She proves just how much she knows by declaring that she memorized all the textbooks by heart. Hermione first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when she meets Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express, where she mocks Ron for his inability to perform a spell to turn his rat yellow. Harry Potter books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Her original surname was "Puckle", but Rowling felt the name "did not suit her at all", and so the less frivolous Granger was used.
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Rowling said that she wanted her name to be unusual since if fewer girls had the name, fewer girls would get teased for it and it seemed the sort of name that "a pair of professional dentists, who liked to prove how clever they were" would give their daughter. Hermione's first name is taken from a character in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, though Rowling has said that the two characters have little to nothing in common. Rowling also states that her feminist conscience is rescued by Hermione, "who's the brightest witch of her age" and a "very strong female character." Finally, according to Rowling, next to Albus Dumbledore, Hermione is the perfect expository character because of her encyclopedic knowledge, she can always be used as a plot dump to explain the Harry Potter universe. And she says that not unlike herself, "there is a lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure" beneath Hermione's swottiness. She is an exaggeration of how I was when I was younger." She recalled being called a "little know-it-all" in her youth. Rowling said the character of Hermione has several autobiographic influences: "I did not set out to make Hermione like me but she is a bit like me. Rowling has called the character of Luna Lovegood the "anti-Hermione" as they are so very different. But Rowling revealed in a 2004 interview that Hermione was originally intended to have a sister, but the planned sibling did not appear since she felt it "might be too late now" to introduce the character. They are well aware of the wizard world and have visited Diagon Alley with her. Rowling adds that Hermione's parents, two Muggle dentists, are a bit bemused by their odd daughter but "quite proud of her all the same". She is an overachiever who excels academically and is described by Rowling as a "very logical, upright and good" character.
Rowling states that she was born on 19 September 1979 and she was nearly twelve when she first attended Hogwarts. Hermione is a Muggle-born Gryffindor, who becomes best friends with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
The version of Hermione portrayed by Emma Watson in all eight Harry Potter films from Philosopher's Stone in 2001 to Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011 was voted the best female character of all time in a poll conducted amongst Hollywood professionals by The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. The character has had immense popularity. Rowling has stated that Hermione resembles herself as a young girl, with her insecurity and fear of failure. After Harry and Ron save her from a mountain troll in the girls' restroom, she becomes best friends with them and often uses her quick wit, deft recall, and encyclopaedic knowledge to lend aid in dire situations. She first appears in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), on the Hogwarts express as a first year student on her way to Hogwarts. Hermione Jean Granger ( / h ɜːr ˈ m aɪ ə n i ˈ ɡ r eɪ n dʒ ər/ hur- MY-ə-nee GRAYN-jər) is a fictional character in J.
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Want stories like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up to our FREE newsletters here. The first two films were eventually directed by Chris Columbus. But I did not want to combine the movies, and I wanted it to be live action.” “Because of the wizardry involved, they were very effects-laden. But one of the notions of DreamWorks and Steven’s was, ‘Let’s combine a couple of the books, let’s make it animated,’ and that was because of the Pixar had demonstrated that animated movies could be extremely successful. JK Rowling also refused to let him make it animated, which was his original intention.Īlan Horn, the president of Warner Bros, said in 2010 : “I did think it would be worthwhile for Steven Spielberg to direct. It wasn’t just Spielberg’s choice for Harry that got overturned, either. I think it's going to ruin the book for a lot of kids who haven't read it, because it takes away the part of the book that's so important to its success - being able to imagine all the parts in the book and seeing it in your head."
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He added: “I don't think the movie will even come close to the level of the book. Steven Spielberg also wanted the film to be animated (Image: FilmMagic)
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