The strong, feminist lead in
JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. Although sometimes seen as bookish, nagging or standoffish, she is also startlingly intelligent, instinctively brave and loyal and also the focus of much of the humour in Rowling’s later installments. The young
Miss Granger does suffer for her intelligence, being labelled an “insufferable know-it-all” by her own teacher (evil Snape *hiss*)...
all credit to Wendy
Boswell's ''Why We Like Hermione Granger: An Essay''
(Romilda
Vane and Harry are staring at each other across the library)
Hermione Granger: (snaps her fingers) Hey! She's only interested in you because she thinks you're
the Chosen One.
Harry Potter: But I am the Chosen One.
(Hermione smacks him on the head with the newspaper)
Harry Potter: Sorry... kidding!