Harry Potter: 25 Hilarious Hermione Memes That Make Us Want To Go Back To Hogwarts
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These hysterical Hermione memes will make any Harry Potter fan laugh out loud.
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You know, I often think that Harry Potter gets a little too much credit. Not the franchise, you understand, but the bespectacled boy wizard himself. Right from the off, the very first chapter of the very first book was entitled The Boy Who Lived. This became an honorary sort of title for him, part of his whole legend.
In the magical world, needless to say, Harry is a huge deal. We’re talking Chris Pratt levels of celebrity (seriously, is that guy contractually obliged to appear in absolutely every movie ever?). As the series progressed, he performed more and more impossible deeds and ridiculous stunts, which just contributed to his fame.
Now, sure, I’m not trying to downplay his accomplishments. After all, when I was twelve, I was barely brave enough to raise my hand in class, so I think destroying a humungous basilisk with a sword (Harry had the sword, not the basilisk; it wasn’t waving it around in the weird snake-arms that it doesn’t have) would have been just a little beyond me.
All I’m saying is, a little plot armour goes a long way. Harry is a capable wizard, for sure, but he’s also a super lucky one. When it came to the real magical heavy lifting, most of that was all about one brave woman: Hermione Granger.
The so-called Golden Trio didn’t get off to the best start, as we know, but where in heckles would they have been without Hermione? Join us as we strike a snarky blow for female fantasy characters everywhere, with some of the greatest Hermione memes the web has to offer. This is solid gold.
25 When Your Hair’s Got Just A Little Too Much Volume
Now, here’s the curious thing. As we know, Hollywood are going to have to take certain liberties when adapting a novel for the big screen. After all, we’re talking about hundreds and hundreds of pages worth of plot, here. Seeing as how only the most dedicated of fans want to sit through a five-hour movie (that’s got ‘bad case of piles’ written all over it), everything’s got to be condensed as much as possible.
Whole plotlines and characters are sometimes glossed over, or removed completely. There are lots of other ways in which movie adaptions can deviate from the source material too. Characters’ appearances, for another.
According to the books, Hermione has a thick, curly, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic hairstyle going on. As for Emma Watson, this bushy look seems to fade as the movies go on. Pictured in this brilliant meme is the Hermione we meet in the first installment, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Other than that memorable incident in the potions classroom in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hermione never achieves those levels of bushiness again. Not on the big screen.
Still, I guess that’s not a bad thing. If you’re also a member of the Curly and Often Surly About It Club, you’d be glad if it eased a little over the years.
24 When You’re Hermany Grinder, The Top Student At Chogborts
Right. Okay. Yep. That seems entirely legitimate to me.
Now, here’s a super-fun little anecdote for you. Buckle up, friends, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
A few years back, I was a committed collector of action figures. You know how it is. You want to get a particular Amiibo, notice that the rest from that series are quite neat too, and before you know it, you’re having to get rid of all kinds of other things to make space. Your books, your pet iguana Abraham, your significant other… why do they have to release so many super-sweet limited edition figures? Why?
One particular set I was trying to complete was a certain collection of Final Fantasy Trading Arts figures. The last one of them I acquired was a cheap knock-off, and I had zero clue about that until it arrived. So somewhere in my display cabinets, I’ve good a fantastic looking Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart, next to a Zidane Tribal with two tails and an arm where one of its legs should be.
This is why you’ve got to be super careful when shopping online. Unofficial knock-offs are everywhere.
On the other hand, I’m glad Hermany Grinder is here, reminding us that we may have been born to muggle parents but we still have a chance of getting that letter and heading off to Chogborts school.
23 When You’re A Total Fraud, But You Do It So Well Nobody Minds
You know, there’s something about the whole concept of Muggle-born witches and wizards that I’ve never quite followed. As we know, the wizarding community lives in secret, hiding in plain sight from their muggle neighbors. They do this for various reasons. Because they fear persecution. Because they don’t want to be pestered by muggles who want them to solve all of their problems with a wand-wave.
Most importantly, because they don’t want to freak any of the normies out by letting them catch glimpse of their pet dragon, while they’re taking it out for its morning walk.
For all of these reasons, then, non-magical people are not allowed to know that witches and wizards live among them. The parents and guardians of Muggle-born Hogwarts students, however, are in on the whole thing. A representative of the school has to come to the house, and explain all the befuddling implications of the student’s admission letter to them.
“Toads? Cauldrons? Magic freaking wands? Magical Scottish castles with portraits that dang well move? Just what in heckola are you trying to pull here, coming to my house looking like Gandalf? I’m calling the police.”
Such students are totally welcome at Hogwarts, of course, but still. What a situation to be put in.
22 When You Use Your Time-Traveling Powers For Good, But Goody-Goody Good
Now, if the story of Peter Parker and Spider-Man has taught us anything, it’s that with great power comes great responsibility. That immortal line will always be a part of the character’s ethos. The whole concept of Peter Parker is that he’s a young man just like any other: struggling to come to terms with adulthood, his role in the world and his growing responsibilities.
Thanks to those wise words from Uncle Ben (which are repeated over and over and dang over again in the movies, just in case you went to the bathroom at the theater and missed them the first time), he’s learning to take all of that on board.
If it was tough for us regular folk, it must have been dang tough for young superheroes. By the same token, young witches and wizards don’t have it easy on that score either. After all, they can transform people into animals, or brew all kinds of potions with a range of lethal effects. How do you learn restraint when you can turn somebody head into a cockatiel’s foot just by speaking a nonsense word?
We’re not all Hermione Granger, after all. We can’t all be given a tiny time machine and be expected to use it solely to go to more classes at school.
21 When It’s Still Too Soon To Make Petrification Jokes
In quite a few ways, Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 disco hit I Will Survive is a perfect fit for Hermione. It’s catchy, it’s sassy and it’s brimming with female empowerment. It’s all about clicking your fingers in a z formation in front of your chest and declaring that you don’t need no man.
The fantasy genre, as we’ve seen, isn’t exactly brimming with female protagonists that can deliver on that promise. The whole Harry Potter/Twilight thing is still cropping up everywhere, and it’s an apt comparison to make. Poor old Bella is frequently depicted as powerless, unable to do anything without a sparkling Robert Pattinson leading the way.
By contrast, Hermione is definitely the most magically-able of the trio, the planner, the one everybody turns to in a crisis.
Granted, they come up against a lot of crises because their plans turn badly, but still. When Harry sets off on the Horcrux hunt in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron was dang right that they wouldn’t last five minutes without her.
She’s the super-smart glue that holds the trio together, so let’s not get snarky about the time in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that she was petrified by the basilisk. Stop that already.
20 When You Were Really The Star All Along
Speaking of which, the more you think about Hermione’s essential role in the group, the scarier it becomes. How did they ever function without her? What in heckola would have happened t Harry and Ron, if they hadn’t made friends with Hermione after the Halloween troll incident?
It just doesn’t bear thinking about. Without the voice of reason in the group, they’d probably have been eaten by the giant squid, trying to rustle the lake’s grindylows or something else foolish. Men really are dangers to themselves without supervision, after all.
It’s interesting to think about it, though. Look how bad their first impressions of each other were. As we saw earlier in this rundown, when Hermione first met Ron, she looked at him as disgustedly as if he’d just personally roundhouse kicked her grandma in the face.
The three of them only encountered that troll in the bathroom because Hermione was hiding in there, crying, after Ron had called her names. Who would have thought that the three of them would soon become the ultimate dream team? Well, nobody, that’s who.
They did, though, that’s the main thing. As this snarky post shows, I really don’t know where they’d have been without her.
19 When Ron Just Needs To Get On Your Level
I’m approaching the big 3-0 at a dang rapid rate, and that sort of milestone makes you think about… well, everything. What you’ve achieved, what you haven’t, where you’re going, where you want to go in the future, all of those sorts of things.
I’ve always been on to get lost in those kinds of ideas, but lately, it’s been a bigger and bigger deal. It’s tough not to compare yourself to others, and everything they’ve achieved. You shouldn’t, for sure, but I think that’s just part of it all.
You know what’s another part of it all? Old, embarrassing photos from the past, that’s what.
If there’s one thing that other people don’t seem able to resist on landmark birthdays, it’s digging up ancient photographs to humiliate the heck out of you. It’s like those flashback episodes on Friends, where Ross and Chandler have a different shocking hairstyle each time. The hilarious thing about those episodes is that it’s not you, but it’s just so true at the same time.
With the Harry Potter cast, we’ve been in a uniquely privileged position. We have literally gotten to watch them grow up on screen, over the decade that filming the series took. In some ways, it’s amazing how much they’ve changed, and in others, it’s amazing how much they haven’t.
18 When Muggles Can Google It But Magical People Have To Hermione It
The Harry Potter series is, by-and-large, told from a magical perspective. As a result, we’re mostly shown magical people doing magical things, magic-ing it up and generally being magical.
The message is quite clear from all of this: it’s super dang convenient being a witch or wizard.
The Weasley’s higgeldy-piggeldy house, for instance, is held up by magical means. They can clean an entire room in seconds, simply with a wand-flick. They can even repair bones with a simple spell (unless you’re Lockhart, in which case you transform them into freakish jelly-arms by removing the bones). It’s a cushy gig, whichever way you slice it.
Those of us without any magical abilities, then, have a right to feel a little envious about the whole situation. The fact is, though, that we also have powers that witches and wizards will never understand. Muggle Studies takes a shot at explaining things like electricity, but that’s as far as it goes. Somehow, I doubt that the technology-averse Hogwarts castle has an up-to-date computer lab.
Can you imagine a life without Google? We’ve all become so dependent on it, instantly having the answers to absolutely everything in the palms of our hands. Still, Hogwarts has the next best thing: Hermione.
17 When You Go A Little Overboard And Set The Teacher On Fire
As Potterheads will remember, there was a certain moment in the first installment. A particular Quidditch match that will remain dear to my heart forever. The single greatest overreaction of all time, not only in this series but just anywhere ever. Yep, the time that Hermione headed off to break Snape’s eye contact with Harry.
It was simple enough. Ron and Hermione thought that Snape was cursing Harry’s broomstick, as it had starting bucking and trying to throw him off. They notice Snape at the other end of the stands, gazing intently at the broom and muttering non-stop under his breath. The Potions master was causing the broom to malfunction, they were convinced, and the only way to break the curse was to break his eye contact.
Now, Hermione could have simply hurried over and spoken to him. You know, like a rational, logical human being would. For whatever reason, though, he decided to go for spectacle.
As the Kings of Leon once sang, Yeaaaaahahhoooo, my Snape is on fiyaaaaah. I just loved the fact that he headed beneath the stands and set a tiny flame on the bottom of Snape’s billowing cloak with her wand. It’s just so… not Hermione.
16 When You Definitely Need To Sort Out Your Priorities
So, as we’ve established, Hermione Granger is generally a goody-goody, rule-abiding, knows-every-darn-thing sort of student. When Harry disarmed Snape down in the Shrieking Shack in Prisoner of Azkaban, she was totally horrified by his actions. The fact that a huge, shaggy black dog had just transformed into a notorious, highly dangerous, escaped prisoner right in front of them? That’s nothing at all, there are SCHOOL RULES at stake here.
In a lot of ways, Hermione is every teacher’s dream student. He causes absolutely zero trouble, is attentive, polite, hardworking and all of those things. In all her time at Hogwarts, she only set one teacher alight as well, which is a fairly good ratio.
Still, there’s such a thing as being too committed. Every teacher likes a student that pays attention, but not one that pesters them, insists on knowing everything, lurks outside the staff room and such. Man, book Hermione was a pain in the cheeks at times.
The trick is, as we all know, finding that balance. You want to work hard, but you want to play hard too. If you’ve just come within inches of being mauled by a gigantic three headed dog, your life should probably rank a little higher on your list of priorities than possible expulsion.
15 When The Movies Were Just Too Dang Long
Ah, yes. The classic that would’ve been a short movie joke. This one comes up often in the movie world, whenever our protagonist faces a super-dangerous threat early on. This is a popular device too, as an action-tastic beginning is a great way to grab the audience’s attention right from the off.
Take a look at something like Avengers: Age of Ultron, which hits the ground running. Running like darn Usain Bolt, at that. You may have thought that this was a dramatic opening, but I’ve never seen anything that comes even close to Harry’s first journey on the Hogwarts express. After he’s befriended Ron and brought everything from the dang food trolley (what about everybody else on that train, guy? Did you think of them? Did you?), he then meets Hermione Granger.
A few seconds later, what is she doing? Pointing her wand right between Harry’s eyes, that’s what.
Now that’s a tense moment.
Now, granted, she was just fixing his glasses with a spell. I know that. I understand it. You’ve got to admit, though, there was clearly something sinister going on here. It’s firmly established that students aren’t allowed to perform magic outside of school, or even in the corridors.
What were you thinking, Hermione? Just trying casually trying out a spell on the legendary Boy Who Lived? Don’t point that in his face. You’re going to have someone’s eye out.
14 When The Almighty Dark Lord Gets A Little Uppity And You’ve Got To Put Him In His Place
A lot of the time in movies, female characters just haven’t gotten the limelight they deserve. The action genre is a particular offender, often setting up a sort of Super Mario type situation where a love interest has to be rescued from a metaphorical Bowser.
As we know, let Princess Peach loose in a franchise like Smash Bros., and she’s one tough cookie. Have you ever taken one of her notorious stitch-face vegetables to the face? That hurts like a banshee, let me tell you. Never mess with a woman and her furious turnips, as Shakespeare himself once wrote.
The same’s true of Princess Zelda. If you get the sweet spot on that lightning kick, you’ll send them bitterly crying to their grandmas. In short, all these heroines really need is time to shine. In the world of fantasy, characters like the feeble Bella aren’t really doing much for the cause, but Hermione Granger is on a completely different level. She’s operating on a plane of existence far above our own, like the ever-eccentric Jeff Goldblum. Only with powerful magical skills instead of stuttering about life… uh… finding a way.
How Harry came to be the Chosen One, I’ll never know. He had Hermione by his side, after all. All she had to do was glare at Voldemort and he’d cower like a bald, reptilian jelly.
13 When Harry Potter And Doctor Who Collide
So, yes. I’ve already spoken a little about fandoms, and how they tend to take things to extremes. You know, putting the fanatic into fan and all that. I know that fanatic’s not really going to fit into fan, because that’s more than twice as many letters, but I’m on a roll here and I’m not about to backspace my way back through all of that. Let’s just go with it.
Speaking of things that really don’t fit into other things (wait, maybe I actually planned all of this out after all), how about the Time Lord technology of Doctor Who? In the show, this humanoid alien race was able to manipulate time and space, which was exactly the technology they used to make objects that were bigger on the inside. The Doctor’s iconic spacecraft, the TARDIS, being the best-known example.
That show takes a more scientific, technological approach to explaining that phenomenon, while the Harry Potter franchise takes a different route.
Around here, Hermione is able to make her little beaded handbag bigger on the inside by magical means. Nobody else is really seen to use such a charm in the series, either.
Now, I’m not saying that this makes her a Time Lord, but I’m not not saying it either. Now that would be a series crossover.
12 When Your Best Just Isn’t Dang Good Enough
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling really does start playing fast and loose with some of those magical creatures. She created this world, and then decided to populate it with bizarre creatures like hinkypunks, grindylows, and other brilliantly-named oddities.
My personal favorite? The boggarts. These malevolent little shapeshifters hide away in magical homes, underneath, between and behind things. When found, they will instantly transform themselves into whatever that particular person fears the most. Nobody has any idea why exactly they do this. I think we’re looking for a loftier answer than ‘just to be a d-bag,’ but I fear there may not be one.
Whatever the case, though, Professor Lupin procured one for class one day, and set about teaching his students how to combat the boggart. When each student faced it, it transformed itself into something different, according to their greatest fears. For Ron, it became a gigantic spider. For Harry, it was a Dementor, and all of the traumatic memories they represented. Hermione’s, Ron joked, would have been a piece of homework that got only 9/10.
Ah, yes, Hermione’s face here (seen in the first movie, with Slytherin about to win the house cup before Dumbledore pulls his usual TEN TRILLION POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR trick) just says it all.
11 When You See Your Future, And You Are Not Impressed
As just about every rom-com ever will tell you, it’s all about the endgame. You know, everything’s going okay, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are getting mail, but it takes a while to get there. The whole crux of these things is usually that it’s the most unlikely couples that end up going the distance together.
In the Potterverse, none seemed quite as unlikely as Ron and Hermione. Over the course of our lives, we all encounter couples who just don’t seem to fit together, for whatever reason. Sure enough, some don’t last, but others defy all of the odds and have their happily-ever-afters together.
For a lot of Harry Potter fans, Ron and Hermione don’t really work together. They have dramatically different personalities, work ethics and such, and JK Rowling herself has stated that she regrets pairing the two together in hindsight. Still, sometimes that’s the way. Opposites attract, as they say, and you never quite know. In the end, these things are nobody’s business but the couple’s themselves.
Granted, it’s a little damning when the author who created you suggests that she thinks you may need marriage counseling in the future, but what of it? Your first impressions of each other weren’t great, but you’re making it work. That’s what really matters.
10 When Hermione Takes-No-Prisoners Granger Strikes Again
For me, one of the greatest strengths of JK Rowling’s writing is her ability to create multi-faceted characters. This is a huge part of what makes the series so enduringly popular. At its heart, it’s quite a simple morality tale of good versus evil, but there’s so much more than that beneath the surface.
Voldemort could so easily have been a textbook, evil-for-the-sake-of-it megalomaniac.
He is the villain of the piece, and a darn good one, but we also get to see much more. Through the journeys into his past, we learn of his trauma, his fears, his motivations. Sure, gathering an army dark creatures and angry humans and trying to take over the world is always going to be kinda frowned upon, but there’s more depth here.
Take Hermione, too. She also could have been the stereotypical nerdy know-it-all-student, and… well, she is. But her character evolves way beyond that, and we get to explore more of who she is and what she’s capable of. This is true of so many characters. Just look at Neville’s transformation. Hermione’s warrior side was always screaming to come out, to the point that even her best friends have zero clue what to do when she really goes off on one.
9 When You Insist On Trying To Make Dramione A Thing
So, generally speaking, I have mixed feelings about fandoms. On the one hand, sure, I totally dig the whole idea. After all, finding people who share your passions, connecting with them and being enriched by them is what life is really all about. That spirit of togetherness and community is exactly what this bad old world of ours needs.
On the other hand, do we need quite that many memes and hashtags?
When Justin Bieber’s loyal legions of Beliebers melt the whole of Twitter into a sad, plastic mess, it’s safe to say that fandoms have gone too far.
That’s just something fandoms tend to do. When you’re just that enthusiastic, it tends to leak out in odd ways. Maybe one day you find yourself writing a novel-length fan fiction piece about Doctor Who or something. One of the more dangerous examples of this is shipping.
Shipping isn’t all bad. Sometimes, you’re just righting a terrible wrong in the original plot. You’ve got to tread lightly, though, because you can easily create a real monster here. I refuse to believe that there’s a single universe in which Dramione would ever be a thing. I’m a little dubious about Ron and Hermione, frankly, but Malfoy and Hermione? Stop that.
8 When It’s Levi-OSA, Not Levio-SAR
Just about everyone in the movie and TV business remembers the old adage, never work with children or animals. Now, I’ve never been on the big screen or the little one, but I can totally see where they’re going with this. After all, movie/TV show-making can be a long-winded business. Depending on how lucky you get with weather, actors messing up, all of those sorts of things, it can take hours or days to get a shot of somebody simply eating their dang lunch.
And that’s with adult actors, who actually (supposedly) know what they’re doing. Throw animals or children into the mix, and… well, everything goes to heck.
Neither type of creature, child or animal, is remotely controllable. You just set up the cameras, send them off to do their thing, and record the results. Often, you’ll end up with a couple of the extras taking nasty bites, the set in ruins and a poop right in the middle of the studio floor. And that’s just the children.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with its super young cast, must have been quite the challenge to film. The children were just discovering their acting chops, after all. Regardless of that, there are some standout moments from them. It’s leviOsah, not levioSAH was one line that was delivered just perfectly.
7 When You Set Snape On Fire And You Enjoy It A Little Too Much
Now, I’ve always been the introverted, reserved type. If I were ever to be chosen as a Big Brother contestant (not that I’ve ever applied for such, but let’s just roll with it for the analogy’s sake), I’d be one of those one who coasts right along to the final, avoiding nominations from fellow housemates just because I’m not that noteworthy. I’d probably fade into the wallpaper or something and disappear, chameleon-like.
As such, you can bet that I’ve heard them all. The classic it’s always the quiet ones, isn’t it? Jokes. These are trotted out all the time at family occasions. Well, actually, Great Aunt Jemima, no. No, it isn’t.
You really do hear this all the time, though. When some ghastly crime or other is committed, neighbors will say things like, “Jeremy was a quiet guy who kept to himself. I had no idea he had a saucer full of brains on his coffee table.”
All I’m saying is, we quiet people like to let our hair down every now and then too. We have our moments, just like everybody else. We’ve already spoken about Hermione’s Kentucky-Fried Snape incident at the Quidditch match, but I’ve never noticed the pure happiness in her eyes before. It’s like the dang Omen up in here.
6 When You CANNOT Resist Ron’s Heroism
Now, I’m sure this was totally symbolic. Ron Weasley, impetuously seeking to prove himself, leaps onto the stone horse’s back as a knight? Nobley rides to his own self-sacrifice? Come on now, it’s getting cheesier than an XL triple cheese cheese-amundo pizza with a cheese side salad in here. My lactose intolerance is kicking in just looking at this image.
Now, as I say, JK Rowling is not one to kowtow to these cheap old gender role clichés. In Hermione, Ginny, Molly Weasley, Minerva McGonagall and several others, we’ve got one of the strongest female casts in recent literary/movie history right here. That’s something to be proud of, whichever way you slice it.
Really, this moment wasn’t about that sort of thing. It was about Ron himself, getting a moment in the limelight that’s just about him. He often had doubts throughout the first book; about himself, his brothers’ past successes, his worthiness to be a Gryffindor… it’s tough to be the youngest brother of a darn big family.
A hero moment was what he needed. Not to ‘rescue’ anybody, I wouldn’t say, but to prove to himself that he was just as capable, just as brave. Such Gryffindor, very wow, as the internet likes to say.
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