Reluctant Admiration

Bushy hair. Buck teeth. Big mouth. If anyone had asked Winky after their first meeting, she would have said that she didn't like the Granger girl at all.

She ought to mind her own business. She hadn't been brought up with Wizarding ways; she didn't understand them.

But over time, Winky came to realise just how passionately Hermione felt about her chosen cause. And, as she understood, she changed her mind about Hermione Granger.

After all, the Mudblood's passion was just like her master's; albeit for a lost cause rather than a winning one. And the similarity she could admire.