Hermione turning to dark magic to overthrow the ministry because she sees it as corrupt would’ve been a way better sequel than “I WISH U WEREN’T MY SON!!!”
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Even if voldy wasn’t prejudiced and wanted hermione, she wouldn’t have left harry. Hermione would lose a 1v1 duel against bellatrix anyway. She would help him with strategies or anticipating harry’s moves, but this wouldn’t happen because Voldemort is a dictator in a way and he doesn’t trust many people, even if they are pure blood.
@Ahmed might I add against a THOUSAND all while nearly seeing his best friends and godfather die, while Hermione could not maintain one along side Harry’s Patronus in Deathly Hallows.
Who ever said that Hermione wasn’t smart? She obviously memorized spells we as people have to memorize things like basic math etc. However it’s her execution that showcases her pure skill in magic, that at all can’t be ignored. As Ron stated best “we wouldn’t last 3 days without Hermione.”
@@prabhatichakraborty7680 WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you sure we’ve watched the same series. Not quick witted ? NOT QUICK WITTED? Who planned their escape from Gringotts in a matter of moments? Who planned their escape from the wedding? Erm let’s see in the Order of the Phoenix she stopped Harry from being under the EXCREUCIATING PAIN of the Cruciatus Curse by luring umbridge into the forbidden forest? She reads her books I admit but... if she knows when to apply what part of her extensive knowledge. Yes, she paid attention in herbology but when her friend was dying she immediately started thinking and because she was quick witted she could recall the exact part of herbology book that she needed and coming from a straight A student that’s not what easy at all. She found out about lupin when NO ONE else did. Where are the ravenclaws now huh? Then she found out about the basilisk and then found out how he was moving through the school. There’s a reason she’s the BRIGHTEST student of her age not SMARTEST or do you need a dictionary. People have this false assumption that all good students are only good bc they study not bc they are smart. That’s bs even I suffer with that a lot but I’ve proved to ppl and so has hermione. Now go watch/read the series again bc clearly you haven’t
@@sanikaabedin6765 calm down, I think what the other person is trying to say is that she's book smart but not so much of a street smart like (book) Ron is. I know the movies made her pretty much flawless, but in books we see that while Hermione's knowledge saved them many times, she could get panicky under pressure and that's where Ron and Harry come in and perfected the group.
Imagine if Hermione never truly befriended Harry and Ron after the Troll battle? What if Ron’s poor treatment of her in book 1 took a turn for the worse instead of the better? Turned her bitter over time toward the magical world in general? And she used her incredible intellect and talent to truly surpass them all??? Started a Muggle-born revolution?? Highly unlikely, sure. But if any Muggle-born could get it done.....
@@subhasishghosh6924 Gotta disagree. Anyone can be studious. It takes a special individual to put those same studies into practice and whether she practiced hard in her own T first before excelling in front of her friends, you can knock that Hermione had that gift.
@@astrogaming4284 GIFTED means being able to do things that are far beyond your age. I believe Harry is gifted. He killed a basilisk at 12, cast a full-blown patronus at 13 while hermione was struggling with it at 15, dueled multiple death eaters etc
Hermione has the best work ethic out of all students and let's not forget she knows how to sneak around the castle and gather reading material and stealing potion ingredients she's not supposed to have and doing all this WITHOUT an invisibility cloak. Easily could've been a great dark witch if she wanted to.
@@jenniferbrewer5370 Not the best for multiple reasons. She panicked in stressful situations and wasn't very street smart (read the books). She didn't even get the best grades; Dawlish(the auror) got better grades than her. She wouldn't have been in the voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald league neither in the mad eye, Kingsley league in terms of fighting.
@@rachitmehta4987 That doesn't mean she couldn't have been a badass dark witch. Dueling is overrated. That guy who created the Dementors (Ehkrizdis) lured sailors to perform human experiments on them. There was never any record of him dueling anyone but he might have had the highest body count out of all these Dark wizards and witches.
I personally think Hermione was so good WAS because she was Muggleborn. She was basically one of us. Imagine growing up as a Muggle and then learning that there existed a Magical World. That plus her unsatiable curiosity and her ability to learn well is what made her a strong witch
true sis. she has all the capabilities and potential, even dumbledore knew that. she was contented being at the sidelines and promoting house elves so it was rly a big surprise that she accepted the post of minister for magic
Hi... No one ever considers the effects of generations of pureblood inbreeding does to the stability of the magical gene. In their efforts to maintain blood purity, Purebloods were actually weakening the strength of the magical gene. In other words, causing a genetic defect (Squibs. non-magical children). Often a Squib child was put to death. An example was when Neville's uncle dropped him out a high bedroom window. But Neville bounces, like a baby duckling leaving it's best, instead of dying to prove he was magical. Those families, that didn't execute their Squid child, often condemned then to lower class status in the magical world, even lower than a house elf. At first chance, the child would leave for to muggle world to make a life for themselves. I believe this is how muggleborns began, as well as the first conflicts between magicals and muggles, who won and drive magicals into hiding, because they knew many magical secrets and weaknesses.
There are also stories of children being found in the forest and raised to adulthood. Centuries ago in parts of Europe, if parents thought a child too weak or they couldn't feed it, they would leave it outside in the woods to die. So that's another morbid way your theory could work.
@@darkacademiavanessa Squibs leave the magical world for the muggle world. They get married, have children. Their genes get passed down. 2 descendants from 2 difference Squibs come together. The genes merge and activate. Now you have a MUGGLEBORN, born of pureblood genes, but with defect repaired; make them more powerful than both original gene families. Riddle, Jr aka Voldemort is a causality of a pureblood mother impregnated by a muggle descendent of a Squib.
because at that point voldemort didn't think snape was on his side anymore, it took snape a great deal of smooth talk to win voldemort's trust again and didn't fully regain it until he killed dumbledore. (I think snape even mentions something about to to bellatrix and narcissa at the start of half blood prince)
Several things to remember, when separating Hermione's history and character from the Dark Lord's: 1) Hermione did not have one fraction of the loveless, dysfunctional upbringing that Tom Riddle did, which no doubt warped his personality in the extreme. On the contrary, her home life and family were almost boringly stable, and she was willing to make shocking sacrifices for the sake of her family's safety (i.e. Obliviation) while Tom Riddle openly murdered several members of his own family. 2) Hermione's ancestry, similarly, was not as "tainted" as Tom Riddle's, as no one in the Granger household seems to have been afflicted by centuries of inbreeding. The Gaunts, including Riddle, seem to have been born nuts, to begin with, on top of their tormented child-rearing practices. 3) Hermione's personal experience of having to "work twice as hard to be counted as equal" has no doubt altered her perspective in precisely the opposite way from Tom Riddle's, in that she was never led to believe she was part of a privileged class, or had anything come to her without hard work. She would, as a consequence, favor wizards who'd "come up the hard way" in the same fashion, rather than being outrageous natural talents. She certainly wouldn't form an elitist cadre like the Death Eaters, whom she kept in line by spoon-feeding them her personal knowledge. If anything, Hermione would be something like Master Yoda, being mistrustful of undisciplined geniuses and demanding that students hunker down, learn control, and not cut corners. 4) Lastly, Hermione isn't exactly a "charismatic" figure, but naturally humble, retiring, and hardworking in a way that a man like Dumbledore had to *teach* himself to be. She was certainly not a glamorous revolutionary like Grindelwald, or a manipulator like Voldemort. This would preclude her seizing power in quite the same way, by forming an army and revolting. At most, she might have started a bureaucratic revolution or sorts, from inside an institution like Hogwarts or the Ministry of Magic, and done it very quietly over the course of many years. Overall, while I agree that Hermione's raw power has been badly underestimated, and that she has the work ethic to make the most of it, her personality differences are so different from Voldemort that they have almost nothing in common. And THAT was why she didn't follow nearly the same path.
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Did everyone forget that she brewed Polyjuice potion a NEWT lvl potion in her second year of school. she was far more deadly then people give her credit for.
MovieFlame didn't think Minister for Magic was a good career fit for book Hermione but he believed movie Hermione was better suited for it. It's interesting to hear you praise Hermione's position as Minister for Magic; people always have differing opinions. When I first read "Cursed Child," I wasn't all that surprised that Hermione was the Minister. She's the smartest witch of her age and had an intellect few could equal. Hermione does help represent everything positive Tom Marvolo Riddle could have legitimately achieved. Great video!
Personally, I've always felt like Harry would become a portly Head of Magical Law Enforcement. Hermione would briefly work her way quickly through the ranks of the Minister for Magic support staff but quit before achieving Minister, then she'd become the Muggle Studies professor at Hogwarts then become the first Muggle Studies professor to become Headmistress of Hogwarts. Ron flying instructor at Hogwarts. Neville would become the muscle-bound hotshot Auror on the frontline of stopping dark wizards of the future. Ginny Weasley wouldn't change imo. After some time in Dementor-less Azkaban, Delphini, with frequent visits from Harry, Scorpius and Severus; eventually rehabilitates and becomes Neville's apprentice in the Aurors. Neville and Delphini suppress the likes of Theodore Nott as well as Crabbe and Goyle who all become dark wizards but mostly fight among each other for leadership of other purebloods. Draco becomes a reknowned peacock breeder vehemently respected among the peacock enthusiast community.
I’ve always thought that while Hermione was even greater than the position of Minister and perhaps deserved something more meaningful, it seems both more plausible and more impressive for her to tackle such a thing when you consider her values and priorities, namely house elf advocacy. In my opinion her values would’ve been a major driving factor; what better way to alter legislation and public opinion that being minister? Such atypical values like house elf rights would’ve given her an uphill battle as a politician, let alone the resistance from blood-discriminators with their deep magical roots. Although, I’m sure being one of HP’s best friends and saving the world helps. This makes me a bit more at ease with her taking the position that was made to be a joke at the end of the series tho 🤷🏻♂️
Absolutely, Hermione’s talent lies in her lust for knowledge and learning HOW to be the best witch she can be. She would, and does, strive to know all forms of magic, not for the sake of power, but knowledge. I love that about her
Exactly this! Voldemort learn how to create horcruxes from reading. There were soooo many extremely strong witches and wizards in the past that hid knowledge away. She has the right intent, humility, drive and skill.
Me reading the title: oh yeah, brightest witch of her age. I mean come on at 11 she solved a riddle made by Snape, arguably the second most powerful person in Hogwarts. Then at 12 created a potion that most full grown witches and wizards struggle with.
I'm sorry this garbage about Hermione being only 'textbook smart' is nonsense, she: -Figures out Snape's potion riddle -Discovers its a basilisk in the pipes -figures out lupin is a werewolf -discovers Rita Skeeter is an Animagus -gets Umbridge successfully out of Hogwarts via the centaurs and many many more through pure quick thinking and logic thank you and goodnight x
@@goncaloferreira6429 I was merely commenting that someone with book smarts could simply tell the main characters what to do (Example, Original comment) as apposed to being apart of the main characters making a difference. If you thought I was downplaying her, I am sorry. I just think there's more to her character then what she did with Literal textbook knowledge.
@@Celia97799 no offense over a fictional character interpretation :) mine was a honest question: what is power/magical capacity in the Hp universe? i understand that it has a soft magic system but still i am looking for a more concrete answer from those who might lnow more than i do.
Finally! Someone actually mentions Hermione's photographic memory. Repeating word for word everything out of the text book, literally everything. Ya, that's a photographic memory.
I had to raise my eyebrow at the argument "Nah she aint smart she just memorized stuff really well." - Which is...that seems like a very odd argument. Considering that if a person merely memorized things, they cannot adapt/utilize said knowledge for anything different than what they just are remembering. They cannot take parts of what they learned, and utilize components of that knowledge for further things/the needed overlapping bits/pieces for other things. Such as the knowledge from learning to cast a simple year 1 spell, and how you later learn to adapt the required parts of that for a new one later on - Or how to make that simple spell be a very powerful one, as with learning/experience you can adapt what is normally a simple trick into something way more advanced. This is quite an odd argument to make...Especially if you consider Hogwarts is a school, and it would be a very poor one if it was all about just puking out what you just store in your memory, and never doing anything that builds upon things learned before, thus requiring past knowledge adapted to work something more down the way to work. You ought to never teach someone how to simply remember things, but how to use that absorbed knowledge. Dolores Umbridge's pitiful performance as a teacher was pretty much an example of attempted "just memorize things" style antics. For a simple real life example into the difference: I can remember "E=mc2" , and even remember what the symbols here mean....but I would be hard pressed to use it in any meaning ways, as that is outside my realm of expertise: I cannot adapt/use that memory for anything, and it's just a trivia fact because I lack the ability to adapt/utilize it. Ergo: I did not study, and thus learn how to do that. Example 2 would be me learning to communicate in a secondary language: English. If I simply just remembered how to write in English, I would need to memorize every single word in the dictionary, and how they are bent. And as anyone who is leaning/has learned a new language can tell you: That aint how you learn to talk/write in a new language, now is it? Learning, and remembering are two different things: If it was all about remembering, the order of things taught would also be a very trivial matter, as you just need to "just remember stuff." Got it memorized?
@@stephanielim5544 Considering how Slytherin is pre-downfall of Voldy (and probably still after for a slight period?) towards muggle borns, I suspect she would not have neither been allowed by the Sorting, nor found much friendship in there. It would be akin to being sorted into a house ruled by those who detest your very being for rather nasty reasons. In the same breath - What each house stands for is a malleable thing. Take Peter Pettigrew - He may have been a sniveling excuse for a man, but he still was despite all his self-preservation based cowardliness ...a brave man. From a certain point of view: It takes a twisted kind of bravery to betray your friends, sell them out, and to also not just keel over from Voldy breathing down your neck, still being capable of some rather impressive magical feats. Though I suspect the sorting does attempt to assure that each student finds the environment they will prosper in most. Were Hermione Slytherin, as she has a proneness for insecurity at times ( at least in her younger days) would likely never have gotten to the level she got to if she was surrounded by people who strive to crush her self-esteem every single waking second. While Slytherin did probably always host its share of not so radicalized thinking students (akin to Slughorn), it did still host a lot of bad habits, and the morally good Slytherins probably at the time they attended Hogwarts were severely outnumbered. Odds are if she did thrive despite Slytherin - She would have become quite a hardened person in response to that, and not in the good way. Being stuffed into a den of bullies, and being stuck with them surrounding you at all times would cause a lot of damage. It's a hard concept to really wrap your head around though, how sorting works.
@@videocrowsnest5251 hypothetically saying Hermione's been placed in slytherin. We all know how slytherin would react by a muggleborn being sorted there, but I also think you underestimate the slytherins characteristics too. If there's anything they really love the most more than the pure ness of one's blood is that they know power when they see one. Hermione being in slytherin with both gryffindors and slytherins distancing from her would just make her more ambitious, and later on would covet power just to prove everyone wrong. If she was left into life without any friends and sorted in the most despised house who said house is like a playground for Politics, she would definitely end up similar to Voldemort, but unlike Voldemort she at least have her parents love and support, she won't end up being blinded by power but she would definitely make them blind because she will make sure that SHE is power. Now you see why she has more potential than Dumbledore and Voldemort? She lived through this 2 formidable wizards and she saw their flaws and how they went down so her being the slytherin that she was would take the knowledge for her benefit and avoid the actions of their downfall.
Yes, but it was quite clear that Voldemort and Dumbledore were "the most impressive students ever" at Hogwarts. In fact, she wasn't revealed to achieve any special feats on her owls (like harry or Dumbledore). Her owl grades were not even as good as Professor Flitwick's, but I would compare her potential power with his.
Exactly Dumbledore Voldemort Snape and The Mauraders were all doing much more impressive magic at the same age,she had no creativity and was too rigid to be a truly great witch
Many people consider that being smart makes you a good dueller, but the books clearly show that she kinda panics in a fight and her DA grades were not an Outstanding (in OWLS)
The difference between Hermione and Voldemort: he was an intelligent narcissist who viewed himself as being better than other people. She was an intelligent student who didn’t view herself as better than other people or other creatures, such as house elves.
Hermione is hella smart for sure, but she never displayed enough raw magical power to be near that level. If you could merge her brains with Harry's potential then you might be talking.
@@barackobama5867 Because he didn't really push himself, but for sure he had a ton of raw power. Imagine if he put as much effort into all aspects of magic as he did with the patronus charm
I agree. Voldemorts downfall always came from lusting power to the exclusion of obtaining sufficient knowledge (killing Lilly, putting Harry's blood in him, trying to kill harry as a baby without knowing the full prophesy, etc.) And I think that Hermione would have avoided that allowing her to reach a higher potential than voldemort. I believe it would have taken her longer as she would have searched for more knowledge and wouldn't have thought that the ends justified the means as far as hurting people, but although more slow I believe it would have been more stable, sustainable, and longer lasting power.
I think those people who said they don’t like Hermione actually don’t like the movie version. The movie version didn’t have that many flaws compared to the book version and all of Ron’s brave acts were given to her. That really makes the movie version a bad character.
@@groot8950 ron was made their sidekick instead of a true friend like hermione And hermione was made the one girl who always was the one to help her out of the trouble But it is different in the books.. It was hermione who was always stressed and angry etc etc and they had to help her in such things. But they made it in such a way that she helped them with all education, emotions, duels, and much more
@@groot8950 i dont have problems with hermione.... But ron shouldve got his moments to.. Movie watchers would be like - theres no doubt hermione is better.. But actually both are pretty good in their areas
@@groot8950 it makes Hermione blank. A Mary Sue. In the movies, she has pretty much no flaws at all and that makes her one dimensional. That's why the screenwriting of the books didn't do her any favor, as well as they didn't do any favor to Ron for writing all his positive personality traits to Hermione and even some to Harry. Steve Kloves, the screenwriter of 7 of the 8 movies, states from the very beginning that Hermione was his favorite character. And it shows. He also was a huge Harry/Hermione shipper, that's another reason why Ron and Ginny are written so poorly in the movies. In the movies it looks like Harry is as comfortable with Hermione as he is with Ron. Or even that she is his first go-to friend when he needs someone to talk to. But that's not the case in the books. The two times Harry and Ron fight during the series, Harry feels miserable all the time and even admits that though he likes Hermione, that's it's not the same being with her alone. When Ron leaves in DH, Harry and Hermione sometimes don't even share a single word for days. When instead Harry is fighting with Hermione, like in PoA because of the Firebolt, he is quite indifferent to that fact. It doesn't bother him too much. In the books it's clearly shown that Hermione needs her friends just as much as they need her. If not for Ron, I'm pretty sure she'd have turned into a very arrogant person, because she's so high maintaining. But Ron brings her down to earth, back to reality. Also, he provides most of the everyday-wizard knowledge not only to Harry, but also to Hermione, too, who doesn't know everything like she does in the books. You could say that Hermione is the brain of the group, Harry the soul and Ron the heart. In the movies, Ron is represented pretty much useless most of the time, but in the books, he's brave, he's loyal, he's the witty guy, and most importantly, he opens his family for Harry, he, without thinking, adopts Harry as a brother and shows him, for the first time, what love is. In the movie PoA, when Crookshanks supposedly had eaten Scabbers, all Ron wanted was Hermione to acknowledge it and apologize. But she was too proud almost the entire book (in the last third or so she finally apologizes), even when Ron asked her to keep Crookshanks away from Scabbers and don't bring him near the Rat, she belittles his request. In the movie, the entire Crookshanks/Scabbers-gate is shown as a mere distress. End even when Scabbers is found alive in Hagrids hut, Hermione tells Ron to apologize to her, suggesting to the audience, that Ron was at fault the whole time, when actually, it was Hermiones ignorance that was the problem here. Sorry for the long text. But please reread the books again, you'll notice that Hermione has way more flaws in the books and that makes her a better character, because you can really identify with her.
@@jessevaneman473 I think evnn Harry could probably beat Hermione in a Duel without preparations since he thinks much better under these stressful situations.
As I watched this video, I found myself wondering more about how Hermione was similar and dissimilar to Dumbledore. Both very much into learning, both knowing (but not necessarily using) dark spells. Dumbledore knowing he couldn't be trusted with power, Hermione knowing she could be.
Salazar Slytherin was SO wrong. Slytherin House has deprived itself of so many incredibly talented and powerful witches and wizards over the non-issue of "blood purity." And I'm a Slytherin saying that. I'd have been proud to call Hermione one of our own.
There is a bit of Historical Context Slytherin's hatred of Muggle-borns was a continuation of his hatred of Muggles. The era of the founders was very different. Witches and Wizards were actively hunted down and any sort of Magic was absolutely frowned upon. Wanton killing of Magical folks lead to a very real threat of extinction of Britain's Magical Community. Slytherin floated the idea of Hogwarts as an Invisible-to-Muggle-World impenetrable fortress where all the Magical families of Britain will get a safe haven from Persecution. Gryffindor viewed Hogwarts not just as a fort but rather as a school where young Witches & Wizards would be taught about Witchcraft, Wizardry, diff Magical arts and more imp about the control of Magic. Here, Slytherin believed that Magical knowledge should only be concentrated amongst a few Wizarding Families with generations-old Magical lineage while other founders sought out Muggle-born Witches & Wizards. Slytherin held deep distrust of Muggle-born witches & Wizards as he believed that their Muggle Heritage would act as a Corrupting influence on Magic. Things came to a flashpoint when Gryffindor, Hufflepuff & Ravenclaw proposed to open Hogwarts to the Muggle world as a means to share Magical Knowledge and improve contacts with the Muggle World; something which the Slytherin was greatly opposed to. Slytherin, unable to agree with his Co-Founders, chose to leave Hogwarts; but b4 leaving he constructed the Chamber of Secrets which housed the Basilisk. Slytherin then proclaimed that one day his very own rightful heir would come and open the chamber and rid the school of all Muggle influence.
Many ppl shit on Pure-Blood Wizards for being anti-Muggles, all the while conviniently forgetting as to how the Muggle Community Wantonly killed Witches & Wizards to near extinction.
Hermione was a child prodigy and she could’ve skipped grades and graduated early, but I don’t think magic schools 🏫 allow that and if they did, the stories would’ve been different. Riddle: An Animated Story, do u have to subscribe to watch or is it free for all?
No she isn't a prodigy. Dumbledore, Grindelwald, voldemort was the prodigy league. Mad eye, Kingsley, scrimgeour were excellent, but not prodigy. Hermione wasn't a very good dueller (comparatively).
@Rachit Mehta she is a prodigy by intellect was as Voldemort was by magic. In real life and fiction, there’s prodigies in any subject, like an artist 👨🏻🎨 for reality and fiction such as Azula for firebending.
@@dylanhicks4771 ummm, why don't you name one? McGonagall and Tonnks aren't mad eye tier btw. We haven't been shown many prodigious witches in the hp universe which I can easily recognise. I wasn't even thinking about the sex of the individual, just the calibre as to what we have been shown. But please, go ahead and name one prodigy tier whitch you know of. (Edit): Sorry, forgot about Bellatrix
@@sifilore There was at least 1 student per year of Hermione calibre eg. Dawlish, McGonagall, Percy, etc. So she isn't a prodigy. Btw, I was referring to magical talent: ability to do magic easily and all the good stuff. Hermione is talented, but just not cut for those sort of wizards or witches.
Here’s a question I would ask you. What would have happened if Sirius survived Order of the Phoenix? How would this influence the turn of events that would happen in the later parts of Harry Potter?
You know if you think about it, Hermione had a lot of traits that should have placed her into Slytherin. Shes incredibly ambitious, takes pride in demonstrations of superiority whether it be with magic or intelligence, and was pretty cunning and quick witted. Sure she was brave, but one could argue that was a result of her ambitions, not to mention she is fiercely loyal, demonstrated when she was one of the few who stayed by Harry during the Tri-wizard tournament as everyone dropped Harry thinking he purposely put his name in the cup.
@@minecraftsteve6997 excuse me??? Hermoine isn't as powerful???😂😂😂😂 Lol lol Harry was just lucky to defeat voldemort with the prophecy and him coincidentally coming into possession of the deathly hallows Hermoine kept them alive , literally every single second She earned her way to power Unlike our chosen one here
Hermione had an advantage over Voldemort in that she understood love, and human motivations beyond power, but was disadvantaged versus LV because even Dark Granger most likely would not be so evil she'd push experimentation with Satanic magic in a quest for power as LV did. I doubt she'd create Horcruxes as well. One of the reasons LV experimented with magics which killed other dark wizards after he created Horcruxes was his knowledge he was immortal...a luxury Hermione would not have.
The first I thought when I saw this title: Yeah, I guessed that. Hermione is the female version of Riddle and the moral mirror opposite of him. It's what he would have been if he didn't become evil.
Yes ........... she got the mind , the personality and the magical powers but she simply chosen a very different lifestyle and priorities 👑😍😭 .......... Buddy you are a genius👑👍😊
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An idea I have for a topic is what could actually happened if Cedric Diggory lived. The Cursed Child book portrays him horribly. He wouldn't be upset that he lost the triwizard tournament (in fact, he walked away from the triwizard cup, which would've given Hufflepuff the glory it hadn't gotten in centuries, though stepped aside to let Harry win), and he wouldn't become a death eater, killing and attacking his former classmates in the Battle of Hogwarts. So to cut things short: what would he have done after graduation? What would happen if he hadn't grabbed the triwizard cup?
Lily Evans was pretty spectacular in her day and she also was muggleborn. Who knows what she could have accomplished if given the chance to live longer than she did.
She was the only one, besides Harry later on, to completely screw Voldemort over. So she definitely lived up to her potential and left behind a legend (that her son got all the credit for).
Hermione is said to be ''the brightest witch of her age'' Voldemort is said to be (by Dumbledore himself) ''the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen'' See the difference?
She was smart and talented - as to the Mnemonic (photographic) memory while she might have had that - just having that does not make someone "Powerful" - it's not just memorizing facts and information, it's how you use that information. And Hermione was clever and could do amazing things, among those was the DA buttons, the DA signature curse.
She always had incredible theory but in practice she was never extraordinarily powerful. Harry scored higher in his DATDA exams while being a far less 'intelligent' wizard, he was just a better practitioner while hermione was a better student. Hermione's like a genius sports coach, who leads a team to greatness due to her deep and vast knowledge, while the athletes (eg Harry), who know far less about the tactics and techniques than the coach, are far more adept at putting them into practice. Edit: not saying Hermione isnt powerful, shes just not quite as gifted as dumbledore for example
There's some other things to consider here. Her attention to each and every subject as well as other stuff she's interested in that they didn't teach in classes (the protective charms that saved their lives in Deathly Hallows for example) is spread so thin whereas with Harry he's casted Expelliarmus so many times that it was just muscle memory for him casually blocking and countering spells.
This is spot on she's merely a fantastic student with excellent work ethic,but she lacks the pure talent creativity and imagination of truly great wizards like Dumbledore Snape Grindlewald Voldemort,shes more on the level of Harry's parents and serius,maybe McGonagall after a lifetime of study.even harry i think was more purely gifted magically and certainly in a fight
I think Hermione leans more towards "book smart" then "street smart". She's clearly intelligent and shows great adaptability though. Her empathy and love for her friends and family are what separate her from being even remotely like Voldemort.
I've seen multiple time the theory that, if not in Gryffindor, Ron should have been in Hufflepuff and Hermione should have been in Ravenclaw. but i truly believe that out of the three remaining houses Hermione would have been a Slytherin. Her ambition to be the best is what drove her to be as knowledgeable as she is and Ambition is one of the main traits of the Slytherin House.
It would have been really interesting if Hermione had been able to take on Voldemort herself in the final battle. Obviously the win should still have gone to Harry, but Voldemort seeing a teenage girl hold her own against him would have been fun.
That would be incredibly painful to watch, not even funny Voldys ego is fragile enough as it is, nobody deserves to be destroyed my herminie granger saying "it's LEVIOSA" so emasculating, she'd just stand over Voldy and correct him in front of all his death eaters Thank god bellatrix exists to shut granger down
i think that Hermione also survived a Killing Curse. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phonix, A defense spell from Herminone cause a green spell to change color, but it did knock her out.
I believe J.K Rowling mentioned Hermione having a photographic memory. The criticism of her comes from always depending on what's already established, not creating her own spells such as Snape did. But, their school days motivations were different. Snape wanted power to help deal with his abusive father and schoolyard bullies. Hermione wanted to prove a muggleborn deserved to be there. She didn't have an immediate threat to life and limb at home forcing her to experiment just to survive. However, the war forced her to begin the process. She didn't create the protean charm she used for the DA coins, but she altered it, just as dangerous as creating something new. I believe as she grew as an adult, she started to rely on creative thinking just as much as already established knowledge.
I'd like to say Rowling did Hermione one injustice as well. She described her as being borderline genius. No. Her actress was borderline. Genius is anything 140 and above. Watson's is 138 making her just shy of genius status. But Hermione wouldn't have been able to solve Snape's logic puzzle in her first year if she weren't pretty far above even a 140. My guess, since they didn't actually give her an IQ number is she was in either the upper 160's range or 170's. No way Hermione should have been classed borderline by anyone, especially her creator, Rowling.
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Honestly, I see Hermione capping out at McGonagall’s level in that they are both highly skilled witches with a technical mastery of most practical forms of Magic. The problem is that people like Dumbledore, Grindlewald, and Voldemort have the benefit of that same technical skill in addition to being overwhelmingly powerful. Don’t get me wrong, the spells cast by Hermione and McGonagall definitely have power and force behind them but they have never displayed anything more powerful than what Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Grindlewald are capable of.
@@15r52 ya that's true all his horcruxes were gone which mean that before 7 parts of his soul were just seperated from him but alive. and then he had only 12 alive(one in himself and second nagini (i dont remember whether nagini was dead by then or not)). so he only had 2by 7 of his power which is a lot lessser than his total power. and still there were 2 people with her and still the three of them lost. and also i think that harry was powerful and smart but he was not as smart as hermione so maaaybe harry can be added to the end of this list (17 year old harry) but as harry must hhave grown he would have learned more and would be in this list and we can excuse him for that cause dumbledore and grindelwald also had not fulfilled all of their potential at 17.
@@adhishb7958 harry is further down the list because in spite of his large magical potential he has a poor work ethic and not a ridiculously high Intelligence where he excelled was in bravery and quick thinking making great in a fight but lacking in the finer points of Magic more of a Mad Eye Moody than a Dumbledore /Voldemort type who were way ahead of him at the same age
Hermione is one of the major reasons Harry went from The Boy Who Lived to The Boy Who Defeated Voldemort. I don't think Harry would have been able to be so ready to take on the Dark Lord if he didn't have Hermione in his life.
Great video really well discussed. Hermione is unquestionable very smart, anyone who say otherwise is not taking any not of evidence that disagrees with a preconceived idea of what they think smart is. Memory is an extortionary skill that is a huge advantage in learning but on its own it is limited with out the intelligence to use and apply it. Hermione's quick and reasoned thinking are what allows her to make use of her great memory and allows her to employ and apply knowledge at the right times and in the right ways. Hermione has many different types of intelligence which all function together to allow her to make great use of her incredible intellect and talents to a level that would put full grown and experienced wizards and witches to shame. Hermione has undoubted raw talent and great natural ability for learning but it is her determination and work ethic that allows her to gain the knowledge she has and take full command of her talents, she has worked hard for and earned her power. Which in my mind makes her more like Dumbledore because she has respect for that power.
Lucius new about Hermione because Draco would go home and talk to his parents about her. Draco was jealous of Hermione because a "mudblood" was 1st of the class and not him he was second.
A dark wizard with strong Gryffindor values . It would be interesting, like how Voldemort wanted to make Hogwarts just Slytheirn maybe Hermonie would be be the exact opposite and try to make the castle and by proxy the entire British Wizarding World solely a Gryffindor dominant place . Just imagine it maybe we would see an attempt at the destruction of the entire dementor species maybe being Muggleborn she would try and take over the muggle world because she would think that they are incapable of ruling.
Thing about Hermione is that yes she's book smart and academic, but she also has intuition, logic and self awareness to some extent. They are things you can't learn. I have 2 degrees and I myself am very intuitive...when I was at University there were people who could score high marks, but try to have a debate or life talk with them and they're clueless! A lot of smart people I know have never had a formal education. I never excelled in my early days at school-too rebellious haha or on a serious note going through issues that made me uninterested in school, but later when I wanted to learn I had to work hard to get into University, and I found my forte! Despite all my setbacks I attained a Masters degree in Literature :) I wanted to do my Ph.d but was diagnosed with chronic illness. Hardships can either make you good or bad-the strength is how we cope we them.
IMO Hermione wasn’t aware how serious it is to mess up with a time turner. She only had in mind that she would use it to attend her classes. She wasn’t an adult but not a “child”
@@nguyennguyen8111994 she was indeed a child. don't bring up that teenage or adolescence bs. Unless she knows how to behave like an adult and think like an adult, she shouldn't be considered a child. Teenage and stuff mean reaching maturity but in the early years i.e 13-14, it's still 70 percent child.
@@nguyennguyen8111994 Hermione absolutely was completely aware of the risks. You think MINERVA MCGONAGALL would have worked so hard to get the ministry to give her one if she hadn't explicitly explained every known risk of time travel? The fuck is wrong with you people y'all just make shit up.
I LOVE when she punches draco, it’s the most muggle thing she could do, she could have done anything to draco with her wand but ultimately was just like “ nahhhh, fuck you” and punches him dead in the face. Boss ass Witch if I’ve ever seen one
In an alternate timeline, Harry never went to Hogwarts. Hermione never met him and became friends. She never became friends with Ron. She doesn’t make any friends and is bullied by the other kids. Hermione has nothing to do, but study. She studies hard and eventually gets curious about dark magic. Years passed and hermione becomes a powerful witch, but she’s cold as ice. Hermione secretly does experiments with her magic which creates a lot of accidents, that thankfully doesn’t lead back to her. The wizarding war starts and she’s one of their best. She eventually figures out how to kill Voldemort and it involves killing a young boy in England. While the others have problems with this, she doesn’t. Hermione uses Harry to lure Voldemort out and kill them both. People are happy Voldemort is gone, but some see the sacrifice of a boy as barbaric. Some start to shun Hermione, like the Weasleys. Now that the war is done Hermione isn’t seen as valuable as she was in the war and some treat her worst for what she did. It makes her angry and want to get revenge. She feels the system is messed up and should be changed. Long story short, she starts the third Wizarding War against the ministry, who is led by Ron Weasly, A muggleborn vs a pure blood.
That’s the biggest thing I love about Hermione, the fact that as smart as she is and with as much as she knows about the dark arts, she doesn’t condone using the dark arts! She’s able to make her way through life as a muggle born just by her thirst and love for knowledge!!! She doesn’t need the dark arts because she’s so far ahead of the power curve without them!!!! You go girl!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I feel that the half blood prince highlights hermiones weaknesses the most glaringly. Hermiones strengths comes from lots of studying. But she has issues with thinking outside the box. Which is why she is consistently outperformed by THBP through Harry.
Hermione doesn't have issues thinking outside the box. She regularly does it. The problem is that she is a die-hard rule follower. If forced to create new spells or potions, I have no doubt that she could. But her, as harry says, "mania for upholding rules" is so strong, she simply doesn't. That's why Snape outperformed her potion making. Snape was ambitious and power hungry, he would've done research to cut corners. Hermione would never do that, because she has nothing to prove.
@@witdajuice6763 please do give examples of Hermione thinking outside the box. I cant think of any. Also "the box" and rules are actually fairly synonymous in many ways in this topic.
I honestly wouldn't mind an eighth harry potter book. It could detail his work as an Auror. Maybe Harry and Ron could help investigate a magical crime in mainland Europe around 2002, giving us a look at the rest of the wizarding world. I'd also like to see how the characters would adjust to a world without impending doom
Hermione was the smartest wizard of her generation, not just her year or of her classmates. She was gifted with an insatiable thirst for knowledge as well as a genius level intellect. To me, Hermione was long the unsung hero of the wizarding war. He contribution was only exceeded by Dumbledore and perhaps Harry Potter. However, I think her selfless actions, unlike theirs was slightly more pure: Harry acted mostly out of self-preservation and revenge over his parent's murders - Dumbledore acted out of grief over his sister's tragic death and due to missing early signs of Voldemort's obvious evil.
Maybe in a long time, but she's still less talented than many others. Others even have better grades than her, you know? If anyone could really have become like Voldemort, it would be Snape. He was very powerful despite being rather young. Give him a few Decades and he would have reached the Level of Dumble and Voldi.
hermione was average but had a thirst for knowledge which is why she topped her classes. However, she wasn't gifted. She was always perfect at doing what was in the book but she always struggled to think outside the box
@@slevinchannel7589 thirst for knowledge and extraordinary are two different things. Hermione struggled at things which weren't completely stated in books or had to be greatly understood
@@subhasishghosh6924 Yes, but she was still immensely Talented. It's not just her being good at reading and remember after having read something. You got it wrong if you thought her talent is average.
Great video. I have no argument or additional ideas to bring up. Instead I am commenting because I think that this topic is very intriguing. I would have never thought about Hermione and Voldemort having similar qualities at all, but after hearing your theory, I can see the truth in it.
Jk should make a harry potter book or series of books about the 19 years that went unseen before the scene at kings cross they could call it harry potter and the in betweens
I was just thinking how awesome it would’ve been to see Hermione defeat Bellatrix to basically have the last laugh showing her that mud bloods are just as good as pure bloods
Just a friendly reminder that if you ever think you are really bad at math, just look at Harry and Ron. Harry would only know up to 5th grade math, and Ron would know none. (We all know Hermione did muggle home school over the summer)
0:44-0:52 he's right. No one really knows the absolute potential that a witch or wizard could reach. The levels they reach mostly depend on who they are and how they apply themselves to magic. Take Dumbledore, for instance. He basically became the most powerful wizard of all time, being the only one Voldemort truly was afraid to face. However, in a conversation with Professor McGonagall, he states that Voldemort had powers that he never could have, but McGonagall states that is the case only because he's too noble to use them. Gilderoy Lockhart is another prime example, he had the potential to really be a great wizard but since he was more focused on being treated as a prodigy rather than being a prodigy, he never really applied himself. As a result, his skills sorely lacked to the point where the only spell he was actually good at was the Memory Charm.
HARRY:- * Saves the philosopher's stone from getting into the wrong hands* YEAR 1 ALSO, HARRY:- *Kills the basilisk* YEAR 2 ALSO, HARRY:- *Knocks off Snape* YEAR 3 ALSO, HARRY:- * Calms down Mermaids* YEAR 4 ALSO, HARRY:-*Saves his Prophecy* YEAR 5 ALSO, HARRY:-*Calls Snape a coward* YEAR 6 ALSO, HARRY:-Becomes The Master Of Death & Kills the Dark lord* YEAR 7 PART 2 ALSO, HARRY:- Gets scared of Angry HERMIONE GRANGER YEAR 7 PART 1
The Hermione vs Voldemort difference sorta reminds me of a Star Wars saying “the Jedi sought power through understanding while the Sith sought understanding though power”
Another very well thought out video. Keep up the good work/research, and as trelawny would say; "I foresee greater things for you, just use your 3rd eye to see what to work on next".
In an alternate universe where Dan Weiss and Dave Benioff direct the movies, Voldemort randomly dies at the beginning of Deathly Hallows and Hermione is randomly revealed to be the villain at the end as she fiendfyres the whole school.
"There is no good and evil there is only power and those to weak to seek it" Voldemort wasn't all the way wrong but hermione isn't weak she's just smart
Voldemort: *dies* Everyone at hogwarts: *celebrates* Hermoine: *Evil Laughter* YES, FINALLY!..... sorry, force of habit.. Harry and Ron: *walks back slowly*
Knowledge of how dark magic works is the best way to defend against it. True power comes from learning all aspects of magic, understanding how and when to use it, and most of all having the wisdom and control to use it wisely. Self control is also very powerful, as well as using magic only for good.
I agree and if she went the dark path there are two things that can happen1. Lord Voldemort and hermione will duel and see who is more powerful and who ever is then most of the death eaters will follow her or she and lord Voldemort would be a team and her friendship with Harry will be lost.
Harry : *defeats voldermort*
Also Harry : *gets scared when Hermione is angry*
Everyone gets scared when Hermione gets angry, especially Draco as he remembers the punch LoL
you are AMAZING
I thought Draco was going to piss himself when she pulled her wand on him. Maybe he did.
LMAO
Harry gets scared when ginny gets angry as well.
Hermione turning to dark magic to overthrow the ministry because she sees it as corrupt would’ve been a way better sequel than “I WISH U WEREN’T MY SON!!!”
she haves to turn evil to defeat evil
Yeah
Thats not a real sequel anyone everyone knows jk is off her rocker cursed child dont count
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@@darkushippotoxotai9536 what you said ain't right g cursed child is still straight up garbage
If Voldy wasn't so prejudiced and recruited her to his side , he'd have a stronger army
Maybe he would have won because Hermione was a pillar to Harry
Even if voldy wasn’t prejudiced and wanted hermione, she wouldn’t have left harry. Hermione would lose a 1v1 duel against bellatrix anyway. She would help him with strategies or anticipating harry’s moves, but this wouldn’t happen because Voldemort is a dictator in a way and he doesn’t trust many people, even if they are pure blood.
Voldemort wanted to recruit Lily Potter and she was a muggleborn.
If he Recruited her then there would be no reason for the battle in the first place, because she’s the reason for the battle! (mudblood)
The would never join him
"More to the point, theres not been a thing of a spell our Hermione can't do." - Hagrid
_ hagrid
Well if she can’t then she learns
@@elaineaylward5522 Yep. Said by Hagrid. Thats what I meant.
@Ahmed She does a patronus though, it's in order of the phoenix
@Ahmed might I add against a THOUSAND all while nearly seeing his best friends and godfather die, while Hermione could not maintain one along side Harry’s Patronus in Deathly Hallows.
Who ever said that Hermione wasn’t smart? She obviously memorized spells we as people have to memorize things like basic math etc. However it’s her execution that showcases her pure skill in magic, that at all can’t be ignored. As Ron stated best “we wouldn’t last 3 days without Hermione.”
Ravenclaws: I beg to differ
Ron really did say it best
She was bad at execution of plans and wasn't quick witted
@@prabhatichakraborty7680 WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you sure we’ve watched the same series. Not quick witted ? NOT QUICK WITTED? Who planned their escape from Gringotts in a matter of moments? Who planned their escape from the wedding? Erm let’s see in the Order of the Phoenix she stopped Harry from being under the EXCREUCIATING PAIN of the Cruciatus Curse by luring umbridge into the forbidden forest? She reads her books I admit but... if she knows when to apply what part of her extensive knowledge. Yes, she paid attention in herbology but when her friend was dying she immediately started thinking and because she was quick witted she could recall the exact part of herbology book that she needed and coming from a straight A student that’s not what easy at all. She found out about lupin when NO ONE else did. Where are the ravenclaws now huh? Then she found out about the basilisk and then found out how he was moving through the school. There’s a reason she’s the BRIGHTEST student of her age not SMARTEST or do you need a dictionary. People have this false assumption that all good students are only good bc they study not bc they are smart. That’s bs even I suffer with that a lot but I’ve proved to ppl and so has hermione. Now go watch/read the series again bc clearly you haven’t
@@sanikaabedin6765 calm down, I think what the other person is trying to say is that she's book smart but not so much of a street smart like (book) Ron is. I know the movies made her pretty much flawless, but in books we see that while Hermione's knowledge saved them many times, she could get panicky under pressure and that's where Ron and Harry come in and perfected the group.
Imagine if Hermione never truly befriended Harry and Ron after the Troll battle? What if Ron’s poor treatment of her in book 1 took a turn for the worse instead of the better? Turned her bitter over time toward the magical world in general? And she used her incredible intellect and talent to truly surpass them all??? Started a Muggle-born revolution??
Highly unlikely, sure. But if any Muggle-born could get it done.....
It's a simple yet ingenious idea... 👏👏
Tbh, Hermione was pretty studios and enjoyed studying. But, she still was by no means gifted
@@subhasishghosh6924 Gotta disagree. Anyone can be studious. It takes a special individual to put those same studies into practice and whether she practiced hard in her own T first before excelling in front of her friends, you can knock that Hermione had that gift.
@@subhasishghosh6924 hermione is more powerful than the average witch of her age.If u don't call that gifted then what is gifted?
@@astrogaming4284 GIFTED means being able to do things that are far beyond your age. I believe Harry is gifted. He killed a basilisk at 12, cast a full-blown patronus at 13 while hermione was struggling with it at 15, dueled multiple death eaters etc
Hermione has the best work ethic out of all students and let's not forget she knows how to sneak around the castle and gather reading material and stealing potion ingredients she's not supposed to have and doing all this WITHOUT an invisibility cloak.
Easily could've been a great dark witch if she wanted to.
Can you imagine what an Auror she'd have made?
Ikr
@@jenniferbrewer5370 Well if I'm not mistaken she does end up becoming Minister of Magic
@@jenniferbrewer5370 Not the best for multiple reasons. She panicked in stressful situations and wasn't very street smart (read the books). She didn't even get the best grades; Dawlish(the auror) got better grades than her. She wouldn't have been in the voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald league neither in the mad eye, Kingsley league in terms of fighting.
@@rachitmehta4987 That doesn't mean she couldn't have been a badass dark witch. Dueling is overrated.
That guy who created the Dementors (Ehkrizdis) lured sailors to perform human experiments on them. There was never any record of him dueling anyone but he might have had the highest body count out of all these Dark wizards and witches.
Voldemort: Abra Kadabra!
Hermione: No, it is Avada Kedavra!
Harry: *dies*
this is so bad that's it's good
@@theclitcollector ikr
Hermione used a Max Revive potion on Harry. *It's super effective!
“let’s look on what separates them from each other” me: one has a nose
One has hair
That joke is overused
@@Shadow-sq2yj but it never gets old. 😂👍🏻
LOL!
Hahaha thank you for making me laugh
I personally think Hermione was so good WAS because she was Muggleborn. She was basically one of us. Imagine growing up as a Muggle and then learning that there existed a Magical World. That plus her unsatiable curiosity and her ability to learn well is what made her a strong witch
Tom Riddle was raised in a muggle orphanage though.
Harry too was muggle raised.
Hermione was very clever but she’s had no interest in being the most powerful.
I don't think Hermione liked the idea of killing people. Voldemort loved killing people.
true sis. she has all the capabilities and potential, even dumbledore knew that. she was contented being at the sidelines and promoting house elves so it was rly a big surprise that she accepted the post of minister for magic
Hermione only wanted Knowledge but Voldemort craved Power.
What you don't crave for,it always comes after you. She could have become powerful without wanted power which could make her invicible in itself
Hermione was clever. Even dumbledore knows it.
Hi...
No one ever considers the effects of generations of pureblood inbreeding does to the stability of the magical gene.
In their efforts to maintain blood purity, Purebloods were actually weakening the strength of the magical gene. In other words, causing a genetic defect (Squibs. non-magical children). Often a Squib child was put to death.
An example was when Neville's uncle dropped him out a high bedroom window. But Neville bounces, like a baby duckling leaving it's best, instead of dying to prove he was magical.
Those families, that didn't execute their Squid child, often condemned then to lower class status in the magical world, even lower than a house elf. At first chance, the child would leave for to muggle world to make a life for themselves. I believe this is how muggleborns began, as well as the first conflicts between magicals and muggles, who won and drive magicals into hiding, because they knew many magical secrets and weaknesses.
That's a good theory 🤔
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There are also stories of children being found in the forest and raised to adulthood. Centuries ago in parts of Europe, if parents thought a child too weak or they couldn't feed it, they would leave it outside in the woods to die. So that's another morbid way your theory could work.
@@darkacademiavanessa Squibs leave the magical world for the muggle world. They get married, have children. Their genes get passed down. 2 descendants from 2 difference Squibs come together. The genes merge and activate. Now you have a MUGGLEBORN, born of pureblood genes, but with defect repaired; make them more powerful than both original gene families.
Riddle, Jr aka Voldemort is a causality of a pureblood mother impregnated by a muggle descendent of a Squib.
i touched on the full science about this in my comment. lol.
Maybe Hermione wanted to overthrow the ministry for house elf rights lol
Long live SPEW!
imagine all her death eaters are house elfs LMAO.
@@Lennis01 it’s not SPEW! It’s S.P.E.W.!
@@Lennis01 it’s not SPEW it’s society for the promotion of elfish welfare 😤😭
Good thing she had good parents and good friendships. She grew up kind hearted.
Why didn’t Quiril reveal himself as voldemort to snape as Voldemort didn’t know snape was a double agent
Quiril might not have known
because at that point voldemort didn't think snape was on his side anymore, it took snape a great deal of smooth talk to win voldemort's trust again and didn't fully regain it until he killed dumbledore. (I think snape even mentions something about to to bellatrix and narcissa at the start of half blood prince)
@@vlogergames or could it have been because he was weak? Idk
Plus snape saves and protects Harry under his nose too
@@crow_g1639 yeah but Voldemort might have just thought snape didn’t know it was him
Several things to remember, when separating Hermione's history and character from the Dark Lord's:
1) Hermione did not have one fraction of the loveless, dysfunctional upbringing that Tom Riddle did, which no doubt warped his personality in the extreme. On the contrary, her home life and family were almost boringly stable, and she was willing to make shocking sacrifices for the sake of her family's safety (i.e. Obliviation) while Tom Riddle openly murdered several members of his own family.
2) Hermione's ancestry, similarly, was not as "tainted" as Tom Riddle's, as no one in the Granger household seems to have been afflicted by centuries of inbreeding. The Gaunts, including Riddle, seem to have been born nuts, to begin with, on top of their tormented child-rearing practices.
3) Hermione's personal experience of having to "work twice as hard to be counted as equal" has no doubt altered her perspective in precisely the opposite way from Tom Riddle's, in that she was never led to believe she was part of a privileged class, or had anything come to her without hard work. She would, as a consequence, favor wizards who'd "come up the hard way" in the same fashion, rather than being outrageous natural talents. She certainly wouldn't form an elitist cadre like the Death Eaters, whom she kept in line by spoon-feeding them her personal knowledge. If anything, Hermione would be something like Master Yoda, being mistrustful of undisciplined geniuses and demanding that students hunker down, learn control, and not cut corners.
4) Lastly, Hermione isn't exactly a "charismatic" figure, but naturally humble, retiring, and hardworking in a way that a man like Dumbledore had to *teach* himself to be. She was certainly not a glamorous revolutionary like Grindelwald, or a manipulator like Voldemort. This would preclude her seizing power in quite the same way, by forming an army and revolting. At most, she might have started a bureaucratic revolution or sorts, from inside an institution like Hogwarts or the Ministry of Magic, and done it very quietly over the course of many years.
Overall, while I agree that Hermione's raw power has been badly underestimated, and that she has the work ethic to make the most of it, her personality differences are so different from Voldemort that they have almost nothing in common. And THAT was why she didn't follow nearly the same path.
Well, being "as powerful as" doesn't necessarily mean she has to take the same path a Voldemort.
Excellent summation
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agreed
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she’s my favourite character
Same
Thats not how you spell favorite
*she would be an AWESOME dark witch*
@@jdhed1 yeah it is. At least in the UK anyways.
WizardCat1337 yes and Ireland
Same
Imagine being pinned by Harry Potter folklore
Well, you got a Heart at least, so you're lucky 😁
U nly got a ❤️
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Did everyone forget that she brewed Polyjuice potion a NEWT lvl potion in her second year of school. she was far more deadly then people give her credit for.
MovieFlame didn't think Minister for Magic was a good career fit for book Hermione but he believed movie Hermione was better suited for it.
It's interesting to hear you praise Hermione's position as Minister for Magic; people always have differing opinions. When I first read "Cursed Child," I wasn't all that surprised that Hermione was the Minister. She's the smartest witch of her age and had an intellect few could equal. Hermione does help represent everything positive Tom Marvolo Riddle could have legitimately achieved.
Great video!
Movieflame who tf is that
@@crow_g1639 MovieFlame, another TH-cam channel with a lot of great HP content
Personally, I've always felt like Harry would become a portly Head of Magical Law Enforcement. Hermione would briefly work her way quickly through the ranks of the Minister for Magic support staff but quit before achieving Minister, then she'd become the Muggle Studies professor at Hogwarts then become the first Muggle Studies professor to become Headmistress of Hogwarts. Ron flying instructor at Hogwarts. Neville would become the muscle-bound hotshot Auror on the frontline of stopping dark wizards of the future. Ginny Weasley wouldn't change imo. After some time in Dementor-less Azkaban, Delphini, with frequent visits from Harry, Scorpius and Severus; eventually rehabilitates and becomes Neville's apprentice in the Aurors. Neville and Delphini suppress the likes of Theodore Nott as well as Crabbe and Goyle who all become dark wizards but mostly fight among each other for leadership of other purebloods. Draco becomes a reknowned peacock breeder vehemently respected among the peacock enthusiast community.
Harry should’ve became the Defense against the Dark Arts Professor. Being an Auror was a dumb decision.
I’ve always thought that while Hermione was even greater than the position of Minister and perhaps deserved something more meaningful, it seems both more plausible and more impressive for her to tackle such a thing when you consider her values and priorities, namely house elf advocacy. In my opinion her values would’ve been a major driving factor; what better way to alter legislation and public opinion that being minister? Such atypical values like house elf rights would’ve given her an uphill battle as a politician, let alone the resistance from blood-discriminators with their deep magical roots. Although, I’m sure being one of HP’s best friends and saving the world helps. This makes me a bit more at ease with her taking the position that was made to be a joke at the end of the series tho 🤷🏻♂️
Absolutely, Hermione’s talent lies in her lust for knowledge and learning HOW to be the best witch she can be. She would, and does, strive to know all forms of magic, not for the sake of power, but knowledge. I love that about her
except divination
Exactly this! Voldemort learn how to create horcruxes from reading. There were soooo many extremely strong witches and wizards in the past that hid knowledge away. She has the right intent, humility, drive and skill.
Me reading the title: oh yeah, brightest witch of her age. I mean come on at 11 she solved a riddle made by Snape, arguably the second most powerful person in Hogwarts. Then at 12 created a potion that most full grown witches and wizards struggle with.
Actually she was 12 when she solved the riddle and 13 when she made a potion
Plus the only student trusted with a time turner
I'm sorry this garbage about Hermione being only 'textbook smart' is nonsense, she:
-Figures out Snape's potion riddle
-Discovers its a basilisk in the pipes
-figures out lupin is a werewolf
-discovers Rita Skeeter is an Animagus
-gets Umbridge successfully out of Hogwarts via the centaurs
and many many more through pure quick thinking and logic thank you and goodnight x
These just seem to reinforce the Textbook smart aspect.
Practical applications would prove otherwise, such as duels or other clever uses of magic.
so that is being smart, attentive and logical. do you think that equates to being magicaly powerful in the HP universe?
@@goncaloferreira6429 I was merely commenting that someone with book smarts could simply tell the main characters what to do (Example, Original comment) as apposed to being apart of the main characters making a difference.
If you thought I was downplaying her, I am sorry. I just think there's more to her character then what she did with Literal textbook knowledge.
I hate to say it, but what most of the OP is saying was that was her being in the Library was her doing her thing......
@@Celia97799 no offense over a fictional character interpretation :) mine was a honest question: what is power/magical capacity in the Hp universe? i understand that it has a soft magic system but still i am looking for a more concrete answer from those who might lnow more than i do.
Finally! Someone actually mentions Hermione's photographic memory. Repeating word for word everything out of the text book, literally everything. Ya, that's a photographic memory.
I wish i had that.
I had to raise my eyebrow at the argument "Nah she aint smart she just memorized stuff really well." - Which is...that seems like a very odd argument. Considering that if a person merely memorized things, they cannot adapt/utilize said knowledge for anything different than what they just are remembering. They cannot take parts of what they learned, and utilize components of that knowledge for further things/the needed overlapping bits/pieces for other things. Such as the knowledge from learning to cast a simple year 1 spell, and how you later learn to adapt the required parts of that for a new one later on - Or how to make that simple spell be a very powerful one, as with learning/experience you can adapt what is normally a simple trick into something way more advanced.
This is quite an odd argument to make...Especially if you consider Hogwarts is a school, and it would be a very poor one if it was all about just puking out what you just store in your memory, and never doing anything that builds upon things learned before, thus requiring past knowledge adapted to work something more down the way to work. You ought to never teach someone how to simply remember things, but how to use that absorbed knowledge. Dolores Umbridge's pitiful performance as a teacher was pretty much an example of attempted "just memorize things" style antics.
For a simple real life example into the difference: I can remember "E=mc2" , and even remember what the symbols here mean....but I would be hard pressed to use it in any meaning ways, as that is outside my realm of expertise: I cannot adapt/use that memory for anything, and it's just a trivia fact because I lack the ability to adapt/utilize it. Ergo: I did not study, and thus learn how to do that.
Example 2 would be me learning to communicate in a secondary language: English. If I simply just remembered how to write in English, I would need to memorize every single word in the dictionary, and how they are bent. And as anyone who is leaning/has learned a new language can tell you: That aint how you learn to talk/write in a new language, now is it?
Learning, and remembering are two different things: If it was all about remembering, the order of things taught would also be a very trivial matter, as you just need to "just remember stuff."
Got it memorized?
Indeed, this is also what I think everytime they bash Hermione. I actually think she'd be a good slytherin by her attitude.
@@stephanielim5544 Considering how Slytherin is pre-downfall of Voldy (and probably still after for a slight period?) towards muggle borns, I suspect she would not have neither been allowed by the Sorting, nor found much friendship in there. It would be akin to being sorted into a house ruled by those who detest your very being for rather nasty reasons.
In the same breath - What each house stands for is a malleable thing. Take Peter Pettigrew - He may have been a sniveling excuse for a man, but he still was despite all his self-preservation based cowardliness ...a brave man. From a certain point of view: It takes a twisted kind of bravery to betray your friends, sell them out, and to also not just keel over from Voldy breathing down your neck, still being capable of some rather impressive magical feats.
Though I suspect the sorting does attempt to assure that each student finds the environment they will prosper in most. Were Hermione Slytherin, as she has a proneness for insecurity at times ( at least in her younger days) would likely never have gotten to the level she got to if she was surrounded by people who strive to crush her self-esteem every single waking second.
While Slytherin did probably always host its share of not so radicalized thinking students (akin to Slughorn), it did still host a lot of bad habits, and the morally good Slytherins probably at the time they attended Hogwarts were severely outnumbered.
Odds are if she did thrive despite Slytherin - She would have become quite a hardened person in response to that, and not in the good way. Being stuffed into a den of bullies, and being stuck with them surrounding you at all times would cause a lot of damage.
It's a hard concept to really wrap your head around though, how sorting works.
@@videocrowsnest5251 hypothetically saying Hermione's been placed in slytherin. We all know how slytherin would react by a muggleborn being sorted there, but I also think you underestimate the slytherins characteristics too. If there's anything they really love the most more than the pure ness of one's blood is that they know power when they see one. Hermione being in slytherin with both gryffindors and slytherins distancing from her would just make her more ambitious, and later on would covet power just to prove everyone wrong. If she was left into life without any friends and sorted in the most despised house who said house is like a playground for Politics, she would definitely end up similar to Voldemort, but unlike Voldemort she at least have her parents love and support, she won't end up being blinded by power but she would definitely make them blind because she will make sure that SHE is power. Now you see why she has more potential than Dumbledore and Voldemort? She lived through this 2 formidable wizards and she saw their flaws and how they went down so her being the slytherin that she was would take the knowledge for her benefit and avoid the actions of their downfall.
Ayo I didn’t realize Axel/Lea was a Harry Potter fan
@@memeempress Cookies to you! I was waiting to see if someone would get the joke, and you are that magnificent person. Have a cookie!
Yes, but it was quite clear that Voldemort and Dumbledore were "the most impressive students ever" at Hogwarts. In fact, she wasn't revealed to achieve any special feats on her owls (like harry or Dumbledore). Her owl grades were not even as good as Professor Flitwick's, but I would compare her potential power with his.
Exactly Dumbledore Voldemort Snape and The Mauraders were all doing much more impressive magic at the same age,she had no creativity and was too rigid to be a truly great witch
Grindelwald: am I a joke to you?
Many people consider that being smart makes you a good dueller, but the books clearly show that she kinda panics in a fight and her DA grades were not an Outstanding (in OWLS)
@@rachitmehta4987 exactement
She was too narrow minded and lacked magical prowess but she was a great witch nonetheless
Hermione is a classic case of "don't judge a book by its cover"
The difference between Hermione and Voldemort: he was an intelligent narcissist who viewed himself as being better than other people. She was an intelligent student who didn’t view herself as better than other people or other creatures, such as house elves.
Hermione is hella smart for sure, but she never displayed enough raw magical power to be near that level. If you could merge her brains with Harry's potential then you might be talking.
Harry wasnt that powerful
@@barackobama5867 Because he didn't really push himself, but for sure he had a ton of raw power. Imagine if he put as much effort into all aspects of magic as he did with the patronus charm
@@harrytempleman-wright yh but he wasnt like in top 3 of his generation
@@barackobama5867 Harry never had the ambition and work ethic to be as powerful as he could be.
Harry doesn't have much magical potential, he's an average wizard
When Voldemort loose his physical form while try to kill harry. Where did his wand go and how Peter get his wand. Please make a video on that
I agree. Voldemorts downfall always came from lusting power to the exclusion of obtaining sufficient knowledge (killing Lilly, putting Harry's blood in him, trying to kill harry as a baby without knowing the full prophesy, etc.) And I think that Hermione would have avoided that allowing her to reach a higher potential than voldemort. I believe it would have taken her longer as she would have searched for more knowledge and wouldn't have thought that the ends justified the means as far as hurting people, but although more slow I believe it would have been more stable, sustainable, and longer lasting power.
I think those people who said they don’t like Hermione actually don’t like the movie version. The movie version didn’t have that many flaws compared to the book version and all of Ron’s brave acts were given to her. That really makes the movie version a bad character.
I'm not a fan if either actually. Just for different reasons is all.
@@groot8950 ron was made their sidekick instead of a true friend like hermione
And hermione was made the one girl who always was the one to help her out of the trouble
But it is different in the books.. It was hermione who was always stressed and angry etc etc and they had to help her in such things. But they made it in such a way that she helped them with all education, emotions, duels, and much more
@@groot8950 i dont have problems with hermione.... But ron shouldve got his moments to.. Movie watchers would be like - theres no doubt hermione is better.. But actually both are pretty good in their areas
@@groot8950 it makes Hermione blank. A Mary Sue. In the movies, she has pretty much no flaws at all and that makes her one dimensional. That's why the screenwriting of the books didn't do her any favor, as well as they didn't do any favor to Ron for writing all his positive personality traits to Hermione and even some to Harry.
Steve Kloves, the screenwriter of 7 of the 8 movies, states from the very beginning that Hermione was his favorite character. And it shows. He also was a huge Harry/Hermione shipper, that's another reason why Ron and Ginny are written so poorly in the movies.
In the movies it looks like Harry is as comfortable with Hermione as he is with Ron. Or even that she is his first go-to friend when he needs someone to talk to. But that's not the case in the books. The two times Harry and Ron fight during the series, Harry feels miserable all the time and even admits that though he likes Hermione, that's it's not the same being with her alone. When Ron leaves in DH, Harry and Hermione sometimes don't even share a single word for days. When instead Harry is fighting with Hermione, like in PoA because of the Firebolt, he is quite indifferent to that fact. It doesn't bother him too much.
In the books it's clearly shown that Hermione needs her friends just as much as they need her. If not for Ron, I'm pretty sure she'd have turned into a very arrogant person, because she's so high maintaining. But Ron brings her down to earth, back to reality. Also, he provides most of the everyday-wizard knowledge not only to Harry, but also to Hermione, too, who doesn't know everything like she does in the books. You could say that Hermione is the brain of the group, Harry the soul and Ron the heart.
In the movies, Ron is represented pretty much useless most of the time, but in the books, he's brave, he's loyal, he's the witty guy, and most importantly, he opens his family for Harry, he, without thinking, adopts Harry as a brother and shows him, for the first time, what love is.
In the movie PoA, when Crookshanks supposedly had eaten Scabbers, all Ron wanted was Hermione to acknowledge it and apologize. But she was too proud almost the entire book (in the last third or so she finally apologizes), even when Ron asked her to keep Crookshanks away from Scabbers and don't bring him near the Rat, she belittles his request. In the movie, the entire Crookshanks/Scabbers-gate is shown as a mere distress. End even when Scabbers is found alive in Hagrids hut, Hermione tells Ron to apologize to her, suggesting to the audience, that Ron was at fault the whole time, when actually, it was Hermiones ignorance that was the problem here.
Sorry for the long text. But please reread the books again, you'll notice that Hermione has way more flaws in the books and that makes her a better character, because you can really identify with her.
@@awsome182 so well said 👍👍
She had the power of love, she was already more powerful than Voldemort
Well said. Power means nothing if you lack compassion.
Damn true
Yeah sounds great until they get in a dual and he would completely wrack her
Well by that logic nearly every single Wizard and Witch is stronger than Voldemort because they're capable of love.
@@jessevaneman473 I think evnn Harry could probably beat Hermione in a Duel without preparations since he thinks much better under these stressful situations.
As I watched this video, I found myself wondering more about how Hermione was similar and dissimilar to Dumbledore. Both very much into learning, both knowing (but not necessarily using) dark spells. Dumbledore knowing he couldn't be trusted with power, Hermione knowing she could be.
Salazar Slytherin was SO wrong. Slytherin House has deprived itself of so many incredibly talented and powerful witches and wizards over the non-issue of "blood purity." And I'm a Slytherin saying that. I'd have been proud to call Hermione one of our own.
Hello 👋 fellow slytherin
There is a bit of Historical Context
Slytherin's hatred of Muggle-borns was a continuation of his hatred of Muggles. The era of the founders was very different. Witches and Wizards were actively hunted down and any sort of Magic was absolutely frowned upon. Wanton killing of Magical folks lead to a very real threat of extinction of Britain's Magical Community. Slytherin floated the idea of Hogwarts as an Invisible-to-Muggle-World impenetrable fortress where all the Magical families of Britain will get a safe haven from Persecution. Gryffindor viewed Hogwarts not just as a fort but rather as a school where young Witches & Wizards would be taught about Witchcraft, Wizardry, diff Magical arts and more imp about the control of Magic. Here, Slytherin believed that Magical knowledge should only be concentrated amongst a few Wizarding Families with generations-old Magical lineage while other founders sought out Muggle-born Witches & Wizards. Slytherin held deep distrust of Muggle-born witches & Wizards as he believed that their Muggle Heritage would act as a Corrupting influence on Magic. Things came to a flashpoint when Gryffindor, Hufflepuff & Ravenclaw proposed to open Hogwarts to the Muggle world as a means to share Magical Knowledge and improve contacts with the Muggle World; something which the Slytherin was greatly opposed to. Slytherin, unable to agree with his Co-Founders, chose to leave Hogwarts; but b4 leaving he constructed the Chamber of Secrets which housed the Basilisk. Slytherin then proclaimed that one day his very own rightful heir would come and open the chamber and rid the school of all Muggle influence.
Many ppl shit on Pure-Blood Wizards for being anti-Muggles, all the while conviniently forgetting as to how the Muggle Community Wantonly killed Witches & Wizards to near extinction.
There is nothing more cringe than grown adults saying they belong to a fictional magical house.
@@KingRobbStark shut up toxic 9 year old kid go play mario why are you watching this
Hermione was a child prodigy and she could’ve skipped grades and graduated early, but I don’t think magic schools 🏫 allow that and if they did, the stories would’ve been different.
Riddle: An Animated Story, do u have to subscribe to watch or is it free for all?
No she isn't a prodigy. Dumbledore, Grindelwald, voldemort was the prodigy league. Mad eye, Kingsley, scrimgeour were excellent, but not prodigy. Hermione wasn't a very good dueller (comparatively).
@Rachit Mehta she is a prodigy by intellect was as Voldemort was by magic. In real life and fiction, there’s prodigies in any subject, like an artist 👨🏻🎨 for reality and fiction such as Azula for firebending.
@@rachitmehta4987 notice how you can acknowledge any strong women in any of your comments? Sexist much?
@@dylanhicks4771 ummm, why don't you name one? McGonagall and Tonnks aren't mad eye tier btw. We haven't been shown many prodigious witches in the hp universe which I can easily recognise. I wasn't even thinking about the sex of the individual, just the calibre as to what we have been shown. But please, go ahead and name one prodigy tier whitch you know of.
(Edit): Sorry, forgot about Bellatrix
@@sifilore There was at least 1 student per year of Hermione calibre eg. Dawlish, McGonagall, Percy, etc. So she isn't a prodigy.
Btw, I was referring to magical talent: ability to do magic easily and all the good stuff. Hermione is talented, but just not cut for those sort of wizards or witches.
Here’s a question I would ask you.
What would have happened if Sirius survived Order of the Phoenix? How would this influence the turn of events that would happen in the later parts of Harry Potter?
Harry would have been killed after moving in with him. He would've been happier at death though. He would've stayed dead.
i really wish so
You know if you think about it, Hermione had a lot of traits that should have placed her into Slytherin. Shes incredibly ambitious, takes pride in demonstrations of superiority whether it be with magic or intelligence, and was pretty cunning and quick witted. Sure she was brave, but one could argue that was a result of her ambitions, not to mention she is fiercely loyal, demonstrated when she was one of the few who stayed by Harry during the Tri-wizard tournament as everyone dropped Harry thinking he purposely put his name in the cup.
Video idea: what if Hermione defeated Voldemort after Harry’s death
Nah, voldy will defeat her and still he wins and if Neville didn't kill nagini
Then that's it, voldy wins and he conquers the wizarding world
Hermione isnt even as powerful as Harry so how is she gonna beat Voldemort?????
@@minecraftsteve6997 excuse me??? Hermoine isn't as powerful???😂😂😂😂 Lol lol
Harry was just lucky to defeat voldemort with the prophecy and him coincidentally coming into possession of the deathly hallows
Hermoine kept them alive , literally every single second
She earned her way to power
Unlike our chosen one here
@@546-apoorvaranjan7 im pretty sure only harry and voldy can kill one another and also she never kept them alive so you're talking bullshit mate
she probably would be able to do that if the prophecy didn't prevent it.
Hermione had an advantage over Voldemort in that she understood love, and human motivations beyond power, but was disadvantaged versus LV because even Dark Granger most likely would not be so evil she'd push experimentation with Satanic magic in a quest for power as LV did. I doubt she'd create Horcruxes as well. One of the reasons LV experimented with magics which killed other dark wizards after he created Horcruxes was his knowledge he was immortal...a luxury Hermione would not have.
The first I thought when I saw this title: Yeah, I guessed that. Hermione is the female version of Riddle and the moral mirror opposite of him. It's what he would have been if he didn't become evil.
@@kushgoyal5659 even Tom would beat her
Yes
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she got the mind , the personality and the magical powers but she simply chosen a very different lifestyle and priorities 👑😍😭
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Buddy you are a genius👑👍😊
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I’ve always wondered that good that u covered it!
An idea I have for a topic is what could actually happened if Cedric Diggory lived. The Cursed Child book portrays him horribly. He wouldn't be upset that he lost the triwizard tournament (in fact, he walked away from the triwizard cup, which would've given Hufflepuff the glory it hadn't gotten in centuries, though stepped aside to let Harry win), and he wouldn't become a death eater, killing and attacking his former classmates in the Battle of Hogwarts. So to cut things short: what would he have done after graduation? What would happen if he hadn't grabbed the triwizard cup?
I wanna see a video on, “what was the item Voldemort took with him to the Potter’s home, that he intended to make into a Horcrux”
Never would’ve expected a video like this, but still as interesting as always!
Lily Evans was pretty spectacular in her day and she also was muggleborn. Who knows what she could have accomplished if given the chance to live longer than she did.
She was the only one, besides Harry later on, to completely screw Voldemort over. So she definitely lived up to her potential and left behind a legend (that her son got all the credit for).
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Hermione is said to be ''the brightest witch of her age''
Voldemort is said to be (by Dumbledore himself) ''the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen''
See the difference?
That was also said in the second book. Who knows what Dumbledore would have said about Hermione after she had graduated if he had lived?
@@TheaElaine He would have said the same
@@TheaElaine WITCH. Which means that there were probably wizard(s) of her age that were more powerful than her
Can you do what if gilderoy Lockhart erased Harry and Ron’s memory in the chamber of secrets
She was smart and talented - as to the Mnemonic (photographic) memory while she might have had that - just having that does not make someone "Powerful" - it's not just memorizing facts and information, it's how you use that information. And Hermione was clever and could do amazing things, among those was the DA buttons, the DA signature curse.
She's kind of a muggle born female version of Tom Riddle, except normal.
@@kushgoyal5659 and getting A+ and could even mulipative people
She always had incredible theory but in practice she was never extraordinarily powerful. Harry scored higher in his DATDA exams while being a far less 'intelligent' wizard, he was just a better practitioner while hermione was a better student.
Hermione's like a genius sports coach, who leads a team to greatness due to her deep and vast knowledge, while the athletes (eg Harry), who know far less about the tactics and techniques than the coach, are far more adept at putting them into practice.
Edit: not saying Hermione isnt powerful, shes just not quite as gifted as dumbledore for example
I don't think she would be a great duelist, but certainly a very good sorceress, making jixes and charms
There's some other things to consider here. Her attention to each and every subject as well as other stuff she's interested in that they didn't teach in classes (the protective charms that saved their lives in Deathly Hallows for example) is spread so thin whereas with Harry he's casted Expelliarmus so many times that it was just muscle memory for him casually blocking and countering spells.
@@ricemenarq6230 yeah true imagine if she specialised in one subject!
@Amber Hoke so she's sort of wizard Batman given the preparation time
This is spot on she's merely a fantastic student with excellent work ethic,but she lacks the pure talent creativity and imagination of truly great wizards like Dumbledore Snape Grindlewald Voldemort,shes more on the level of Harry's parents and serius,maybe McGonagall after a lifetime of study.even harry i think was more purely gifted magically and certainly in a fight
Im glad you posted about this Dean. I somehow missed this one. Fantastic as always my friend.
I think Hermione leans more towards "book smart" then "street smart". She's clearly intelligent and shows great adaptability though. Her empathy and love for her friends and family are what separate her from being even remotely like Voldemort.
I've seen multiple time the theory that, if not in Gryffindor, Ron should have been in Hufflepuff and Hermione should have been in Ravenclaw. but i truly believe that out of the three remaining houses Hermione would have been a Slytherin. Her ambition to be the best is what drove her to be as knowledgeable as she is and Ambition is one of the main traits of the Slytherin House.
She’s a Muggle born so she can’t be allowed in there.
@@zijack0686 not necessarily true. Snape was a half-blood but was still there even though originally it was supposed to only be pure-bloods
It would have been really interesting if Hermione had been able to take on Voldemort herself in the final battle.
Obviously the win should still have gone to Harry, but Voldemort seeing a teenage girl hold her own against him would have been fun.
That would be incredibly painful to watch, not even funny
Voldys ego is fragile enough as it is, nobody deserves to be destroyed my herminie granger saying "it's LEVIOSA" so emasculating, she'd just stand over Voldy and correct him in front of all his death eaters
Thank god bellatrix exists to shut granger down
i think that Hermione also survived a Killing Curse. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phonix, A defense spell from Herminone cause a green spell to change color, but it did knock her out.
This is an interesting one..
I believe J.K Rowling mentioned Hermione having a photographic memory. The criticism of her comes from always depending on what's already established, not creating her own spells such as Snape did. But, their school days motivations were different. Snape wanted power to help deal with his abusive father and schoolyard bullies. Hermione wanted to prove a muggleborn deserved to be there. She didn't have an immediate threat to life and limb at home forcing her to experiment just to survive. However, the war forced her to begin the process. She didn't create the protean charm she used for the DA coins, but she altered it, just as dangerous as creating something new. I believe as she grew as an adult, she started to rely on creative thinking just as much as already established knowledge.
I'd like to say Rowling did Hermione one injustice as well. She described her as being borderline genius. No. Her actress was borderline. Genius is anything 140 and above. Watson's is 138 making her just shy of genius status. But Hermione wouldn't have been able to solve Snape's logic puzzle in her first year if she weren't pretty far above even a 140. My guess, since they didn't actually give her an IQ number is she was in either the upper 160's range or 170's. No way Hermione should have been classed borderline by anyone, especially her creator, Rowling.
Harry and Ron: *Fooling around*
Hermione: *Angry girl noises*
Lmao
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A Dark Hermione? Now that sounds like a great story to explore.
Honestly, I see Hermione capping out at McGonagall’s level in that they are both highly skilled witches with a technical mastery of most practical forms of Magic. The problem is that people like Dumbledore, Grindlewald, and Voldemort have the benefit of that same technical skill in addition to being overwhelmingly powerful. Don’t get me wrong, the spells cast by Hermione and McGonagall definitely have power and force behind them but they have never displayed anything more powerful than what Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Grindlewald are capable of.
Exactly and add snape to that list as well
McGonagall squared off with Volsemort and lived to say capped out at her level life she wasnt right behind Dumbledore
@@pariswebb5252 keep in mind she was fighting him at his weakest and their was still two other people with her.
@@15r52 ya that's true all his horcruxes were gone which mean that before 7 parts of his soul were just seperated from him but alive. and then he had only 12 alive(one in himself and second nagini (i dont remember whether nagini was dead by then or not)). so he only had 2by 7 of his power which is a lot lessser than his total power. and still there were 2 people with her and still the three of them lost. and also i think that harry was powerful and smart but he was not as smart as hermione so maaaybe harry can be added to the end of this list (17 year old harry) but as harry must hhave grown he would have learned more and would be in this list and we can excuse him for that cause dumbledore and grindelwald also had not fulfilled all of their potential at 17.
@@adhishb7958 harry is further down the list because in spite of his large magical potential he has a poor work ethic and not a ridiculously high Intelligence where he excelled was in bravery and quick thinking making great in a fight but lacking in the finer points of Magic more of a Mad Eye Moody than a Dumbledore /Voldemort type who were way ahead of him at the same age
Hermione is one of the major reasons Harry went from The Boy Who Lived to The Boy Who Defeated Voldemort. I don't think Harry would have been able to be so ready to take on the Dark Lord if he didn't have Hermione in his life.
Would love JK to fill in the missing years, even if it was a book of short stories throughout each characters life.
Hey, I was thinking, what is Harry, Ron AND Hermione were all placed in Slytherin?
Yes, I second this motion!!The Hero trio turned evil. Nice mirror universe.
Great video really well discussed. Hermione is unquestionable very smart, anyone who say otherwise is not taking any not of evidence that disagrees with a preconceived idea of what they think smart is. Memory is an extortionary skill that is a huge advantage in learning but on its own it is limited with out the intelligence to use and apply it. Hermione's quick and reasoned thinking are what allows her to make use of her great memory and allows her to employ and apply knowledge at the right times and in the right ways. Hermione has many different types of intelligence which all function together to allow her to make great use of her incredible intellect and talents to a level that would put full grown and experienced wizards and witches to shame. Hermione has undoubted raw talent and great natural ability for learning but it is her determination and work ethic that allows her to gain the knowledge she has and take full command of her talents, she has worked hard for and earned her power. Which in my mind makes her more like Dumbledore because she has respect for that power.
Lucius new about Hermione because Draco would go home and talk to his parents about her. Draco was jealous of Hermione because a "mudblood" was 1st of the class and not him he was second.
A dark wizard with strong Gryffindor values . It would be interesting, like how Voldemort wanted to make Hogwarts just Slytheirn maybe Hermonie would be be the exact opposite and try to make the castle and by proxy the entire British Wizarding World solely a Gryffindor dominant place . Just imagine it maybe we would see an attempt at the destruction of the entire dementor species maybe being Muggleborn she would try and take over the muggle world because she would think that they are incapable of ruling.
Thing about Hermione is that yes she's book smart and academic, but she also has intuition, logic and self awareness to some extent. They are things you can't learn. I have 2 degrees and I myself am very intuitive...when I was at University there were people who could score high marks, but try to have a debate or life talk with them and they're clueless! A lot of smart people I know have never had a formal education. I never excelled in my early days at school-too rebellious haha or on a serious note going through issues that made me uninterested in school, but later when I wanted to learn I had to work hard to get into University, and I found my forte! Despite all my setbacks I attained a Masters degree in Literature :) I wanted to do my Ph.d but was diagnosed with chronic illness. Hardships can either make you good or bad-the strength is how we cope we them.
I’ll say this, I don’t care how smart and studious you are, there is no good reason to give a child access to time travel.
IMO Hermione wasn’t aware how serious it is to mess up with a time turner. She only had in mind that she would use it to attend her classes. She wasn’t an adult but not a “child”
With her love of following rules and belief that expulsion was worse than death, I really don't think anyone was too worried
What child could be more trusted with such power than Hermione?
@@nguyennguyen8111994 she was indeed a child. don't bring up that teenage or adolescence bs. Unless she knows how to behave like an adult and think like an adult, she shouldn't be considered a child. Teenage and stuff mean reaching maturity but in the early years i.e 13-14, it's still 70 percent child.
@@nguyennguyen8111994 Hermione absolutely was completely aware of the risks. You think MINERVA MCGONAGALL would have worked so hard to get the ministry to give her one if she hadn't explicitly explained every known risk of time travel? The fuck is wrong with you people y'all just make shit up.
I LOVE when she punches draco, it’s the most muggle thing she could do, she could have done anything to draco with her wand but ultimately was just like “ nahhhh, fuck you” and punches him dead in the face.
Boss ass Witch if I’ve ever seen one
In an alternate timeline, Harry never went to Hogwarts. Hermione never met him and became friends. She never became friends with Ron. She doesn’t make any friends and is bullied by the other kids. Hermione has nothing to do, but study. She studies hard and eventually gets curious about dark magic. Years passed and hermione becomes a powerful witch, but she’s cold as ice. Hermione secretly does experiments with her magic which creates a lot of accidents, that thankfully doesn’t lead back to her. The wizarding war starts and she’s one of their best. She eventually figures out how to kill Voldemort and it involves killing a young boy in England. While the others have problems with this, she doesn’t. Hermione uses Harry to lure Voldemort out and kill them both. People are happy Voldemort is gone, but some see the sacrifice of a boy as barbaric. Some start to shun Hermione, like the Weasleys. Now that the war is done Hermione isn’t seen as valuable as she was in the war and some treat her worst for what she did. It makes her angry and want to get revenge. She feels the system is messed up and should be changed. Long story short, she starts the third Wizarding War against the ministry, who is led by Ron Weasly, A muggleborn vs a pure blood.
Ehh
The story isn't great
Honestly just delete this comment it is so trash
That’s the biggest thing I love about Hermione, the fact that as smart as she is and with as much as she knows about the dark arts, she doesn’t condone using the dark arts! She’s able to make her way through life as a muggle born just by her thirst and love for knowledge!!! She doesn’t need the dark arts because she’s so far ahead of the power curve without them!!!! You go girl!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I feel that the half blood prince highlights hermiones weaknesses the most glaringly. Hermiones strengths comes from lots of studying. But she has issues with thinking outside the box. Which is why she is consistently outperformed by THBP through Harry.
her lack of creativity is exactly why she’s not in ravenclaw as well!
@@Kaelan-o4r revenclaw ar associated with creativity?
@@goncaloferreira6429 i believe so
Hermione doesn't have issues thinking outside the box. She regularly does it. The problem is that she is a die-hard rule follower. If forced to create new spells or potions, I have no doubt that she could. But her, as harry says, "mania for upholding rules" is so strong, she simply doesn't. That's why Snape outperformed her potion making. Snape was ambitious and power hungry, he would've done research to cut corners. Hermione would never do that, because she has nothing to prove.
@@witdajuice6763 please do give examples of Hermione thinking outside the box. I cant think of any. Also "the box" and rules are actually fairly synonymous in many ways in this topic.
I honestly wouldn't mind an eighth harry potter book. It could detail his work as an Auror. Maybe Harry and Ron could help investigate a magical crime in mainland Europe around 2002, giving us a look at the rest of the wizarding world. I'd also like to see how the characters would adjust to a world without impending doom
Hermione was the smartest wizard of her generation, not just her year or of her classmates. She was gifted with an insatiable thirst for knowledge as well as a genius level intellect. To me, Hermione was long the unsung hero of the wizarding war. He contribution was only exceeded by Dumbledore and perhaps Harry Potter. However, I think her selfless actions, unlike theirs was slightly more pure: Harry acted mostly out of self-preservation and revenge over his parent's murders - Dumbledore acted out of grief over his sister's tragic death and due to missing early signs of Voldemort's obvious evil.
Maybe in a long time, but she's still less talented than many others.
Others even have better grades than her, you know?
If anyone could really have become like Voldemort, it would be Snape.
He was very powerful despite being rather young.
Give him a few Decades and he would have reached the Level of Dumble and Voldi.
hermione was average but had a thirst for knowledge which is why she topped her classes. However, she wasn't gifted. She was always perfect at doing what was in the book but she always struggled to think outside the box
@@subhasishghosh6924 You greatly misunderstood something if you thought she's average but has a thirst for knowledge. You misunderstood something.
@@slevinchannel7589 thirst for knowledge and extraordinary are two different things. Hermione struggled at things which weren't completely stated in books or had to be greatly understood
@@subhasishghosh6924 Yes, but she was still immensely Talented.
It's not just her being good at reading and remember after having read something. You got it wrong if you thought her talent is average.
Great video. I have no argument or additional ideas to bring up. Instead I am commenting because I think that this topic is very intriguing. I would have never thought about Hermione and Voldemort having similar qualities at all, but after hearing your theory, I can see the truth in it.
Jk should make a harry potter book or series of books about the 19 years that went unseen before the scene at kings cross they could call it harry potter and the in betweens
I was just thinking how awesome it would’ve been to see Hermione defeat Bellatrix to basically have the last laugh showing her that mud bloods are just as good as pure bloods
Just a friendly reminder that if you ever think you are really bad at math, just look at Harry and Ron. Harry would only know up to 5th grade math, and Ron would know none.
(We all know Hermione did muggle home school over the summer)
I'd say most wizards would have to be somewhat good at math what with their currency being based on primes
0:44-0:52 he's right. No one really knows the absolute potential that a witch or wizard could reach. The levels they reach mostly depend on who they are and how they apply themselves to magic.
Take Dumbledore, for instance. He basically became the most powerful wizard of all time, being the only one Voldemort truly was afraid to face. However, in a conversation with Professor McGonagall, he states that Voldemort had powers that he never could have, but McGonagall states that is the case only because he's too noble to use them.
Gilderoy Lockhart is another prime example, he had the potential to really be a great wizard but since he was more focused on being treated as a prodigy rather than being a prodigy, he never really applied himself. As a result, his skills sorely lacked to the point where the only spell he was actually good at was the Memory Charm.
HARRY:- * Saves the philosopher's stone from getting into the wrong hands* YEAR 1
ALSO, HARRY:- *Kills the basilisk* YEAR 2
ALSO, HARRY:- *Knocks off Snape* YEAR 3
ALSO, HARRY:- * Calms down Mermaids* YEAR 4
ALSO, HARRY:-*Saves his Prophecy* YEAR 5
ALSO, HARRY:-*Calls Snape a coward* YEAR 6
ALSO, HARRY:-Becomes The Master Of Death & Kills the Dark lord* YEAR 7 PART 2
ALSO, HARRY:- Gets scared of Angry HERMIONE GRANGER YEAR 7 PART 1
Please read the books
The Hermione vs Voldemort difference sorta reminds me of a Star Wars saying “the Jedi sought power through understanding while the Sith sought understanding though power”
Except she’d have probably succeeded and made much better plans without her Harry would have been dead 2 book Max
yeah that's just bullshit
Another very well thought out video. Keep up the good work/research, and as trelawny would say; "I foresee greater things for you, just use your 3rd eye to see what to work on next".
So in conclusion
Hermione should of been in slytherin and got with draco
Why?
Dramione that's why
Gotta hand it to you man, you really do think outside the box. Your videos are always very unique and interesting.
I just wondered who was the more powerful: Hermione, Lily or Bellatrix
Bellatrix obviously.
In an alternate universe where Dan Weiss and Dave Benioff direct the movies, Voldemort randomly dies at the beginning of Deathly Hallows and Hermione is randomly revealed to be the villain at the end as she fiendfyres the whole school.
"There is no good and evil there is only power and those to weak to seek it" Voldemort wasn't all the way wrong but hermione isn't weak she's just smart
Ayyyyyyy you got to 500k subs congrats
Voldemort: *dies*
Everyone at hogwarts: *celebrates*
Hermoine: *Evil Laughter* YES, FINALLY!..... sorry, force of habit..
Harry and Ron: *walks back slowly*
Not even funny
Knowledge of how dark magic works is the best way to defend against it. True power comes from learning all aspects of magic, understanding how and when to use it, and most of all having the wisdom and control to use it wisely. Self control is also very powerful, as well as using magic only for good.
Honestly the trio won't be able to achieve anything if hermione went on a dark path.
They would both follow their new master. Good old Voldy would be Hermonie's slave, boy toy, ex lover- first murder victim.
I agree and if she went the dark path there are two things that can happen1. Lord Voldemort and hermione will duel and see who is more powerful and who ever is then most of the death eaters will follow her or she and lord Voldemort would be a team and her friendship with Harry will be lost.