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* [[My God, What Have I Done?|My God, What Am I Doing?]]: Hermione's frequent reaction when she finds herself developing ''very'' dark and/or disturbing curses during the first few months in the Nottingham base.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Multiple. A few examples:
** Her first impression of Quirrell is that he [[Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|"couldn't fight off a band of pixies"]].
** Percy Weasley boasts of taking 12 OWLS but gets evasive when she asks how he can do this when it's only possible to take 10, suggesting he's [[Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|using a time-turner]]. (And likewise his brother Bill before him.) Since Hermione never needs a time-turner herself in this story, she remains forever puzzled how Percy managed it.
** In a letter she sends to her parents after the troll incident in first year, Hermione uses statistics and what little actuarial knowledge she has to to reassure them that it was not only a fluke but that Hogwarts is demonstrably safer than a Muggle school. Then she adds
{{quote|[[Tempting Fate|''It's not like an evil psychopath sneaks in and tries to kill somebody every year or something.'']]}}
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