Behind the scenes

Character development

Hermione is a Muggle-born Gryffindor student, and the best friend of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The daughter of two dentists, she is an overachiever who excels academically, and she is described 由 Rowling as a "very logical, upright and good" character.Her parents are a bit bemused 由 their odd daughter, but quite proud of her all the same."Though Rowling has described the character of Luna Lovegood as the "anti-Hermione" because they hold the exact opposite characters, Hermione's foil at Hogwarts is Pansy Parkinson, a female bully based on real-life girls who teased...