anotherlongstoryshort:

itsgringotts:

#honestly i feel like this is such a beautiful metaphor for the trio #the way they wear their uniforms #you got hermione with everything in its rightful place #tie and cape fixed and all #you got harry whose uniform is a little messy and everything is a bit awkward #and then you got ron #nicely not giving a fuck

I also love that they just came out of an exam where Hermione was all “I quite enjoyed that” and Ron was very much “I did not have a fucking clue” but Harry’s all “My scar hurts, it means something, Voldemort is nEAR”

citykidsoul:

hobbitballerina:

eshusplayground:

lilepo:

inksplotched:

#hermione granger’s ruthlessness is so great though #like what an interesting flaw for your super smart overachiever bookworm character to have

#WORD #she’s SUPER SCARY and i love it #this photoset doesn’t even include like #turning a journalist into a beetle and keeping her captive #permanently disfiguring a fellow student for not holding up under pressure #erasing her parents’ identities without giving them any agency or choice

Hermione would have made a wonderful Slytherin. Fiiiiiiiiiiiic iiiiiiit!

The reason Hermoine isn’t a Slytherin is because she believes every time that what she’s doing is right.  Not good for her.  Not convenient.  Not simply contributing to her goals.  But she believes, with a whole-hearted conviction, that her choices are objectively right, fitting, and just.  That’s why she doesn’t flinch.  It’s one thing to think you’re doing something because it serves your ends, or its necessary.  It’s another to have the burning conviction that the thing you’re about to do, no matter how heinous it might seem, is morally sound and just.

Slytherins know they’re justifying their means to get their ends.  Gryffindors believe that every means they employ are just.  Hermoine is a crusader knight with a wand, and doesn’t care what the collateral damage is so long as she is just in her destruction.

This is why Gryffindors are infinitely more dangerous than Slytherins.  Slytherins serve their interests, and revise their plans when their interests aren’t served.  They deal in reality.  That’s what ambition is.  But Gryffindors will march a bloody path down to the gates of hell if they are convicted of the moral necessity and justice of it, casualties be damned.

There was also the time she basically tried to set Snape on fire

countlessuntruths:

So, racebent Hermione. But, you wanna know a secret? The first time I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?

I thought Hermione was black. Or, well, at the very least of mixed ancestry. It was, I think, the description of her hair, mostly, what did it for me. The whole bushy thing? My thirteen years old brain translated that Hermione was black.

And it seemed AMAZING to me and so obvious. Like, blatantly obvious when in Chamber of Secrets she gets called Mudblood and she doesn’t get it until Ron and Hagrid explain it. SO COOL. I liked when there were dark skinned characters. And this? This was the brightest, smartest girl in Hogwarts. How awesome was that?

For me Hermione was a black girl, thin and precocious, huge eyes and unruly impossible to tame hair.

And then she wasn’t. Movies started coming out, Emma was cast as Hermione, I shrugged my mental picture off.

But it’s still there, I think. Since the last books came after the movies, I read them with a white Hermione in mind, but I wonder if it’ll be the same thing, was I to reread the first books.

sorcierexintelligente:

neenya:

#CHECK OUT your differences in wand technique here #and how fluidly and casually Ron throws a curse in comparison to Harry and Hermione #Hermione has done the reading and is technically perfect of course #Elbow straight; wrist bent #Wand tip aligned with left sightline #left arm held loosely behind her for balance #Harry hasn’t ever done the reading #Grip too tight; elbow locked #Shoulders raised#Left elbow cranked in awkwardly against his body #Kids’ll imitate his awful technique#and Junior Aurors #it’ll make their parents nuts; don’t twist your neck like that I don’t care what Auror Potter does #When you save wizardkind you can hold your wand however you want #until then drop your shoulders #Ron’s been around wand users since birth #practiced with twigs and then his brothers’ wands #Look at how the movement flows from his center #the way he uses his whole body #throws out his opposite hand behind him to counterbalance the movement #Harry and Hermione get their wands into position and then throw the curse #Ron’s spell starts mid-motion because he knows his wand will be in position in time (via helenish)

#why the fuck is this giving me ron feels#mostly because everyone thinks that Ron is rubbish at magic #and its not that#its that he’s no good with all the boring book bits#the precise movements and having the perfect techinique and saying the word just like so#because that’s not what its about to him #magic is an intrensic part of him and his life#and once he’s out of an environment where it’s all technique and perfection and is put into a situation like this#one where his friends are in danger and he’s in danger #then it just comes naturally#and he’s flawless and brilliant and deadly if he has to be#Also he’s the only one casting non-verbally #so take that Ron haters (via thekingofweasels)