Still, it would have been only a short stint. It’s totally possible that Hermione’s forays into underage magic in Hogsmeade could have landed her in Azkaban. Other times, saving yourself and a muggle from dementors is cause for wand-snapping and expulsion. Sometimes, blowing up your horrible aunt like a balloon and giggling as she flies away is cool by the Minister. But we know that the Ministry of Magic is less than consistent in its application of the law. Sure, Occulus Reparo is a standard, inoffensive spell. But the Hogwarts Express and Diagon Alley aren't the same - not at all. That’s probably why Hermione was so sure she’d get away with fixing Harry’s glasses (again) with a simple spell. We know that in wizarding areas, it’s unlikely that any student would be noticed performing magic. No, they don’t like it, but they understand that it happens and it’s usually not a huge deal. Prosecuting students for underage magic seems to be handled a little like muggles address underage drinking. Surely someone with a mum at the ministry would seek a comeuppance from the girl who permanently scarred her face, right? After all, Marietta is said to have carried scars from the incident forever. We might all laugh at that at first, but when Marietta still has to cover her face a year later, we start to feel a little bad for her. Thanks to Hermione’s spell, ratting out the DA made the word “SNEAK” appear in boils across Marietta’s face. We know though, that many DA members had close family members at the Ministry of Magic. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Marietta snitches on the DA, ostensibly because her mum worked for the ministry. The way Umbridge found out about the DA in the movie involved Cho Chang and veritaserum. So when Hermione decided on what she deemed to be the perfect punishment for anyone low enough to attend DA meetings but still snitch on them - it was a doozy. form a dark arts defense group called Dumbledore’s Army, Hermione takes steps to make sure their secret stays secret. Probably not quite a prison offense, anyway. In the end, though, Hermione avoids punishment for her crimes. After stealing the potion ingredients and letting them stew for a month, only two of the three planned transformations came to pass.Įven if Hermione got away with stealing from Snape’s stores and brewing a forbidden potion, surely Madame Pomfrey would have outed her when an errant hair made the polyjuice potion transform her into a giant human-cat hybrid (which is not nearly as awesome as it sounds). For that, they needed to transform themselves into Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Millicent Bulstrode. She, Harry and Ron came up with the idea to pose as Slytherins in order to find out which one of them - probably Draco Malfoy - would turn out to be the true heir of Slytherin. Of course, that didn’t keep her from being petrified by an evil basilisk, nor did it keep her from stealing potion ingredients from Professor Snape. The author also said she originally wanted to include a journalist interviewing Harry all the way back in the first "Harry Potter" novel but decided to hold back until her main character truly has to start grappling with the reality of fame.Hermione was still relatively crime-free in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In a 2000 interview with the BBC's Newsround, Rowling said that she hesitated to actually write the character in the fourth "Harry Potter" book because she didn't want the sudden inclusion of a wizarding journalist to be interpreted as a reflection of her real-life relationship with members of the media. Rowling's depiction of Skeeter paints a negative picture of journalists in the wizarding world - Hermione eventually realizes that Skeeter gains her information through being an unregistered Animagus who takes the form of a beetle and blackmails her into leaving Harry alone by the end of the year. Skeeter's reporting harms others too - she unfairly outs Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) as a half-giant to the public and accuses Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) of toying with Harry's emotions in numerous articles throughout their fourth year at Hogwarts.
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