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[brainiest]

 OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Rachel
Contact: aziraphale @plurk
Reference: Ren/ingame already
Other characters: Solas (Dragon Age)

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Hermione Granger
Character journal: brainiest
Series name: Harry Potter
Canon notes: Taken post-series, but also after her two and a bit years in the game Eachdraidh.

Species: Human / witch

History: Books/movies here. 

A brief summary of her Eachdraidh history:

- Arrived and joined the Seelie court, taking part in defending them and aiding their workers. She was given a magical item called a Sigil that she was requested to take care of but she was found out by the Seelie queen and, so, she handed it over; this caused the death of hundreds of Unseelie civilians.
- She defended Caer Glaem (the Seelie stronghold) from an Unseelie creature called a Jabberwocky, almost killing her in the process.
- She was drawn into a duel with a woman named Alyosha for her betrayal of Harry (the person who had given her the Sigil); she almost lost her life once more but was, instead, given a scar along her face to remind her of what she had done.
- Learned to create a device for communication called the ‘Compasses’ that allowed shareholders to talk even when the lockets stopped working.
- She became Second to Marchioness June May in the White Citadel that was built on Seelie territory. When June left the Drabwurld Hermione herself became Marchioness.
- She ended up being somewhat courted by Gilgamesh, who witnessed her transform into a lioness and slaughter someone who had killed her best friend, Dorian Gray (the immortal who came back to life not long after). 
- She formally adopted Nico di Angelo as her little brother and John Grimm as her father by Seelie law.
- Fought in numerous battles on behalf of the Seelie court.
- Made a Master-Servant pact with Diarmuid from the Fate series.
- Helped a band of ‘neutral’ Shardholders, known as the Red Hand, gather and use a mass of shards to give them more time to stop the ‘Void’ that was coming to end the world. It managed to send them all back in time thousands of years instead.
- Her full title became Hermione Granger, Marchioness of the White Citadel, Lioness Courant, Sorceress and Protectress of Caer Glaem, co-owner of Artefacta, Minister of Defence for Leathann and Ambassador of the Amber Congregation.
- Completed a number of quests (both personal ones and as part of in game events) and received boons for those quests.

Personality:

Hermione Granger did not earn the title of 'brightest witch of her age' for no reason; she is one of the smartest minds of her generation, excelling in ninety-nine percent of her school subjects and becoming a living example of the idiocy of pureblood supremacy. Taking great pleasure in reading, Hermione puts great stock in researched and concrete subject such as Runes and History, but her best subjects remain Arithmancy and Charms - though she received top-level grades in ten of her eleven fifth year examinations.

While she was proud of her intelligence, Hermione was never the sort to keep her brains to herself; she frequently helped Harry, Ron and Neville with their homework, and aided Neville during his Potions work throughout the years. In her third year she proved herself worthy enough of being given a time-turner, which allowed her to take extra classes on top of the timetable she had already worked out. If this was not proof enough of Hermione's intelligence, she still managed to find time to help Harry with extra-curricular work - such as the Triwizard events in his fourth year, the defence of Buckbeak in their third year and the creation of S.P.E.W. to protect House Elf rights. 

Although her intelligence leant itself to magical capabilities, Hermione put great stock and faith in logical thinking, allowing her to notice things that other people might not notice - she was the only person who managed to work out that Remus Lupin was a werewolf before the secret was let slip and she was loathe to believe in the existence of the Dealthy Hallows until there was solid, provable evidence. The voice of reason in the 'Golden Trio', Hermione's logic managed to help them through a number of their trials in their schooling, not limited to the brewing of a Polyjuice Potion, the confiscation of Harry's possibly-jinxed Firebolt and her anger over Harry's use of the Half-Blood Prince's Potion book. Cautious but brave, Hermione isn't afraid to stand up to her slightly more impulsive friends, keeping her attention on the task at hand.

While Hermione was regarded as sometimes insufferable and a 'know-it-all', her intelligence leant itself to her greatest fear; that of failure, her boggart being her failing all her classes in her third year. Her intense need to study and prove herself could, indeed, stem from her heritage; as a muggle-born she was looked down upon by a majority of pureblooded witches and wizards who taunted her by calling her a 'mudblood'.

Although Hermione was almost sorted into Ravenclaw, due to her love of learning and her intelligence, she was instead placed in Gryffindor. Throughout the books Hermione proved that this was the perfect placement for her; she constantly showed herself to be brave, though cautious, capable of doing what needs to be done. Initially, it was true that she was panicked in the face of danger, but that was more due to her youth than any true lack of courage on her part and, growing up, her bravery only grew stronger and more pronounced.

Her courage is further proven throughout her adventures with Harry. Although she acts as a means of reasoning with Ron and Harry, especially when they're slightly wild with accusations against other people, she protects them and defends them as much as she possible can. She is fiercely loyal, defending them if they're insulted or belittled and even risking her life to help save theirs - even when she was as young as twelve years old. While many would have expected her not to have protected Harry as long as she did, she continued to stay by his side and defend him; even going as far to leave school, abandoning her education, to travel across the country and attempt to track down the Horcruxes he needed to destroy to defeat Voldemort.

Hermione's courage is often undermined by her sheer intelligence and many people have questioned whether or not Gryffindor was the right house for her - she would have certainly excelled in Ravenclaw and proven herself to be just as intelligent as her peers. In Gryffindor, however, her courageous and loyal sides thrived as well as her mind, showing her to be as strong a Gryffindor as her friends proved themselves to be. In a way, Hermione was incredibly similar to Harry's mother, Lily Evans; both were muggleborn geniuses that proved themselves to be brave beyond what anyone had expected of them (Lily died in order to protect her son and Hermione risked her life repeatedly in order to help defend Harry) and each argued with the people that soon became their closest friends (James and Ron).

Another of Hermione's defining trait is her compassion for those less fortunate, especially the creatures that are often taken advantage of in the wizarding world. Her cat, Crookshanks, she bought because no one else seemed to want him. While that turned out to be incredibly beneficial, as Crookshanks proved himself to be a good, protective pet, it shows Hermione's sympathetic, sweeter side.

Her concern for magical creatures wasn't only limited to those that would be used as pets, however. Much to the Hogwarts' House Elf populations disdain, Hermione created the group called S.P.E.W., or the 'Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare'. Although the Elves weren't entirely receptive to her attempts to try and make their lives better, Hermione didn't give up, knitting socks and other kinds of outfits for the Hogwarts elves and encouraging them to ask for some form of payment. She even extends this kindness to Harry's heirloom elf, Kreacher, who persists in calling her obscene names until Harry wins his favour in the last book.

Hermione's compassionate nature isn't limited to magical creatures, however. She does her best to be as compassionate and kindly to her friends as she is to the creatures who's lives she wants to help: she attempts to help comfort Lavender Brown after the death of her rabbit with little success and trying to help Harry understand Cho Chang's behaviour and aid him with his crush on Ginny Weasley. Though particularly sensitive to people's emotions, Hermione has never been a particularly good liar, though she will try when she has to: she failed to convince Borgin of Borgin and Burke's that she was able to purchase anything when trying to work out what Draco Malfoy was trying to purchase and the only reason she was able to convince Umbridge that she was hiding something was because she faked crying.

Perhaps one of the most troublesome aspects of Hermione's nature is her inability to withhold her temper, leading to some rather violent arguments between her and her friends and enemies. These were most apparent in her relationship with Ron - though she was far less short-tempered with her friends, Ron often seemed to be able to make her snap more often than not, often due to the fact that he seemed to touch her nerves the most. This lead to her casting charmed birds to attack him when he rubbed Lavender Brown in her face and, more often than not, her storming out of the common room to hide in the library. 

Hermione's argumentative streak often tips into violence when she gets particularly angry. When Draco Malfoy made fun of Hagrid when he was faced with the execution of Buckbeak, Hermione rushed ahead of Harry and Ron and slapped him and would have done it again if she hadn't been held back. When Cormac McLaggen insulted Ron and Ginny during the Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts in sixth year, Hermione sabotaged his tryout in retaliation, using a charm to make him unable to save one of the attempts at goal. Furthermore, when Rita Skeeter, a reporter for the Daily Prophet, badmouthed her and her friends in the press she trapped her animagus form in a jar until she learned her lesson, blackmailing her. She is formidable, if sometimes rash, in her defence of her friends.

While Hermione isn't mean, she sometimes speaks before she thinks, resulting in her snapping at her friends - mostly when they've done something to upset her or not heeded her advice but, more often than not, it stems form them ignoring she's suggested or done something she's suggested would be a bad idea. Much tension rises between her and her friends when they themselves are arguing rather than their being major issues between them and herself, though she often gets into slight tiffs with Ron and Harry which leaves her giving them the silent treatment until things are resolved.

After her time in Eachdraidh, Hermione became a little more hardened. She knows now what a physical kind of war is like, what it means to be in charge and to make choices, how painful true sacrifice can be and how heavy the death of those you care about can become. She was a Marchioness that worked hard for peace but even she knew that sometimes it wasn’t entirely possible; much of her innocence and her careless determination was lost throughout her time in the Drabwurld and it’s unlikely that she’ll recover from it.

It’s worth noting, however, that she is also much stronger, too. She knows how to lead, how to support, how to fight and defend, she can make difficult choices and she’s experienced the best and the worst of the world. No matter what was thrown at her during her time in the Drabwurld she managed to cling to her hope and she did all she could to make sure that she didn’t lose sight of what she wanted; freedom and happiness for those that she cared about. Her determination only grew in the two years she spent as a Shardbearer and despite the things she’s suffered and the loses that seriously broke her heart she has come out stronger and better because of it.

Abilities: Her canon abilities and her Eachdraidh ones are here. Since she can only have one power from her time in Eachdraidh, I’m going to pick her ability to transform into a lioness, please! She learned how to defend herself, using swords, daggers and hand-to-hand too, but as these are more training and less powers I think they’d also be acceptable.

Hermione also gained a ‘shard’ because of her time in Eachdraidh; essentially, shards made the person that knew how to control them, at level one, faster and stronger and a little better at their magic. Those at level two were able to share memories. Hermione only ever hit level two, but confirmation on whether or not this would count as something of a power that she would take from the game is something I’d leave to mod discretion - she could easily have left her shard back ingame!

Augment Skillset: Lab support