We all know about Harry Potter. The chosen one, the boy who lived, the boy who “single-handedly” saved the world from Voldemort. But what about the people who helped him along the way? The people who did most of the work while Harry decided that he had better things to do and all the time in the world to prepare the life-saving methods needed t🦩o jump into the𒉰 dangerous tasks that lay ahead. And no matter how often Hermione tried to steer that boy in the right direction, he continually fell back into his old lazy, arrogant, and impulsive habits. It’s funny how the boy who lived refuses to ever accept help of any kind, unless it involves Hermione doing his homework for him. Or Hermione figuring out what fresh heck is coming after them time and time again; as well as how to defeat it. Or Hermione getting his behind out of the trouble that he always seemed to land himself in.
The boy who lived would have met his maker⛎ very 🍌quickly had he not teamed up with Hermione at such an early stage in his Hogwarts career. And yet Hermione is continually denied the thanks, appreciation, and acclaim that she deserves. All of the worship, hatred, and celebration continues to fall entirely on Harry’s shoulders. Which is entirely unfair.
So, in reaction to Hermione’s efforts constantly being ignored by the people of the wizarding world,ꦍ let us go through twentဣy-five things that Hermione can do which Harry simply can’t.
25 𒀰 Open "Hogwarts: A History"
Hermione refers to the text “Hogwarts: A♓ History” throughout their years in Hogwarts so often that it practically became an inside joke between Ron & Harry.
And yet, Harry does not seem to realize that the solutions to 99% of his problems and questions lie within those pages.
He never bothers to even casually read through the index when in peril. No, he will just let Hermione deliver its content꧙s to him when needed for reading is just so much work.
24 Learn A Second𝓰 Spell ⭕
Harry, my son, my boy, my source of constant headaches and frustrations, do you not know any other spells? I’m serious. You are up against some of the most powerful and dangerous wizards in magical histཧory. You can’t continue to do nothing but disarm them. I mean, in a wayꩲ, it is sweet. But we are at war, Harry. It is impossible to defeat an enemy who can simply retrieve their weapon and slip right back into attack positions. Stun them at the very least, boy.
23 👍 Fix His Glasses
Harry, have you ever considered contacts? It seems as though that eveᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚry single time that Hermione sees you in Diagon Alley, your glasses are broken in some way, shape, or form. I know that you’ve been through a lot and the Dursley’s are absolute abominations but you can’t rely on Hermione to fix all of your problems all of the time. What would you have done if she had gotten her books a day earlier? Would you just have gone about your life with shattered glasses until you met up with her at Hogwarts?
22 Quit Procrastinating ⛦
Look, I know that you didn’t want anything to do with the Triwizard tournament. But, those wants are in the past. Now you are a contestant and you have to do everything you can to survive. You have literal months to prepare for these life-endangering tasks. So why are you waiting until the very last second to cram and decide that it is hopeles🎀s because you could not find the key to the task within a 7-hour study session? You barely made it through that first task. Shouldn’t you put just a little bit more effort into the second?
21 🧔 Defeat Umbridge ღ
This, like the rest of this article, is a Harry Potter call-out post. I know that you are trying to prote💙ct everyone. And that is sweet. But staying quiet about the gross atrocities someone is carrying out in secret does 🙈not protect anyone except for the monster in pink.
Staying quiet actually endangers each and ཧevery one of the other students in that school. If you wanted to protect the others, you should have marched straight into McGonagall's office and shown her your injuries in order to stop her from doing this to anyone else. You know🦹, like Hermione told you to.
20 Make A Quick Getawaꦚy
Harry wanted to find those Horcruxes in order to defeat Voldemort, but he literally did not do a single thing in order to prepare for this t🔯ask. If Hermione had not have been at that wedding, the boy who lived would have quickly become the boy who was captured and eliminated at the Malfoy Manor. Hermione had been preparing for this adventure for months and has had a quick getaway in her back pocket for weeks. The boys would have gotten nowhere without her bag, camping locations, and ability to figure out exactly what needs to be done in order to accomplish specific tasks and then carry it out.
19 Understand Logic Puzzles💜
If Hermione had not been down in that dungeon with him, he wo✤uld have never 🔥been able to stop Professor Quirrell. Do you think that that boy could have solved that complex logic puzzle?
The boy who had no idea what Seamus could have possibly been up to even though he had been yellജing “Turn this water into rum” for the past several minutes? The boy who carried a letter addressed to him into a kitchen filled with monsters who attempt to rob him of anything that might bring him joy rather than dropping it off in his closet on the way in order to enjoy it in private?
18 Read A Book ♛
Harry, my guy, the answers to literally every single problem you have ever had during your six years at Hogwarts can be found within the pages of one of the many books conta🐽ined within the school library. Do you want to know why Hermione always knows what is going on and ho🌌w to deal with it? It’s because she spends her days with her nose buried in those books. And you mock her for it. Come on, Harry. Think for a minute and crack open a book, for Merlin's’ sake.
17 Accept Help From Others 🐓
We get it. You don’t want to endanger your friends. But how have you not realized that your greatest weapon against the dark lord is love? Dumbledore literally spelled that out for you in your first year at Hogwarts. You cannot defeat the dark lord on your own, so stop trying. You need the ones that you love at your side. It is quite 🐼🌸literally the only way to vanquish the boy who would never know love. Stop fighting it and start embracing the literal army that you have backing you up.
16 ♎ Find The Chamber Of Secrets
I wonder what those boys would have done if they had not found that crumpled-up piece of paper in Hermione’s petrified hands. Would they have saved Ginny in time or would she have become basilisk chow? Woul෴d the wizarding world have woken up to the news that the daughter of the muggles greatest ally was the one who was offing muggle-borns left, right, and center? What would Tom have done to the students at that school had Harry and friends never stopped his efforts before they truly began? Also, why did he not say something when he clearly saw Lucius obviously place a second book in Ginny’s cauldron?