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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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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Hermione chooses Filch as one of her test subjects for her potions research in second year in part because she thinks it will help him.
* [[Plagiarism in Fiction|Plagiarism]]: Dolores Umbridge accuses Hermione of stealing her work from pureblood wizards like her collaborators Professor Vector and Rebecca Gamp.
* [[Portmanteau]]: Hermione backforms one, possibly unintentionally, when she describes dementors as "half-demon, half-Terminator".
* [[The Power of Blood]]: Symbolically invoked with Hermione's efforts to get blood samples from all living giants in chapter 10 of ''Annals of Arithmancy'', with which she hopes cloning technology can be used to rescue the species.
* [[Powder Keg Crowd]]: Pretty much all of the (non-Slytherin) Hogwarts student body by the end of fifth year, but the D.A. most of all. Umbridge sets them off when she tries to stop Septima (and others) from going to Harry and Hermione's aid at the Ministry of Magic, resulting in a (brief) battle that ends Neville Longbottom blasting Umbridge across the great hall with a ''Bombarda'' spell after she ''Crucios'' Luna.
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