Hermione Granger, a “Muggle-born” witch, was born to dentists who had no magical abilities. Despite this, she showed signs of magic from a young age, such as making things levitate, moving without touching them, and making things disappear. Hermione found out she was a witch when her Hogwarts letter came. Her parents were both magical, so they assumed that Hermione would have already known everything he needed to know. Her entry into Hogwarts marked the beginning of her remarkable journey from being an ordinary girl to becoming a magical prodigy.
Hermione’s diligence, thirst for knowledge, and ability to bridge the gap between the magical and non-magical worlds set her apart from her peers. She was hired by the Ministry’s Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she played an important role in improving the quality of life for house-elves and other wizards. Her natural spellcasting abilities are often self-taught, and her sources of information are sometimes not explained. Her near-eidetic memory allows her to recall minor details forgotten or ignored by others.
Hermione was muggle-born, meaning both of her parents were muggles or not able to do magic. She learned about magic and Wizarding from books she bought for school in Diagon Alley. Hermione discovered her witchhood when she received a Hogwarts letter, describing it as a surprise. Hermione demonstrated knowledge and talent with magic, and her wish to be a Gryffindor or a Ravenclaw was granted. After the Ministry of Magic decreed that Hogwarts students would not be taught practical defensive magic, Hermione proposes that Harry should instruct students.
However, Hermione’s parents did not wonder about her school, as they wilfully admitted her into Hogwarts after they were intimated of it. Hermione’s journey from being an ordinary girl to becoming a magical prodigy is a testament to her dedication, curiosity, and determination.
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How is Hermione a wizard if both her parents are Muggles?
Muggle-born witches or wizards are born to non-magical parents, with their magical abilities not affected by their Muggle parentage. Many of these individuals have been powerful witches and wizards, such as Lily Evans and Hermione Granger. The proportion of Muggle-born wizards is increasing as pure-blood families shrink. Muggle-borns inherit magic from distant ancestors, descended from Squibs who married Muggles and lost knowledge of their wizarding legacy. This magic resurfaces unexpectedly many generations later.
How can two Muggles have a wizard child?
The concept of blood-status in wizarding society is not based on genes, but rather on the person’s birth order. Muggleborn refers to a person having non-magical parents, pure-blood to those with magical parents and grandparents, and half-blood to those with magical parents and grandparents. This construct is a construct of wizarding society, and a magical child of two muggle-born individuals would be half-blood. The term “Muggleborn” is used to emphasize the concept of born.
How did Hermione go to Hogwarts if she’s a Muggle?
Hermione, a witch with magical abilities, was afforded the chance to pursue her studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry due to her status as a Muggle-born and the recessive nature of magic, which is passed down from both her parents or a gene mutation.
Do Hermione’s parents ever remember her again?
J. K. Rowling confirmed that Hermione brought her parents back home after a fan asked about her ability to remember her. This is a positive development as it is difficult to imagine Hermione’s parents never remembering her. Hermione is an inspiring character who follows her heart and instincts. Emma Watson, who started reading Harry Potter at age 8, identified with Hermione and was eager to learn in an uncool way. She also mentioned that Snape killed Dumbledore.
Did Hermione’s parents know she was a witch?
Hermione Granger, a witch, was born to a muggle family in Great Britain. Hermione and her husband, Arthur Weasley, entered the magical world in 1992 to buy school supplies for her. However, Hermione had to alter her parents’ memories to protect them from the Death Eaters. After the Second Wizarding War ended, they returned their memories and had grandchildren, Rose and Hugo Granger-Weasley. Mrs. Granger was born to Muggle parents, possibly descended from a Squib.
Did Hermione’s parents ever remember her?
In the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War, J. K. Rowling corroborated the account that Hermione had traveled to Australia with the objective of restoring and rectifying her parents’ memories. This endeavor was ultimately successful, resulting in the retrieval of their memories and their subsequent return to their professional lives as dentists.
Is Hermione the heir of Slytherin?
The biological parents of Hermione were Daneel and Dean Novak, two pure-blooded wizards. Daneel was the younger sister of Tom Riddle and a member of the Riddle family, which was connected to Salazar Slytherin. Hermione was the living heir to the Slytherin legacy, yet she was afflicted with a curse.
Did Hermione’s parents remember her again?
In the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War, J. K. Rowling corroborated the account that Hermione had traveled to Australia with the objective of restoring and rectifying her parents’ memories. This endeavor was ultimately successful, resulting in the retrieval of their memories and their subsequent return to their professional lives as dentists.
Is Hermione a heir of Slytherin?
The biological parents of Hermione were Daneel and Dean Novak, two Pureblood wizards who were distantly related to Tom Riddle’s younger sister, Daneel Riddle. This made Hermione the living heir of Salzar Slytherin.
Is Harry a pureblood?
Blood purity laws and the Spanish Inquisition in Mediaeval Spain were used to regulate the activities of Spanish conversos, who converted to Christianity from Judaism or Islam. These conversos were scrutinized and even persecuted for any hint of heresy or apostasy. J. K. Rowling consciously drew parallels between blood purity and Harry Potter, stating that a Muggle-born person is as bad as a Muggle, and Harry would be considered only ‘half’ wizard due to his mother’s parents. The Nazis used the same warped logic as the Death Eaters to show what constituted ‘Aryan’ or ‘Jewish’ blood, using the same warped logic as the Death Eaters.
Another parallel between blood purity and Harry Potter is seen in the American Mafia, which requires only full-blooded Italian men to become “made men” or gain full-fledged mafioso status. However, the American Mafia has found it increasingly difficult to adhere to these standards due to the large amount of immigration and intermarriages in the United States. Newer mafia codes now allow men who can prove Italian ancestry through patrilineal descent to be made. These parallels in Muggle society have caused great strife, suffering, and cruelty in society.
Why is Neville not a Hufflepuff?
Neville, a true Gryffindor, initially asked the Sorting Hat to place him in Hufflepuff due to his fear of Gryffindor’s reputation for bravery. However, the Hating Hat disagreed, leading to Neville being close to being a Hatstall, a student whose Sorting takes longer than five minutes. Hatstalls are rare, and Hermione Granger was the only other student in his year to come close to being one. The Sorting Hat eventually won, making Neville’s request the correct choice.
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Harry’s delivery was unique. I mean very unique. His aunt knew, visited platform 9 3/4, had instructions from Dumbledore, knew that they couldn’t perform magic away from school… The school officials (while perusal Harry intently) relied upon Petunia to tell the story. She failed. She had two simple tasks: keep Harry alive and tell his story.
I’ve never understood why Harry doesn’t act more like Hermione. I understand he’s not technically muggleborn, but for all intents and purposes he is. Why is he nodding off in history of magic or talking through other classes. He should be wholly enthralled with this new world, not shrugging it off like Ron, who grew up with it for 11 years prior to book 1.
I know how I would react if a stranger came to talk with me about a magical school. As a skeptical person I would have said “Prove it do something magical and then I may believe.” Exactly what Tom asked Dumbledore when they met and he provided proof without questions. Whoever is telling students that they are magical must be someone nice and patient and look like a normal human. Hagrid is not the ideal because he is so huge he might appear scary if you don’t know him. So besides Dumbledore and McGonagall I would say Sprout is a good option as well she is a kind person.
There are things I’m wondering about considering the book and the quill. – Will they recognise a muggle-born child with magic who wasn’t born in the UK/Ireland but moved there before their eleventh birthday? – What if a muggle-born only visits Britain before returning to their original country? – What about muggle-born children who move out of the UK/Ireland before they are old enough for Hogwarts? – How do the book and the quill keep track of this?
Back in high school some odd 8 years ago, when I wrote a series of Wattpad stories of a character attending Hogwarts as a Hufflepuff in the same year as Harry, my character was muggle-born and McGonagall showed up on his birthday with a letter. Dad was skeptical and mom was open about it. Dad asked for proof and McGonagall transfigured a glass cup into a blue jay. Fast forward to a week later, McGonagall arrives again so they can go to the Leaky Cauldron via car and as they pass through the Diagon Alley brick wall, Hermione and her parents greet McGonagall and informs her that they found all of their items just fine, although Hermione’s dad was struggling with carrying all the extra books Hermione didn’t need, but wanted.
I’ve always wondered what happens to magical children, including muggle born who aren’t invited to the magical schools? Where do these students go to learn, or are they left to learn on their own? I know we’ve heard about all the major wizarding schools, but are there smaller schools for those that aren’t selected or can’t afford the bigger schools?
I wonder how things work for transfers, like Natsai Onai in the newest game. Is it like, as soon as the book notices this kid is in its catchment area for X amount of time, it registers them? Or does it register all magical people all over the world, but letters are only sent to people in a certain area? Or do transferring students just get handled separately (in the “old fashioned” way from before the book)?
I always thought a representative of the wizarding world visited them and explained it including the statute of secrecy. Then if they agreed they were left with an information packet containing everything they would need to know including how to find diagon alley. If you think about it magical people would of course be able to escort muggles to the leaky cauldron so muggleborn could get their school supplies. Although I think most muggleborn come from squib lines that forgot they were once magical.
I’d be curious to find out whether the death eaters attempted to have that book in any fashion modified or even confiscated and destroyed when they took over Hogwarts in 1997. Wouldn’t put it past them to pull something like that if they could, considering their determination to subjugate everybody that didn’t fall right in line with them, most Muggle Borns only being beat out by Harry Potter as their own personal public enemies number one. A major part of how Harry’s education began is how Hagrid is the one who informed him what he was when he didn’t know it before he turned 11. I have often relished how Harry reflected on it in the events of Harry Potter and the half blood prince when he learned of Dumbledore divulging to the future Lord Voldemort that’s what he was, how Tom Riddle was almost immediate to accept it. Harry reflected he didn’t believe it at first when he was informed by Hagrid he was a wizard.
Hagrid said that Harry’s name had been written in the book since the day he was born. This was during his conversation with Mr dursley who said he would not allow him to attend Hogwarts. So if they’re waiting for the first magic to happen which would make sense in case you had given birth to a squib how did they know Harry would definitely be magical?
Many things that a child can perform would be to most eyes indistinguishable from magic or simply non-magical talents. To use three examples well outside the zone: 1 – Bruce Banner used his genius as a very small boy to build up a complex construction set to a degree well beyond his years. His abusive father Brian (NOT David!) smashed the set in a drunken rage, declaring the boy must be a mutant, affected by his own work on the Manhattan Project. 2 – On an episode of The Flintstones, Fred dreamed that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm became stellar musicians and singers – despite not yet being able to talk. Inside the dream, a doctor declared they could do this because no one had ever told them they couldn’t. Bit of a stretch, but there is a bit of RL psychology in there as well. 3 – In Dragon Ball, Goku’s granddaughter Pan could easily fly as an infant, even able to survive on the edge of space. Yet by the time she was roughly five, she had to re-learn this ability consciously, and under the duress of an enemy attack. Hermione for her part could have simply aced all her studies by accessing unknown magic to read her regular-school texts at warp-speed, and it was just shrugged off as smarts.
I think the reason Nevil name is not accepted by the book right away is because his destiny is entwine with Harry. if Voldemort has come to kill Nevil instead of Harry, and if Nevil would survive the encounter, the book would have let the quil write Nevil name down. both Harry and Nevil name got written down After they survived an event that should have killed them.
I had a thought which is probably way off topic but what happens to “special needs” kids of magical parents? It’s all hypothetical but disabled kids might either have the ability to perform spells, or need help controlling inadvertent spells (not to be confused with what happened to Ariana Dumbledore). So are they simply trained at home?
I like to think that someone, probably McGonagall, broke into the tower and hid the book and quill when Voldemort seized power, thereby protecting as best she could the Muggle-born witches and wizards who were about to be in extreme danger from Voldemort’s regime. Also, since this book only seems to cover magical children born in the British Isles, the question arises of how they get information on people not native to Britain. For example, say you were a magical child born in another country who was adopted by a nonmagical British family.
Can you imagine a child Today! getting the Hogwarts letter? Initial excitement turns to horror and disgust at just how backwards, bigoted and primitive the magical world is. No mobile phone, no online games, no facebook etc, etc, etc. I think an acceptance would quickly turn into “I’ve changed my mind, no way in hell” JK never covered what happens if either the child or parents refuse? Do the parents have any authority to tell the deadly weapon carrying magical to GET OUT and Never Return? Or in that case is the quick obliviate or compulsion to force compliance used?
A couple of interesting implications of the quill and book. First of all, I’m sure the Ministry would be itching to get their hands on them as we know that they can detect where magic is performed, but not who by. The quill and book are significantly more powerful than whatever they have. Second, the fact no one knows (or admits to knowing) how the quill and book work, means no other magical schools in the world have anything like them, which means most muggleborns in the world are never discovered and live their whole lives not knowing they are magical.
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Is such a good quote. So many people live their lives wrapped up in something like Harry Potter or article games and become obsessed in some cases. They forget to go make something of their own and to go experience life. I think it is a powerful quote. It sounds like it should be written in Proverbs.
What always was interesting to me. When informing Muggle-borns, how to hell do you manage to maintain the statute of secrecy? Are Unbreakable Vows performed? Would that even work on a muggle? I’m sure it’s rare enough, I guess even if the parents went bragging about their child, people would just call them crazy, but that still seems like a massive liability.
Could you imagine being a squib that was raised by muggles? Getting sent to an insane asylum because you swear there are cloaked creatures flying around sucking the soul out of people during voldemorts reign 😂😂 nobody else can see them so everyone thinks you’re crazy because you don’t know you have wizard blood lmaoo
I wonder how the admissions process handles borders and migration. Across the centuries, did wizards in the website Islands get admitted to Hogwarts or Beauxbatons? There was lots of movement from Britain to the new world (and Oceania – I see you AUS and NZ) during the history of the school, including Ilvermorny’s founder Isolt Sayre. Are their names removed? Ignored? Do they get a Hogwarts letter across the sea anyway and it is up to them to decide which school to attend? (Gasp! An American at Hogwarts? Perish the thought!) If Hermione’s parents had moved to Melbourne when she was very little, which school would she have been admitted to? Or the other direction, if Queenie and Tina Goldstein’s family had moved to the UK when they were little, would they get added to the book when it realized there were new underage wizards in their jurisdiction? Yes, I always have lots of questions.
I wonder if Ilvermorny had a similar system for detecting young witches and wizards to admit into their school? Because assuming Credence’s foster mother Mary Barebones would have burnt any letters he received, surely somebody from Ilvermorny would have tried to contact him directly and tell him about his magical roots like Hagrid did with Harry. Although knowing Mary Lou Barebones, I imagine such an undertaking would have been dangerous even for a skilled professor.
“Well, Just (insert muggle name), did you ever make anything happen? Anything you couldn’t explain, when you were angry or scared?…You’re a (witch/wizard), (insert name). And a thumping good one I’d wager, once you’re trained up a little.” I’d like to believe that this is how all muggleborns are told and that Hagrid was following the script when telling Harry, who up to then was effectively treated as a muggleborn.
A rethinking is needed here. Muggles are not ignorant of magic. Everyone is aware of magic, but doesn’t think it plays any significance in real life or just don’t believe in it. With a few months or even years of worrying after seeing your kid do magic you might even be thrilled to have someone come by to set you at ease. With 1000 kids at school / 7 years = a 1st year class of about 143. how many would have no knowledge of the wizarding world? maybe a quarter. That’s about 36. Did you see Harry’s first year class? Seems a tall order for just one person.
Both muggleborns said they goy a letter and didnt mention anyone visiting…. Im a major harry potter fan (like for real i ADORE this stuff) but this lore was added by Rowling with obvious problems if you follow the books itself (not bashing the article, it was nicely made, just pointing out the loreproblem itself 😊)
Everything sounds reasonable when professionally narrated…even when completely wrong. One absolute is that the wizarding word MUST remain concealed from the muggles; the phenomenon known as a “witch hunt” is known that way for a reason! Which means that not every muggleborn parent can be told, like the Creevy family — that discretion would have to land on the staff member sent! Meaning the parents (and siblings if any) might have to be midwiped, or at least glamoured to reinterpret the departure into something acceptably mundane, a posh British boarding school, military academy, or reform school, whatever suits the parent’s feelings about and intents for the child!
If Hogwarts actually was the very best school of witchcraft and wizardry, would magical students ever be declined admission because they just didn’t have the potential to meet standards? Would such a witch or wizard be homeschooled instead (assuming they are not muggle-born) or would they receive a letter of acceptance from a school of lesser renown? What if Fleur wanted her children to attend Beauxbatons instead of Hogwarts for whatever reason? Can students choose a different school if they are already accepted into Hogwarts (assuming they wished to go elsewhere)?
I wonder if there is any type of intent charm also on the quil and book? Like if the magic the young wizard performed was intended to harm another person. I would think character would have a bigger role in acceptance. That could of kept a lot of the would be death eaters out the school. Not just if you have magical ability, also is your magical infinity more dark in nature?
3:00 notice that means it’s not perfect, as if a child simply happens to not use any magic during their childhood, or any such later circumstances, these kids can be mistaken as squibs. This happened to Voldemort’s mother, and in retaliation for not being chosen, her pathetic sh^t stain of a father proceeded to force her to be a slave to the family, regularly beat her, and unlike other families that kick squibs out, the bastard would keep her locked in, unable to even seek a future for herself. After enough of this abuse, she very finally revealed herself not a Squib, and well, things got bloody, but it’s a big example how the process is not perfect.
I’ve been a long standing viewer of this website and don’t take this the wrong way, but I’ve noticed that we are recycling articles. We’ve had this exact topic in a article already like a year ago. Maybe we’re running low on things to talk about at this point, but keep being creative. We love this website,but repeat content is kind of unappealing.
As soon as this article popped up I suggested for me I’m like bro we already know I mean Harry wasn’t muggle born but he was orphaned when he was too young to know what the hell he was looking at he was only 15 months old and he was raised with some abusive muggles he was as close to Muggle warness we need to see to know that’s how they would handle it basically send a letter and they’d probably be a bit more subtle about it until they needed to send it multiple times and then would they send hagrid every time probably not they probably want to be a little less conspicuous but clearly they know they were dealing with a s*** family and they wanted to send somebody a bit more imposing than say flitwick cuz let’s put it to you straight without using his wand flitwick would be folded like a lawn chair by Vernon dursley
I wonder after how ever amount of years it will take the wizard gene will eventually be in every person on earth and then eventually making it so muggles no longer exist like in theory although natural selection has been slowed down significantly people with wizard blood are more likely to live longer allowing them to affect the gene pool more significantly I wonder if thousands of years into the future there will be no divide because everyone is magic excluding the occasional squib
Quill senses magic and the book only allows the truth to be written in it. Thusly the quill can sense all magical people and tries to write their name but if the statement “blank is a witch or wizard” isn’t true then the book closes. Same magic that allows for the trace and the same magic as a truth serum.
would love to see a random spin off movie in modern times where the professor has to go to a muggle household to let the parents know their child is magical and admitted to hogwards…but the prof. has to go some sketchy streets in the city to tell the parents who are crazy angry druggies. and the parents are against it but child is brilliant and wants to escape their troubled living situation and explore their magical side and it woul be hilaruous of macgonnagull had to deal with some piss shitter in the city and grungy and twisted.
by your theory there is ONE problem … the dursley’s … all Muggles … BUT they got a mailed letter …. BUT they also knew about magic … so the theory wuld have to differentiate between knowing magic exists and NOT knowing … then harry would fit fine and herminoe would have been hand delivered … as her parents didnt know …
So if you’re muggle born and become a witch or wizard, then have a child with another muggle born wizard or witch, does that make the child muggle born even though both parents are adept at magic? Like if magic just manifested itself out of nowhere into a muggle born child, isn’t that like the start of a new magic lineage like the original families?
I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way, but when I was perusal Harry Potter for the first time as a kid, this was the first time I ever saw the United Kingdom being a melting pot. When I visited London a few years ago, it was even more diverse. I’m glad things like Harry Potter showed me how diverse Europe can truly be
I was wondering what would happen if the parents of a muggle-born magical child declined to send their child to Hogwarts. But then I remembered that when Harry’s uncles, who were legally responsible for him, declined to do so, Harry was forcibly removed from them. Of course they were awful people that mistreated Harry, but what if the parents were actually good and loving to their kid but only didn’t want to send their child away? After all, someone dressed in odd robes and claiming that magic exists banged at your door saying that your child is magic and has to go study at a school of magic in the Scottish Highlands. That’s crazy! A responsible parent would least want to visit said school to see if everything is alright, but from what I hear, that doesn’t happen. But let’s say you, as parent, was allowerd to visit Hogwarts and even then decided against letting you kid go there. What then? Would one or more wizards actually kidnap you child for an entire year and take it Hogwarts? Would they put a spell on you so you would forget about it or would they control your mind so you would allow you child to go? Putting legal considerations aside, any of those 3 outcomes would be really messed up! In one they kidnap you child, and in the other two they kidnap your child and take away your free will. This seems like a really messed up thing to do! But it doesn’t surprise all that much, given the Wizarding World of Harry Potter already seems to have some very archaic customs even in the 20th century.
If a staff member is responsible for hand delivering the letter to a muggle household, then why is it that Harry’s letter/Letters arrived by owl. Was it perhaps, that the quill of acceptance assumed Harry’s parents were still alive, and if so how come the likes of Dumbledore and Mcgonagall to name a few didn’t acknowledge this. Being that they were aware of Harry’s household receiving letters by owl. Interesting topic I thought I’d bring up based on this articles ideologies. ^^
I imagine Hermione getting a visit because she’s the first in their family to be magic… to Harry however, a letter would suffice since Aunt Petunia knows who and what his parents were. Even if she didn’t want him to practice magic she could have explained everything when the letter arrived…. Just that it would be much harder for Harry initially if it were not for Hagrid showing him around.
Something strange. I often use Closed Captioning when I watch articles. In every instance, the words child, children and young are sort of censored. No missing letters, just an asterisk stuck in there: chi*ld, chi*ldren, you*ng. While reading, it’s just jarring — I wonder why that is? Is it YouTube automatically generating this, or did the author of the article input their own Closed Caption text & do it? It’s just.. Odd..
I always just assumed the muggle born child would get the same treatment as Tom riddle in the orphanage. A teacher or representative of the school would go to the family and explain everything and offer then a letter to the school. Harry was a little different because the family knew about it already and chose not to tell him so the letter just came, a million times, until it was hand delivered.
We know from how Hermione was about Divination that she’s a very logical and practical person who would always find a reasonable explanation instead of a mystical one. For example when Lavender’s bunny died in Prisoner of Azkaban. That was when she believed in magic but didn’t really believe in Divination, before her Hogwarts letter she wouldn’t have really believed in magic either. When she was a kid, she and her parents were probably also people who would find a rational explanation for any unexplained magical signs Hermione showed. Hermione could have regularly had magical powers and still have explained it away somehow so they would still be surprised to find out she was a witch. Even though Hermione is intelligent, I don’t think knowing all along fits her personality
a saw a headcannon that hermione read matilda at a young age, she saw a smart, bright, brave little girl with frizzy hair and immediately connected with her in every way. then its revealed that matilda is magical, and she knocks a glass off of a table. hermione tries the same thing and succeeds. its a cute fan thing, but it also fits as her first use of magic, and learning that shes different
I have always thought that she knew she was different and may have struggled with this difference because in the Muggle world, she would have been an oddity. Being as logical as she is, she would have tried to figure out a logical reason for why she could do the things that she could do and would have been a little afraid that she was mentally ill or insane because “magic” didn’t exist in her world. I’ve always thought that the reason she and Ron made a good pair is that even though she was clever, I think she may have had a part of her that suffered from impostor’s syndrome and insecurity. Something Ron would understand and empathize with.
Aren’t muggle born witches and wizards visited by a Hogwarts teacher so that it can be explained properly? I can’t imagine only receiving a Hogwarts letter would be enough for most muggles. I’m sure I read that somewhere. I know Harry didn’t receive a visit until Hagrid arrived at the hut, but maybe the school thought he’d have known he was a wizard having been told about his parents by the Dursleys (which was a mistake to have assumed). With Hermione, I imagine, like Harry, odd things did happen around her, but as a highly logical individual, she probably tried to find mundane, logical explanations. Then once she received her visit and letter, the Grangers went to Diagon Alley to get her school supplies asap so that Hermione could study.
It’s also quite possible that Hermione really didn’t know until her letter, but of course once she knew she would immediately start studying. She is intelligent but isn’t the most open minded, especially to a fantastic explanation. Xeno Lovegood called her out on that and I think that is the main reason she wasn’t sorted into Ravenclaw. She did some serious mental gymnastics to avoid believing the Hallows were meaningful.
Wow! I think Hermione would have performed accidental magic, then researched it and found a way to control it or at least focus it. She wouldn’t have been able to do anything grand, but she may have been on par (in her own way) as Tom Riddle was before he attended Hogwarts. Of course she would have been trying to use it more practically as opposed to power plays; however I think that leads into how Hermione could cast a full “Reparo” spell before getting to Hogwarts. Even in their first attempts at transfiguration, Hermione is the only one with any success. She has exercised her magic early, so she is more adept.
If Hermione was practicing magic before she boarded the Hogwarts Express… why was she never warned by the Ministry? Also of interest to note is that the Trace can’t seem to differentiate between magic used by an Adult and a underage, so they rely upon the parents to keep their children from using Magic which means that technically there isn’t much keeping members of magical families from using magic underage.
I think that Hermione always knew that she was different but wasn’t sure how. Though as a muggle she would have been told fairy tales and children’s stories that had characters who were witches in it. I don’t know if they would have had any television shows that would have depicted witches like in America with the TV shows Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage Witch where she could have picked it up from television though she may not have watched much TV while growing up. Though she would have been told officially on her 11th birthday and depending on when her birthday is and if it is in September after the September 1 cut off date she would have had almost a year to research all that she could about the wizarding world.
Hermione was a Wiccan when she was a kid. Not a Witch. Hermione was not given the Witch title by her family when she was born or after she was born and Hermione didn’t give herself the title of a Witch until later on in her life. Good thing that Hermione was given the title of Witch or else Hermione would have to have joined a Witch Club and the Witches would have to give Hermione the title of a Witch. I myself am a Sensitive Christian Wiccan of Native American Indian ancestry.
Would Hermione truly be a “mudblood”? because if shes the only known witch or wizard in her family then perhaps she is truly the FIRST magical individual in her bloodline starting a magical lineage. In all honesty and in my opinion the whole “being magical from the start to the end” of an entire family sounds a bit off…possible yeah, but your talking of thousands of years of blood lineage and your telling me all that time no one decided to get it on with a muggle? even if it wasn’t consensual.
I scrolled through all of your articles but I didn’t see anything that mentioned what happened to Hermione after the second wizarding war. Since she erased her parents memory of her, was she able to reverse that or were they forever lost to her? I remember being very sad after the last movie wondering if she was ever able to go back to them.
But in book 1, on the train she tells harry and that it was a surprise and that she tried some spells and the worked for her. That means she would have had to of read them from a book. Which she would have got from diagonally and she only knew that after getting her letter and therefor should have gotten in trouble 😂
I have no idea from a know it all.. Where did she get all books to know all these spells and magic classes questions. No one of her age for first year muggle born had access to books.. harry didn’t know the answer because aunt and uncle hid it from him… Who brought her to the magic ally to get books before 12 years old?
I just thought of something… Obviously muggle born wizards who grow up in the muggle world attend regular schools before going to Hogwarts. But what about magical families whose children have lived all along on the wizarding world? Where do those kids get their primary education? Like where did Ron learn to read and write and basic maths, and was he learning magic already too at his previous school? And is there only one primary school in the wizarding world (that would explain how families know each other before Hogwarts)? Or maybe wealthy wizards send their kids to private schools? Has JK Rowling ever addressed this in Pottermore?? So many unanswered questions!