Express , Hermione happily revealed to Harry and Ron that she uncovered Skeeter's status as an unregistered Animagus and had trapped her in a jar. She kept Skeeter from writing for a year by threatening to expose her to the authorities. She single-handed drove Skeeter into poverty, gaining revenge for the pain caused to Harry and her other friends. However, with the return of Lord Voldemort and the murder of Cedric Diggory at the end of the school year, [32] there were much more serious challenges ahead for Hermione and her friends.

Following the death of Cedric Diggory , the Ministry of Magic refused to accept Harry and Dumbledore 's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned, and the Daily Prophet labelled them either liars or nutters. However, Hermione and Ron believed Harry and defended him against the criticism of doubtful classmates.

Though occasionally Harry vented his frustration at them, the two stuck by him. The trio also wanted to become members of the reconvened Order of the Phoenix but were not allowed to because they were under-age. Hermione helped exterminate 12 Grimmauld Place , which served as headquarters for the Order, and was immensely relieved when Harry was acquitted of the charge of having used underage magic in the presence of a muggle, after him and Dudley Dursley were attacked by a Dementor in Little Whinging.

Before returning to Hogwarts, she and Ron learned that they had been appointed prefects for Gryffindor house, to the secret consternation of Harry, who couldn't believe Ron had been chosen over him. She took her position very seriously. Once the school year began, Hermione resumed some of her activism on behalf of house-elves, though she was not as intense about S. She learned how to knit socks and hats for the house-elves and hid them in Gryffindor Tower, disguising them with crumpled rubbish in an attempt to trick the house-elves into accidentally freeing themselves.

The elves found this attempt insulting, and they stopped cleaning the Tower at all. Dobby was the only one who enjoyed the gifts, took everything Hermione had made, and cleaned the Tower by himself, a fact which Hermione didn't know.

Hermione was challenged in more ways than one that year when she met Luna Lovegood , whose belief in many things without logical grounds baffled Hermione. However, the two became friends after accepting one another's differences.

Meanwhile, it was not long before Hermione realised that the Ministry of Magic had decided to interfere at Hogwarts.

Dolores Umbridge , a cruel, falsely sweet Ministry employee with a personality like " poisoned honey ", was appointed as the new professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts. She refused to teach students practical defence, focusing only on theory, despite their OWLs being later that year.

With this being the case, Hermione decided that Hogwarts needed a competent teacher and, together with Harry and Ron, founded Dumbledore's Army , a secret organisation in which students would gather after classes and be taught practical defensive spells. She suggested that Harry be the teacher; though he originally thought the idea ridiculous, he consented to teach the class.

The name was suggested by Ginny, who recalled the conversation they'd had about Fudge's greatest fear being that Dumbledore would form an army of students if the Ministry did not intervene at Hogwarts.

One of the many advanced spells Hermione learned was the Patronus Charm ; hers took the corporeal form of an otter. However, Hermione made the mistake of arranging the first meeting to take place in the Hog's Head , as opposed to the Three Broomsticks, which Sirius, appearing in the Gryffindor Common Room fire, said would have made it a lot more harder for anyone to overhear.

Willy Widdershins , who was in the Hog's Head, went to Umbridge, who instituted Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four to forbid any type of students groups from being formed under her watchful eye. Halfway through the year at Hogwarts, Harry had a vision of Voldemort's snake, Nagini , biting Mr Weasley during his task for the Order of the Phoenix. Mr Weasley was carried into St Mungo's Hospital , where Mrs Weasley screamed at him for trying to stitch his wound instead of healing it with magic.

Hermione was one of the few who visited him and stayed at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place for a couple of weeks until Mr Weasley was nursed back to health. Hermione had managed to convince her parents by telling them that skiing wasn't really her thing and that people who were serious about their exams stayed at Hogwarts and studied.

The D. After a meeting, Harry kissed Cho, and when he returned to the Gryffindor Common Room Hermione immediately guessed, asking if Cho had cornered him after the meeting. When Harry told them that Cho has been crying, she explained to Harry and Ron that Cho was having a hard time since Cedric Diggory , who she used to go out with, was killed by Lord Voldemort.

Hermione later gave Harry advice on Cho and girls in general. In an effort to combat the lies being told about Harry, Hermione arranged for an interview during a Hogsmeade visit with Rita Skeeter to be printed in The Quibbler telling his side of the story, blackmailing Skeeter into penning it in a sympathetic tone.

Despite being banned - or maybe because it was banned - it became the magazine's best-selling issue of all time. It was Hermione's brilliant spell-work that ensured the security of Dumbledore's Army.

She created coins enchanted with the Protean Charm , an advanced spell, as a method of communication, and jinxed the club's attendance sheet to give any tattler a horrendous rash on the face, which would spell out " SNEAK" in painful boils. This is exactly what happened to Marietta Edgecombe , a reluctant member of the D. Shortly before Easter, Marietta finally caved under the pressure from her ministry mother who worked in the the Floo Network Office and betrayed the D.

When Harry learned that they could not find a counter-curse to heal her face, he swelled with pride at Hermione's jinxing ability. Hermione and Neville Longbottom are held against their will by the Inquisitorial Squad. Dobby the house-elf learned of this turn of events and rushed to the Room of Requirement to warn Harry and the D. They immediately scattered, and most members escaped, but Harry was caught by Umbridge and several Slytherin students who were members of the Inquisitorial Squad.

A search of the room uncovered the parchment that each member of the D. Finally having "proof" that Dumbledore was building an army to challenge the Ministry, Umbridge immediately contacted Cornelius Fudge. Dumbledore fled the school and Umbridge became Headmistress. Hermione was not exposed at that time, but later she was brought to Umbridge's office by the some members of the Inquisitorial Squad.

Late in the fall of that year, Hagrid , who had been missing for the entirety of the school year, returned to Hogwarts. Hermione, Harry, and Ron ventured down to see him immediately even though it was after curfew.

Hermione was aghast at the injuries Hagrid had sustained and greatly curious as to his story. Hagrid told the trio about his mission with Madame Maxime to try and recruit the giants in the fight against Voldemort.

They were almost caught when Umbridge called on Hagrid that night, but hid under the Invisibilty Cloak. Months later, Hermione and Harry learned why Hagrid was perpetually bruised and cut; he had brought his giant half-brother Grawp back to Hogwarts, as he was getting severely bullied, and was trying to teach him human ways.

After Grawp, who had the mental age of a human toddler, picked her up, Hermione forcefully told him to put him down. He subsequently became enamoured with Hermione, calling her "Hermy". Hermione and Harry lured Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest.

Just after their class took their O. Ls , Harry had a vision of his godfather being tortured by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione was worried that it was a trap and convinced Harry to try to contact Sirius before doing anything rash. To that end, she accompanied Harry in an act of solidarity as he sneaked into Umbridge's office to use the Floo Network , with the assistance of Ron, Ginny, and Luna Lovegood , but they were ultimately caught.

When Umbridge threatened to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry during questioning, Hermione interceded. She came up with a lie that she and her fellow D. Hermione successfully lured Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest by saying that's where the weapon was hidden, where Umbridge was carried away by a herd of centaurs.

She had predicted that the centaurs would let her and Harry go, since they did not insult the centaurs and were young enough to be considered "foals". However, the centaurs were already enraged by Umbridge and were further angered when Hermione admitted that she had hoped that they would drive Umbridge off, being insulted that they were thought of to do the bidding of humans. The centaurs were about to carry the two students off as well, but Grawp stumbled onto the scene and a fight broke out between the giant and the herd.

After a brief argument between Harry and Neville over whether or not the others were going to travel with Harry to London, an understanding was reached.

The six students flew on Thestrals which the majority, Hermione included, could not even see to the Ministry of Magic to try to save Sirius from Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Hermione's fear turned out to be justified, as Harry's vision was a ruse planted in his brain by Voldemort designed to lure him to the Ministry to obtain a prophecy Voldemort sought. As soon as Harry did this, the six D. Hermione stunned Nott when he grabbed Harry, thus freeing him and causing Nott to be injured by the collapsing shelves of prophecies.

She later stunned another Death Eater and Silenced Antonin Dolohov before he could alert the other Death Eaters to the group's location. She was critically injured by the curse Dolohov subsequently struck her with, but made a full recovery. Hermione achieved high academic prestige when she obtained ten O. She received ' Outstanding ' marks on each of them, except Defence Against the Dark Arts in which she received an ' Exceeds Expectations ,' which she dwelt upon; Ron found it amusing that she actually seemed disappointed by this.

Hermione brewing a Draught of Living Death in a N. By the time they arrived in Hogwarts, Hermione's romantic feelings for Ron had become obvious. According to Harry the two seemed on their way to a romantic relationship. Hermione and Ron 's relationship suffered greatly in their sixth year, when Ron became envious of both Hermione and Harry , who were invited to be members of the Slug Club , a group of students favoured by Potions professor Horace Slughorn , while he was ignored.

Hermione strongly disapproved of Harry using the textbook of the " Half-Blood Prince " to get ahead in Potions unfairly, though she did not turn him in and indirectly found a clue about the book owner. She was particularly alarmed by the increasingly Dark nature of the magic in the book, such as the spell Sectumsempra. However, during an argument with his sister, Ginny mocked Ron about his inexperience with the opposite gender and told him that Hermione had kissed Viktor Krum during their earlier romance.

Ron subsequently began treating Hermione coldly, much to her bewilderment. She was upset when he and Lavender started flirting. When she found out about Ron's relationship with Lavender, she conjured a flock of wild birds to attack Ron for his insensitivity regarding her feelings.

He became even angrier with her when she believed that Harry slipped Ron Felix Felicis to assist in his Quidditch -playing abilities; despite having believed it initially himself, he accused her of having no faith in him when it was discovered that he had not been slipped the potion at all. After this, Hermione attended Slughorn's Christmas party with Cormac McLaggen to get back at Ron, but it did not go well due to the former's impoliteness.

Afterwards, Ron who was relieved that Hermione and McLaggen's date did not go well attempted to speak to Hermione, but she ignored him, still upset and angry over his previous treatment of her. Madam Pomfrey checking on a poisoned Ron, while Hermione, Harry, and Ginny are sitting by his bedside. The two reconciled after Ron was hospitalised due to consuming poisoned mead, an event that left Hermione shaken and frightened.

After the incident she remained unusually quiet and subdued. Whilst sitting at Ron's bedside, Ron subconsciously muttered Hermione's name. By this time, Ron was visibly disillusioned with his relationship with Lavender , who had become possessive of him and called him by the annoying nickname " Won-Won. He began avoiding Lavender, who soon became suspicious of his relationship with Hermione, ultimately leading to an argument about her.

After Lavender saw Ron and Hermione come down alone from the boys' dormitories Harry was present also, but under the Invisibility cloak , she had a fight with Ron and broke up with him. Afterwards, Hermione and Ron were more comfortable together, and their relationship improved considerably, although a romantic relationship remained out of their reach. Hermione comforted Ron after he failed his Apparition test because he Splinched half an eyebrow, while he teased her about the instructor 's praise for her flawless performance.

That year, Hermione also quickly mastered non-verbal magic , the first in her class to do so. Throughout the year, Hermione and Ron were both sceptical of Harry's theory that Draco Malfoy had been branded with the Dark Mark and was up to something. Moreover, she was confident that Malfoy couldn't have brought any Dark objects into Hogwarts without alerting Filch.

These claims were heard by Draco himself, who used these details and Hermione's previous plan of communication to accomplish his own. A tearful Hermione standing at the base of the Astronomy Tower after Dumbledore's death. Near the end of the school year, Harry's suspicions would be proven right. Malfoy let Death Eaters into the school by means of a pair of vanishing cabinets. One cabinet resided in Borgin and Burkes and the other in the Room of Hidden Things as it had been presumed broken, but Malfoy managed to fix it.

Hermione fought in the battle and remained unscathed thanks to some Felix Felicis. He told Hermione, Ron, and Ginny to drink it beforehand in case his worries proved true. Throughout the school year, Hermione and Ron had been informed of the content of Harry's private lessons with Dumbledore. During the funeral of Albus Dumbledore , who had been killed by Snape in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Hermione was comforted by Ron and cried on his shoulder.

Afterwards, Harry told them about his desire to drop out of Hogwarts to hunt Horcruxes, which were the key to defeating Lord Voldemort. Despite his protests, Hermione and Ron promised to forgo their seventh year of school in order to assist Harry.

Before leaving the school, Hermione was able to Summon books about Horcruxes so as to learn how to destroy the items. She found them in Dumbledore's office, where the late headmaster had kept them after the subject had been banned at Hogwarts. Hermione began planning for her journey with Harry and Ron immediately. Concerned for the safety of her family, she altered her parents' memories to make them think they were Wendell and Monica Wilkins and sent them to hide in Australia , no longer aware of their original identities, the existence of their daughter, or anything she had told them about Harry.

She also withdrew all of her savings at her building society account, in event of a need for Muggle money. Hermione then joined the Order of the Phoenix in the operation to remove Harry from 4 Privet Drive before his 17th birthday, taking Polyjuice Potion to become one of the "seven Potters". Hermione flew on a Thestral with Kingsley Shacklebolt.

The two fought off at least five Death Eaters , possibly killing one, injuring two, and were pursued by Lord Voldemort himself at one point. In time, they arrived safely at the Burrow , where Hermione was immensely relieved to see Harry alive and ran to him and hugged him tight, but she was greatly worried when Ron did not show up on time. When he landed, she ran and nuzzled him in relief. She was saddened by the news of Alastor Moody and Hedwig 's murders and disturbed by Harry's vision of Garrick Ollivander being tortured.

Later on, the Minister for Magic , Rufus Scrimgeour , interrupted Harry's birthday celebrations to execute Albus Dumbledore's will and bequeath some of his belongings to the three friends.

Hermione received The Tales of Beedle the Bard , a book of children's stories written in runes. Even before Hermione understood the priceless quality of the gift, she was moved to tears by Dumbledore's great act of friendship. During the reading of Dumbledore's will, she also displayed her incredible store of general knowledge when she mentioned that " Snitches have flesh memories, " surprising both Ron and Harry, who had both believed her to know little to nothing of Quidditch.

At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding on 1 August, , Hermione wore a " floaty, lilac-coloured dress with matching high heels " and made her hair " sleek and shiny. She was happily surprised when Ron quickly asked her to dance, and when Krum asked a disguised Harry whether the two were together, Harry replied " Er Kingsley's Patronus warning the wedding attendees of the Ministry's fall. The wedding was interrupted by Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus who told the guests of the fall of the Ministry of Magic.

Hermione was prepared to make a quick escape, immediately Disapparating herself, Harry, and Ron away from the danger. Hermione also showed great foresight and magical talent when she revealed a small beaded purse on which she had placed an Undetectable Extension Charm.

Within it she had packed, amongst other things, clothing, a tent, healing supplies, Harry's Invisibility Cloak , and several useful books. However, minutes later Hermione unknowingly triggered the Taboo curse that was placed on Voldemort's name, and the trio were thus tracked down by Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle.

After a brief but violent skirmish , the Death Eaters were subdued, and Hermione modified their memories to throw them off the scent and to maintain Ron's cover story that he was sick with spattergroit and bedridden at home. At Harry's suggestion the three then made their way safely to 12 Grimmauld Place, as they could not hide anywhere within the wizarding world. After learning from Mundungus Fletcher that Dolores Umbridge had Tom Riddle's mother's locket - one of the seven Horcruxes - in her possession, the trio formed a plan to infiltrate the Ministry and reclaim the locket.

Hermione imbibed Polyjuice Potion and transformed to look like Mafalda Hopkirk , a prominent Ministry official. Hermione tricked Umbridge into telling her about the locket, which she claimed was a Selwyn family heirloom. Harry casting his Patronus at Dementors while in the trial courtroom, before capturing the locket. When Harry attacked Umbridge in a rage, their cover was blown, but she and Harry managed to free the Muggle-born prisoners and encouraged them to flee the country while Voldemort was in power.

Hermione took the locket from Umbridge, replacing it with a copy using the Geminio spell. They met up with Ron again and fled the Ministry, but Yaxley grabbed onto Hermione's arm while they were Disapparating. This meant that he was unwittingly brought inside the enchantment making Grimmauld Place undetectable, and forced Hermione to use a Revulsion Jinx to free herself from him, and then to take the trio away from Grimmauld Place.

The locket caused great pain among the three friends due to the negative energy within. They began arguing over petty issues such as cooking, and growing moodier. The negative energy from the locket caused Ron to accuse Harry of poor leadership.

They fought physically, although Hermione stopped them before they started casting spells by casting a Shield Charm between them. Ron also accused Hermione of choosing Harry over him, causing him to be jealous and feel left out by his two friends' growing friendship.

Hermione's plan backfires when, accidentally adding cat hair to her potion, she half-transforms herself into a feline, landing her in the Hospital Wing for a month.

Harry and Ron, however, are able to slip into Slytherin disguised as Crabbe and Goyle, obtaining valuable information from Draco Malfoy. As students are being Petrified, Hermione pieces clues together, leading her to suspect something about the Chamber. She dashes to the library for more information, but is Petrified before sharing what she learned with Ron and Harry.

Harry finds a torn-out page balled up in her hand that suggests the monster is a Basilisk , and it is using the plumbing to move about the school. Thanks to Hermione's help, Harry defeats the monster and saves Ginny Weasley. Hermione, when restored to health, is dismayed that final exams have been canceled. Hermione seems massively overloaded with books when we meet her in Diagon Alley.

Intending to buy an owl, she instead purchases an unusual ginger-colored cat she names Crookshanks that takes an immediate dislike to Scabbers , Ron's pet rat. Throughout the year, Hermione perplexingly appears to be taking more classes than humanly possible, including some taught at the same time. Hermione also seems to inexplicably appear and disappear before and after classes, although she dodges giving any explanation about her odd behavior. Initially, the extra work is enjoyable, but the strain eventually shows, causing Hermione to occasionally act uncharacteristically.

She punches Draco Malfoy after he insults Hagrid, who is distraught over the Hippogriff Buckbeak's impending execution. Hermione is always loyal to Harry, and setting aside her concerns about the possible danger, says nothing to Professor McGonagall about Harry's Marauder's Map, a magical document showing every person's location within Hogwarts.

With it, Sirius Black , who escaped Azkaban prison , could enter the castle and locate Harry, who Black apparently intends to murder. Hermione is unable to ignore a potentially greater threat when Harry receives an expensive Firebolt broom as an anonymous Christmas gift, and she reports it to McGonagall. Her valid argument that it may be cursed and could have been sent by Black fail to sway either Harry or Ron, who think only about riding it.

Consequently, Hermione experiences their full wrath, and they shun her, causing Hermione much heartache. Although the three reconcile after McGonagall returns the broom in the spring, tension erupts between Hermione and Ron when Ron suspects that Crookshanks killed Scabbers, who has suspiciously disappeared.

Ron is particularly upset that Hermione expresses little remorse or accepts responsibility, though being overstressed and burdened by her heavy class load and preparing Buckbeak's appeal may have left her unable to react appropriately.

She eventually apologizes to Ron about Scabbers, however, and they make up; Harry and Ron then make good on their previous promise to help with Buckbeak's case.

When Buckbeak's appeal fails, the Trio visit Hagrid shortly before the execution at sundown. To Ron's relief, Hermione finds Scabbers, but the rat escapes. Ron catches him, but a large black dog appears and grabs Ron, breaking his leg as he is pulled into a tunnel under the Whomping Willow.

Harry and Hermione follow it to the Shrieking Shack. There they encounter Sirius Black, an unregistered Animagus who assumes a dog form. Yet another unregistered Animagus is exposed: Scabbers, who is actually Peter Pettigrew. The three men were James Potter's best friends, but it was Pettigrew, not Black, who betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort, framing Sirius for the crime by killing twelve Muggles and faking his own death.

Black intends to kill Pettigrew for revenge. Pettigrew escapes, and Sirius is captured by Dementors. As the creatures prepare to suck out his soul, Hermione, prompted by Dumbledore, shows Harry a Time-Turner, a device she has been using all year to attend multiple classes.

Leaving Ron behind in the infirmary, they return to Hagrid's hut three hours earlier. As the previous events repeat, they rescue Buckbeak, then free Sirius Black, returning to the Hospital Wing at exactly the time they left. A riot breaks out after the game, and hooded figures rampage through the campground, terrorizing Muggle-borns like Hermione.

Voldemort's Dark Mark floats in the sky. She later discovers that Hogwarts' kitchens are staffed by over a hundred enslaved House-elves. Her resolve to help improve their lot soon transforms into a life-long mission. Students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang , arrive at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament , a recently revived, and dangerous, competition.

Ron soon becomes infatuated with Fleur Delacour , a Beauxbatons student. Although Hermione finds him rather annoying, a Durmstrang student, Viktor Krum becomes romantically interested in her. When Harry is mysteriously selected as the fourth Triwizard champion, Hermione is the only student who believes he did not cheat to enter himself. While others, including Ron, ostracize Harry, she remains loyal, helping him prepare for the Tournament's First Task , and providing moral support while Harry and Ron are estranged.

As a result, Harry and Hermione become even closer friends, though Hermione is relieved when Harry and Ron eventually reconcile. The Yule Ball finds both Harry and Ron dateless. Ron, desperate, asks Hermione, but she is already attending with Viktor Krum. Ron angrily accuses her of "fraternizing with the enemy," while she chastises him for having invited her only as a "last resort. For the Second Task, Hermione researches ways for Harry to remain underwater for an hour, and drills him on protective charms and jinxes for the Third Task.

Meanwhile, her curiosity is piqued by Rita Skeeter , a muck-raking journalist who reports embarrassing and also false details about her subjects in sensationalistic articles. When Hermione discovers Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus, using her beetle form to eavesdrop on private conversations, she blackmails her to prevent her from writing any more stories about Harry.

Otherwise, Hermione will report her to the Ministry as an unregistered Animagus, a serious offense. Though Hermione corresponds with Harry over the summer, her letters reveal little regarding Voldemort's return or what has been happening in the wizarding world, frustrating Harry. He is hardly placated when, after being brought to the Order of the Phoenix Headquarters , Hermione explains that she and Ron were under strict orders from Dumbledore to tell him nothing, though they, being under-aged, have actually been told little themselves.

Hermione and Ron are made Gryffindor prefects. Hermione diligently performs her prefect duties. Ron, however, is considerably less punctilious, occasionally using his powers for his own amusement and personal gain, annoying Hermione. Harry, meanwhile, is peeved at being passed over. It is soon learned that the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge , a Ministry of Magic official who attended Harry's hearing and voted to convict him for using underage magic.

When she gives an inappropriately long speech at the Welcoming Feast, only Hermione and a few faculty can concentrate on and fully comprehend her droning words; she later summarizes it for Harry and Ron as: the Ministry intends to meddle at Hogwarts.

Fearing Dumbledore is building a secret wizard army to overtake the Ministry, Umbridge, with Cornelius Fudge's support, deliberately renders Defence Against the Dark Arts into an ineffective class. Frustrated with learning nothing, Hermione urges Harry to teach real defensive magic to any interested student, thus creating "Dumbledore's Army".

It is Hermione who notices when Hagrid returns after a long absence, and helps persuade him to discuss his mission to parlay with the Giants for Dumbledore. As Umbridge gains more power and begins targeting certain teachers, particularly non-humans and half-breeds like Hagrid, for dismissal, Hermione advises Hagrid to only use Ministry-approved creatures in his classes.

Hagrid ignores her warning, however, and is eventually sacked. At Christmas, after witnessing an attack on Mr. Weasley in a vision, Harry worries that Voldemort may be possessing his mind. Hermione is concerned enough that she cancels her family skiing trip to instead go to Grimmauld Place, forcing Harry to talk with her, Ron, and Ginny. While visiting Mr. Weasley in hospital with the others, she and Ron learn the truth about Neville Longbottom's parents, who were tortured into insanity by Death Eaters, though Harry had kept Neville's secret to himself.

Hermione is instrumental in countering the misinformation and propaganda the Ministry is continually spewing regarding Harry and Voldemort. She blackmails hack journalist Rita Skeeter into writing a truthful story about Harry that Luna Lovegood's father, Xenophilius, publishes in his tabloid paper, the Quibbler.

The article changes the public's perception about Harry and Dumbledore, leaving Umbridge furious and casting doubt on the Ministry's official stance. When Harry experiences a vision that Voldemort is torturing Sirius at the Ministry of Magic, Hermione, suspecting it may be a trick, suggests using the Floo Network to attempt to contact him.

Umbridge catches them, and is about to cast the Cruciatus curse on Harry. Hermione quickly devises a cover story, fooling the vile Umbridge into believing that Dumbledore hid a secret weapon in the Forbidden Forest. She leads Umbridge there, then allows her to fall afoul of the Centaurs , who, after Umbridge insults and infuriates them, carry the screaming woman away.

But they have been lured into a trap, and are ambushed by Death Eaters intent on retrieving a Prophecy concerning Harry and Voldemort. In the ensuing battle, Hermione is seriously injured. Order of the Phoenix members arrive, and the Death Eaters are defeated, though Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange escape.

When we next see Hermione, she is recuperating in the Hospital Wing. By the time the Hogwarts Express leaves Hogsmeade for London, she is fully recovered. Professor Dumbledore encourages Harry to share with Hermione and Ron what he learns about Voldemort during their private lessons. Hermione, meanwhile, remains vexed by Ron, who is still infatuated with Fleur Delacour. She is at The Burrow preparing for her and Bill Weasley's wedding. Ron also annoys Hermione when he abuses his Prefect powers and seems overly responsive to Lavender Brown's constant flirting.

When Harry suspects Draco may be a Death Eater and is involved in a sinister plot, Hermione dismisses this, telling Harry he is over-reacting, though his suspicions actually have merit. In Professor Slughorn's potions class, Hermione is annoyed when Harry, using an old textbook filled with a former student's notations, outperforms her, even though she diligently follows the traditional instructions. Hermione grows suspicious, however, and tests Harry's book for Dark magic.

Finding none, she later searches for information about "The Half-Blood Prince," the name written inside the book's cover. Though unable to discover anything, Hermione remains convinced the Prince is a dodgy character and using his notes is cheating, though Harry and Ron disagree.

Although Hermione remains at odds with Ron, she discreetly, and surprisingly, lends him a helping hand. When Ron tries out for Gryffindor Quidditch Keeper, he competes against Cormac McLaggen , an athletically gifted but particularly arrogant student.

Hermione Confunds McLaggen during the trials, causing him to continually miss plays and winning Ron a place on the team.