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How did Hermonie work exactly? (piefed.social)
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So Hermonie is a Muggle-Born Witch, meaning she is a witch despite coming from a No-Maj family.

When we see her, she is already a learned witch having buried her nose so far into the books that she effortlessly and immediately fixes Harry's glasses upon meeting him. She is shown buried in the art of witchcraft so much so that she sees being expelled from Hogwarts as less preferable than Death.

Given that she came from ordinary humans, how does this work?

Because, her parents didn't know magic existed until they got the letter from Hogwarts. How did they know to go to Diagon Alley to get Hermonie's wizarding supplies? How did they know how to find Diagon Alley? How did they pay for Hermonie's supplies with British Pounds, since they obviously don't have wizard money? Why did they even humor the idea of a Wizard School wanting to teach Hermonie magic instead of writing it off as a joke or scam?

How is it that Hermonie immediately started studying and completely skipped the "Holy shit, magic is real!" phase that should naturally come with all of this?

I mean Harry didn't know any of this either, but he had Hagrid helping him.

Did someone from the school take Hermonie to Diagon Alley and help her? Did they pay for her books? If there's a financial aid program, why didn't it help Ron?

I just have so many questions about what goes into getting a Muggle-Born Magic User ready for Magic School.

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Answering those questions would make for an interesting spin-off, but as a writer I can tell you: we don't care about secondary characters at first, so she was just written, as Ron was, as a satellite for the protagonist, inspired by the know-it-all archetype. The most probable answer is that when the school enrolls a pure muggle-born, the same thing that happened with Harry Potter happened to Hermione : someone from the school showed up and accompanied her until she began her courses, and she probably read a lot in advance, starting from the very moment she got her wand and a grimoire. Now, If we want to make it interesting, we can speculate that her thirst for perfection comes from a deep insecurity and need to satisfy her parents' expectations. She probably must have been a miserable trophy child before magic delivered her, and yet it didn't, because she still caries this toxic perfectionism and façade. So, she's either bright, but under inherited, neurotic performative pressure, or she's just gifted and masking, which is more or less the same thing. And she can never say no, or admit that she is tired. Else, who would take an interest in her existence?

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