A.N. — Happy birthday, Hermione Granger. It's a shame your birthday's on a Sunday this year, because traffic numbers dip during weekends, and I fear even a main character won't bring the clicks up. Yesterday, I gave an irritating character a chance. Today, I hopefully do justice to a beloved one. My second idea that didn't make it was Hermione, despite all her reading pre-Hogwarts, not being familiar with the term mudblood.
262. Hermione Granger
Birthdays had lost meaning for Hermione once she started using the Time Turner — but she was hyper-aware of her age, even as it was in flux.
Hermione was already among the oldest of her year-mates. Every time she went back in time to study or sleep aged her and widened the gap between them, in hour and day increments.
She'd lived a largely insular, friendless life before Hogwarts, so didn't view her extended absences from Gryffindor's social scene as anything alarming. But quietly, Harry and Ron worried they'd said something wrong or committed some faux pas that kept Hermione detached.