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Next to Harry Potter, Hermione Granger is the heart and soul of the Harry Potter franchise. An exceptionally talented muggle-born witch, she is the daughter of two dentists from 8 Heathgate, London. Hermione is the brightest student in her class and far ahead of her friends – Harry Potter and Ron Weasley in academics. She adds an interesting dimension to the gang of three best friends and Gryffindors known as the Golden Trio in Harry Potter lore.
Besides being an ambitious Hogwarts student, Hermione is bold-spirited and, at times, a little cheeky. While Harry Potter movies are laced with sassy, witty, and touching Hermione lines, some take precedence over others.
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9 “At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent.”
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Lucius Malfoy’s son, Draco, is growing up to be a supremacist like him. Malfoy Sr. donated the new Nimbus 2001 broomsticks to the entire Slytherin team to buy his son the Seeker spot. When the Slytherin team heads to the Quidditch pitch to train their new Seeker, Draco, the Gryffindors object as Oliver Wood and his teammates are supposed to train on the same day. Draco takes a jab at Ron, who stands with Hermione nearby:
Without wasting a second, Hermione reminds Draco that his father had to spend money for him to be chosen as Slytherin’s new Seeker. Draco is unnerved, thanks to Hermione’s sharp retort but hides his embarrassment.
8 “Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.”
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Percy, and Ron run into the vicious Lucius Malfoy during Gilderoy Lockhart’s book signing held at Flourish and Blotts. Lucius, takes a good look at young Harry, describing his forehead scar and the man who gave it to him as “legend,” while Harry calls the said wizard, i.e., Voldemort by his name.
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7 “You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!”
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Could there be a better description of Draco eagerly waiting for Buckbeak to be unfairly executed? Draco was quite the rogue in The Prisoner of Azkaban. Hermione could barely stay calm as she saw him revel in the joy of watching the executioner arrive to kill Buckbeak.
Draco slumped against the wall when he saw Hermione’s wand at the ready. While Ron talked her down, she wasn’t going to back down. She punched Draco in the face, and he fled the scene. Hermione is a multifaceted character, and her rebuke is a testament to her captivating arc in the Harry Potter franchise.
6 “He is a werewolf! That’s why he’s been missing classes.”
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Once again, this quote is proof of Hermione’s extraordinary intelligence. She’d known the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher – Remus Lupin’s truth ever since Professor Severus Snape set the essay on Werewolves. As she was able to deduce his Werewolf affliction, impressing Lupin.
While Hermione had known for a while, the fact remains that she kept Lupin’s truth to herself until the encounter at the Shrieking Shack. That’s where she let it all out, shocking her peers and the two men (Lupin and Sirius Black) who went to great lengths to hide the truth.
5 “Now, if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed – or worse, expelled.”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
This Hermione quote sums up her resolve to excel at Hogwarts. She knows how far she has come, and outshines everyone her class. She takes her academic life at Hogwarts seriously, and it makes perfect sense that she would prefer being mauled to death by the three-headed dog over expulsion.
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This quote provides some comedic relief after a tense moment. The trio ends up in the forbidden third-floor corridor as the staircases change, and after running from the caretaker, Argus Filch, they find themselves staring at a three-headed dog. After the trio makes it out alive, Hermione excuses herself, and delivers this standout quote.
4 “Stop, stop, stop! You’re going to take someone’s eye out. Besides, you’re saying it wrong. It’s levi-O-sa, not leviosAR!”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
This is another instance of Hermione’s commitment to Hogwarts’ curriculum and her brilliance. Professor Flitwick during the Charms class describes Levitation as the ability to make objects fly.
Hermione instantly hoists her feather, while perfectly enunciating the incantation for the spell.
Ron does quite the opposite of the swish and flick wrist movement, prompting Hermione to step in and deliver this memorable line. Her dialogue delivery, expressions, and passive-aggressive eye-roll response to Ron’s clumsy attempt are on point.
3 “Are you sure that’s a real spell? Well, it’s not very good, is it?”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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Hermione says the above as she wanders into Harry and Ron’s Hogwarts Express compartment. She stands at the door, and hears Ron’s incantation of a spell that he claims his brother, Fred taught him to turn his pet rat, Scabbers to the color yellow.
The scene immediately establishes that Hermione – a Muggle-born is prepared for Hogwarts, unlike Ron, who has a rich magical heritage. Hermione also fixes Harry’s glasses by using the “Oculus Reparo” spell. In the end, Ron and Harry are in awe of the brilliant girl who just walked in.
2 “Honestly, don’t you two read?”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The defining aspects of Hermione’s character are her discipline and zest for knowledge, and these traits come through when she admonishes Harry and Ron for not reading enough. Fluffy is locked in Hogwarts, and Hermione is the first to notice he is standing on a trap door, guarding something precious.
Hagrid warns the trio not to meddle but blurts out that whatever Fluffy is guarding is between Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel. The trio does exactly the opposite of what they are told and Hermione brings a giant book to the library that she’d checked out “for a bit of light reading.” This is where, the Philosopher’s Stone and its maker, Flamel’s names come up. Hermione has to educate her friends about Flamel and the importance of this legendary stone with “astonishing powers.”
1 “And For The Record, I’ve Always Found Him Interesting!”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Hermione and Ron make a dynamic duo, and they stick by Harry in various situations, right from the first Harry Potter movie to the last. However, in The Half-Blood Prince, they are at odds over Ron’s relationship with Lavender.
When Ron lies in the hospital wing, Hermione gives it to his flame. Professor Dumbledore, Professor Snape, Professor Slughorn, Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Ginny Weasley are witnesses to this argument. Lavender objects to Hermione’s presence, while she balks back at her, calling her a “daft Dimbo!” It’s a light-hearted moment in a movie that’s about to take a dark turn.
