Hermione Granger Character Analysis in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Hermione Granger is one of Harry’s best friends and the Minister for Magic. Hermione is also Ron’s wife and Rose’s mother in the primary timeline in the play. In other timelines, she is not married to Ron, nor is she the Minister for Magic. Instead, in one timeline, she becomes an embittered Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, and in the timeline in which Voldemort wins the Battle of Hogwarts and Harry dies, she becomes the most notorious rebel still fighting for Dumbledore’s cause. Hermione is brilliant and she worries when Harry starts to have strange dreams and his scar hurts. She doesn’t want to appear as though she is ignoring these warnings, which is why she finds it so crucial to get to the bottom of his visions.

Hermione Granger Quotes in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child quotes below are all either spoken by Hermione Granger or refer to Hermione Granger. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

ALBUS: At Harry Potter and his disappointing son.
HARRY: What does that mean?
ALBUS: At Harry Potter and his Slytherin son.

[…] HARRY look at ALBUS, concerned.

HARRY: Al—
ALBUS: My name is Albus, not Al.
HARRY Are the other kids being unkind? Is that it? Maybe. if you tried making a few more friends… without Hermione and Ron I wouldn’t have survived Hogwarts, I wouldn’t have survived at all.
ALBUS: But I don’t need a Ron and Hermione. I’ve—I’ve got a friend, Scorpius, and I know you don’t like him but he’s all I need.
HARRY Look, as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters to me.

Related Characters: Albus Severus Potter (speaker), Harry Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley

Page Number and Citation: 21

Explanation and Analysis:

HERMIONE: We get this right, Harry’s alive, Voldemort’s dead, and the Augurey is gone, for that no risk is too great. Though I am sorry what it will cost you.

SNAPE: Sometimes costs are made to be borne.

Related Characters: Hermione Granger (speaker), Severus Snape (speaker), Harry Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Voldemort, Ron Weasley

Related Symbols: The Augurey

Page Number and Citation: 183

Explanation and Analysis:

DELPHI: Two of you? Choices, choices. I think I’ll kill the boy first. Avada Kedavra!

She fires the Killing Curse at ALBUS—but HARRY throws him out of the way. The bolt smashes into the ground.

He fires a bolt back.

You think you’re stronger than me?

HARRY: No. I’m not.

They fire bolts mercilessly at each other as Albus rolls quickly away and slams a spell into one door and then another, opening them.

ALBUS: Alohomora!

HARRY: But we are.

ALBUS: Alohomora!

HARRY: I’ve never fought alone, you see. And I never will.

And HERMIONE, RON, GINNY, and DRACO emerge from the doors, and fire up their spells at DELPHI, who screams out in exasperation. This is titanic. But she can’t fight them all.

Related Characters: Albus Severus Potter (speaker), Harry Potter (speaker), Delphi Diggory (speaker), Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Lily Potter (Harry’s Mother)

Page Number and Citation: 287

Explanation and Analysis:

HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad—and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.

DRACO: That’s not true.

SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time…

ALBUS: There is something you could do—to stop him. But you won’t.

DRACO: That’s heroic.

GINNY takes HARRY’s hand.

GINNY: You don’t have to watch, Harry. We can go home.

HARRY: I’m letting it happen… Of course I have to watch.

HERMIONE: Then we’ll all witness it.

RON: We’ll all watch.

Related Characters: Albus Severus Potter (speaker), Harry Potter (speaker), Scorpius Malfoy (speaker), Draco Malfoy (speaker), Ginny Weasley (speaker), Hermione Granger (speaker), Ron Weasley (speaker), Delphi Diggory, Voldemort, James Potter (Harry’s Father), Lily Potter (Harry’s Mother)

Page Number and Citation: 291

Explanation and Analysis:

Hermione Granger Character Timeline in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The timeline below shows where the character Hermione Granger appears in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...view, where tons of wizard families are saying goodbye to their children. Just then, Ron, Hermione, and their daughter Rose approach Harry and Ginny. Ron (who manages Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes) does... (full context)

Harry, Ginny, Hermione, and Ron then say goodbye to Albus, James, and Rose. Albus hugs his parents nervously... (full context)

At Harry’s office at the Ministry of Magic—he’s the Head of Magical Law Enforcement—Hermione is sorting through mounds of papers when Harry enters in a rush. He explains that... (full context)

Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon

Hermione gently changes the subject, asking how Albus is. Harry says that he’s as good at... (full context)

At the meeting room in the Ministry of Magic, Harry and Hermione explain to a crowd (with Ginny, Ron, and Draco among them) that Voldemort’s allies have... (full context)

...Potions stores at Hogwarts have been interfered with—Boomslang skin and lacewing flies have been stolen—and Hermione replies that they can investigate. Draco protests, saying that Voldemort is dead, but Hermione wonders... (full context)

...pages. Draco accuses Harry of using his celebrity to benefit his friends, too—it’s what got Hermione elected Minister of Magic. Meanwhile, Draco says, they’re just adding to the gossip about Scorpius’s... (full context)

Back in the Potter home, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny are having a meal together, talking about Draco. Ginny says that he’s simply... (full context)

Ron also assures Hermione and Harry that Voldemort’s supporters’ movements could be nothing, joking that Harry’s scar is just... (full context)

...can get into the Ministry of Magic. They each take the potion: Delphi turns into Hermione, Albus turns into Ron, and Scorpius turns into Harry. Scorpius enjoys the drama of acting... (full context)

Inside the Ministry, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco meet up, racked with worry about Albus and Scorpius. There haven’t been... (full context)

Outside Hermione’s office, Scorpius, Albus, and Delphi (still transformed into Harry, Ron, and Hermione) try to act... (full context)

As Hermione and Harry approach in an argument, Albus (as Ron) greets and kisses Hermione. Turning back... (full context)

Scorpius and Delphi are waiting—still in disguise— as Albus enters. They commend him on keeping Hermione away, though Scorpius thinks it’s weird that Albus had to kiss his aunt. They start... (full context)

...answer is Voldemort, and the bookcase spits Delphi back out—now as herself, no longer as Hermione. Scorpius finds Marvolo: The Truth, and the book gives another riddle. The bookshelf continues to... (full context)

...at Hogwarts, explaining that they think Albus might be in the Forbidden Forest. Just then, Hermione and Ron both appear out of the chimney, offering to help search the forest. Draco... (full context)

...for Cedric was greater than the cheering for Harry. Albus also notices a nervous-looking young Hermione in the crowd. They greet her, and she grows skeptical that two Durmstrang students are... (full context)

Albus is stunned, saying that Ron is married to Hermione. Ron is shocked, and Harry also comments that Albus forgot he was sorted into Gryffindor.... (full context)

Later, Albus arrives at Defense Against the Dark Arts class—only to find that Hermione is the professor. He is stunned that she’s teaching and that she’s not Minister of... (full context)

...made Cedric want to win even more, so he still died. But now Ron and Hermione aren’t together, creating other problems. Delphi acknowledges that they have to fix what they’ve done—but... (full context)

Draco then explains that he always envied Harry for having Ron and Hermione. Draco didn’t really have fun with Crabbe and Goyle, nor did they like each other... (full context)

...done. Because of them, Rose wasn’t even born. Scorpius explains that he learned Ron took Hermione to the Yule Ball as friends, and then he started dancing with Padma Patil and... (full context)

Hermione didn’t go with Krum to the ball because she had suspicions that two strange Durmstrang... (full context)

On the Hogwarts staircases, Ron runs into Hermione. He explains that Panju got in a little trouble in Potions class and now he... (full context)

Scorpius finds Hermione in the underground hiding place, and Hermione immediately pins Scorpius to the table in fury.... (full context)

After hearing Scorpius’s whole story, Ron and Hermione are amazed. Scorpius asks for help, and Ron says that they’re basically all that’s left... (full context)

...bravely, killed by Voldemort, and Snape digests this. Turning back to the matter at hand, Hermione explains that Shield charms should fix what Albus and Scorpius did and insists on going... (full context)

Hermione says that they can turn time in their world, go back to the first task,... (full context)

...front. Scorpius and Albus stand watching in their Durmstrang robes, and in the foreground, Scorpius, Hermione, Ron, and Snape look on anxiously. As Albus attempts to disarm Cedric, Hermione blocks his... (full context)

Back in the present, Ron, Scorpius, Hermione, and Snape are in the middle of the forest, and Ron is in severe pain.... (full context)

Snape and Scorpius run off, but Ron stays with Hermione, saying that he will help her keep the dementors there. They nod to each other... (full context)

...Dolores Umbridge emerges behind Snape and Scorpius. She informs them that they found the traitorous Hermione Granger, and she becomes increasingly suspicious of why Snape and Scorpius are outside as well.... (full context)

...detention for the rest of the year, with no visits to Hogsmeade or breaks. Suddenly Hermione bursts in, and McGonagall tells her that it was also incredibly stupid for her to... (full context)

In Hermione’s office, Ron tells Hermione that he can’t believe that there are some realities in which... (full context)

...explaining that Albus and Scorpius are missing again and Harry is still having terrible dreams. Hermione says she’ll summon the Aurors, but Ron says he was having a couple of firewhiskies... (full context)

Back at St. Oswald’s, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco, and Ginny look around Delphi’s room. They realize that she must have used... (full context)

In the meeting room at the Ministry, tons of witches and wizards gather to hear Hermione speak. She explains the events that took place at Hogwarts, including Craig’s death, and what... (full context)

Hermione goes on, explaining that they think Delphi has hidden herself in time. Professor McGonagall, who... (full context)

...had a Time-Turner without the five-minute problem, producing it for Harry. Harry smiles, explaining that Hermione kept the first Time-Turner for fear that there was a second. Draco says he didn’t... (full context)

...they have a chance to get Albus back. They decide to send an owl to Hermione and Draco to meet them at Godric’s Hollow with the Time-Turner. Ginny and Harry kiss... (full context)

Ron, Hermione, Draco, Harry, and Ginny walk through present-day Godric’s Hollow. Hermione looks over to Harry, asking... (full context)

When Albus looks up to find Ginny, Harry, Ron, Draco, and Hermione, he runs into Ginny’s arms, thrilled that they got the note. Draco and Scorpius hug... (full context)

...assures Draco that Harry won’t let them down. Harry is moved by his son’s confidence. Hermione and the others start to transfigure Harry, until the form of Voldemort emerges—it worked. (full context)

Ron, Hermione, Draco, Scorpius, and Albus watch the church window. Albus assures Ginny that it’s going to... (full context)

Scorpius interrupts—Delphi has arrived. Hermione instructs everyone to hide in their positions behind the doors, and Harry (as Voldemort) reenters... (full context)

...isn’t, but as Albus unlocks the doors, Harry assures Delphi that he’s never fought alone. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Draco emerge and fire spells at Delphi, who tumbles to the floor,... (full context)