| Hermione is a Muggle-born student at Hogwarts | | | | Furthermore, she states that like herself, "there is a |
| School of witch craft and wizardry and was sorted | | | | lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure" beneath |
| into Gryffindor House. She is the best friend of Harry | | | | Hermione's personality. Ultimately, according to |
| Potter and Ron Weasley. She is an overachiever who | | | | Rowling, next to Albus Dumbledore, Hermione is the |
| excels academically, and she is described by the | | | | ideal expository character: because of her |
| Author as a "very logical, upright and good" character. | | | | encyclopaedic awareness, Hermione can always be |
| Her dentist mom and dad are a bit bemused by their | | | | used as a plot dump to explain the Harry Potter |
| peculiar daughter, but very proud of her all the | | | | Universe. Rowling also claims that her feminist |
| same." Though J.K.Rowling has described Luna | | | | principles are saved by Hermione, "who's the |
| Lovegood as the "anti-Hermione" since they hold the | | | | brightest character" and is a "very strong female |
| exact opposite ideologies, Hermione's aggravate at | | | | character." Hermione's name was derived using William |
| Hogwarts is Pansy Parkinson, a female bully based on | | | | Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale; Rowling states that |
| real-life girls who make fun of the author throughout | | | | she wanted it to be bizarre since if fewer girls shared |
| her school days. | | | | her name, less girls would get teased for it. The |
| The author claims Hermione has several | | | | Author originally picked "Puckle" as the last name, but |
| autobiographical influences. "I did not set out to make | | | | Rowling felt the name "did not suit her at all," and so |
| Hermione like me but she is. She is an exaggeration | | | | the less giddy Granger made it into the final publishing. |
| of how I was when I was younger." I remember | | | | Rowling confirmed in a 2004 meeting that Hermione |
| being described a "little know-it-all" in her childhood. | | | | is an only child. |