Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger is the best friend of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. She has bushy brown hair and somewhat over-sized front teeth (until she has them fixed). She is in Gryffindor House.

Character
When Harry and Ron first meet Hermione on the Hogwarts Express, they think she's a bookish know-it-all and, as movie!Ron says, a bit mental. However, later in the year they come to recognize her as a good friend. Hermione is extremely intelligent and a gifted witch. Though she does get on her friends' nerves quoting A History of Hogwarts at them, she is more than just book-learned. She is in Gryffindor because of her ability to think in the face of tense situations, her passion for the things she cares about, and her loyalty to her friends.

Relations
Hermione is canonically involved with Ron Weasley, though they take their time to come to the point&mdash;eventually marrying. In her fourth year at Hogwarts, she has a crush on Victor Krum and goes with him to the Yule Ball. They become friends and pen-pals, but never truly 'date.'

In Badfic
Many young women who write fanfiction relate to Hermione Granger. She is intelligent and clever, somewhat of a loner when not associated with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, and passionate in supporting others (even if they don't want it, such as in the case of S.P.E.W.) even in the line of fire. Hence, she becomes possessed by Sue-Wraith on an alarming basis as badficcer after badficcer uses her for their own ends.

Although she has a canonical paring, she is paired in fanfiction with nearly everybody in the Harry Potter universe, from Harry Potter to Voldemort, and on to even squickier pairings. Much of bad slash in that section is at the hands of a possessed Hermione.

Her name is also somewhat exotic and difficult to spell for some, so many mini-Aragogs can be expected out of badfic that features her.