Hermione Granger

With her long, bushy brown hair, loyal and incredibly brave soul, and that mind bursting with all kinds of amazing knowledge, Hermione Granger sure deserves to be the girl heroine of the Harry Potter books. She is admired mostly for her genius mind, but what I see most in her is an incredible spirit. Instead of telling girls that they should smile, strike a pose and become Barbie dolls, Hermione shows us that we can roughen up, fight for good and be heroes, instead of turning into frilly pink giggling divas.

Of course, like anybody, Hermione does have some faults. She does tend to take work too seriously, stressing herself out too much with the piles of homework resting on her hands. And she seems to never be able to resist a question she knows the answer to, and could yell it out, which sometimes caused angry glares in her direction. But nobody can be entirely perfect, and as far as I am concerned, there are no people in this world called Nobody.

Hermione, once received her Hogwarts letter, began furiously working very hard and studying all the schoolbooks her professors said for her to buy and look over. On the Hogwarts Express, she changed immediately to her clean, crisp school robes, and helped a boy called Neville Longbottom find his toad. She was a bit unfriendly towards Harry and Ron at first, but after battling a ferociously warty and smelly troll together, they found themselves the best of friends.

Throughout the rest of the books in the series, Hermione is either the bossy know-it-all who shoots her hand up like a rocket whenever a question is asked, earning (and losing) a considerable amount of Gryffindor house points, or she’s the rough, brave, fiery girl who stands up for her friends, fights evil-doers and stays loyal no matter what, even if it ends her up being tortured almost to death. At the end of the books she is a responsible grown-up woman, married to Ronald Bilius Weasley with two children, Rose Granger-Weasley, clever like her mum, and Hugo Granger-Weasley.

My favourite scene with Hermione in it was not when she was battling along her friends, or being rolling her eyes as she fixed Ron and Harry’s badly done work, but it was when she slapped Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter’s deadly enemy. He was being awfully insulting at that time to Rubeus Hagrid, a nice friendly half-giant who was the Gamekeeper of Hogwarts. As Malfoy jeered about the “Oaf”, Harry and Ron were about to act, but Hermione got there first. With a cry, she lunged forward and made a tremendous slap, hard across the face. I think that part was awfully funny and amusing, and I couldn’t help but snigger a bit at Malfoy’s stupidity for getting himself slapped. I also thought that he deserved it, because he was being very rude to somebody who was amazing. And I’m sure that was what Hermione was thinking too, as she made the blow.

And that is why I have chosen Hermione Jean Granger as my character. Her cleverness, Braveness, and epic life story.