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MEME: 20 Random Facts about Hermione Granger (PG)
Title: 20 Random Facts about Hermione Granger
Author: cpolk
Characters: Hermione Granger, her family, and her friends.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Sex and Drugs. no rock and roll, though.
Disclaimer: I haven't written my zillion book selling fan obsession yet. This is how I procrastinate from doing just that.
Author's Notes: Written for the The Harry Potter Random Facts Fest, hosted by iulia_linnea

20 Random Facts about Hermione Granger

1. Hermione Granger was born on 19th September, 1979, thirteen days after a total lunar eclipse. This is absolutely true. Her mother had been feeling restless and tossy all that day, with kicking and cramping and an insatiable need for chocolate that did not end until Hermione was born. She did not take her first breath until 3:19 pm, after the doctor peeled away a membrane that covered the child's face.

One of the attending nurses, a middle-aged woman from Fraserburgh, scooped the discarded membrane from the wastebin and sent it to her youngest brother, who survived drowning on September 19th, 1989 in Puerto Rico.

2. Hermione Granger is an only child. Her parents had planned on having another, but Hermione's mother burst into tears when her daughter was only 3 days old and smashed every mirror in the house with her fists, screaming, "stop looking at me!"

Her father cleaned out the glass from her hands and forearms, sewed up the very worst cuts, bandaged her in swaddling gauze and put her to bed, stroking her hair until she fell asleep.

All the while, Hermione cried, only wanting her 2:17 am feeding.

3. Hermione Granger knows that if she can pass every test, know every answer, and recall her facts perfectly, she will never, ever lose the approval of her father, who made a game of setting her to memorize all one hundred and fifty four of Shakespeare's sonnets, and then naming a number after dinner. If she could recite it word for word, she got a pound note and a kiss on the cheek.

Hermione's first muggle savings account has compounded £87.94 from this test of her worthiness.

4. Hermione Granger's favorite book as a child was Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World. She read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but never quite felt that Charlie did the right thing, buying chocolate out of the money he found, but that Danny and his father were simply clever.

5. When Hermione Granger got the letter from Hogwarts, also included was an invitation to attend a dinner with a guest speaker who addressed the attendees with a talk entitled, "So that's what it was all along! an explanation on what the Hogwarts letter means."

Hermione was quite distressed because none of the acts of spontaneous magic the woman in the tartan-lined cloak described had ever happened at her house.

6. When Viktor Krum kissed Hermione at the Yule Ball, it wasn't the first kiss she'd ever gotten from a boy - or the last...or the best, as she would discover later.

But at the time, it was pretty fine.

7. Hermione Granger's childhood friend refuses to speak to her now, because Hermione never tells her any secrets.

8. Hermione Granger has a secret deal with one of the students from Hufflepuff who bootlegs liquor for younger students. She started taking a nip or two in third year, but it's certainly nothing serious.

9. Hermione often sneaks off to the second floor girl's washroom, these days.

10. Hermione loves to sing, but only does so when alone.

11. Hermione only pretended to not be able to see the Thestrals, because she could tell that Ron couldn't.

12. Hermione Granger went to a hair salon on summer holidays when she was thirteen, and had her hair cut and styled to highlight her natural curls. She followed her stylist's advice carefully for all of a week. on the seventh day, she deliberately brushed it while dry to make it bushy again.

She didn't like how boys paid her extra attention because of how she looked, but didn't seem to listen to a word she said.

13. Hermione Granger once had a crush on another girl, but she got over it.

14. Hermione Granger never told anyone what she had done during the two days that Harry, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George had been off in london when Arthur Weasley was attacked.

15. Hermione Granger loves school, and Hogwarts, and her best friends, but she starts counting the days until she's on her way to a holiday in France sometime around easter.

16. Hermione believes that the only consistent tragedy is an unread book.

17. Hermione Granger's great aunt on her father's side and her great great uncle on her mother's side were the sorts the family told stories about - they knew when someone died, at the moment when they died, they predicted who would get married to whom, and they always seemed to know the truth one was most trying to hide.

Hermione spent her first few days of reading Hogwarts, a History looking for their names.

18. Hermione Granger reads ahead in all her textbooks. in fourth year, she made a deal with Fred and George Weasley to get a crack at theirs.

19. Hermione Granger isn't very good on a broom, but she can skip double dutch with her eyes closed, and was the best tap dancer in her childhood class.

20. Hermione Granger has an extensive rock collection at home. Her relatives send them to her, and she hasn't the heart to tell them that she quit collecting around the time she started going away to school.

This is a meme worth doing. i got it from cristalia and sosotris2012, but I'm sure lots of people have been doing it.

basically, you track the history of things that you read over the years. what stuck with you and what did you discard, and all that.

( and I should particpate in these sorts of memes, if they get me thinking about genre... )

Tagged: All of you. Go.

39,400 / 25,000 (157.6%)

New words added to: A Thousand, and a Hundred More

oh, and

page by page rewrite-o-meter

0 / 30 (0.0%)

because I should really get on it.

And I'm cooking dinner, too. I'll talk about that later.

I had a thawed pork shoulder and a broken oven.

So i got out a bowl and made a spice rub. I didn't measure anything. I just dumped in a whomp of garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, mantreal steak spice, paprika, sage, and terragon for kicks.

then I browned and seared the houlder in a frying pan on all sides. I used a slightly higher than medium heat to do this.

I dumped the leftover rub in a dutch oven and splashed in some worchestershire, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, a splash of sauterne cooking wine, some crushed garlic, and a bit of water to stretch it out. I might have an inch of liquid in the pan, probably.

I put the roast in fat-side down, covered, and simmered for an hour before testing with a meat thermometer. I think it took three hours.

and it turned out great.

oh yes, and

NaNoSlashMo

35,590 / 25,000 (142.4%)

Words added to: Idiot Prayer, A Thousand, and a Hundred More

check THAT out. I said I was considering adding another 10,000 words to my goal for the month, and I kicked the crap out of THAT wordcount goal too.

This might possibly be my most prolific month of writing ever. let's see how far I get.

26,200 / 25,000 (104.8%)

that includes some additions and revisions to the Harry/Draco, and getting started on the other fanfic that I must write or else Kat will kill me.

Words added to: Heads you Do, Tails you Don't, Look For The Sky

23,920 / 25,000 (95.7%)

I've actually written boatloads today, but I did a whole-count and somewhere in there I must have counted the same section twice. since my last metric I've produced 2500 words, and gone from smut to angst and right back into the smut! once this smut is over, I've got to wrap this up with some angst, rewrite the beginning, and my novella length and half of it is sex Harry/Draco slash will be finished.

I learned today that Wolf doesn't understand writers. He knew that I was slashing Harry/Draco, and in a vote of support went out and bought the first three movies on DVD for "research." Wonderful! But he wanted me to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now right now, and I was just getting ready to put words on the page.

I had to turn him down with, "But I'm in the middle of a blowjob!"

He went, but insisted that I catch up on movie one and watch movie two with him tonight. he wants to be prepped in time for Opening Night - I do the same thing when the next book of a series/trilogy comes out by going back and reading all the books that came before.

I wish I had a Ravenclaw scarf. (snif)

23,540 / 25,000 (94.2%)

through the smut, and into the angst! heh.

I'm going to meet my goal wordcount for the month just finishing this story. I'm toying with tacking on another 10,000 words once I meet the goal....

but first, i must dance like a fool to Rock Lobster.

Down! Down!

18,900 / 25,000 (75.6%)

of course the stupid draco/harry barbies wouldn't let me stop...

1690 more words. some of them dirty, but we've gotten into the angst.

more NaNoSlashMo:

12,850 / 25,000 (51.4%)