Biography for Emma Watson (II) (Hermione Granger)

Date of Birth

15 April 1990, Paris, France

Birth Name

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson

Nickname

Em

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Biography

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in France on April 15, 1990. At school in England, she took the lead role in several plays including "Arthur: The Young Years" and "The Happy Prince". Along with plays, Emma participated in many other school productions including the "Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition", in which she first place for her year at age seven. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was her debut into the world of professional acting. Competing against many other girls for the role of Hermione Granger, she didn't expect to get the part.

Away from the cinematic world, Emma enjoys playing hockey most of all and she also likes debating. Although her hair is brown in the movie, she's naturally a blonde. She once dressed up as a witch for Halloween, but she had no idea that years later, she would be playing one in the Harry Potter movie. Her lawyers parents, Jacqueline and Chris, are divorced. Emma lives with her mother and younger brother Alex. Her role models are Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese and Sandra Bullock.

Hermione Granger first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first of the seven Harry Potter novels. Following the line of thought when she invented Hermione, Rowling establishes her as an average-looking girl with a bossy attitude. In early chapters, she constantly annoys her colleagues by knowing everything better, to the point that her future best friends, Harry and Ron, initially consider her arrogant and anal retentive. They heartily dislike her until Harry and Ron save Hermione from a troll and Hermione is so thankful that she gives up her antipathy against them. Rowling later stated that she had an argument with her editor about the troll fight scene. Whilst accepting most of the editing proposals, Rowling refused to take out this passage when it was requested because she felt "Hermione is so very annoying in the early part of 'Philosopher's Stone' that I really felt it needed something huge to bring her together with Harry and Ron." In the book's climax, Hermione's knack for logic enables the trio to solve a puzzle essential to retrieve the eponymous "Philosopher's Stone".

In the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling established that Hermione has a crush on the handsome new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart.  Again written as a straight-A student, Hermione later becomes vital for the plot when she identifies the creature hidden inside the eponymous Chamber of Secrets to be a basilisk. As a testament to her previously established know-it-all nature, she is disappointed to learn that all exams have been cancelled at the end of the book.

In the following book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione gets a pet cat-kneazle mix named Crookshanks, which makes a habit out of chasing Ron's pet rat, Scabbers. In addition, she is secretly given a Time-Turner by Professor Minerva McGonagall, a device which enables her to go back in time, to fit in her numerous subjects. Both plot points become essential at the end, when it is revealed that Scabbers is indeed the disguised evil wizard Peter Pettigrew, the man who revealed to Voldemort the whereabouts of James and Lily Potter when they were in hiding, and the Time-Turner enables Harry, Ron and Hermione to save the innocent lives of Harry's godfather Sirius Black and hippogriff Buckbeak.

In the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rowling let Hermione romance Bulgarian Quidditch prodigy Viktor Krum, much to the dismay of her colleague Ron Weasley. The author also used Krum as a plot device to correctly pronounce Hermione's name, namely "Her - my - o - nee". In the book, Rowling established also that Hermione is anti-racist, in this case strongly campaigning against the exploitation of house elves, forming the organization she calls the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (SPEW). Later that year, she is also vital in stopping fraudulent tabloid reporter Rita Skeeter.

In the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hermione is made a prefect and befriends new character Luna Lovegood even though Rowling stated that dreamy, air-headed Luna is the "anti-Hermione" At the end of the book, Hermione is involved in the battle in the Department of Mysteries, in which she is seriously injured, but at the end, she makes a full recovery.

In the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling wrote that for her extraordinary magical talent, Hermione is invited by new Professor Slughorn to join his elitarian Slug Club. She develops feelings for her long-time colleague Ron Weasley, but when he romances their colleague Lavender Brown instead, she retaliates by going out with egomaniacal Cormac McLaggen.  At the book's end, after Albus Dumbledore's death, Ron and Hermione have broken up with their partners and are friends again, and both vow to stay by their best friend Harry's side regardless of what happens.

Throughout the whole last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione is a valuable help in Harry Potter's quest to destroy the evil Lord Voldemort. Hermione and Ron share their first kiss and participate in the Battle of Hogwarts which ultimately defeats Lord Voldemort and his totalitarian police state. In a web chat hosted by her UK publisher, Bloomsbury, J. K. Rowling confirmed that after the last battle, Hermione was able to find her parents, and bring them home shortly after the fall of Voldemort.

In the epilogue, "Nineteen Years Later", Hermione has married Ron Weasley and they have two children: Rose, who is starting her first year at Hogwarts, and a younger son, Hugo. On her website, Rowling established furthermore that Hermione is "pretty high up" in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and has ensured the eradication of oppressive, pro pure-blood laws, although she began her post-Hogwarts career by working in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she is instrumental in greatly improving life for house-elves and their ilk and has "revamped" the Ministry. Her position is ironic, since she earlier states to Scrimgeour that she was not looking for a career in Magical Law, instead intending to "do some good in the world".

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