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* [[Fanon]]: Hermione notes Remus Lupin's facial scars when she first encounters him; although semicanonized by David Thewlis' makeup in the movies, the books make no note of Lupin being disfigured in any way.
** Hermione's parents have the fan-favorite names "Dan" and "Emma'.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: When Hermione takes out a post box in the Hogsmeade owl post station, she gets box 314 -- ''pi'' to 2 places. (In fact, any number that gets associated with Hermione by outside sources -- numbers she ''doesn't'' pick for herself -- has some kind of special meaning.)
* [[Mythology Gag]]: When Harry and Ginny present their newest (as of 2004) child to the Weasley family and introduce him as "William Kingsley Potter", Hermione notes that the name "was certainly better than, oh, Albus or something."
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''The Arithmancer'', ''Lady Archimedes'' and ''Annals of Arithmancy'' are ''rife'' with shout-outs, primarily because Hermione is [[One of Us]] and seems to make at least one per chapter. Here is a large (but in no way ''exhaustive'') list:
** When Hermione first enters the Great Hall for her sorting, she estimates the number of floating candles to be [[Over 9000]].
** Upon learning about the curse-breaking profession, she likens it to being [[Indiana Jones]].
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** She names the first carbon nanotube-and-tungsten blade she creates (a stiletto) "The Black Blade of [[w:Buckminster Fuller|Buckminsterfuller]]". (This is a double shout-out, because it also references the carbon structure called [[w:Buckminsterfullerene|Buckminsterfullerene]] -- aka the "Buckyball".)
*** "Black Blade" itself is a portmanteau shout-out to oh-so-many "Black Blades of X" in both gaming and fantasy literature.
** The Weasley's Wizard Wheezes shop in Diagon Alley looks like its real-world counterpart at the various [[Universal Parks
** Hermione's vault at Gringotts for Archimedes Jewelers is number [[Leet Lingo|1337]].
** When she learns about goblin culture from Bill Weasley, she quotes ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' about dwarven craftsmanship (although she footnotes to herself that she recalls those particular lines from [[The Lord of the Rings (animation)|the animated film]] rather than the books).
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*** Inspired by this, she tries to train herself to summon her wand(s) wordlessly; it comes in handy during the Battle for Hogwarts.
** [[Star Trek: The Original Series|"Dammit, Harry! I'm an arithmancer, not a doctor!"]]
** She uses [[Star Trek|''Klingon'']] for the runic basis of the eighth layer of an eight-layer warding scheme.
** While they are on the run in Wales, George catches a duck for dinner, after many, many rabbits. Hermione asks him if it's [[Rabbit Fire|duck season, not wabbit season]], and Harry cracks up.
** When discussing the location of Hufflepuff's cup in ''Lady Archimedes'' chapter 74, Hermione says
{{quote|[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|"If we're lucky, it's only in a tiny castle beyond the Bridge of Death occupied by ill-tempered Frenchmen."]]}}
** When the team to retrieve Hufflepuff's cup is assembled, she privately thinks of them as [[The Lord of the Rings|"The Fellowship of the Horcrux"]].
** After getting engaged to George, Hermione enters into the Battle for Hogwarts saying [[Serenity|"To hell with this. I'm gonna ''live''."]] Unlike a lot of these, this isn't an intentional quote by Hermione as the movie won't be made for some six or seven more years, and ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' itself is still a couple years away from production.
** Combined with [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] for Ron, when he says, [[Indiana Jones|"Spiders. Why did it have to be spiders?"]]
** When she dispatches broomriders with grenades to bomb the tunnels dug by the Acromantulas, Hermione says "Just like ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]''." She almost immediately corrects herself, though, with "No, nothing like ''Starship Troopers''."
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** According to an author's note at the end of the relevant chapter, "Dragontooth", the sword Hermione makes for the Goblin King in ''Annals of Arithmancy'', is styled after Orcrist, Thorin's sword in the [[The Hobbit (film)|''Hobbit'' films]]. (By the author, not Hermione.)
** Fred declares [[Bugs Bunny|"Of course you know]] [[Marx Brothers|this means war!"]] when Hermione playfully gets him with a jinx in ''Annals'' chapter 8.
** in chapter 9 of ''Annals of Arithmancy'' Hermione and friends use a series of portkeys to experience midnight of New Year's Eve 1999 in every time zone there's a celebration; when they hit London halfway through, Hermione says she feels like Louis Wu in ''[[Ringworld]]'', teleporting west around the world to make his birthday last 48 hours.
** When Hermione visits CERN in chapter 10 of ''Annals'', she says, [[Doctor Who|"Call me the Doctor"]] when she meets her contact. He declines good-naturedly, and she admits she can't get anyone to do so. A few minutes later, while explaining how the CERN facility collects antiprotons, her contact gets back at her by describing part of the process as [[Reverse the Polarity|"reversing the polarity"]].
** When Georgina Vector becomes Hermione's apprentice, Hermione addresses her as [[Revenge of the Sith|"my young apprentice"]], prompting George to laugh at the reference.
** The giant tribe which fought for Voldemort, and from which Hagrid's mother came much earlier, was Tribe [[The Bible/Source/Ezekiel|Gogmagog]].
** In chapter 11 of ''Annals of Arithmancy'', Hermione finally gets to say [[Doctor Who|"I'm the Doctor"]] and get the reaction she wants, even if it's only from some children.
** [[Sherlock Holmes|"Elementary, my dear Weasley,"]] said in ''AA'' chapter 13.
** Hermione initially introduces Georgina as [[The Phantom Menace|"Darth Maul"]] at CERN, just for fun (and as a [[Call Back]] to the "young apprentice" line a few chapters earlier).
** Dobby, thanks to coaching from Hermione, does a [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum]] impression at Christmas 2002:
{{quote|"Ooh, ''sockses''. We likes them, don't we, my Precious."}}
** In Chapter 14 of ''Annals of Arithmancy'', when the Creevey brothers demonstrate their "Mementoscope" -- basically a magical video camera -- to Hermione, their first recording is of Colin Creevey in a Victorian suit reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb". This is an explicit [[In-Universe]] shout-out to Thomas Edison's first phonograph recording.
** AA14 also ends with another [[In-Universe]] shout-out, with George Weasley explicitly quoting ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'':
{{quote|"We'll be in our bunk," he said, then added, "I officially love that show now."}}
** In 2005, she finally is able to show George ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and suggests he make toy wands that look like sonic screwdrivers.
** Chapter 16 of ''Annals'' gets one to ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' when Hermione is asked in 2005 to join a team to move ley lines in Antarctica and says
{{quote|"I feel like there should be a 'Your mission, should you choose to accept it,' in there."}}
** A puppet show run by the twins for the various Weasley godchildren and grandchildren at Christmas 2006 featured a puppet Hermione repeatedly knocking puppet!Voldemort over with incantations of [[The Frantics|"Hex to the face!"]] (which is also, to be honest, a [[Call Back]] to an earlier [[Running Gag]]).
** In early 2008, Sirius makes an extended shout-out to ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' ("Why so Sirius?", "Do you wanna know how I got these tattoos?") while telling a story about the Department of Mysteries battle to Harry's boys.
** After Ron's Spanish wife becomes pregnant, George insists that the baby, if a boy, be named [[The Princess Bride|Inigo Montoya Weasley]]. When the couple learn where the name comes from, they are less than pleased with him.
** One of the muggle-born kids in Remus's defense class in 2010 faces a boggart and it turns into a [[Doctor Who|Weeping Angel]].
* [[What Might Have Been]]: In a note at the end of chapter 6 of ''Annals of Arithmancy'', the author mentions that originally Hermione was to join Luna and Neville on a nighttime expedition and discover [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|that nargles were, in fact, real.]] However, as the plot developed, there became no place where the scene fit. It's included as an extra on that chapter, and careful reading will reveal bits and pieces that were recycled into the story as written -- such as the description of nargles as inch-high green pixie-like creatures, which was recycled for use in the scene where Hermione first visits the Lovegood home in ''The Arithmancer''.
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