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I’ve just come to the realisation that Hermione Granger probably memory charmed her parents and packed them off to Australia long before she told Harry and Ron she’d done it at the beginning of Deathly Hallows.

She literally never goes home from Goblet of Fire onwards, spending her summers with the boys instead. In GoF she’s remarkably blase about her teeth, something her dentist parents would have noticed and felt hurt about. 

If I were to guess, I’d say she probably did it after the wizarding world cup when she’d seen exactly how the wizarding world treats muggles and decided not to let that happen to her folks. Hermione knows which way the wind is blowing and gets in early. She’d be more than capable of doing it. 

…Oh my God.

hermione is fucking ruthless and i will fight anyone who tells me otherwise

that was her “negative” gryffindor trait

was she incredibly brave and courageous and loyal? yes

but she was also vicious and violent and trapped a woman as a beetle in a jar for over a year because she pissed her off

hermione granger looked at the world, and looked at her magic, and looked at everyone else’s magic, and seemed to come to the conclusion that reality had better shut the fuck up and behave itself or she’d make it. 

of all the kids, i think she’s dumbledore’s successor, not harry. 

See this is why I don’t like it when people try and pass her off as this flawless pure sweet angel. Like no, she’s emotional, loud, angry, brash, and vindictive, and she’s absolutely awesome just like that. Don’t woobify her.

YES

Like she went from “oooh, we can’t do that, we could get expelled”  (which was already pretty metal, tbh, because she said that was worse than death) to straight up LIGHTING A TEACHER ON FIRE

She went from crying when Ron said something mean about her to punching Draco right in the face

She went from stressing about the Rules to brewing illegal potions in an abandoned, haunted wash room!!!

Harry and Ron only ever taught Hermione Granger one lesson and that was to forget about rules.

Actually… 

I don’t want to light any flames or anything, but I feel like this interpretation is doing Hermione an injustice.  Hermione doesn’t go from a goody-two-shoes woobie to a loud angry fighter through a process of positive evolution.  Hermione is always BOTH a goodie-two-shoes woobie AND a loud angry fighter.  

After Hermione lit Snape on fire (and also knocked over Quirrel in the process), she was still terrified of being expelled, and was significantly reassured about continuing to snoop around because she got a 106% in her Charms class and was positive they wouldn’t kick her out after that.  Two years after she lit Snape on fire, she accidentally knocked Snape out and her immediate reaction was “oh no we attacked a teacher WE’RE GOING TO BE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!” (see Prisoner of Azkaban)  

But that didn’t stop her from using her time-turner illegally to break an internationally wanted suspected mass-murderer out of jail.  

Three years after she punched Draco Malfoy in the face, she cried because Ron made fun of her in Charms class (see Half-Blood Prince).  But that didn’t stop her from dueling with the best of them when the Death Eaters snuck into Hogwarts.  She got scared and tearful whenever Harry yelled at her in Deathly Hallows, but she still stuck by him and was there for the Final Battle.  

After she Obliviated her parents and packed everything they needed to go Horcrux-hunting, she was still carrying her first-year’s copy of Hogwarts, a History around because it felt right.  

After she brewed an illegal potion  in the bathroom, she was still yelling at Ron about abusing his power as a prefect, still getting on Harry’s case about using Felix Felicis in a competition because it was against sporting rules and regulations, still keeping her Time-Turner secret from everyone including her best friends because the rules said she had to.  She still stressed about rules.  She just found things that were more important, sometimes.  Harry and Ron never taught her to forget about rules; they just gave her causes that transcended rules and made her determined and ruthless enough to infiltrate the Ministry and rob Gringotts.  

Hermione is awesome BECAUSE she encompasses both aspects:  The nerdy, book-ish rule-abiding student who always tries to be fair and by-the-book and spends all her spare time in the library and stands up for house elves and is legitimately more terrified of expulsion than death; and the ruthless, terrifying, insanely smart witch who sets people on fire and tricks Ministry officials into getting kidnapped by centaurs and turns tapestries into stone to kill falling Death Eaters and blackmails a journalist at 15.  The fact that she’s both of these, or, rather, both of these images are of the same person – that’s fantastic.  She’s a sweet bookish angel AND a ruthless, angry, flawed hero.  Hermione Granger shows that you can be a sensitive Lawful bookworm and still be hardcore as hell.