Hermione is a young girl. Her family are "muggles", which means that they don't have any magical powers.
, they have great
in their daughter's abilities.
She is sometimes
by cruel pupils who claim that she isn't
, but she always proves them wrong with her
mastery of spells.
She is probably
at Hogwarts. She can often be found at the library, her nose
in books.
The first time she meets Harry, and Ron, she
Ron for his inability to perform a
to turn his rat yellow. She proves just how much she knows by declaring that she memorized all the textbooks
. She constantly
her peers with her knowledge, so Harry and Ron initially consider her
, especially after she criticises Ron's incantation of the Levitation Charm. She is a little know-it-all and can sometimes be seen as
because of her encyclopaedic knowledge, but she would do anything for her friends and often
with the solution to help Harry.
she dislikes breaking school rules, she lies to protect Harry and Ron from
and thus wins their friendship.
Hermione is the
behind the plan to enter the place where the stone is hidden.