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CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Hermione Jean Granger
Nicknames: Mione (but very rarely will she let someone get away with this)
Age/Date of Birth: 24 / 19 Sept 1979
Blood Status: Muggleborn
House/School and Year: Hogwarts. Gryffindor. 1991-1997 (NEWTs finished by correspondence)
Occupation: Asst Head of the Department for the Regulation & Control of Magical Creatures. Also training for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Current Residence: Currently she lives at Lancaster Gate, London. W2 in St. James's, just a few blocks from the London Library which is the foundation for the three stories of the European Wizarding Library. It's a modest house, but large enough that Ron feels comfortable and not poor.
Marital Status: Single

PERSONALITY

She began Hogwarts as brainy, insufferable, know-it-all. But by what should have been her last year at Hogwarts, she remained all of those things except insufferable. She might not be the most agreeable person, but she's certainly a lot easier to get along with now than she was originally. Partially she has toned herself down in an attempt to calm the ridicule and indignant looks she still gets just for being who she is. But a lot of her calmer and less forward attitude has come with age, she has matured greatly. That, of course, doesn't stop her from learning all she can about everything she can. After all, someone's got to be brains behind the operation. Harry's the name and the power, Ron's the courage and the loyalty, but those two could only get so far without her. Although most times Hermione only claims to be cleaning up the messes that Ron and Harry make, which is only partially true. After all, she does her fair share of getting them into trouble where trouble is not needed. Hermione has a habit of reciting the rules under the guise of scolding the two of them, when really she's only reciting the rules in order to find a loophole and a way around them. And while she has calmed down quite a bit, she still manages to sound like a know-it-all when she runs off on a tangent about something she has a passion for. Even some of her co-workers and peers get irritated when Hermione starts up about the unjust treatment of certain creatures. Or how shallow the media is. Or any number of other things that happen to catch and hold her attention until she wears it out and makes everyone around her absolutely sick to death of hearing about it.

And while Hermione has spent many years as a go-between for the testosterone of the trio, she's been trying to get a hold of her own emotions more and more lately. At one time, Hermione had a habit of jumping blindly into things. SPEW, for example. Things that should have been thought out beforehand. But now nothing is a blind leap for Hermione. She's become so meticulous about things that she has OCD tendencies and is considered very anal by anyone who knows her. She does things like alphabatizing her personal library, and color coding the clothes in her closet. Everything in her flat has a place and everything is in order. The only thing that even appears out of order with Hermione is her hair (despite her desperate attempts, it is entirely possibly to not have a hair out of place when out of place is all that her hair will ever be).

Her habit of showing off her rather vast intelligence has subsided. Some say into something that can only be described as embarrassment. Although really it's only Hermione's attempt at modesty. She's sick of being known as insufferable. It's been years since she's dated and she has herself convinced that the saying about successful women (that they're doomed to fail in relationships) must be true. After so many years of emotional repression, Hermione has been working on not standing out so much. Although with a stubborn personality like she has, that's looking less and less plausible. And, of course, that hasn't really stopped her from butting heads with the one person she actually has feelings for. Despite the fact that Hermione does her best to remain at least a little less offensive and forward around most people, Ron has a way of just working up her nerves. It's very hard for her to hold her temper around him. Because of her deep emotional attachment to Ron, she's severely sensitive to the things he says. Ron could say something completely meaningless that Hermione would write off and ignore from anyone else, but with Ron it could spiral into a three week argument. This, as well as her complete immersion into her work, is just another way that Hermione deals (or rather, refuses to deal) with her emotions and believes that she's protecting herself from getting her heart broken yet again.

APPEARANCE

Height: She's 160 cm (5'4"), not tall or short.
Weight: She weighs 66 kg (145 lbs), not fat or thin.
Hair: Her hair is light brown and bushy, as always. It's kept long (because if you've ever seen bushy hair short, you would too) and usually pulled back into a single ponytail to make sure it stays out of her way.
Eyes: Her eyes are a deep chocolate brown.
Body Type: Her build is moderate. She's slightly toned, but not enough to be noticed normally.
Style of Dress: She wears mostly jeans and a t-shirt under her robes in casual situations, or dress pants and a nice blouse while at work or training. Every now and again she dresses up, but that is very rare.
Scars, Marks or Tattoos: She has a few tiny scars here and there (from the battles of her youth), but nothing noticeable (especially compared to her hair). In fact, if she didn't have so much hair, you could see a large scar on top of her head from an oven door cracking her skull when she was small.
General Description: Hermione's never really been beautiful. She was born a plain, pale faced baby with curly brown locks and chocolate brown eyes. And she grew up to be a plain, pale faced girl with curly brown locks and chocolate brown eyes. And to this day, she remains a plain, pale faced woman with curly brown locks and chocolate brown eyes. A more appropriate description of Hermione, on her best days at least, would be stunning. When she walked into the ball on the arm of Viktor Krum looking very well put-together, the crowd was stunned. When Ron first noticed she was a girl, he was stunned. When her Poppa, just before he died, took a final look at her and said she was a lovely young woman, he was stunned at the sudden appearance of his grandbaby as a woman. Hermione started out as a mediocre baby and remains as such. She has a well-shaped body, fit from all the running around the trio does (even now, you wouldn't believe the publicity), although you'd never know it with the way she wears gigantic baggy robes. She doesn't know how to wear them to accentuate her figure. Hermione has no real sense of style. Mostly she wears blacks and whites and greys (with the occasional red and gold thrown in for house-spirit) because they're easy to match. Although she does have a bit of color in her wardrobe. Mostly she just wears color with jeans, though. It's easier that way. Fleur and Ginny keep trying to help her with her style and appearance, but Hermione will have none of that frivolity.

HISTORY

Franklin Michael Granger and Charlotte Suzanne Youngs-Granger were blessed early in the morning on September 19th of 1979 by a bundle of joy with curly brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. Franklin and Charlotte, clearly the most intellectual people they knew, decided on the most cultural name they could think of, a tribute to Shakespeare. She was given the middle name of her maternal grandmother (who died before she was born). And so Hermione Jean Granger came into the life, practically reading from birth. Her mother had read every book on pregnancy and infants. So while in the womb Hermione was bombarded by every classical novel and every classical artist her mother could procure. Her little body was nurtured by the healthiest foods her mother could ingest and the best exercise her mother could find. Hermione was on her way to ultimate intelligence before she had even entered the world yet.

The world was a maze of mysteries for Hermione as a child. She entered eagerly into school, ready to learn more than what the books at their house could teach her. For the first year or so Hermione was bright eyed and bushy tailed. She was a cheerful child and very social. She had lots of friends and spent almost as much time being social as she did learning. But that changed rather quickly. Hermione learned within a few short years that smart kids were often picked on by the bullies. And she wasn't accustomed to just letting things like that go. She hated being picked on or seeing other people picked on. So she fought back, for a little while. Until the strange things started happening. When she would get angry or too depressed or otherwise emotional, her magic started exploding out. She didn't know then that it was magic, of course. But when the electrical things around her started to malfunction in response to her emotions, Hermione started to retreat into herself. She started thinking something must be wrong with her.

That's why Hermione was so thrilled to receive her Hogwarts letter. She thought that finally she had found a place where she would fit in. The things she was made fun of for in the Muggle World were pretty much normal in the Wizarding World, or so it seemed. She was so excited and her excitement didn't die down until the first few weeks of school were over. It was then that she finally realized that things here were just the same as things elsewhere. She was made fun of here for being Muggle-born the same way she was made fun of in the Muggle World for being a witch (even if they didn't know that's what they were making fun of). And just like everywhere else, the intelligent were looked down upon. It might have been easier if she'd been sorted into Ravenclaw, but then her life would have taken a whole different turn. Perhaps a more boring turn. And truly, Hermione probably wouldn't have ever found where she really belonged if she would have been sorted into Ravenclaw.

First year began and ended in a flurry, like all the years following. She was thrown into a million different situations that brought her closer and closer to Harry and Ron. Despite their obvious differences, the trio were like three peas in a pod. Inseparable. And unbelievably loyal toward each other. Harry was the name and the power. Ron was the loyalty and the strategy. And Hermione has always been the logical and the intelligence. She's the one who recites all the rules under the guise of scolding the other two. The truth, though, is that she is only trying to find a way around the rules. So they fought trolls and Death Eaters and any number of other evils. They all came face to face with Voldemort at one time or another in one form or another. But they managed to pull through, together.

Of course, sometimes the togetherness was as much a problem as a solution for Hermione. The closer the trio got, the harder it was for Hermione to hide her feelings for Ron. But she was pretty set in holding her feelings inside. What good would they do while the trio was running around trying to save the world? They would only get in the way. Hermione tried her best to suppress them, of course. But sometimes they slipped through. Often, in fact, in the form of arguments. Sometimes in the form of jealousy (the Lavender thing) or spite (the Cormac thing). But she kept herself from actually admitting to him how she felt, and that was important to Hermione, for a time. As important as school, really. Or nearly as important. Education was something she enjoyed, but also something she hid behind.

Although as the years wore on, education was becoming less and less of a shelter from the real world. The real world, and the war, it seemed, were coming right into Hogwarts. Everything kept coming closer and closer. And soon, in fact, Hermione decided to leave school behind to fight for something bigger. Hermione found something more important to her than marks or NEWTs. And that decision, more than anything, was the first real proof that Hermione had matured much more than anyone had expected. And much quicker as well. How else could she have actually dealt with all the pain and loss that was to follow during the last few months of that terrible war? But coming out of the other side of the horrible war, Hermione found a way to appear stronger and more directed... at the very least more dedicated.

Directly after the war and the initial clean-up process, Hermione set about finding a way to finish school. She headed off to Australia to gather her family back up. She restored their memory and moved back in with them for the rest of the summer and until the following Christmas. It was during those months that she spent tireless hours studying and finished all her classes with top marks on all of her NEWTs. And from there, well, the world just seems like one big mess. She got hired into the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures immediately after NEWTS. And during that time she went looking, tirelessly, for an apartment close to the Ministry. After a few months of searching and finding nothing to her liking (after-all, the whole Wizarding World was in the process of rebuilding) and in her budget, something new came up. That is, Ron asked her to move in with him. Careful consideration proved that it was the most logical thing to do.

Not long after moving in with Ron, Shacklebolt and Harry requested she work in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. So Hermione is working in the Magical Creatures Department, training for the DMLE, and trying to subtly convince Ron to propose. You'd think she wouldn't have time for any sort of social engagements, but Hermione has always been good with managing her priorities. With her best mate (that being Ginny) and her ex-boyfriend (Viktor) both being Quidditch stars, Hermione spends a lot of time at games. (Possibly Ron? I'm just guessing here since there isn't a Ron yet.) She spends a lot of time in the quidditch world with her close friends. Hermione almost never misses one of Ginny's games and makes it out to Viktor's games whenever she can. And as such, much to her annoyance, there has been no great lack of tabloid articles on Hermione's current and past involvement with Viktor.

OOC INFORMATION

PB: Emmy Rossum
Name: Alicia
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